Trade associations, craft schools and specialized magazines also offer resources.
She also teaches natural dye-making techniques at craft schools in New York and Connecticut.
Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus movement here, and established its first centre at the city's Arts and Crafts school.
After studying at the Arts and Crafts school of Zurich, Burri worked as an assistant cameraman for Walt Disney films in Switzerland before joining Magnum.
After losing his position in Weimar — in time, van de Velde's arts-and-crafts school would evolve into the Bauhaus — Kessler entered his high European phase, spending many weeks each year in Paris and London.
"There's a very strong tradition of folk culture here," says Mats Svensson, a ceramics instructor at the Leksand Folkhogskola, a crafts school started in the 1950s where adult students learn everything from bookbinding to metalworking.
More like works of art than simple board games, Llewellyn's designs recently attracted the attention of Afghanistan-based arts and crafts school, Turquoise Mountain, which invited her to collaborate on a backgammon board that would help promote and showcase the work of its student artisans to a western market.
The mail-order merchant, which sells supplies, crafts, school supplies, toys and novelties, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010, burdened with a huge debt load, and suffering from low consumer spending and higher costs.
Between that time and transferring to the university where this study took place, Mara worked in culinary and patisserie positions and also taught the craft in a trade school.
