Wood on Display In 1976, after the first Wood Turning Symposium, the art of wood turning became a discipline on its own, separated from the agglomerate of ceramic, glass and fiber crafts.
The squat carbon-fiber craft, its wide and flat top deck dominated by the photovoltaic array, looked a bit out of place among the luxury yachts and other more conventional nautical playthings docked at a marina near the city's financial district.
Richard Rutan, who was first to circumnavigate the Earth nonstop in an airplane, did it in a carbon-fiber craft.
This is also how they treat the farmers who spend over a year lambing, shearing, skirting, and processing the fiber before the crafting process can even begin.
Boyd is a well-known supporter of the arts with a particular interest in crafts and fiber arts.
The Modern Dream sells crafts and fiber arts, all handmade by local artisans.
"Our technology combines biology and computational methods to create performance fibers with carefully crafted properties.
GARRISON -- Fine arts and crafts fair, featuring fiber arts, jewelry, ceramics, paintings, baskets, leather, decorative arts, specialty foods, crafts and demonstrations.
You'll need some appropriate fiber, and spinning is a craft in itself.
In the meantime, he said, the center's summer workshops -- which draw participants and teachers from around the country to practice ceramics, fiber, woodworking and other arts and crafts -- will go forward despite the financial difficulties.
Experiments were also performed on containers crafted from raw carbon fiber soaked in epoxy.
