Saladini's hand-forged kitchen knives, corkscrews, flatware and cigar cutters have handles crafted from ox or buffalo horn or from Tuscan olive or boxwood.
Piles of ivory, white and brown from elephants and mammoths, trigger reveries about the ingenuity of trade and of umbrella handles crafted from the tusk of a "brute that roamed through Asian forests before England was an island".
The best of the bunch might be the sprawling Dédalo Arte y Artesania (Calle Saenz Pena 295; 51-1-652-5400; dedalomarket.com), where the specialties include handmade home décor, like sterling silver serving forks and spoons with handles crafted out of bull's horn (420 soles each) and modern ceramic pieces (20 to 400 soles) inspired by indigenous pottery.
Recycled corrugated cardboard shoe boxes have handles crafted from upcycled leather remnants, while shoe bags are sewn from unique deadstock fabrics.
Supervise children when handling craft knives!
Usually a wooden or bone handle would be crafted around the tang to make it easier to hold.
A potentially huge market exists for cellular phones, electronic organizers and other devices as they are crafted to handle data from the Web.
Non-English names CrossTeX puts a priority on handling names with non-English conventions and accented characters; full Unicode support is on the horizon, and all of the algorithms dealing with names have been carefully crafted to handle a wide variety of conventions.
The case is made of rough leather, as if hand sewn by a wounded Union soldier confined to an infirmary but the handle and head are beautifully crafted and surprisingly light thanks to a skeletonized handle.
Having collected finery from his many travels, he searched across Europe for items to properly complete the furnishings: carpets from Smyrna, embroidered pillowcases from Germany, and a handle for the lavatory chain crafted from Bohemian glass.
To live for weeks within the rocking, claustrophobic hold of a 35-foot boat would test the resolve and loyalty of any couple, and this pair, "a dyslexic pensioner and an innumerate poet," as she calls them, needed all of the four years they had budgeted to learn to handle the craft and each other.
