Today, having formed a partnership with a local workshop, Mr. der Agobian trades jewelry and objects crafted in Armenia through Cub-Ar, his design and distribution company.
To date, its most effective Facebook post was an advertisement announcing a local workshop for women entrepreneurs in partnership with Voces Vitales.
The Forbidden City is an easy distance, while all around is daily hutong life; the hotel's corridor windows look onto a local workshop making notebooks next door.
One of the boys took him to a local workshop where the guns were made; a year later, Mmemme had become a gun trader himself — to help guard his neighborhood, he said, and to make some extra income.
If a rare car breaks down in a remote area, for instance, a suitably equipped local workshop might be able to produce the needed part immediately from a downloaded file instead of waiting for it to be shipped.
Several weeks before I arrived in the Prato area, a small protest was held outside a local workshop that regularly received subcontracts from a nearby firm that produces metalwork for well-known fashion brands.
