Some weekend tours are linked to folklore festivals; others feature Orthodox monasteries, shopping excursions with the chance to meet working artisans, hiking in the Rhodope Mountains, wine tasting, or visits to Roman and Thracian archaeological sites.
If your project is artistic, network with a community of stone working artisans and serious rock collectors.
There is still a very vibrant arts community with many studios and galleries with working artists and artisans.
We had set up our clothing label initially because we each had a love of Indian textiles, pattern making and working with artisans in India through research I did as graduate student and wanted to continue working with artisans in India.
They were the most prosperous and literate free black population in the nation, with a majority working as artisans, laborers and shopkeepers.
"I wanted this concept to be based on working with artisans around the restaurant to create a kind of village spirit," he said.
The sisters spend months either inventing their own "techniques" or, more commonly, working with artisans to alter fabric by, say, pleating, beading, or dyeing it.
A year ago, West Elm, the modern home furnishings retailer, which was already working with artisans and designers, formed a partnership with Etsy, the online marketplace that has been the engine and communal center of the all-things-handmade movement.
In 2006-07, Sumita Ghose, who had been working with artisans in and around Bikaner in Rajasthan as part of an NGO since the mid 1980s, approached William with an interesting proposal.
I believe in working with artisans who are the best at what they do.
He argues that working class artisans and skilled craftsmen made up a radical element in Philadelphia that took control of the city starting about 1770 and promoted a radical Democratic form of government during the revolution.
