Making Culture
Education Manual
Find innovative educational resources to use crafts heritage in your classroom
Humans of Crafts
A world of artisans and artists
This chapter highlights the broad range of crafts that have evolved in Europe from the Middle Ages to today
An artisan’s work can take place in all sorts of environments
This chapter explores craft from an artistic and contemporary angle through portraits of contemporary visual artists.
This chapter explores craft from an artistic and contemporary angle through portraits of contemporary visual artists.
Crafting fashion
Knitting, sewing, embroidering, designing... Creating clothing and fashion is a world of tradition and intergenerational artisanship.
The Arts and Craft of 3D Printing
The depot of MoMu houses many fashionable gems, which we discover with Frieda Sorber, curator and expert on lace.
Bruges’ long and illustrious tradition of lace-making becomes the key to show kids how to embed craft in their future
Antwerp and the making of European history
Over a century of Croatian fashion history
Four videos showing how Greek identities are embodied by the craft of weaving, weaving together past, present and future
Hands, minds, souls and stories: craft has the ability to form bridges through time and strengthen community ties.
Teaching the archaeology of weaving in Greece
an interview with critic and curator Filep Motwary on craft and fashion
Explore the relationship between fashion, nature and craft
What is a Kilim, what it represented and what does it stand for now?
Ioanna Papantoniou talks about weaving the #plafi, a tradition whose cultural significance extends even beyond Greece
In conversation with contemporary artist and professor Brankica Zilovic
Where craft means tradition, modernity and passion
Beaded art from the Cameroon Grasslands
Follow the evolution of lace craft, from myth to machine
Tools and hands work together to braid and twist lengths of threads and create complex and beautiful motifs
Skilled hands can create graceful designs using just one thread. A remarkable technique admired over centuries
Symbol of patriarchy, or totem of female creativity?
Life in Motion
A history of amateur film
The first experiments with moving images
how moviemaking and showing entered the home
the evolution of standards, hardware and practices of home movie making
from silent black and white images to vivid colour and vibrant sound
Contemporary artists, artisans and their workshops
Open the door to the private workshop of artisans and contemporary artists and marvel at their skill, knowledge and expert craftsmanship.
Learn how to make an easter palm
In Krakow, Poland, making nativity scenes is seen as a cultural tradition going back centuries.
between craftsmanship and design
Navigating between contemporary creation, traditional know-how and conservation
Enjoy an interesting selection of water containers and several illustrations of water carriers.
Basket making is one of the oldest handicraft activities in the world.
when textile becomes a committed artistic language
Come and meet Brankica Zilovic, a contemporary textile artist, who showed us around her studio.
Meet Roberto Capone, a paper-mâché craftsman creating a zoo of animals out of paper
Join expert jewelry craftsman Mario Nokaj to see how he creates stunning pieces of jewelry step by step.
Step into the workshop of a master shoe craftsman
Whether it's for letterpress binding or stationery binding, bookbinding is a fascinating process.
In the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, there is a collection of 40 church bells saved in WWI from being melted down.
The craft of jewellery-making in Byzantium
A chat with the basket maker Nicola Solimano
An interview with Maïté Mazel
Julie Legrand's glass craft
between craftsmanship and augmented reality
Analogue film and radio
Discover the distinct craft of analogue photography, the early history of radio, and the birth of videography
the first home cinema technology
A historical overview of technological objects used to view and screen movies at home
A historical overview of technological objects used to record amateur films and home movies during the 20th century
A historical overview of technological objects used to record and reproduce sound during the 20th century
Through the looking glass: the birth of analogue photography and animation.
On air and on the move: radio stories
Explore how camera operators have the freedom and often the task to take their equipment outdoors.
Analogue Photography: the iconic world of magazines and the work of Dana Lixenberg
Acoustics
‘Heritage acoustics’ and the preservation and presentation of historic acoustic environments is a growing field of research within cultural heritage.
starting with historic recording studios in Nashville’s Music Row
EuropeanaTech Community Manager Greg Markus introduces us to the importance of heritage acoustics.
This webinar highlights acoustics and the preservation and presentation of historic acoustic spaces.
Crafty GIFs
Celebrate artisan heritage with these crafty GIFs from the 2022 GIF IT UP competition!
The winning Crafted GIF by Bernadetta Pastuszka
by Joel Remy
by Karīna Kristiņa
by Jana Brūvere