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"facebook dialogPinterest\n\nAFFINAGE: The process of aging cheese.\n\nBENCH-MADE: A synonym for handmade when it comes to wood or leather goods, like furniture or shoes.\n\nBESPOKE: Created according to individual specifications, without a preexisting pattern.\n\nBRINING: Immersing perishables such as meats, cheeses, fruits, and vegetables in a salt solution to season and preserve them. Also known as pickling or corning.\n\nBUTTONHOLES: If you find them on the cuff of the jacket, the buttons aren't merely decorative, meaning the suit was made by hand.\n\nCHARCUTERIE: The art of preserving meats (by smoking or curing, for example).\n\nCOMPOST TEA: A bacteria-and-nutrient-rich brew made with compost steeped in water and used as a fertilizer in organic farming.\n\nDOVETAIL JOINT: A technique used to join two pieces of wood\u2014e.g., in the corner of a dresser drawer\u2014with interlocking fingers. When the fingers are perfectly uniform, it's a telltale sign that the item is machine-made.\n\nETSY.COM: A social-commerce website on which hundreds of thousands of members from more than 150 countries buy and sell vintage goods, handmade clothing, ceramics, pottery, and other crafts.\n\nFORAY: A mushroom-hunting excursion.\n\nHAND PLANE: A device used to smooth and shape wood manually, lending surfaces a more organic finish than a power tool would.\n\nHEIRLOOM: An open-pollinated plant grown from seeds that have not been modified or hybridized.\n\nLUTHIER: One who makes and repairs stringed musical instruments.\n\nRAW MILK: Unpasteurized milk, revered by some but deemed dangerous by others, which is why it is illegal in 11 states.\n\nSHOP CLASS AS SOULCRAFT: Biker-philosopher Matthew B. Crawford's best-selling 2009 treatise on the virtues of working with one's hands.\n\nSMALL-BATCH: A phrase commonly found on the labels of spirits\u2014bourbon in particular\u2014indicating that the alcohol was aged in small quantities; also used to mean limited-edition.\n\nSTEAMPUNK: A design aesthetic involving modern-day objects refurbished to look like they were made in Victorian times.\n\nTANNING: The process whereby tannin is used to turn rawhide into leather.\n\nTHREADLESS.COM: A custom-apparel website founded in 2000 that pioneered the idea of the community-generated marketplace by granting users the opportunity to sell their own T-shirt designs.\n\nWRIGHT: A suffix used to describe laborers skilled at the manufacture and repair of certain objects, especially wooden ones (e.g., wheelwright, shipwright).\n\n Read More:\n\n  Artisanal America\n\n  The Best Factory-Free Goods in America\n\n  Time Line: Great Moments in Craft Culture\n\n  Handmade in the USA\n\n  Accidental Artisans: Inmates, Hippies, and Fundamentalists"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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