GUILD CRAFT FAIR (1)
On Thursday the 76th Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands opened in the Asheville Civic Center. It ran through Sunday and I went to the fair and took photographs. The Craft Fair is in some ways a nostaligic throwback to the times when mountain people in the Southern Appalachian mountains made practical objects—corn shuck dolls and hand made furniture and pottery—for everyday use. This was before industrialization transformed the United States and even after when people made things because they couldn‘t afford ready made things. Now that world is turned upside down, and we hand made things are much more expensive than ready made and we buy them for their beauty and their craftsmanship, as works of art. Every year the craft fair is crowded with visitors from all over and by buyers who order for their shops. For the next three days I will post photographs of the craft fair.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 