Local, indigenous communities have a culture of weaving using organic plant fibers and dyes found in their local environment. Often weaving was done to produce practical, domestic items such as storage bags, baskets or basinets. However, local communities today have ventured into an enterprise of selling their artful creations. The craft and native materials combined with modern, manufacturing processes transformed daily, domestic items into desi » Read more: Promoting a Woven Fiber Bag Business

The School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark, has given birth to some of the world’s most well-known furniture and architectural designers of the 20th century. Nanna Ditzel, who was born in the city in 1923, is one of the few women whose name is known in the furniture community and recognized as one of the best. Nanna Ditzel graduated in furniture design in 1946 at the age of 23 and establiNanna Ditzeld » Read more: Furniture Designs by Furniture Designers Like Nanna Ditzel