From object to process
Recording materials, tools, gestures, sequences, judgment, and sensory cues behind the finished work.
CRAFT RESEARCH
Documenting the Intelligence of the Hand
CRAFT develops methods for documenting artisanal technique as procedural, embodied, contextual, searchable, and transmissible knowledge—not merely as finished objects. This page publishes what that work produces: method papers on how the documentation is done, and reports on what the archive, taken as a whole, actually shows.
From record to stewardship
Distinguishing desk research from practitioner review, field capture, permissions, and provenance.
From preservation to transmission
Building knowledge that can be searched, taught, interpreted, and responsibly carried forward.
RESEARCH
Method Papers
A series of working papers on the theory and methodology of craft documentation, published by CRAFT.
NO. 01 · 2026
Archiving the Intelligence of the Hand
Toward a Documentation Protocol for Artisanal Technique
First principles for documenting craft as procedural, embodied, contextual, searchable, and transmissible knowledge.
RESEARCH
Reports
Data-driven reports built directly from the archive's structured records — the numbers themselves, sourced and citable, not essays about them.
September 2026
An Atlas of Craft Risk
A structured census of risk across every documented technique in the CRAFT archive — by region, craft family, and country.
2,792 documented techniques. 205 countries and territories. Five regions. The first data-driven look at where craft knowledge is most at risk — and why.
15 pages · free, registration required