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Inside a High-End Handmade Carpet Production Workshop

We often think of craftspeople as lone artisans toiling in solitude, so it’s neat to see an ages-old craft that requires the cooperation of multiple craftspeople working side by side and collaborating on the same workpiece. Here we get a rare look inside a high-end handmade carpet producing facility in Sweden, Märta Måås-Fjetterström, which has been around since 1919 and whose pieces are in such high demand that they can fetch $40,000 for just one.

The work is both highly manual and highly technical.

It’s always intoxicating to see craftspeople who really love the objects they’re producing, and on top of that, we get to see all manner of nifty wooden weaving devices: