THE COTTAGE CRAFTSMAN is a unique gallery and market that celebrates traditional and contemporary fine art, craft, specialty foods, wine and music with a focus on those artists and craftsman who live, work and play in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Artisans who use — and re-use — natural materials, often gathered locally, to create handmade products reflecting the appalachian heritage of the region.
A local broom maker still grows his own broom corn from heritage seeds, while giving the corn silks to another artisan to use as hair on her handcrafted corn shuck dolls. A quiltmaker uses historic patterns applying both modern and traditional techniques, and our basket weaver creates reproductions of historic basket patterns.
Our local artisans craft hand-painted gourds; and turn mountain hardwoods and clays into bowls, platters and vessels.
Our jewelry designers work with a variety of materials, including silver, gemstones, precious metal clay, and mixed media to create original styles of wearable art.
Debbie Mills
The Cottage Craftsman
44 Frye Street
Bryson City, North Carolina 28713
828-488-6207
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 SUSAN KRANZ SABO - Bryson City, NC Precious Metal Clay Jewelry
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Susan Kranz Sabo, part-time resident of Bryson City, is a PMC (precious metal clay) jewelry artist. PMC is a relatively new technique of creating silver jewelry, it being fine particles of silver (.999%), in a binder, fired purer than sterling. Each piece is handmade & unique in design. Some are embellished with 22K gold, some with an antique patina, some with the collage style where layers of pieces of silver are meticulously placed by hand with tweezers until the desired effect is achieved.