#Artisan Project

[sharpmemorial]

[skyscratch-wc]

Artisans

Artisans are the creatives of the shire. They craft tools, accessories, bandaging, and other materials needed in day to day life. They also maintain dens around the territory. Artisans are the best with their paws (and claws and teeth) and are remarkably coordinated with unmatched fine motor skills.

In Skyfall, the cats are able to craft basic items, including pottery, tanned skins, and parchment-esque materials. They are skilled in weaving, basic painting, and sculpting. This results in a culture of cats that value art moreso than the canonical clans.

Shadowshire and Rivershire in particular are enamored with creative talent and tend to produce the most complex and beautiful pieces of art. The other shires tend to encourage their artisans to focus on everyday materials rather than intricate crafts.

[hyakunana]

Better late than never, here's my #artrecap2023 ✨ testing a different design because... yeah, felt like doing something new. Hope it still works well 👀💦

Happy 2k24!!! 🌠

[the-last-teabender]

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[bisexualamy]

I’ve had two personal essay ideas bouncing around in my head for a week now and that’s usually a sign that I have to write them. It’s a nice feeling tbh. To me it means I’m truly in the execution phase of one writing project because my brain has space to work on other things. There are so many things I love and learned during the two years I spent on Artisan but I think the biggest is the knowledge that I can, in fact, finish a large scale writing project if the idea has legs. All it makes me want to do is write more.

[wawek]

Its interesting how badly i do in like school enviroments just on the basis of having horrible memory and an inability to do things i think are pointless. I think i come off as quite average in conversation but those things truly make me feel like an idiot and are also the reason for why im unemployable

[fieriframes]

[Here to check out a joint where two high school buddies took a wild catering project and turned it, literally, into an artisan pig emporium. So we got Miami Smokers.]

[thisisgraeme]

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Welcome to the enthralling world of leatherworking! This art has been a respected skill through the ages, and – if you’re reading this post – now it’s your turn to learn how to craft functional and beautiful items from a simple piece of leather. I’ve been writing about leatherwork off and on for a few years now. The time has come to consolidate this passion and knowledge into something more…

[artsystudiofinds]

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As 2024 ending and 2025 is approaching, I give thanks to all my clients for their kind support and appreciation. In spite of tough year I received orders with love and this helps me in continuing my creativity ✨ Looking forward to 2025 with excitement and will be thrilled to introduce new creation coming New Year ✨

Thank you again :)

[skyscratch-wc]

Tanner (Shadowshire Only)

Tanners are specialized artisans in the Shadowshire that focus on using skins to create leather, hide-based accessories, and writing hide. Due to the Shadowshire’s boggy territory, waterproof, skin-based bandages and other such items are a must-have to help prevent infection and disease. Because of this, Shadowshire has one of its artisans be a dedicated tanner. There is usually only one tanner, but occasionally two when another artisan trains to take on the role.

[ridiculous-hibiscus]

Everybody say ooooooo!

I’ve been patiently waiting for a nice second-hand wood dresser to appear on fb marketplace or at Goodwill for months. Finally, I grabbed this one yesterday for $50.

My inspiration for this project are some dressers I saw at Anthropology that have gorgeous carved details. But I want my dresser to cost $200 or less rather than $2,000.

Of course I can’t add actual hand-carved wood, but I’ve got clay and some silicon molds + epoxy and a potential overconfidence in my DIY abilities.

First up, I removed the existing hardware and sanded this pretty lady down. She is now looking MUCH better without all those terrible stains (and the drawer pulls weren’t doing it for her, tbh).

Up next, I’ll give her a paint wash or three and start trying my hand at faking some carvings!

[xoxoendlessvibes]

SHOP STORE

[dashcon-two]

DashCon 2 Venue Announcement, Vendor's Hall, and More!

The DashCon 2 team is thrilled to announce the concrete answers to all your biggest questions. Where it is, when it is, how to buy tickets, and more. You ready?

TL;DR

Where: DashCon 2 will be held at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in North York, Toronto

When: July 5th, 2025

What: Tickets will go live on February 22nd. Vendor Applications will be open on February 1st, and Panelist Applications on February 10th.

Our Venue!!

[6 Sakura Way, North York, ON M3C 1Z5]

Image belongs to Bartman905 on Wordpress

The JCCC has previously hosted plenty of other fan conventions, notably the Anime North Halloween Event and Pretty Heroes. Given their experience with convention hosting and gorgeous venue space, we think they’re the perfect fit.

So, why did this take so long?

Well… the JCCC wasn’t our first pick. Our first pick, who we won’t name, dropped us unexpectedly after months of negotiations. Why? Original DashCon’s reputation. We literally got DashCon’d before the convention had even started!!

While we were expecting this and had backup plans, we were blindsided by a rejection this late into the negotiation process. After reaching out to our other contacts, we settled on the JCCC, but we had to restart the entire process. So much of our planning had to be restarted or paused, which set us way behind schedule. Naturally, we didn’t want to say anything about losing our venue spot until we’d adequately replaced it.

We’re happy to say that the Classic DashCon Venue Struggle is over and done with - and our rental with the JCCC is paid in advance. No $17k hostage situation necessary.

However, all this provokes another obvious question: why did you go public with the project when you hadn’t signed with the venue yet? In short: Strange Aeons’ DashCon: An Extensive Oral History video. We were already knee-deep in the project behind the scenes before finding out she was making a YouTube video about DashCon, pushing the story into the public eye again. The team was concerned that declaring we were organizing DashCon 2 soon after Strange Aeons’ video would imply it was a rush-job inspired by her video. We were far enough along in the initial venue negotiations that we decided to go public with the video rather than after it.

Date & Time

DashCon 2 will be held for one day: Saturday, 5th July 2025. We alluded to using the same weekend as the original DashCon when we first went public, but unfortunately this date wasn’t available at our venue. This does mean it’s pretty close to the American 4th of July - in our defense, we didn’t really think of that, we’re Canadian.

The convention will open to the public at 9:30 AM and close at 9:30 PM. All this information and more will be available on our website.

(These hours may be subject to minor changes, please always check our website for our most recent info!)

Admission

Ticket sales to in-person DashCon 2 will open on Feb 22nd! Mark your calendars…

We’ll be processing ticket sales through Simpli Events, an all-Canadian competitor to Eventbrite. You can click here to find the events page.

We’re working on the feasibility of expanding DashCon 2 into a hybrid event, with live-streams of the most anticipated panels/events and some other informal online panels hosted on a private Discord. More information on those will come at a later date.

Vendor and Panel Applications

DashCon 2’s Artist Alley/Vendor's Hall is a space for independent artisans who create print media, handmade crafts, or other merchandise. If you want the opportunity to sell your merchandise at DashCon 2, then you’ll be excited to learn that vendor applications will open on February 1st!

Please see www.dashcontwo.com/dealers-hall/ for more details about tables, prices, and merchandise. The link to the application form will be posted there.

We’re also happy to say that we’re opening panel applications on February 10th! We have a few guest panellists already lined up (including a few we can’t talk about yet), but we’re excited to open applications to everyone with a good idea! All DashCon 2 panels will be moderated by our volunteer team, and we’ll put out more info soon about volunteer sign-ups!

[crazybooklover0]

I made myself sad while working on the CHMC project, so now you all have to hear about it. So I'm reconstructing a trail ruins, and I'm calling it the Artisan Settlement, right? And I'm taking a break from the art part of it, and looking at what I got from the suspicious gravel, analyzing it and attempting to draw some conclusions.

So I'm looking at the the sherds and the trims right now, and I feel like I got a lot of wayfinder trims (5 of 12). I also got a good number of heartbreak sherds (4 out of 15, this is relevant later). Now, one of the definitions of wayfinder from Oxford Languages is: "a person navigating to a particular location."

So, given that there were a large number of wayfinder trims found, we can assume that a good number the people of the Artisan Settlement were explorers or went to other settlements to trade (trade was most definitely a thing in these settlements, but that's another post). And you might expect that sometimes these people would go out to the other settlements, and just not come back.

Here's where the heartbreak sherds come in. I theorize that the heartbreak sherds are their way of symbolizing grief in art. Now this could absolutely be romantic heartbreak as I imagine many might jump to. But it could also be platonic or familial or any other types of heartbreak that could happen.

Now what about all this made me sad? Just the thought of a parent, sibling, or child leaving the settlement to go trade with someone nearby, and they just don't return, either they were killed by a mob, or got lost, or some other thing. And someone sat down and made a pot to show their grief over losing this person.

[acorviart]

everyone should attempt an artisan craft at some point in their life because it would cut down the number of comments questioning why handmade goods like ceramics or textile craft or woodworking are so expensive

and this is an unrealistic expectation, but I think the attempt should include seeing through to the end at least one "finished" item, no matter how clumsy or lumpy your first attempts might be. like to me, there's a huge difference in perspective between attempting to learn how to crochet or throw a pot for a few days, acknowledging that it's harder than it looks and giving up, versus committing to finishing that scarf or clay pot you started and working on it for weeks while you painstakingly learn from your mistakes and grow attached to your project while also simultaneously hating it.

once you finish the latter, your perspective changes from "why does this crocheted blanket cost $200" to "holy shit I can't believe they're charging $200 for this crocheted blanket instead of $2000" because you may have known crocheting is hard, you may have easily agreed with the idea that "handmade goods take time and effort" even before attempting a craft, but now you know firsthand the absolute time sink it takes to make things. like yeah dude, that one item took you 2 months to make and probably wasn't even an ultra complex item if it was the first thing you made, now imagine attaching an hourly wage to that time to calculate the cost (and this is ignoring every nuance of the artistic element and master crafters being able to work faster/charge higher because of their years and years of experience)

anyway this rant has been motivated by a comment I saw on someone else's ceramic post asking why a mug was $60 and they understand it's handmade but $60 just seems overpriced, and bro do you know how long ceramics take to make. that mug probably took at minimum 3 weeks between how long it takes to throw the mug, dry partially, trim the mug, dry fully, bisque fire, wait a day for the kiln to cool, sand and paint and glaze, glaze fire, wait a day for the kiln to cool, take product photography of the mug, write description and list the mug online for sale, im not even including the skill needed to complete all these steps without the mug literally exploding or collapsing while also making it an appealing piece of art, aaaaaaaaaaaaa

[artisticdivasworld]

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