Like many of the stops on one of the world's great trade routes, the Silk Road, Trabzon used to be a lot more important than it is today. But the old market streets of this Turkish Black Sea port city ...

In a quest to keep the art and technique of copper craft alive, traditional coppersmiths from Tambat Ali in Pune are willing to train anyone interested in learning the art form. Coppersmiths at work ...

COPPERSMITHS who are benefiting from the global demand for whisky are keen to teach young people their traditional skills. The metal-workers produce the large copper stills which are crucial in the ...

Arts and crafts cannot flourish unless patronised by the markets or, as it was in the early days, by royalty. And with both these elements being absent, it was only natural that the coppersmiths of ...

In one of the narrow alleys of the Al-Jamaliya neighbourhood in Old Cairo, 65-year-old coppersmith Abdel-Nabi Hindawi was making a copper pot at his workshop amid an intense heat wave. The Egyptian ...