RUNNERS-UP

CRAFTS

Sunhouse Craft

HAND BROOMS

BEREA, KENTUCKY

$5–$95; sunhousecraft.com

Seven years ago, Cynthia Main left the shop she ran in Chicago, where she repurposed salvaged building materials, to study barrel making at a farming skills school in Michigan. There, she impulsively opted in to a broom-making class. “It’s a craft that just gets into you,” she says. “I was fried on big machine production. I feel like this is a way to rehumanize the process.” After relocating to Berea, Kentucky, last year, Main took up broom making full time. Now she sources broomcorn from Texas, leather from Thoroughbred Leather out of nearby Louisville, and wood from the downed sticks and branches around her home, all of which she saws, shaves, and shapes into rustically imaginative brooms, brushes, and dustpans in her studio. “A craft like this stands at the nexus of place and people,” Main says. “It’s people using what grows on the land to give them what they need.”

Craig Proper

DINNERWARE

TULSA, OKLAHOMA

$20–$150; craigproper.com

The key to Taylor Dickerson’s pottery is perfection. “I want to create things that make people wonder whether they’re handmade or not,” says the twenty-eight-year-old Oklahoma potter, who in 2016 opened