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The best of local crafts and craftsmen
December 13, 2018
Unless you’ve been living under a (hand-crafted, embellished, repurposed) rock for the last few years, you’ll know about etsy. An online platform that hosts individual crafters’ ‘shops’ (web pages) it’s big business in a world which is rediscovering the beauty of hand-made. At the last count, almost 2 million crafty individuals around the world had a page on etsy.com selling everything from knitted mermaid blankets to personalised wands. Even Cyprus is represented, with island residents selling roughly 2,000 different items (including leather journals, coin jewellery, and – a personal favourite – the light switch covered with an old CTO map of the island!) made right here. Clearly, there are a lot of locals out there with time and talent to spare. And a new website, areskee.com, is taking advantage of this fact: setting up as a sort of regional etsy, focusing on the best of local crafts and craftsmen…