Handcrafted America

Host Jill Wagner meets a clockmaker who keeps a dying art ticking, a seventh generation chair maker and a female blacksmith who shapes iron while defying stereotypes.

A woman steeped in quilt-making traditions; a gunsmith who makes flintlock rifles; a stone carver.

Host Jill Wagner meets a glassblower who makes colorful drinking glasses; a bicycle maker has a seven-year waiting list; a book publisher prints books on his 100-year-old printing press.

A fifth-generation leatherworker; a guitar maker; an architect who makes shoes.

Husband-and-wife bladesmiths; a woodworker; a leatherworker makes handbags.

A couple fashions pens from wood; a cowboy boot maker; vintage doors get a new lease on life.

A ceramicist scratches designs into pottery; a woodworker; a lamp maker uses machine parts.

A weaver makes rugs with geometric designs; handcrafted sunglasses; a man makes billiard tables.

An artist makes stained-glass panels; baseballs and footballs; a woodworker makes jewelry boxes.

Host Jill Wagner visits the Milwaukee studio of husband-and-wife hatmakers; in California, Wagner meets two artisans who use exotic woods to make precision longbows and surfboards.

A designer who makes custom blue jeans; the art of marquetry; custom steel bed frames.

A Massachusetts silversmith makes heirloom flatware; a craftsman builds aviaries; bamboo fly rods.

A woodworker turns whiskey barrels into outdoor furniture; artisans make flutes; handmade papers.

Artisans make products designed to appeal to men, including bamboo fishing rods, pens and more.