Handcrafted America

Host Jill Wagner travels to Texas to meet a leatherworker, Virginia to hang with a guitar crafter, and Chicago to learn about shoe making.

Jill visits a glassware crafter in Seattle, an in-demand bike maker in Ohio, and a Kentucky bookmaker with a 100-year-old printing press.

Jill meets a clockmaker in Michigan, a woodworker in North Carolina, and a blacksmith in Washington who shapes iron and defies stereotypes.

Jill meets married bladesmiths in the Alaskan backcountry, a master woodworker in North Carolina, and a handbag-making Texas leatherworker.

Jill heads to Illinois to see pens made from reclaimed wood, California to step out with a bootmaker, and New Mexico for repurposed doors.

Jill sits down with a quilt maker in Texas, a gunsmith who makes flintlock rifles in North Carolina, and a stone carver in Illinois.

The talent is in the details as Jill visits a New Jersey ceramicist, a Wisconsin woodworker, and a Minnesota steampunk lamp maker.

Jill travels to Minnesota to meet a rug weaver, San Francisco to make handcrafted sunglasses, and New Jersey to learn about billiard tables.

Jill meets married hat makers in Milwaukee, and then visits California artisans using exotic woods to design longbows and surfboards.

Jill visits a North Carolina custom-fit blue-jean maker, a Boston furniture maker, and an Oregon bedframe crafter using steel and wood.

Jill meets a Massachusetts silversmith, a North Carolina aviary crafter, and, in Oregon, learns how to make traditional bamboo fly rods.

Jill visits North Carolina to see whiskey barrels become furniture, Boston to watch metal become flutes, and Oregon to make paper from rags.