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In the 1990s the craft artists drifted into the art world, promoting their work and

themselves through dealer galleries, procuring public funding through the Arts
Council or applying for positions in the new craft design courses at polytechnics.

Craftspeople working in a more traditional way as the makers of objects that could be
used or displayed in the home continued to sell their work in a declining number of

craft shops and galleries, in a market being inundated with imported objects, to a
population who were looking for new objects to fill their homes. Others involved on

the periphery of the movement, for instance those who had never made a living from

craft or promoted themselves as craft artists, or had come to craft because it
enhanced their enjoyment of life, continued to take pleasure in the companionship

craft provided.

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