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“Consumers love the handmade, but they don’t want to pay those prices when they go up,” she said.

“I think it’s only natural that we feel pulled in the other direction, almost like we’re finding comfort in the tangible and handmade — that’s familiar.”

Banowsky’s film is a love letter to the process of provocation, the kind of thoughtful, challenging art that demands time and handmade effort.

When I complimented a man’s blue gingham suit, he handed me a handmade beaded, Taylor Swift-style bracelet that read: Toto Too.

Jay Begum sells handmade wooden decorations and gifts through her small London-based business Knots of Pine.