One of the many reasons I enjoy flying Southwest is “Spirit” magazine.  February (which apparently just ended), had a fantastic article titled Hand Made in America.

We’ve seen the future and it works … in small shops with sawdust-covered floors free of conveyer belts and robots. There, craftsmen make goods with their hands, carving slabs of mesquite into guitars and stitching decorative patterns onto cowboy boots. Tadd Myers, a Dallas photographer, crisscrossed the United States over the last two years to capture these artisans at work. He saw cowhides become baseball gloves in Texas and liquid metal form into vases and jewelry in Vermont. He shot more than 10,000 photographs, a massive project he plans to turn into a book.