GIFTS FROM YOUR KITCHEN

These recipes for traditional cookies, savory spreads, fanciful fruits, and spicy nuts will have your mouth watering for the holidays.

Claire Hopley

EYE ON ANTIQUES: IN QUEST OF THE BLUES

The mystery lingers as to who made the flamboyant indigo-dyed textiles that adorned 18th-century households.

Peter A. Cook

PHEASANT RUN FARM IN CHALFONT, PENNSYLVANIA

This 19th-century stone house is a showcase of fine traditional craftsmanship, much from the hands of owners Bob and Kay Shaeff.

Jeanmarie Andrews

THE LATER LIFE OF AN EARLY CONNECTICUT HOUSE

The Greers are the latest caretakers of a circa 1680 house whose scant remains have been meticulously saved and reproduced.

Mimi Handler

2004 DIRECTORY OF TRADITIONAL AMERICAN CRAFTS®

Our 18th listing of the hands that shape today’s versions of the furniture, pottery, textiles, and metals that shaped a young nation.

MAKE A NEW ENGLAND PIPE BOX

A common period piece, this hanging box can hold more than just pipes. What a nice Christmas gift for your home or a friend’s.

John Nelson

LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA: PENELOPE WINSLOW’S WEDDING SHOES

These slippers of rich salmon-colored satin seem out of place in the life of a wilderness-clearing Massachusetts colonist.

Penelope Behrens