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Massachusetts was well represented in the crafts area at this summer’s Lowell Folk Festival<\/a>. Festival goers got to meet and ask questions of artists who demonstrated the making of weathervanes, duck decoys, Chinese calligraphy, hooked rugs, porcupine quill work, native twined baskets, Ukrainian decorated eggs, Cambodian ceramics, hand carved signs, Puerto Rican carved saints and carnival masks, wooden boatbuilding, ship’s wheels, tin men, and white ash baskets. The participating craftspeople are are just some of the artists featured in the exhibition, Keepers of Tradition: Art and Folk Heritage in Massachusetts<\/a><\/em>, on view at the National Heritage Museum through February 8, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Massachusetts was well represented in the crafts area at this summer’s Lowell Folk Festival. 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