Six dorm-friendly, budget-aware gems in the Festival Marketplace.

The wonder continues at the Festival Marketplace this week as we resume our pop-up International Folk Art Market.

The pop-up International Folk Art Market will feature jewelers, basket makers, weavers, textile designers, woodcarvers, and other artisans from over fifteen countries.

Here in Barcelona, “trencadís” mosaic makes up much of the city’s modernism.

It was a clear and quiet autumn morning when we visited Ruben and Karen during our fieldwork visit for this summer’s Folklife Festival Marketplace.

Armenians have been turning clay into useful forms since the third millennium BCE.

Throughout the week, we’ll post photos of selected items in the Marketplace. Tag a friend who you would like to shop at the Marketplace with and be entered for a chance to win a vintage Folklife Festival T-shirt.

They say if you cut down a tree and count the rings, you can tell how old the tree is. In this sense, wood acts as an interesting relative-dating mechanism.

As a master chef and lover of Basque cuisine, José Andrés shares some of his favorite picks from the Folklife Festival Marketplace.

Every year I look forward to the Folklife Festival—there’s always a ton to do, and I love learning and experiencing new cultures from around the world. When I found out this year was going to be the Basque country, I immediately marked my calendar.