At the Craft Center, you can meet some of the accomplished artisans who make Plimoth Plantation feel like the 17^th century. Using the tools, materials and craft techniques of the 1600s, our modern-day craftspeople create many of the objects you see in the Wampanoag Homesite and the 17^th-Century English Village. Native artisans make stone, wood and sinew tools, porcupine roaches or headdresses and hand-coiled clay pots. Other artisans practice historic English trades, making reproductions of the objects that early 17^th-century colonists imported from England. Plimoth Plantation’s celebrated joiners (furniture makers), potters and tailors provide the Museum’s 17^th-Century English Village with its accurate material culture.

In addition to its talented Craft Center artisans, Plimoth Plantation also relies on corps of dedicated volunteers to produce some of the objects it needs. To learn more about the work of our Knitters' Club, please visit the Club's blog.

The beautiful work of the Craft Center artisans is available for purchase at the Museum Shops and by special order. For more information about your visit to the Craft Center, please see our Frequently Asked Questions.