Under the tutelage of well-known Jamaican craftsman Robert Campbell Guyanese craftsmen and women are being instructed in the delicate art of mould-making, a skill that allows for replication of pieces of craft to cater for a continually international market. Campbell, who says that moulds have significantly increased the volume of production in Jamaica’s highly popular craft industry, believes that Guyana too can benefit from training a cadre of craftsmen and women in the making of moulds, leaving the ‘turning out’ of craft pieces to workers whose skill levels allow for them to simply press clay into moulds and increase the rate of production.
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