There’s tension in that synthesis. For longtime patrons, the arrival of curated digital goods risks hollowing out the market’s tactile soul. For early digital adopters, the handmade stalls can look quaintly inefficient. Yet the most interesting outcomes happen at the seams: a potter who scans her glaze patterns into NFTs to fund a kiln upgrade; a teenager teaching elders to map local walking tours into an app, then guiding them in person. These hybrid gestures preserve craft while widening its reach, not by replacing touch with pixels but by letting each amplify the other.
