The Home Front: Home-made to self-made, the evolution of the craft industry

When Andrea and Robert Tucker, owners of East Hasting’s London Fields Shoppe, first launched Got Craft in 2007, they had 20 vendors and 500 attendees. Robert says the craft show, which runs today and tomorrow at East Vancouver’s Maritime Labour Centre, now includes over 80 vendors and attracts a crowd of over 5,000, and reflects the way the craft industry has changed over the past 10 years.
“Over the last decade, the quality, and what people are making, has chang