10 Facts About Margret Craver

Margret Craver was an American artist and arts educator.

Margret Craver was noted for her jewelry and holloware as well as her educational and technical manuals on metalwork.

Margret Craver became interested in metalwork while studying at the University of Kansas, and after graduation traveled to Europe for study, as training in metalworking techniques was not available in the United States at the time.

Margret Craver established the department of jewelry and metalsmithing at the Wichita Arts Association in 1935, and throughout the 1930s she continued to travel the US and abroad for further training in the craft of metalwork.

Margret Craver was introduced to Charles Withers, president of Massachusetts-based Towle Silversmiths, in 1949, and the two were married the next year.

Margret Craver continued to be known professionally under her unmarried name.

Margret Craver left Wichita to organize metalworking workshops in veteran's hospitals in New York.

Margret Craver created a number of films and manuals on metalworking techniques for use by instructors.

In 1953, Margret Craver first encountered the disused enameling technique en resille, in which enamel-coated metal foil is embedded in glass.

Margret Craver revived the technique, researching it over the course of about thirteen years to reproduce and perfect it.