Today in the manufacturing process, all has been mechanized, nevertheless, still hand-made work is performed in even couture and its value is highly recognised. It is not doubtful that in the world, mass production, made in China, and the cheap and practical furntiture, IKEA are overflowed, nonetheless, more and more consumers are fanatical about handmade, local and limited-edition, in particular, the richer people are, the more they purchase handcrafted products. Therefore, this essay will explore the value of hand-made work as referencing to the work of two designers as well as reviewing folio exploration.

First, Reviewing the value of hand-made work, hand-made items are considered as art containing one and another stitch by craftspeople’s spirit, which is different from mass produced items. It also inspires people purchasing handcrafted products by boosting creativity. In term of environment, hand-made products are environmental friendly because craftspeople normally use recycled materials and unlike mass production they do not emit air pollution substances from the factory or processing equipment (Heng 2011). It’s value is more seen in the crafty hands underlying fabrication process of an object in the range from the sketches in the design to packaging than in the machines churning the numerous same products out.

When we choose whether to make by hands or machines is determined depending on who will be a target customer, cost, productivity, and intention of a designer. In fact, handcrafted products require longer time, greater efforts, cost and thought than mass produced products. Growing number of rich customers want to a product with high scarcity value rather than the cheaper product and also have curiosity of the manufacturing process. They may think that if the manufacturing process is not beautiful, the product itself cannot have the authentic