Why The Crafting Crane?

Our story

The Crafting Crane was started in 2021 and was co-founded by Nicole Cisch and Matt Richardson. As a company The Crafting Crane focus on creating one of a kind pieces that you and your family will love for a life time. From custom hand made furniture and kitchen goods to hand woven and fine crafted fiber pieces we know you will love our quality!

Both Nicole and Matt were born and raised in Michigan and are proud to support our local communities. We work together on a lot of our projects but many of the day to day woodworking projects are headed up by Matt, whereas Nicole is the master fiber artists. 

Why The Crafting Crane?

Why choose us? or why the name? Well we choose The Crafting Crane because we have a family of sandhill cranes that frequent the area by our workshop and we both loved the story of the crane wife. (or Tsuru no Ongaeshi from Japanese folklore) 

Why choose us? Our main focus is creating one of a kind pieces that you will love and will last a lifetime! We try to use only the highest quality materials and like to keep our supplies as local as possible.