_For the century fol-
lowing the Civil War,
Philadelphia was known
as the Workshop of the
World, not only for the scale of its industrial infrastructure, but for the unmatched diversity of its
manufacturing factories and neighborhood smokestack plants. Today a similar range of produc-
tion is the engine of Philadelphia’s modern maker movement, a hyper-local community of doers and
entrepreneurs turning out everything from textiles to technology. / AS TOLD TO FRANCINE MAROUKIAN /Philadelphia
↓MAKER CITY
HOW YOUR WORLD WORKS
One of Philly-based
Oat Foundry’s decep-
tively high-tech signs
on display at Nolita
Hall in San Diego.