In this issue, Crafts meets makers who are defying expectations of their materials, challenging us to look at objects and places with fresh eyes. In Paris, we visit our cover star Simone Pheulpin, whose ambiguous textile forms recall geological strata and the rings of a tree, and in Sunderland and Sheffield, we explore the visual trickery of glass artist Anthony Amoako-Attah and metalsmith Francisca Onumah, who take inspiration from woven textiles.