Margret Craver was born in 1907. She attended college at the University of Kansas, graduating with a degree in design in 1929. Upon graduating, Craver was hired as the assistant director of the new Wichita Art Museum, where she established the first craft department in the School of the Wichita Art Association. Craver traveled to Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, during the summer of 1936 to study with British metalsmith Arthur Neville Kirk. Due to the scarcity of American metalworkers, she decided to continue her smithing studies abroad with Baron Erik Fleming, court silversmith to the King of Sweden. In 1944, Craver joined Handy & Harman as a consulting silversmith. During World War II, she was heavily involved in the occupational therapy department, which held metalsmithing and jewelry making workshops for wounded soldiers. After the war ended, the department focused their efforts on developing professionals and assisting part-time craftsmen. Also while at Handy & Harman, Craver wrote several technical manuscripts and booklets on silversmithing and jewelry making. She left the firm in 1950 to pursue her own practice. Her personal research lead her to rediscover a 17th-century enameling process, en résille. Craver’s work is held in collections across the country, including the Whichita Museum of the Art Association, the Newark Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Craft. She was awarded the American Craft Council’s Gold Medal in 1985. Craver died in 2010.