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Making crafts has scientifically proven positive physical and mental effects. Effects can be noted in a process and throught the finished product. Craft is not a form of a therapy, although it has been used as a part of other therapyforms and rehabilitation. The targetgroup of this research is textile printing workshop, which activity is based on voluntary participation during a rehabilitation period. It's a workshop where participants work in part of the group. A sense of community have an strong influence of their working and experiences of crafts. The Aim of this research was to find out how do the clients of the rehabilitationcenter experience craft workshop as a part of their rehabilitation period and what kind of effects and meanings that have to them. I used role-playing method to collect my data. I got 31 participants from Orton’s rehabilitationcenter who write a short story based on either positive or negative frame story. Participants descripted their experiences of a workshop and things that had effect to their opinions. Stories highlighted the most social interaction and its meanings and influences. Craftactivities create a special time and space for social interactions, conversations and getting to know other people. Crafts can be seen as a element that connects people, rather than a center of a activity. Finished products were mentioned second most at the data. Finished product make people see their functional abilities in a new light and gives them empowering experiences. Descriptions of refreshing and relaxing effects and meanings were as common in participants stories. In those stories the process was more important than a actual product. All negative descriptions pointed the meanings of an environment and director of a workshop. Meanings of an environment and a director seem to be highlighted only when the experience of a craft was negative. In positive descriptions the focus was on inner experiences rather than in outer qualities.