Heritage Crafts
Heritage Crafts is the UK advocacy body for traditional craft skills. Working in partnership with Government and key agencies, it provides a focus for craftspeople, groups, societies and guilds, as well as individuals who care about the loss of traditional crafts skills, and works towards a healthy and sustainable framework for the future. Registered as the Heritage Crafts Association CIO 1159208.
Helen Bowkett on getting Cornish hedging onto the Red List of Endangered Crafts
Helen Bowkett on training young people
Maisie Matilda Jackson on becoming a fore-edge painter and content creator
Denzel Currie on becoming a rug tufter and content creator
Imogen Bright Moon on Gypsy, Romany and Traveller crafts
Sebastian Cox on pricing craftwork
Sonnaz Nooranvary on starting a craft business
Sonnaz Nooranvary on becoming an upholsterer
Maisie Matilda Jackson on embracing what you love
Martin Frost MBE and Maisie Matilda Jackson on keeping fore edge painting alive
Dr Maria Maclennan on becoming a forensic jeweller
The Luthier – Julian Pindar
Patrick Grant on getting people making
Patrick Grant on the value of craftsmanship
Patrick Grant on his favourite Sewing Bee makes
Lida Cardozo-Kindersley and Roxanne Kindersley on the craft lineage
David A Smith MBE on passing on the legacy
David A Smith MBE on brilliant cutting
Richard Wheater on passing on the skills
Richard Wheater on the craft lineage
Jonathan Reid on the value of manual work
Jonathan Reid on becoming a scissor maker
Euella Jackson on including young leaders in your craft organisation
Elena Kanagy-Loux on setting up a lace guild
Elena Kanagy-Loux on sharing the craft of lacemaking through TikTok
Kaffe Fassett on the status of craft
Kaffe Fassett on craft and wellbeing
Cass Barron on adapting your craft business to COVID
Jeanette Sloan and Rose Sinclair on whose craft heritage?
Jeanette Sloan on the BIPOC in Fiber project