Members will be aware that we recently started work on the Radcliffe Red List, an initiative to identify endangered crafts in the UK, supported by the Radcliffe Trust. We have just launched a simplified version of the wiki website as a survey. There are only 10 short questions to complete about your craft and your responses are vital for helping us build a picture. Do please take a look!
The Cockpit Arts/NADFAS/HCA Award provides a year’s free workshop space at Cockpit Arts, as well as dedicated business support and training, to a craftsperson whose work contributes to the continuation of heritage craft skills.
This year the award has gone to Lucy McGrath, who designs and makes beautifully-crafted products based around traditional paper marbling. Due to the quality of the entrants this year, a second award, sponsored by NADFAS’s Greater London Area, was awarded to Mariano Crespo, a shoemaker who trained as an apprentice at the world famous Lobb’s, who is currently producing bespoke shoes and boots to commission but now wishes to start his own business.
