Currently viable crafts
Crafts classified as ‘currently viable’ are those which are in a healthy state and have sufficient craftspeople to transmit the craft skills to the next generation. They may include crafts with a large market share, widely popular crafts, or crafts with a strong local presence. NB. A classification of ‘currently viable’ does not mean that the craft is risk-free or without issues affecting its future sustainability/viability. Click here to see a list of currently endangered crafts.
- Armour and helmet making
- Automaton making
- Bagpipe making (Highland pipes)
- Basket making
- Batik
- Bead working
- Billiard, snooker and pool cue making
- Blacksmithing
- Boat building (modern wooden)
- Bookbinding
- Bowyery
- Braiding
- Button making
- Cabinetmaking
- Calligraphy
- Candle making
- Carpentry
- Chair making
- Chair seating
- Charcoal burning
- Cob building
- Coopering (spirits)
- Coppersmithing (stills)
- Coppice working
- Corset making
- Crochet
- Cutlery and tableware making MOVED FROM ENDANGERED IN 2023
- Darkroom photography
- Decorative plasterwork NEW
- Drum making
- Dry stone walling
- Dyeing
- Edge tool making
- Embroidery
- Enamelling
- Farriery
- Felting
- Fletching
- Flintknapping (objects)
- Fly dressing
- Founding MOVED FROM ENDANGERED IN 2023
- French polishing
- Furniture making
- Gilding
- Glass engraving
- Glass working
- Goldsmithing
- Green woodworking
- Gunmaking
- Handle making
- Harris Tweed weaving
- Hedgelaying
- Heritage tiling and mosaic
- Intaglio
- Islamic calligraphy
- Jewellery making
- Joinery
- Knife making
- Knitting
- Lace making
- Lapidary
- Lead working MOVED FROM ENDANGERED IN 2023
- Leatherworking
- Letter cutting
- Macrame
- Marquetry
- Medal making
- Metal spinning
- Millinery
- Model engineering
- Net making
- Organ building
- Origami
- Paper making (studio)
- Patchwork and quilting
- Pewter working
- Pole lathe turning
- Pottery (studio)
- Puppet making
- Quilling
- Rag rugging
- Rocking horse making
- Rug tufting
- Rug weaving
- Saddlery
- Screen printing NEW FOR 2023
- Signwriting
- Silversmithing
- Smocking
- Sofrut calligraphy MOVED FROM ENDANGERED IN 2023
- Spinning
- Stained glass and glass painting
- Steel pan making
- Stick dressing
- Stone carving
- Stonemasonry
- Stringed instrument making
- Surgical instrument making MOVED FROM ENDANGERED IN 2023
- Swordsmithing
- Tailoring
- Tapestry weaving
- Tatting
- Taxidermy
- Thatching
- Tile making (wall and floor tiles)
- Tile making (roofing tiles)
- Timber framing
- Toy making
- Upholstery and soft furnishings
- Weaving
- Wig making
- Wood carving
- Wood turning
