Winners of the 2019 Heritage Crafts Awards
Handmade paper maker James Patterson has been named Maker of the Year in this year’s Heritage Crafts Awards. Maker of the Year was one of six awards presented at the Heritage Crafts Association’s (HCA) annual conference at Cecil Sharp House, London on 9th March.
Craft skills under threat with 37 additions to the Red List of Endangered Crafts
New research by the Heritage Crafts Association has unearthed dozens more traditional craft skills on the verge of extinction in the UK, in the first major update of its pioneering project, the Red List of Endangered Crafts launched on Saturday 9 March.
Browse our Makers Directory
Here are just a few of the wonderful items made by some of the highly […]
Gilding the Gingerbread
View the film trailer Two fortunate trainees, Ellen Wood and Tony Hassett, learned the traditional […]
Symposium on Endangered Baskets
The HCA and the Basketmakers’ Association are hosting an Endangered Baskets Symposium at the Museum of English rural Life in reading on 5 October 2019.
Apply to the Endangered Crafts Fund
We are inviting craft practitioners and organisations to apply for small grants to fund projects that support and promote endangered crafts (as featured in the Red List of Endangered Crafts).
Flutemaking trainee sought to avert craft extinction
The Heritage Crafts Association (HCA) has set out to save British flutemaking by seeking potential trainees interested in learning this intricate and highly-skilled craft from a retiring master.
Winners of the 2019 Heritage Crafts Awards
Handmade paper maker James Patterson has been named Maker of the Year in this year’s Heritage Crafts Awards. Maker of the Year was one of six awards presented at the Heritage Crafts Association’s (HCA) annual conference at Cecil Sharp House, London on 9th March.
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