Caius Bearder, Silver Spinner

In 2023, Caius Bearder from Glasgow trained in silver spinning with Sheffield- based Warren Martin. Silver spinning is the process of shaping a flat silver disk into a hollow item on a lathe, shaping it over a former known as a ‘spinning chuck’. It is a critically endangered craft on Heritage Crafts’ Red List of Endangered Crafts with fewer than 15 practitioners in the UK. Caius used the skills he learned to help reduce the production costs of his beautiful engraved silver vessels, which were laboriously hand raised prior to this training opportunity.