Winner of the 2017 HCA/Marsh Made in Britain Award Carréducker are this year’s winners of the Made in Britain Award. Deborah Carré and James Ducker both left previous careers to become shoemakers and completed traditional apprenticeships in English handsewn shoemaking with a master shoemaker for John Lobb. They founded Carreducker in 2004 making bespoke shoes […]
Winner of the 2017 HCA/Marsh Trainer Award Alistair McCallum was awarded the Marsh Trainer of the Year. Alistair trained at Loughborough College of Art and the Royal College of Art. On graduating in 1978, he set up his first workshop in London. A silversmith and one of the leading practitioners of the Japanese metalworking technique […]
We are delighted that two members nominated by the HCA have been recognised in the New Years honours list.
As Co-Chair of Heritage Crafts, the UK charity set up to support traditional crafts skills, Jay Blades MBE is leading a new initiative to bring cricket ball making back to the UK. The craft has been listed as extinct in the UK since the first edition of the Red List of Endangered Crafts was published in 2017.
This autumn, Helen Chislett and David Linley’s (the Earl of Snowdon) book, Craft Britain: Why Making Matters will be published, featuring a number of crafts on the Red List of Endangered Crafts.
Robin Wood talks to Endangered Crafts Manager Mary Lewis about knitting her first Gansey, an endangered craft on the Red List of Endangered Crafts.
Millwrighting has been identified by the Red List of Endangered Crafts as a critically endangered skill. As a result, SPAB is inviting applications for one place on its Craft Fellowship scheme from a craftsperson in any relevant trade who has an interest in mills, and in using and extending their skills to repair and maintain them.
Cambridge Woodwind Makers is a not-for-profit organisation providing a platform from which to preserve and teach the skills associated with woodwind instrument making and repair… skills that, according to the Red List of Endangered Crafts, are endangered.
As part of our link-up with AirBnB Experiences, world renowned photographer Rankin has captured craftspeople featured on the HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts.
Endangered Crafts, which was based on the HCA’s Red List, culminated in a fabulous exhibition of works at Manchester Craft and Design Centre in May. Over 150 students from across the School participated in the project, with selected works exhibited as part of the School of Art’s Unit X Festival.
New research by the Heritage Crafts Association and supported by The Radcliffe Trust has found many traditional craft skills in the UK to be hanging on by a thread.