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The Heritage Crafts Association recognised our traditional craftsmanship by awarding us the inaugural HCA President’s Award for Endangered Crafts.
After four years of talking about this lost pattern, and more than two years working on it ourselves, the Kutrite is coming back!
The Kutrite is coming back! Read More »
Let us start by saying we’re astounded at the support our customers have given us during this most complicated of summers. Despite long wait times on many of our scissors, your backorders have kept pouring in and keeping us more than busy. This has given our younger putters the impetus to grow, while master-putters Cliff
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Our youngsters are all fine crafsmen in their own right, some of them with several years’ experience, and they did a great job. Nonetheless, the evolving crisis meant we had to close production entirely after a week or so, as sweeping lockdown measures were put in place throughout the land. It has been frustrating to
Millions of tonnes of waste are sent to landfill each year. But what if we could turn that junk into useful, everyday items? That’s the mission of Neil Wragg, founder of Ragsto and resident artisan on BBC1’s Money for Nothing.
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Craft heritage is the activity of using traditional materials and knowledge to practice a craft and continue it for successive generations. They emerge from a need, a place and the materials found at that location. A rich craft heritage reflects local skill, knowledge and community identity. But crafts become extinct when needs change, manufacture is
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Modern fashion moves fast. People are buying more and more, but clothes are worn less and discarded faster than ever before. Nowadays, clothes have increasingly short lifespans because of the poor-quality, blended fabrics used. And because trends change quickly, clothing styles soon end up becoming obsolete…
The seamstress promoting fair fashion Read More »
We wanted to do anything to save the tradition and craftsmanship, so before we knew it, Jan Bart and I were on our way from the Netherlands to Sheffield.
Keeping the heritage alive Read More »