Clay pipe making, wainwrighting, tanning and making spinning wheels – all are skills of the past that can offer us a sustainable future. This is the message behind a drive, launched this spring, to preserve endangered traditional crafts in Britain. “We have a rich heritage of craft skills that can be regarded as just as important as historic buildings and treasured objects,” Lovett said. The HCA brings together amateur groups with professional societies and guilds to try to ensure a future for the skills involved. It also lobbies the government to take more notice of these skills in its wider provisions for maintaining British cultural heritage.

Source: The Guardian March 29, 2020 05:37 UTC