Heritage crafts handcrafted gifts

You may also be interested in: Art: art history and theory | Art: wildlife and botanical illustration | Basketry | Beekeeping | Boat building and coracle making | Book repair, illumination and historical manuscripts | Bookbinding and book making | Calligraphy | Candle making | Coppicing and woodland management | Creative holidays: UK based | Creative therapy | Crochet | Drink: home brewing | Dry stone walling | Dyeing | Engraving | Food: Free From Food | Food: bread making | Food: cheese making | Food: foraging and wild food | Food: preserves, jam, chutney, pickle and jelly making | Glass art | Hand embroidery | Hedge laying | Herbal remedies and medicine | Hurdle making | Knitting | Lace making | Leather bag | Leather: belts, purses and accessories | Leather: carving, stitching and advanced techniques | Leather: dog collars and leads, pet accessories and tack | Longbow making | Natural / eco printing and dyeing | Pottery: porcelain | Quilting and patchwork | Rural crafts | Scything | Shoe making | Spinning | Stone carving | Stone carving, lettering and walling | Stone letter cutting | Stone work | Timber framing | Traditional woodland crafts and green woodworking | Upholstery | Weaving | Willow weaving

Traditional heritage craft courses, live classes, kits and online workshops from UK makers. Heritage crafts are so important to our culture and living heritage - we need to keep these skills alive by learning, practicing and appreciating them or they will not survive! Heritage skills can be as diverse as dry stone walling, wheelwrighting, ploughing, rope making, gate and hurdle making, wattle and daub techniques, spoon carving, whittling and many more.