How little woolly hats fight social isolation
Since 2003, dedicated crafters up and down the UK have been knitting miniature woolly hats to sit atop bottles of innocent smoothies. More than six million hats later, the Big Knit has raised [...]
Craft meets crowdfunding: halting a rural brain drain in the Balkans
A Serbian social enterprise links skilled craftspeople with modern designers in a bid to reboot the beleaguered rural economy. Could a crowdfunding campaign scale operations up?
Making sense: are we ready to ditch the disposable economy?
From a surge of interest in repair cafes, to a new wave of workspaces for freelance makers, we explore fresh signs that we’re demanding a new relationship with ‘stuff’
Resparking an ancient craft: a London blacksmith
Kevin Boy followed in the footsteps of his grandfather to master the art of blacksmithing and has run his forge at Surrey Docks Farm, London, for 25 years – helping a new generation rediscover [...]
The revival of the UK’s ceramic industry
More than 150 years after the heyday of the British ceramics production, things are looking more positive than for some time. Phil Tomlinson explains how a broken industry is putting itself back [...]
Getting crafty: a creative approach to activism
Forget placards and megaphones, Rin Simpson finds out how craft-based activism is making waves in fighting global injustice
Crafts enthusiasts in stitch-up against world hunger
Craft fans around the UK are invited to take part in a campaign that aims to help end world hunger for good
Threads of empowerment
A Faroese knitwear brand is helping to empower women through heritage crafts via a Danish detective and a killer jumper
‘When the sun has risen, the party goes on’
Tom Lawson heads to Sunrise Celebration festival to see how it combines a party atmosphere with the chance to be part of a sustainable community
The Glasshouse Project
A pioneering initiative to rejuvenate an ailing industrial factory in Stourbridge has proved an extra-ordinary success. The Ruskin Mill Further Education Centre (rmfec) has taken the declining [...]
