Craft News

Scottish designer milliner Sally-Ann Provan showed her Autumn/Winter 2010 collection during London Fashion Week. 

At the Heritage Crafts Association, traditional craftspeople came together to avert the loss of heritage craft skills.

Scottish jeweller and silversmith Dorothy Hogg is one of only three people to have won the award to date. 

The full programme of Craft Festival Scotland events for May and June 2010 has now been launched.

The Crafts Council recently launched a website for their Craft Matters initiative.

The full programme of Craft Festival Scotland events for May and June 2010 has now been launched.

Emma attends the Heritage Crafts Association forum at the V&A

At the Heritage Crafts Association forum and press launch event today, the HCA launched their Friends' scheme. 

Emma meets Georgina Follett regarding the upcoming exhibition opening

Emma heads to Perth for a Meet Your Maker meeting

The Scottish Government have allocated £300,000 to the New Arts Sponsorship Grants scheme for 2010-2011. 

In recent years, the use of CAD (Computer Aided Design) in craft practice has been hotly debated and coldly ignored in equal measure. However the CAD shaped elephant in the room is not going to disappear. On the contrary, a quick search of Craft Scotland's Maker Directory suggests that the number of makers using CAD-related processes is on the increase.

March’s focus on wood provides an opportunity – beyond failing to resist the wordplay of the title – to use a very specific and special exhibition as illustration of the links between craft and the increasingly urgent sustainable development agenda: the Wych Elm project at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.

Emma Walker will travel to Germany later this week for her role as a jury member in Talente 2010.

Emma Walker will travel to Germany later this week for her role as a jury member in Talente 2010.

The skills invovled in heritage crafts are celebrated in a new series on BBC2.

Craft Scotland has been awarded Craft Festival Scotland contract

Craft Scotland are awarded the marketing and PR contract for Craft Festival Scotland, the first national festival celebrating Scottish craft.