Craft News

Our final craft film of 2012 is a festive treat from U900, the amigurumi duo from Japan.

Since August 2012, the GiftED exhibition has given library visitors in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, and visitors to the Wigtown Book Festival the opportunity to see the famous paper craft sculptures donated by a mysterious artist to literary locations in Edinburgh.

This week's Friday film comes from textiles designer/maker Jan Shelley.

After a short break, our Friday film series continues with a look at Angela Pointon.

Fans of hit US series Parks & Recreation will be familiar with Ron Swanson, the character with a distinctive moustache and a penchant for wood carving. 

This week we celebrate Wool Week with a short film about Harris Tweed.

From our own film published yesterday of Lizzie Farey making in Kircudbright, today we take a trip across the world, to Cody, Nebraska.

Yesterday I attended Assemble 2012, the Crafts Council UK Conference in London.

This week, we feature a short film profiling a student at Glasgow School of Art.

Our Friday Film this week is Torcher Tailor, the second performance from Torcher Chamber Arkestra.

This week’s Friday film is our last craft film from the wonderful British Council Film Department Catalogue.

It’s time for something a little different this week, as our Friday craft film is a trailer for a play.

From taking a vintage look at textile production last week, this week we skip ahead to the World Maker Faire in New York, 2011.

This week we feature another vintage film from the British Council Film collection.

Our craft film of the week features ceramicist Julia Smith.

This week we feature ‘Colour in Clay: A Technicolor study of English pottery’ from the British Council.

This week's Friday film features textile artist Jennifer Cantwell.

This week we take a look at the stop motion animation Coraline, a stop-motion 3D fantasy children's film based on Neil Gaiman's novel of the same name.

This week, we feature Fantastic Mr Fox, Wes Anderson's stop motion animation based on the much loved children's book by Roald Dahl.

Our featured film this week is 'The Eagleman Stag,' a BAFTA award winning short from director/writer Mikey Please.