Craftland : A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades

Craftland : A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing TradesFor centuries, Britains identity has been tied to what we make with our hands. In Craftland, journalist James Fox travels from the Scilly Isles to the Scottish Highlands to meet the countrys remaining master craftspeople: blacksmiths, wheelwrights, watchmakers, bell founders and more, preserving vanishing skills and traditions. Its a beautifully observed journey into how making shapes who we are, and a reminder that in a world increasingly defined by

It is by turns generous

devastating book

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A genuinely revealing memoir from one of the UK’s most flamboyant

Circular Materials celebrates the growing movement of reuse and innovation across fashion

Apps unpicks the political and economic forces behind the crisis

the author shows how rethinking clothes can restore joy

Through six compelling essays

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brought a bullock and the animal’s subsequent journey from a field in Shropshire to a series of finished products and dishes

It’s a book about the importance of process and provenance