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Despite its jokey connotations of naked Scandinavians rolling in snow and beating themselves with birch twigs, the sauna is a serious matter. Long revered for its therapeutic powers, it has now earned itself UNESCO status in Finland.

Viewpoint

Cultural leader and social entrepreneur Annie Warburton on why we need to cultivate craftsmanship

Reviving the tradition of British Glassblowing

Mick, the cab driver who has collected me from Audley End train station, is nattering away unapologetically as we slalom down country lanes. We arrive at a cluster of old barns. One of them is decorated by the stylish logo of the glass design studio Batch.

Sewing the seeds...

How a young fashion and textiles entrepreneur in south India has set up his own supply chain that starts from the soil – and is leading the way for a new method of making clothes that gives back more than it takes...

Creative Bonds

It’s the end of summer 2021 and the artists-in-residence at the Sarabande Foundation are preparing for the final night of their group show. For two weeks, the exhibitors have taken it in turns to man the bar. When they’re not pouring drinks, they are presenting their work to visiting gallerists, artists, journalists and collectors.

This Close to Reality

Proportion London represents the pinnacle of a most peculiar craft – the bizarre, perfectly formed world of life-size human mannequins...

Family Repairs

Repair skills used to be passed down through the generations, until they weren’t. But now a rising culture of craft is celebrating the lost art of repair – and the stories to be found in the stitches. We meet three London-based artists who are helping to turn the tide...

The Nature of Trees

If there was ever any doubt that trees are living creatures with a heart and soul, the ability to communicate, make mistakes, and to thrive in family groups, forester Peter Wohlleben is the person to prove it...

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Sea Change

Tat sits perched on his haunches, spear in hand, watching and waiting. He is poised on the end of his kabang, the sailboat he has crafted from a single log, on which he, his wife, Sabai, and their three boys live. They are the last of the so-called sea gypsies; the Moken people who for centuries have lived in flotillas around the Surin Islands, in the south of the Mergui Archipelago in the Andaman Sea, sailing across invisible borders with no ties to land.

A suitcase of curiosities with Catherine Lock

A suitcase of curiosities

As a curator of craft, and co-founder of The New Craftsmen, Catherine Lock has spent years travelling the world in search of the finest craftsmanship. Here she shares some of her favourite pieces collected from her trips – from Ireland to Ethiopia and beyond.  

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