Lily Smith, silver spinner

In 2024, Lily Smith from Dundee was funded to train with Sheffield-based Warren Martin in the craft of silver spinning – the process of shaping a flat silver disk into a hollow item on a lathe, over a former known as a ‘spinning chuck’. It is a critically endangered craft on Heritage Crafts’ Red List of Endangered Crafts with fewer than 15 practitioners in the UK. Lily will use her new skills to spin for the trade, and would like to pass the craft on to others in the future.

This bursary was offered with the support The Royal Mint.