Awards

The Heritage Crafts awards

Heritage Crafts set up the prestigious Heritage Crafts Awards in 2012. We are indebted to our partner organisations for providing funding to allow us to present a unique suite of awards and bursaries specifically for traditional crafts. We are so grateful for this generous support.

The Heritage Crafts Awards celebrate and highlight the traditional living crafts made in the UK that contribute to our national heritage, such as silversmithing, woodworking, dressmaking and tailoring, leatherworking, pottery, building crafts, upholstery, weaving, embroidery and similar other crafts where there is a significant degree of hand skill at the point of manufacture.

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Precious Metalworker of the Year Award

Precious Metalworker of the Year Award

£2,000
Woodworker of the Year Award

Woodworker of the Year Award

£2,000
Fashion and Textile Maker of the Year Award

Fashion and Textile Maker of the Year Award

£2,000
Leatherworker of the Year Award

Leatherworker of the Year Award

£2,000
Potter of the Year Award

Potter of the Year Award

£2,000
Young Woodworker of the Year Award

Young Woodworker of the Year Award

£1,000
Young Metalworker of the Year Award

Young Metalworker of the Year Award

£1,000
Young Leatherworker of the Year Award

Young Leatherworker of the Year Award

£1,000
Young Building Craftsperson of the Year Award

Young Building Craftsperson of the Year Award

£1,000
Young Upholsterer of the Year Award

Young Upholsterer of the Year Award

£1,000
Young Weaver of the Year Award

Young Weaver of the Year Award

£1,000
Young Embroiderer of the Year Award

Young Embroiderer of the Year Award

£1,000

Previous award winners

Lucy Barlow – hat maker

Sally Morrison – watch dial enameller

Tom Ball – woodcarver

Message from the Former Prince of Wales

“As President of the Heritage Crafts Association, I am delighted to endorse this new awards scheme which supports and rewards excellence in the heritage craft sector.

Crafts are such a vital part of our British heritage and I have always been passionately concerned to promote the best aspects of our country’s traditions ― and, equally importantly, to enable these highly specialised skills to be transferred from one generation to the next.

These new awards for heritage craft celebrate excellence across the sector in a variety of ways. They reward those who give so much by volunteering to support the many different crafts, those who pass on their skills, those who wish to improve their craft skills and those who continue to produce great British craft.”

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Join us at @nationaltrust Buscot and Coleshill Heritage and Rural Skills Centre on Friday 20 September for CONSERVATE, bringing together industry professionals in craft, conservation, and rural skills to explore the sustainability of heritage crafts. With a keynote talk by Heritage Crafts’ Head of Craft Sustainability Mary Lewis, topics for the day include education and wellbeing, plus there will be live demonstrations from master craftspeople.

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Heritage Crafts founding Chair @robinwoodcraft MBE and @jojowoodcraft in today’s Guardian:

“Axes are being forged in Sheffield again for the first time in decades, after a father-and-daughter team revived the city’s lost tradition ... Toolmaking has declined drastically in Sheffield over the past 40 years and the Woods believe that consumers have become frustrated with cheap, poor-quality tools and are now prepared to pay for something well made, produced locally, and that will last for generations.”

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Please do join us at @craftfestival Wales at the magnificent Cardigan Castle on the weekend of 6 to 8 September where we’ll be hosting a Marquee of Heritage Crafts, including shoe maker @ruthemilydavey, basketmakers @rosiefarey and Mandy Coates, marbler @rocworxdesigns and sign painter and puppet maker @andrewgrundon.

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