S16E01: Heritage Skills

Liz and Solange are joined by Mary Lewis, head of craft sustainability at Heritage Crafts. Where does conservation and craft overlap? Let’s talk it out! Also tune in for a book review from Jenny. 00:24 Sponsorship news, hooray! 01:57 Meet Mary 05:53 Kindling crafts and their benefits 07:44 Intangible cultural heritage and the fetishisation of objects 11:45 Endangered crafts 17:19 Being human and using your hands 24:40 Overlap between making and repairing or maintaining 30:32 Woes of making a living 35:42 Shortages in conservation and crafts 42:58 What’s the next big craft trend? 48:44 Review: Conservation of Plaster Casts Show Notes: - BevArt: https://www.bev.art/ - Heritage Crafts: https://www.heritagecrafts.org.uk/ - A little about Mary: https://www.heritagecrafts.org.uk/staff/mary-lewis/ - Ratification of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/united-kingdom-great-britain-and-northern-ireland-ratifies-2003-convention-safeguarding-intangible - The Red List of Endangered Crafts: https://www.heritagecrafts.org.uk/skills/redlist/ - List of Living National Treasures of Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Living_National_Treasures_of_Japan_(crafts) - Stone carving podcast mentioned by Solange: https://sites.libsyn.com/442152 - Conservation of Plaster Casts: https://archetype.co.uk/our-titles/conservation-of-plaster-casts/?id=436 Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Solange Masher, Liz Hébert, and Mary Lewis. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2025.