Searching category 'Traditions'


Getting creative with the Cornish catch!

Posted on 19-02-2013

Artist Susie Ray has been busy reviving ancient fish rubbing techniques to create highly detailed prints of the local Cornish sea life! LandLove's Natalie Mason finds out more on her interesting artworks... Susie Ray at the Padstow Mussel Co. has grown up with a lov...

Celebrate our saints

Posted on 19-02-2013

Image courtesy of St Patrick's FestivalAs patriotic festivities commence this spring we find out who the saints behind the days really were As the months of March and April dawn, many of us welcome in the first signs o...

Building on an ancient skill

Posted on 01-01-2013

When you think of the Yorkshire Dales you think of dry stone walls. But what you probably don't think of is that they may have been built by a woman. We meet Tracey Blackwell, one of the few female dry stone wallers in the UK, who is keeping this most traditional skill alive and...

LandLove's bronze casting experience

Posted on 20-12-2012

This summer the LandLove team visited the Weald of Kent Craft Show where we met talented artist and bronze caster, Graeme Quinn. Always keen to have a go, we decided to try our hand at this ancient technique as Graeme showed our Editor-in-Chief Anna-Lisa the ropes T...

Tightly knitting the community

Posted on 21-08-2012

Once almost lost forever, one Whitby knitter had made it her mission to revive the tradition of gansey-makingAs their battered boats lurched through the waves and winds of the unforgiving North Sea, the Victorian fishermen of Yorkshire must have been thankfu...

Strike while the iron’s hot

Posted on 21-08-2012

Artist blacksmith Andrew Findlay practises a craft that appeared to be magical in ancient times – forging metal using a fire, hammer and anvilThe bright ring of hammer meeting metal on the anvil has been heard in Andrew Findlay's Herefordshire forge si...

Back in the saddle

Posted on 08-08-2012

Nestled in her workshop in the New Forest, Lottie Chamberlain is one of just a handful of apprentices in the UK who are learning the disciplined craft of saddle making Saddles are sensual, shapely, sturdy things. They need to sit well along the horse's spine, ...

If you go down to the woods today...

Posted on 28-03-2012

Tucked away in the heart of the Kent countryside, underwoodsman John Waller is keeping traditional woodcraft skills alive and passing them on to the next generation Stacked outside John Waller’s workshop in a corner of a Kentish farm are tall sheaves of prime ...



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