Sense of Place and Farming Today
For those of you who don’t get up early in order to think about rural places and ponder countryside issues, you may have missed our very own Greta Bertram (Sense of Place Project Officer) on this...
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Spreading the Historypin word
Every time I look at the Historypin website, the number of channels has increased, with many museums and archives across the world having their own Historypin channel. I’ve had a quick look at some of...
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‘Woven Communities’ basketry symposium
A typical depiction of a ‘kishie’, a traditional basket used in Shetland for carrying. Apologies for the recent silence on the blog front – it’s been that time of year when everyone is away on their...
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Basketry & Beyond Festival
This weekend I went to the Dartington Estate near Totnes, Devon, for the Basketry & Beyond Festival – three days of basket madness on the themes of fishing, farming and fashion. Throughout the...
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Doing anything this Saturday?
It’s that time of year again already… this Saturday, 1 June, is the annual MERL Village Fete! This year’s Fete has a traditional crafts theme, inspired by the craft collections in the Museum and...
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Sharing Cultures 2013
The conference took place in the city’s cultural centre, which is housed in an amazing red brick building which was formerly a ceramics factory. Last week I was lucky enough to represent MERL and the...
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Tool Tales
The Tool Tales instant gallery. On Saturday the Heritage Crafts Association held its fourth annual Spring Conference, and this year’s theme was ‘Tool Tales’. What better theme could there be for a...
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Spoons galore!
Project 1: A cherrywood butter knife. One of MERL’s latest acquisitions is a beech spoon carved by spoon-carver Martin Damen during an oral history interview conducted for the Reading Connections...
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Harvesting the Knowledge in Ceredigion
The Cwm Rheidol Valley. In what seems like an endless crisscrossing of the country, I spent Friday in Aberystwyth at a symposium about craft, heritage and woodland. The symposium was the culmination of...
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