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Traditional craft skills at risk of vanishing from UK on 'Red List'
Sunderland Echo
|May 14, 2025
A stark warning has been issued for the future of traditional craft skills in the UK.
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New research by Heritage Crafts has identified 20 more crafts at risk of vanishing from the UK, in the latest major update of its pioneering project - the Red List of Endangered Crafts.
The new additions join a list of 165 at-risk crafts now listed in the report.
Heritage Crafts' research, which has been funded by The Pilgrim Trust with additional sponsorship from The Royal Mint, has found that rising operational costs, a lack of structured training, and mounting market pressures are placing unsustainable strain on crafts that depend on expert hand skills - meaning that without urgent action many of these heritage craft skills could disappear within a generation.
Silver allied trades - which incorporates precious metalworking skills such as lost wax casting, wire drawing, buffing and polishing - is a new entry to the 'enda165ngered' category of the Red List.
This story is from the May 14, 2025 edition of Sunderland Echo.
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