Crafts

Crafts features details the work of a different artist working in the field of Crafts each month

Crafts are a rich and diverse artform which include creative work in:

• ceramics and glass 
• furniture and wood 
• jewellery and metalwork
• lettering
• musical instruments
• textiles and basketmaking 

Craft work can be made for galleries and the environment as well as for specialist retail markets.  There are strong applied art and design departments within Scotland's colleges of art, where new technologies are being harnessed to enable makers to integrate digital and hand processes. 

Scotland also has a wealth of contemporary crafts which have their origins in indigenous cultures.  In these crafts, practice is developed through being passed on in communities rather than formal education.