{"id":1193,"date":"2010-03-23T20:52:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2010-03-23T21:02:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T20:02:52","slug":"heritage-crafts-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/2010\/03\/heritage-crafts-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Crafts Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional crafts and heritage industries now have a champion in the form of the <a title=\"Heritage Crafts Association\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagecrafts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heritage Crafts Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Officially launched today, \u00a0the Association has been working hard behind the scenes over the last few months to raise the profile of traditional manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>Also launched today is the Heritage Crafts Association (HCA) Friends&#8217; Scheme. \u00a0This will allow supporters to take a more active role in the organisation in return for a small membership fee.<\/p>\n<p>Professor EJT Collins, editor of &#8216;<a title=\"Crafts in the English Countryside\" href=\"http:\/\/www.craftsintheenglishcountryside.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crafts in the English Countryside<\/a>&#8216;, is one of the patrons of the HCA. \u00a0His report was the first publication for over 80 years to examine the state of the traditional crafts and trades in the English countryside.<\/p>\n<p>Other patrons include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Sir Mark Jones KBE<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> \u2013\u00a0Director of the <a title=\"Victoria and Albert Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Alex Langlands<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> \u2013\u00a0archaeologist and star of &#8216;The Victorian Farm&#8217; and &#8216;Tales from the Green Valley&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Roy Brigden<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> \u2013\u00a0Keeper of the <a title=\"Museum of English Rural Life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/merl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Museum of English Rural Life<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The HCA is a non-profit organisation registered also as a UK charity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social interaction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Robin Wood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.robin-wood.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robin Wood<\/a>, the HCA Chair, has also set up a <a title=\"Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/traditionalcraftsblog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> which already contains over 70 posts.\u00a0It is hoped that this will be updated regularly with the latest opinions and observations about the traditional crafts sector and the work of the HCA.<\/p>\n<p>You can keep up to date with news from the \u00a0HCA by following updates on <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/heritage_crafts\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagecrafts.org.uk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heritagecrafts.org.uk\/images\/hca_banner.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Heritage Crafts Network\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional crafts and heritage industries now have a champion in the form of the Heritage Crafts Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1857,1848,1855,1836,1833,1840,1220,1837,1838,1832,1834,1853,1856,1839,1841,1844,1847,1629,1852,1845,19315,1835,1849,1851,1850,1854],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-arts-and-crafts","tag-archaeologist","tag-blog","tag-brigden","tag-champion","tag-crafts-association","tag-ejt","tag-english-countryside","tag-friends","tag-hca","tag-heritage-crafts","tag-heritage-industries","tag-kbe","tag-langlands","tag-membership-fee","tag-patrons","tag-profit-organisation","tag-robin-wood","tag-rural-life","tag-sir-mark","tag-social-interaction","tag-trades","tag-traditional-crafts","tag-uk-charity","tag-victoria-and-albert","tag-victoria-and-albert-museum","tag-victorian-farm","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}