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Conversations
Long interviews with people who make things.
Everything under this shield
Conversations
A calligrapher on forty years of ink
Agnes Ruddle has lettered certificates, gravestones and one royal charter. She still practises the alphabet every morning before she answers email.
Maud Ellery
Conversations
The last apprentice at the forge
At nineteen, Rory Tanner is the only apprentice at a village forge that has been working since 1780. He talks hammers, hands and the waiting list.
Hal Denby
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Essays
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Long arguments for slow, well-made things.
Chronicles
Gules, a bend Or
History, told through the hands that made it.
Craft
Or, a fess Sable
Step by step: ink, gold, wood, iron and bread.
Field notes
Vert, a pale Or
Walks, workshops and the places still working.
Conversations
Purpure, a saltire Or
Long interviews with people who make things.
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