Daniel Carpenter

Holding the Heritage Crafts Awards 2025 at the awesome @wentworth_woodhouse was a huge highlight of 2025 too!

The best part of 2025 has to be witnessing this crazy little cutey grow up into a good girl. #tilly #misstilly #sweetgirl #tillytrug #workingcockerspanielsofinstagram 🐶🐾

I should have posted my highlights of 2025 yesterday but better late than never. One of them has to be being invited by the V&A Culture in Crisis programme to speak at the Heritage Cities in the Modern World conference in Cairo in September. What an experience! #Repost @heritagecrafts with @use.repost ・・・ Heritage Crafts Director @danielcarpenter_ has been representing the UK at the ‘Heritage Cities in the Modern World: Restoration to Reactivation’ conference in Cairo, Egypt, hosted by the @vamuseum Culture in Crisis programme, led by Laura Searson and Omniya Abdel Barr, in partnership with the British Council. After touring the many hidden craft workshops and built heritage projects of the city, he spoke about the delicate craft ecosytems of the UK’s industrial cities including Birmingham, Sheffield and Stoke-on-Trent, and how targeted support can help stem the decline in craft skills that are already at a tipping point. He also heard about many inspiration initiatives around the world seeking to foreground intangible heritage as a key part of urban redevelopment. Huge thanks to the organisers for this wonderful opportunity.

The @heritagecrafts team took some time this week to learn basket making with our very own @maryeluned_craft . Mary is not only a fabulous teacher but a wonderful host, creating a dream experience for all. We were all thrilled by what we achieved under her tutelage! 🥰🧺🐾

The dust has properly settled on the launch of the 2025 edition of the Red List of Endangered Crafts and what an amazing effort from a remarkable team to keep this little project at the top of the national agenda and in front of an audience of as many as eight million on the day of publication. Biggest shout-out must go to @maryeluned_craft , world-expert on the weird and wonderful world of UK heritage craft… and of course the whole dream team. 📕🖍️🥰 @heritagecrafts

Welcome to the family Matilda Trug Carpenter (known as Tilly)! 😍🥰🐾

Such a wonderful couple of days in Stourbridge with the @heritagecrafts team! Thanks so much @bethjadewood @blowfish_bespoke for the brilliant tuition!

It was a pleasure to hold the @heritagecrafts Awards at the wonderful @englishheritage Eltham Palace the week before last, sponsored by the @royalmintuk , with Master of Ceremonies @kaplinskyn . Congratulations to all our deserving finalists and bursary recipients! 🍾🎄🏆

Ollie - 20/04/13 to 07/10/24 He was the centre of our universe for eleven years and no-one should be in any doubt how much we loved him. 💔

The @heritagecrafts dream team (minus pateruns) hosting our Marquee of Endangered Crafts at @craftfestival last weekend! 🤩 @maryeluned_craft @elizabeth.bizz.fretty @tess_osman @zarka.iqbal @bramblecarpentry

So happy to be partnering with @fashionnatascha and the team at the @costume_society on these bursaries, a new Fashion Textile Maker of the Year Award, and an endangered fashion textile skills symposium! ✂️🪡🧵💚 #Repost @heritagecrafts with @use.repost ・・・ Heritage Crafts and the Costume Society have joined forces to launch two training bursaries to ensure that new and early-career fashion textile makers have the skills they need to succeed. Many people are dissuaded from training in the hand skills of fashion textiles because of the cost, and therefore the make-up of the sector is not truly representative of the UK as a whole. This bursary has been set up to help cover or subsidise the training of someone who would otherwise be prevented from pursuing this career path as a result of the cost. They could be just starting out on your journey in fashion textiles, or at the point where they want to turn a hobby into a career, or they could already be a maker or designer who is looking to further develop their hand skills. Fashion textile crafts can include, but are not limited to, dressmaking, tailoring, pattern cutting, hat making, millinery, glovemaking, fabric pleating, corset making, etc. Applications for training that prioritises the acquisition of practical hand skills will be favoured over training that is predominantly theoretical or design-oriented. The two successful applicants will benefit from up to £4,000 in funding each, and be supported by the Heritage Crafts team to help them achieve their aims. For more information on how to apply for the bursaries (deadline 23 February 2024) visit the linktr.ee in our bio. The @costume_society is a UK membership organisation formed in 1964 to promote the study and preservation of historic and contemporary dress. Its new partnership with Heritage Crafts will also see a brand-new Fashion Textile Maker of the Year Award launched this summer, with a £2,000 prize and a trophy to be presented at a special Winners’ Reception in November.

Seeing the magnificent Kelpies was the perfect end to two weeks of crossing Scotland twice by narrowboat. #falkirkkelpies #forthandclydecanal