Crafts Issue No. 273 July/August 2018

Introducing our July/August 2018 issue

Inside, a lesson in leather from leading designer Bill Amberg as he completes two major projects at the RA and Westminster Abbey; Stephen Knott on the tangled relationship between craft and time in our speeded-up digital age; and studio visits with two of the country’s leading contemporary makers, ceramist Akiko Hirai and tapestry weaver Caron Penney. 

Plus, Glenn Adamson on how US potter Roberto Lugo is bridging cultural gaps; Corita Kent, The Art of Glass, Studio Drift and Fashioned from Nature reviewed; Madeleine Bessborough on why she always listens to the young and Tanya Harrod on telling a secret story of craft.