23/06/2026
Craft skills are passed from one generation to the next through people, families and communities.
We were delighted to visit Craft Skills: Generation to Generation at the
The exhibition explores how traditional textile skills, including embroidery, tatting, crochet, knotting, and needlework, have been passed down through generations. Alongside contemporary responses, visitors can discover family heirlooms, personal stories and objects that reveal how craft knowledge is preserved and passed on.
The exhibition brings together work and collections connected to Varshini Chandrasekhar, Krishna Kotecha and NeveSmith as well as to
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They ask how making can carry memory, identity and knowledge across generations, cultures and places.
Particularly inspiring were the personal histories behind the works, including pieces that travelled through families over more than a century, carrying memories, skills and connections from one generation to the next.
As we prepare for Surrey Craft Legacies: Heritage and Endangered Skills, Living Traditions opening at New Ashgate Gallery on 3 July, the exhibition is a timely reminder that heritage crafts are not simply techniques from the past. They remain living traditions shaped by the people who practise, share and reinvent them today.
Congratulations to the Crafts Study Centre, curator and all the artists, makers and families involved.
Open until 25 July.
