The Craftsman Newsletter
A newsletter about craft, focusing on Japan. Stories of skilled makers, research into their methods, and hands-on practice. Exploring what craft can teach us to live and work better.
Archive
- Bamboo, Blades and YouTube - October 2025
- Sketches of Japanese Craftsmanship in London - September 2025
- Aliveness (what machines can't make) - August 2025
- Summer Special 2025 - July 2025
- Upcoming: 10 July - Off the Hump: Poetry of Clay with Tarragon Smith - June 2025
- Miracle Fibres: From Patagonia to London with Cindy Lilen - June 2025
- The playfuil guinomi - May 2025
- Crafting Memory: Alessi's Funeral Urn - April 2025
- The Butterfly Effect: Sori Yanagi and the Art of Appreciation - March 2025
- Born Elsewhere, Made in Japan - February 2025
- Feeling More x Musubi Academy - December 2024
- Kamon, the original logos of Japan - November 2024
- Craftsmanship and Circularity Are One - October 2024
- Fabrico, ergo intellego - October 2024
- Summer Special 2024 - July 2024
- The genius of Raku Jikinyū - June 2024
- Art without heroes: Mingei with Róisín Inglesby - June 2024
- A Tale Of Two Orin: Part 1 - April 2024
- Talking by making: pottery in the heart of Uji - February 2024
- Talking by making: soba noodles in Tokyo - February 2024
- Moving at human speed - October 2023
- Tomatoes on Japanese ceramic plates taste better - September 2023
- From artificial to artisanal intelligence - May 2023
- Slow prosperity: empathy and (small) business - May 2023
- The connection between maker and owner - April 2023
- The humble yunomi - April 2023
- The Ukrainian Tryzub - March 2023
- Traditions: from copying to rebellion to transcendence - February 2023
- I fell down a moon jar rabbit hole - August 2022
- Are you a collector or a maker? - May 2022
- Cultivating patience in the new year - January 2022
- Co-creating beautiful work with Nature - December 2021
- Hero pieces and sensorial bombs
- Is Kōgei a better word to describe Japanese craftsmanship?
- Focus on the process not the outcome
- The social life of your favourite things
- Get your hands dirty
- Timeless British leather bags, jubilant Venetian glass pendants
- Mind and body in balance
- Find Happiness in Darning
- Pottery Can Be Addictive
- A Woodcarver Striving to Leave His Mark - February 2020
- The Danish Studio Revitalising Craftsmanship Through Design
- Teachings From Japanese Craftsmanship: What Is Enough?
- Falling into craftsmanship: from Hollywood movies to stained glass
- It’s never too late to become a craftsman
- Do you have material intelligence?
- Craftsmanship as inspiration for a better way of living and working
- Meet master pen maker Dante Del Vecchio
- Issue n.012 - March 2019
- Helping People Understand the Value of Well Made Products - January 2019
- Issue n.010 - September 2018
- Issue n.009 - June 2018
- Tom’s Studio: The Most Beautiful Pens in the World
- Issue n.008 - May 2018
- Creating Ultra-Personalised Shoes Combining Shoe Data with Life Data
- Issue n.007 - April 2018
- Issue n.006 - March 2018
- Rossi & Rei, a Global Marketplace for Custom Luxury - December 2017
- Issue n.005 - October 2017
- Issue n.004 - July 2017
- Issue n.003 - May 2017
- Issue n.002 - April 2017
- Issue n.001 - January 2017