Mastercrafts - Monty Don the new champion of Traditional Crafts

"THEY are the crafts that seemed to have fallen foul of our throwaway culture. The intricate dry stone walls cutting gently through our countryside and the delicate wrought iron created at the anvil were seen as dying skills of a bygone era.

Apparently not, according to gardener and presenter Monty Don, who insists such crafts are enjoying a renaissance as people reject the thrill of instant gratification and opt for “meaningful skills [that] modern life hasn’t been very good at supplying”.

Full article here in the Express
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/150876/Why-we-ve-all-fallen-in-love-with-traditional-crafts-again

If you care about traditional crafts and would like to see them supported and promoted visit the Heritage Crafts Association www.heritagecrafts.org.uk
or joint the facebook group http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heritage-Crafts-Association/76521534812?ref=mf

Isn't he heading up a television programme soon about heritage crafts? (or is it someone else........)

The prog is called Mastercrafts starting from 12 Feb at 8 pm hiden away on BBC2 ...

BBC2 when will they put stuff like this on BBC1...

Hmm, I wonder what they will do, get a popular format, find that its too popular for BBC2, move it to BBC1, change the format to make it "more popular" loose viewers end of programme... Haven't we seen this kind of thing before!!!

Good, if pessimistic point Spar. So an excellent indeed awesome first series, degenerating into a third, where we can see Monty going through the motions with some gurning d-list nobody who has no idea what shes doing, whilst carrying out pointless idiotic interviews with "celebs" who make jokes about the very the basis of the programme, all wrapped up in stomach lurching "magazine" segments.

I'm really looking forward to Mastercrafts, thanks to my overactive imagination they have a lot to live up to and it had better not turn out to be yet more reality sodding tv

Luckily I won't get to see it if it does go that way since we ditched the television. Hope it doesn't though, I quite like Monty, think he'd be good for this one.

It was good Badger.

Didn't like the competitive element at all and would far rather have seen more of the actual crafts, instead, but overall very good.

Nice to see some familiar, local faces on it as Mike Abbott works and does his stuff just up the road from me.....

Guy Mallinson was very good on it as well, very patient and an excellent tutor I thought. IMO.

I thought the bit at beginning was helpful, when Guy Mallison said that you either have an aptitude for working with green wood, or you don't. I found that quite freeing, as I don't have an aptitude for working with wood at all (I had to do a term using wood at art college on a 3D design course) - there's a temptation to think that you have to be good at everything, and it was liberating to knowthat you don't, that you can accept your limitations.