65-70% of makers have practices beyond making craft objects and contribute to industry sectors and community/education settings. Makers bring human qualities to design and material qualities to creative media, creating new materials and processes. In education and community settings, makers make objects with meaning and permanence and engage in conversations that build worth and community value, giving voice to those who are often unheard. The value of craft includes not just objects but consultancy services, with makers acting as sociable experts who collaborate with others.

1. Making Value
Mary Schwarz
and Dr Karen Yair
June 2010

2. 65 - 70% of makers have a portfolio practice….
working ‘beyond the making, exhibition and
sale of a craft object’
and contributing to a range of industry sectors &
community and education settings.

3. Ptolemy Mann

4. Barley Massey

5. Sheila Teague

6. Making Value
in Industry Sectors

13. Bringing human qualities to design and
and material qualities to creative media….
And creating new materials and processes:
Makers make more of the material
world.

14. Making Value
in Education and Community
Settings

21. Making objects with meaning and permanence…
and engaging in conversations that build
individual worth and community value:
Makers give material voice to those
who are often ‘hard to hear’.

22. The value of craft is not only found in objects, but also in
consultancy services offered by makers.
Craft operates as a distinctive set of knowledges, skills and
aptitudes, centred round reflective engagement with the
material and digital worlds and makers’ particular
understanding of the ‘human starting point.’
Makers act as ‘sociable experts’ in collaborating with others.

26. www.craftscouncil.org.uk