Crafts Study Centre - Craft Skills: Generation to Generation

Craft Skills: Generation to Generation is an exhibition at the Crafts Study Centre that explores the value of intergenerational connections and the way textile crafts can enrich people’s lives. It focuses on simple craft skills such as stitching, knotting, and embroidery, and reflects on how these practices have been passed down through families over generations.

The exhibition highlights the cultural significance of handmade skills, showing that they carry more than technical knowledge: they also preserve personal stories, identity, belonging, and family heritage. It draws attention to the changing ways younger generations experience these skills today, especially as opportunities to learn directly from older relatives become less common.

The project grew out of textile craft workshops held in October 2025, where participants explored making lace-like surfaces, creating cloth from fabric fragments, and using embroidery to transform textiles into heritage objects and works of art. Visitors are warmly invited to see the exhibition and take part in this ongoing conversation about craft, memory, and inherited knowledge.