Dear David,
In Surrey, we have been working with a group of volunteer film- makers
(they do it as a hobby when they aren't making documentaries) to
document crafts. The Audio-Visual Group for Museums and Archives is
working with the bodies interested in the preservation/promotion of
craft techniques, as well as with museums and archives.
They have just completed a six-film sequence, including charcoal-burning
and rope making, called "C21st Endangered Arts", and will be working
with the Museum Of English Rural Life next year, who (together with
other rural life museums) are engaged in a larger rural crafts
documentation project.
AVGMA aren't just interested in rural crafts - one of the last project
(or maybe one of the next), for example, is to record a painter of
Ikons.
The lead in the organization is Katy Shepphard ([log in to unmask]) -
she's on a long holiday at the moment.
Cheers,
Pat
Pat Reynolds
Surrey Heritage Manager
In message <[log in to unmask]>, David
Kilgour <[log in to unmask]> writes
>I am interested in ways of documenting traditional rural craft, particularly
>recording processes comprehensively for instruction, so that the craft
>skills are passed on.
>
>What constitutes an adequate record of a craft to be used for this purpose?
>Should there be room for craft technique descriptions in Spectrum records,
>ontologies etc? Would it be useful to standardise an approach so that
>recorders have a checklist to hand or has someone done this already? Anyone
>interested?
>
>hwyl
>
>David Kilgour
>New Zealand
>
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Pat Reynolds
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