Sentence examples for building craft from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, the Prince's Foundation, which runs the Prince of Wales's building craft apprenticeship, says it has seen a "real enthusiasm amidst young people to learn traditional crafts".

Manufacture began in the United States, Japan, Sweden, and France; and in Britain additional British companies were building craft in the early 1960s.

"When we say lime breathes, we mean it takes in air and water," Morrison says, who advises homeowners to seek specialist building craft advice on lime washing, rather than attempting it themselves.

Transformed into a family-friendly setting, the event will get visitors involved in various classes, such as floral jamming (getting creative with flowers), robot building, craft beer sampling and getting hands-on at a local food workshop.

She is now coming up to the end of her apprenticeship on the Prince of Wales's building crafts programme.

Morrison is one of 12 apprentices on The Prince of Wales's building crafts apprentices programme, which aims to offer young people within the building crafts trade a chance to specialise as a "master craftsperson" with expertise in traditional building and construction skills.

A Cambridge graduate in architecture, Nancy Peskett, deliberately changed her career path to take up stonemasonry, taking an advanced diploma in the skill at the Building Crafts College in East London.

A second circular building, crafted in stone and also by Tschumi, will follow in 2015; set higher up, where the Gauls had their fort, this will house artefacts unearthed from the ancient battlefield.

"Framing the Past," which is subtitled "The Shipwright, Housewright and Barnbuilder in the Connecticut River Valley," seeks to preserve the knowledge of centuries-old building crafts and to explore the relationship between them by examining the tools and methods used.

Over 60 per cent of repair jobs done on houses built pre-1920 are carried out by workmen who do not have the right skills or materials to work on traditionally-built homes – which is why there's now an urgent need to pass heritage building crafts on to future generations, or else risk millions of homes falling into disrepair.

But while there is a shortage of new entrants in the heritage building crafts sector, there is still considerable interest in it from young people – the National Trust says it received 200 applications for just one of the apprenticeship places advertised last year.