Typical employers range from big companies such as John Lewis or Nike, which might employ you to work in their design studio, to organisations such as the National Trust which might commission you as a crafts practitioner.
If there's an unacknowledged ghost in the room, it's that of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the great Arts and Crafts practitioner, whose own mashups of art, architecture, and design are both echoed and updated here.
Her ongoing work in bringing together craftspeople of India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka, South Asian and African countries has been taken up by the government as an instrument in diplomacy to bring together crafts practitioners in many countries to share skills and assist in capacity building.
The Woman's Hour Craft Prize 2017 aims to find and celebrate the most innovative and exciting craft practitioner or designer-maker resident in the UK today in the most comprehensive prize of its kind.
The prize will reward originality and excellence in concept, design and process and will seek to recognise an outstanding craft practitioner or designer-maker with a track record of public display or showcasing of their work, and who has demonstrably contributed to craft practice in the last five years.
A slightly narrower definition of the "handmade" is in evidence on the fourth floor, where works by artists and university-affiliated craft practitioners outnumber factory-made objects.
His "campaign against the age" in terms of loss of skills and of satisfying human occupation was taken up with renewed vigour in the years between the wars by the potter Bernard Leach, the handweaver Ethel Mairet and other idealistic craft practitioners.
A craftsperson does not seek to 'outdo' [pleonektein] fellow craft practitioners but to do the same as they, i.e., to perform whatever action the craft requires.
Over the past 70 years Woman's Hour has championed and celebrated both the craft of listeners and of craft practitioners and in that tradition the launch of the prize coincides with the celebrations for the anniversary year.
There is the annual bacchanal, the AWP gathering (with almost 10,000 assembled craft practitioners), which celebrates pedagogy and publication and prestige.
Further, Independent Craft, Practitioner-flexible and Scale Efficiency practices were the most satisfied with their jobs.
