How a sporting activity helped revive a dying craft.
I OFTEN THINK about Tanya Harrod’s words in her wonderful book The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century saying that craftspeople are those who find inordinate joy in the labour of making things.
I have recently met someone who certainly does demonstrate that. He is a traditional craftsman in the old sense of the word, in that he does not exhibit, does not move in contemporary craft circles, and would be surprised, I think, to find himself being written about in Resurgence. He is Maurice Hunkin and he builds pilot ...
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