Craft workshops (London-based):

• communal clay - affordable hand-building clay workshops

• Morley College (15 hours of throwing/hand-building for £140 (concession price) or £195)

• Maison Sommet (open access £7/ hour clay sessions, £40 induction)

• Turf Projects ceramic facilities (open access £15/ 3 hours, £35 induction)

• Hackney City Farm (drop in for children (£5/£10) and adults (£20))

• Colèchi - free crochet workshops 

• AYFP - run yarn swap events

• Set Social Peckham- free Craft Club every wednesday

• London Lace Club - free lace workshops

• Queer Chat and Craft run by LGBTQ+ Community Centre

• Bow Arts - run a selection of free workshops for children and families

• Assemblage Collective - run a variety of paper craft workshops across London

• Institute of Making - Festival of Stuff, one day festival of free making workshops on 21st June

• Fast Fashion Therapy - free collective mending workshops

• Natural dye Workshop with Unground Collective (£5)

• Also check out your local library or community garden for craft events - Vauxhall Gardens run a weekly community arts and crafts workshop, and Leyton Library runs a Craft session every Tuesday

Craft theory/histories/knowledges:

• Unsettling Coloniality, a Critical and Radical fiber/textile bibliography

• Common threads press - radical histories of crafts and making

• Ayfp publications - DIY magazine dedicated to textiles and fiber crafts

• Survival of the Knittest: Craft and Queer-Feminist Worldmaking - article by Daniel Fountain

• Steps Towards Decolonizing Craft - article by Aram Han Sifuentes

• The Knowledge House for Craft - open access platform on Craft Theory

• De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Feminisms in Contemporary Art and Textile Crafts - collection of essays

• Aesthetic Inheritances History Worked by Hand - chapter by bell hooks 

• Craft -an anthology on contemporary Craft

• The Forgotten Labour of Craft - article by Benjamin Anderson

• The MACR Papers - online collection of essays from the MA Critical Craft programme

• Ingenious objects co-produced and made with people living in prison