About

Hi, I’m Eddie and I’m the Editor here at Historic Crafts. The Historic Crafts website was launched in January 2010 as a blog dedicated to the craft community with special interest in tradition craft. However, it does not subscribe to the view that historic crafts are lost or dead. They are very much alive and have evolved into something we can still enjoy in this current world we live in. So why even talk about ‘historic’ crafts, you may ask? Well since Historic Crafts was founded by two archaeologists (myself included) it was natural for us to want to focus on the historic aspect or story behind the many crafts that are still everywhere we look today.

I’m personally a bit of an IT nerd (even though I don’t enjoy sitting behind the computer as much now as I used too). I am passionate about all things historical/archaeological but I also love crafts. You can read about some of my personal crafts over on the Grey Duckling blog or you can head over to my personal blog ‘Roued is …‘ and see what I have cooked up recently in the kitchen or the darkroom. I also love family history and am trying to tell the story of my research over on The Gene Pool. You can find me on Ravelry as EddieDuckling. I am also on twitter personally under @EddieDuckling and as @HistoricCrafts and I will look forward to chatting to you over there.
Craft Interests: bobbin lace, spinning, weaving, dyeing, knitting, crochet, decoupage, working with recycled materials, sewing, drawing

Guest Bloggers

There are other people who occasional blog here on Historic Crafts too.

There is of course my husband John, who helps out when he can, writing bits, reviews, draws and does revision. John’s big interest is illustration and you can see some of his work on Grey Duckling.
Craft interests: fine art, carpentry, stonework, metalwork, construction

Read posts by John!

At the moment we are also getting a lot of help from the lovely Cecile who is our Ravelry editor and how-to consultant. If you need help finding a tutorial or understanding the technicalities behind a craft, Cecile is the person to go to. You can find Cecile on Ravelry as Cecilespins and she has recently begun blogging on Ways of the Whorl about spinning and knitting.
Craft interests: wood turning, spinning, knitting, sewing and anything DIY.

Read posts by Cecile!

Ane is a very knowledgeable woman and is the one behind some of our how-to’s. She has just started blogging (in Danish) on Ane’s Form.
Craft interest: All kinds of crafts, but felting is really her main interest. In the near future she is hoping to learn how to make lace.

Read posts by Ane Løser

Since we began we have worked with quite a few amazing people – this is a thanks to all of them and hopefully there will be many more.

Of course there is also the people who review for us and the interesting people we have interviewed.

Image disclaimer:

(This has been updated in March 2011)

At Historic Crafts we try to only use images in our blog-posts we have permission to use from the copyright holder. With historical images this can be difficult because it can be difficult to figure out whether there still is a copyright holder. We are aware that this is becoming a more and more sensitive issue in the blogging world and we do not intend to infringe anyone’s copyright. However, if you suspect that we are infringing your copyright, despite our attempts not to, please send us a (preferably nice) email and we will do our best to correct the situation.

As for using the images on the blog each post should now have been updated with a note on how to do this at the bottom. It can say:

“The images in this post are copyright of Eddie Roued-Cunliffe. You are hereby granted permission to use them for non-commercial purposes as long as you credit Eddie and link back to this page. If you are using them and talking about this post I would love to hear from you in the comments. “

or something like:

“The images in this post are copyright of Cecile from Ways of the Whorl. If you wish to use the images please request permission from Cecile. ”

Our previous policy on image use was to welcome images shared with a Creative Commons license.  However, I feel that this has become more and more of a grey zone and as I am ever cautious I have changed this policy.