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Louis Elton

A voyage into the alchemy of heritage craft, industrial power, and cutting-edge innovation. Exploring what Britain makes and what makes Britain.

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Introducing the judges for the Cræft Prize

The £60,000 Cræft Prize launched in March 2026 to discover inventions combining the deep wisdom of craft with cutting edge technology.

The prize is in its inaugural year. We simply do not know what it will produce. The notion of the ‘artis...

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Four weeks left to submit to the Cræft Prize

There are just four weeks left to submit to the Cræft Prize.

So far submissions are quite interesting. Yet, I suspect that there must be some brilliant ideas and prototypes that have yet to be brought into the world.

If you have...

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Could craft end knife crime?

This week, a micro-dispatch from a research lab at Imperial College London leveraging craft and cutting-edge technology to transform medicine.

From 3D printing bodies to train the surgeons of tomorrow on the trickiest procedures to using e...

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Artisanal Intelligence at Stella Matutina

This week, some notes from my residency at Stella Matutina where I preached the gospel of Artisanal Intelligence. I also soft launch a vision for the future of Nation of Artisans/Artisanal Intelligence beyond the films, stories, the prize....

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What if the England team were craftsmen?

The England football team may be composed of multimillionaire ballcræftsmun jet-setting around the world, lighting up our stadiums and screens. Yet before they were famous, they were children. And while they aspired to football, had things...

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