Folk Craft Revival

Join host Daniel Howell as he explores making and learning traditional skills and crafts with topic experts. From foraging to blacksmithing, weaving to hide tanning, each episode contains guidance and tips for learning to make or do it yourself. Inspired by the survival, homesteading and handmade communities this podcast covers a variety of traditional knowledge for the person that is interested in practical self-reliance, rural skills and artisan craftsmanship. Operating on the belief that knowing how to 'do things' is one of the most underrated skills in modern life and that the joy of craftsmanship and providing for yourself is rapidly becoming lost, each topic is presented in a way to provide you with the necessary information needed to get started now and make something useful in your life! Learn to make what you need, understand how things work, and imbue your life with the self satisfaction that comes from working with your hands! Homesteading, self-sufficiency, primitive technology, traditional knowledge, ancestral skills. . . Folk crafts. These are my passions, lets share them together.

Podcasting since 2019 • 38 episodes

Folk Craft Revival

Latest Episodes

Carving and Whittling with Brian Carver

#038. -- The ability to shape wood with a knife is one of the most elemental skills to have, and plays at least a minor role in the vast majority of other crafts. Sadly, knife skills in general seem to be in decline. . . Though that's som...

December 14, 2022 • Episode 38 • 47:29

Bone: Understanding the Material, it's Uses and History with David Constantine

#037. -- In the craft world of the modern age, bone seems to be a rather neglected raw material that is rarely used for much of anything. But that was not always so, and fortunately Dave was willing to come on the podcast and share a lit...

December 05, 2022 • Episode 37 • 1:29:54

Wool & Spinning with Josefin Waltin

#036. -- How many of you have ever knitted your own garments from wool you processed and spun yourself? Just the thought intimidates me.... and also draws me in wanting to learn more! In one of Josefin Waltin's Youtube videos she ...

November 25, 2022 • Episode 36 • 1:00:54

Explanation (& Ramblings....)

#035. The Folk Craft Revival podcast is back!!!!If you can't tell, I'm excited! I've really missed putting together this podcast -- chatting with guests and getting to know some individuals involved in heritage skills and retaini...

October 04, 2022 • Episode 35 • 23:59

Finding Color on Your Local Landscape with Scott Sutton (The Pigment Hunter)

#034. -- Scott Sutton (aka The Pigment Hunter) joins us to chat about the art of finding color on our local landscape. We discuss how he got involved with making paints and sourcing pigments, his philosophy on sourcing materials and minimizing ...

June 14, 2021 • Episode 34 • 1:31:22

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