Old crafts dying out

[glow777]

Reading the thread about rabbit fur toys got me thinking about old crafts/tradditions dying out. To be honest some of these old ways need to go however think of all the good things Gran used to get up to and , with the domination of supermarkets, can you imagine them still existing in 20 years time.

Even the WI have been forced to stop selling cakes etc due to silly amounts of red tape.

Hows about a list of everything that wont exist in 20 years time

I reckon on

Jam making
Soup making

what else

[glow777]

[tonybloke]

we will still be making jam and soup, it's how some of us preserve our summer surplus!!
don't imagine that will stop!!

[betula]

With the big rise in the uptake of allotments I would be very surprised if jam and soup making goes into decline. :)

[gardentg44]

Gardening.

after all fruit & veg at Aldi only 49p :-X :-X :-X

[Borlotti]

Knitting, takes days to knit a jumper that no-one will wear, can buy them cheaper.  Baby clothes were all knitted but babies just stuck in a babygrow.  I will still knit in winter as I find it relaxing but it is just to amaze myself.  Cat is quite interested in it, used to make Readicut rugs and cat and dog just waited for it be finished and had lovely sleeps on it.  I used to embroider table cloths but no-one seems to have tea parties nowadays.

[saddad]

We still do Soup, Pickles and Jams. OH does Knitting, dressmaking, cross-stitch, tapestry, tatting, embroidery and when she was feeling really sad she made a rag-rug...  ::)

[Borlotti]

saddad, I always thought you were really, really old.  saddad, a bit like an old granddad.  But looking at your profile you are only a baby.  Perhaps you should change your profile. 

[grannyjanny]

Saddad your OH sounds wonderful. Not only can she knit, sew, cook, preserve she can do the most amazing potato ridges. She could teach me a few things on that front. Have you thought of turning her into a video star, earthing up potatoes.
Janet

[Hector]

Think knitting will be around for a bit. It's a growth industry and is quite trendy now for young men and women...yes men too :)
I knit, crochet, spin with a spindle (am learning on a wheel), make homemade wine....so does my two kids ( minus the homebrew  ;D

I think crafts ebb and flow and will always be about :)

[sparklebug]

I'm glad knitting has made a comeback in recent years, it's still hard to find a decent wool shop though.

I think corn dollies will soon be a thing of the past as well as traditional basket making etc (the real old country crafts)

[kenkew]

Not only crafts declining.

Home-made gallows for hanging shot crows.

Wood handled chisels.

Cement roof tiles.

Front gardens.

Un-sliced bread.

[saddad]

saddad, I always thought you were really, really old. (Barlotti)

Neither of us have quite made 50 yet...  :)

[Eristic]

In 20 years time the majority of housholds will be living on homemade soup and jam. Long term auserity will see to that.

[Hector]

In 20 years time the majority of housholds will be living on homemade soup and jam. Long term auserity will see to that.

Eristic, have you ever considered a career as a motivational speaker  :)

[grannyjanny]

In 20 years time the majority of housholds will be living on homemade soup and jam. Long term auserity will see to that.

Eristic, have you ever considered a career as a motivational speaker  :)
;D ;D ;D

[cacran]

I love crafts. Have dabbled in all sorts of them but no one sems to want the fruits of my labour! Never matches the decor!!!

Years ago people lived with such a mish mash of things. Just as long as it was functional and not broken, it was fine.

My  'spare' shed is full of mish mash things. I can indulge myself to my hearts content, there!!! ;)

[Twoflower]

if i didn't make thing, both food and things for the house what would i do? Yes i can and do read alot, there never seem to be much on the tele i want to watch ( maybe i am getting old) and there are only so many seeds/plants i can grow for the space i have. ;D

[Eristic]

Eristic, have you ever considered a career as a motivational speaker

I like to think that I motivate a few of the readers here. On a more serious note though, there is no teacher like hunger. Go hungrey for a few days and all this stupid pc nonsense flies out the window. You will all look to feed yourselves any way possible and if that means learning to cook you will learn to cook.

[glow777]

You will all look to feed yourselves any way possible and if that means learning to cook you will learn to cook.

Possibly but the reason I picked jam and the reason I picked 20 years is after all the current bunch of oldies have died off (no offence intended) can you see our current generation of teenagers picking up jam pans and having a go, especially when you can buy jam for 50p at Aldi. Maybe we're all biased on here because we all garden and have gluts or want to eek our produce throughout the year but 20 years ago every household would be preserving and pickling not just a handfull.

What suprises me is supermarkets sell jam at 50p a pot but a small punnet of fruit cost £2.99   ???

[Mr Smith]

How many people bake these days? My mum always baked I can remember mi grandmother baking and making custard tarts everyweek, we always had poultry so god help a hen that stopped laying I must have wrung my first hens neck when I was about seven, those where the days when mi dad walked ten mile in all weathers t'tpit and mi mam would have dolly tub on for him to jump in when he got home an me an mi brother would be fightin to scrub his back for a penny, lovely days, :)