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Analysis August 2025: Prospects for young bow makers, repairers and restorers

2025-07-25T08:46:00

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With bow making a fixture on the ‘red list’ of endangered crafts in the UK, what’s the outlook for new students looking to become bow makers, repairers and restorers? By Peter Somerford

Making, repairing and restoring bows continue to be classed as ‘critically endangered’ in the UK by Heritage Crafts, the national charity for traditional crafts. The Heritage Crafts Red List of endangered crafts reclassified bow making as ‘critically endangered’ in 2023, and the 2025 Red List, published in May, maintained this classification…

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