Vault

Intangible skill vault

Crafts, land skills and practices recorded from consenting practitioners.

3 published records. Locations are shown only as precisely as it is safe to show them.

Catalogue

3 records

SkillT1 RecordedRegion only

An archival recording of women singing while fulling cloth, held by a national sound archive.

1955Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

SkillT2 DocumentedRegion only

A documented demonstration of making tar from Scots pine roots in an earth kiln.

2019Scottish Highlands

SkillT1 RecordedGeneralised to about 10 km

A waller explains how a Dales wall is built to shed water and stand for a century. Recorded with consent.

2022Swaledale, Yorkshire Dales, England

Every record in this vault is a direct record (T1) or a documented account (T2). No reconstruction methods are used.

Time and location rules for all vaults are on the Methods and Ethics pages.