Crafts Council Nederland

Platform for contemporary craft

Crafts Council Nederland (CCNL) is the Dutch version of what is already indispensable for decades in England and many other countries: a platform for contemporary craft. CCNL develops programs and activities where teaching, connecting, inspiring and developing are the central themes. Traditional techniques are given a new life; they are translated and decoded to prevent them from disappearing. And to use them as innovator and economic stimulus for the creative sector.

HOW&WOW at DDW 2019

Crafts Council Nederland presents HOW&WOW at Dutch Design Week 2019 from 19 to 27 October

Crafts Council Nederland werkt samen met o.a. ArtEZ Master Fashion Design en Openluchtmuseum Arnhem aan het vernieuwen van de mode industrie. Door te beginnen bij de aarde, het oogsten van vlas. | Foto: Openluchtmuseum Arnhem

The Linen Project

It seems strange that an art academy would deal with agriculture and an Agricultural University with fashion. Even so, this is the case. Together...

DDW Talk – Craft & New Materials

Op zaterdag 26 oktober organiseren Crafts Council Nederland, Ma-tt-er, DSM, Disegno en Dutch Design Week de DDW Talk: Craft & New Materials. Samen met...

Manifesto for a European strategy for craft

We call upon everyone to support the Crafting Europe Manifesto and to work together on this six-point action plan to ensure the survival and...

Annual Report 2018

View the Annual Report 2018 of Crafts Council Nederland

Recap: HOW&WOW – Studio at DDW2018

Here's what went down in Eindhoven during the most exciting design event of the year.

HOW&WOW- Studio at DDW2018

Crafts Council Nederland shows the studio of the new maker: the workshop as a gallery and as a lab. In the studio things are...

Recap of HOW&WOW – cooperazione!

This is what went down at the Milan Design Week 2018.

Crafts Council Nederland presents HOW&WOW – cooperazione! in Milan

17-22 April 2018 Via Pastrengo 13, Milan

Meet the cooperazione!

Crafts Council Nederland presents HOW&WOW - cooperazione! in Milan from 17 to 22 April. During this special exhibition six maker-designers from the Netherlands and...

Listen to the special HOW&WOW – cooperazione! podcast

Thijs Adriaans made a special podcast for HOW&WOW - cooperazione! in which he talks with the maker-designers about the exhibition and the importance of...