What's a Lost or Endangered Art?

Plowing the Past to Cultivate our Future

“Lost and endangered arts” are traditional practices, work disciplines, methods, processes (as codified and validated knowledge) that carry out work and which, in turn, produce an output such as food in the lost art of market gardening, a chair in the lost art of Shaker furniture making, a candle in the lost art of taper dipping, etc.

• Lost arts goods an…