About Care & Craft

Hi, I’m Vincent Shaw, a writer and storyteller based in Sussex, England.

I’m old and grey, but don’t let that put you off.

For forty years I’ve been drawing, painting, writing stories, and thinking about why the things we make with our hands and imaginations matter more than ever. My great-great-grandfather made stained glass windows for William Morris. I discovered his only surviving work in a church around the corner from my house, ten years after I moved there. That discovery, and the tears it produced, is where Care and Craft began.

This publication explores the Victorian and Edwardian romantic imagination and why it still calls to us. From Morris to Tolkien, from Gothic Revival to Hogwarts, from Charlotte Mason to the children I’ve watched lean forward in a school hall when you trust them with a real story. Care and Craft asks why every generation reaches back to the same well of beauty, craft, and enchantment, and why that the hunger has never gone away.

It’s more than nostalgia.

If you’ve ever felt that something important is slipping away – from you, from your children, from the world you want them to grow up in – you’re in the right place.

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Best Wishes - Vincent