The charity Heritage Crafts, which promotes traditional craftsmanship, first published its Red List of Endangered Crafts in 2017.
The report ranks handmade traditional crafts by the likelihood they will survive to the next generation.
Clog making was on the original list and is still there in 2026.
Daniel Carpenter, executive director at the charity, defines a heritage craft as one that has been “practised for two or more generations in the UK”.
“It doesn’t have to have originated in the UK,” he says.
“It could have come from other parts of the world through migration and diaspora communities, but it does require a high degree of hand skill at the point of production and an intense knowledge of materials and processes.”
Carpenter admits that the art of clog making might not survive.
He says: “As we find with many crafts, when there are very few practitioners remaining, these small businesses, they’re making enough money to continue their craft and pay themselves a modest living.
“But they don’t have the money within the business in order to take somebody on and train them and distract them from the production, the work that they need to do in order to keep that business going.”
