A woman who used carpentry to regain use of her hands after being diagnosed with a neurological condition is helping inspire others.
Elizabeth Jarvis, 18, now has a woodwork business and runs workshops for Somerset Art Works (SAW) in Glastonbury with the aim of getting more young people interested in taking up heritage crafts.
She started doing site carpentry aged 13, but had to stop after being diagnosed with functional neurological disorder (FND) in 2021.
"I went from not being able to use a knife and fork, or hold a glass - certain angles in particular were quite challenging," she explained.
But over time, as she continued to practice her craft, she started to regain use of her hands and set up her own business - Bramble Carpentry - aged just 16.
Jarvis now volunteers with both the national charity Heritage Crafts and SAW in a bid to share with others how crafting can help mental help.
She said she believed there was a "huge appetite" for crafts among young people, particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic, but that more needed to be done to create spaces for people to grow in confidence.
Jo Entwistle, 56, only recently took up basket-making recently because she had willow growing on her smallholding near Yeovil, but has already completed a vocational award in the craft, and was the recipient of SAW's 2025 Emerging Maker Bursary.
"Without the bursary, I could have just sat in my studio and made a few baskets, but they've made me push myself and deliver for exhibits happening around the country and just get out of my comfort zone a little bit."
Daniel Carpenter, chief executive of Heritage Crafts, said that passing down heritage skills ensured the knowledge was "entrusted to a new generation to adapt and evolve".
Carpenter said that although "more and more" crafts have been added to the charity's list of endangered crafts, he had seen a resurgence of some skills.
"Rug tufting was on the red list but now it's been taken off, largely through young people using craft as a kind of artistic expression, and also in line with their beliefs about sustainability," he said.
In 2025 SAW joined forces with the Somerset Craft Guild, which was founded in 1933 to support skilled craftspeople across the county.
John Candler, a leather worker and stone carver, and former member of the guild, agreed that passing on crafts to a younger generation was important, but also that the skills themselves are always evolving.
"You have to recognize that the world changes and very few craftspeople nowadays would use the tools that were used even 50 years ago," he said.
"I think one has to be aware when talking about heritage craft that it can't be something that is in aspic- something that was done this way and therefore always has to be done this way," he said.
Legacy in Making, an exhibition by SAW celebrating the legacy and future of heritage crafts in Somerset, runs until 10 May at Somerset Rural Life Museum.
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