Robin Tanner, a much-loved teacher and a skilled etcher, was one of the pioneering founder Trustees of the Crafts Study Centre. He wrote that ‘ a group of friends – craftsmen and educationists – met from time to time in the late 1960s, to discuss the possibility of founding not a museum of objects untouchable behind glass but a living, expanding Study Centre where work could be held in the hand and enjoyed, and a whole archive consulted’.