I’ve just been to the launch of London Craft Week, an initiative on the part of Guy Salter to raise consciousness of the crafts (or is it Craft ?), alongside COLLECT held annually at the Saatchi Gallery.   It’s about London Craft, not British Crafts, and the aim is to acknowledge the relationship between traditional craft practice, based on specialist skills in making, and the increasingly competitive world of luxury goods, in which high prices are justified by the use of the highest quality materials and expensive manual skills:  as much about cordwaining and perfumery as weaving and pottery.   But there is an obvious paradox at its heart, which is that traditionally the crafts have been anti-materialistic (back to William Morris) whereas luxury goods are necessarily and deeply materialistic.