Heritage Crafts Members' Showcase 2024

MEMBERS’ SHOWCASE 2024

Christine Addley

Jenny Adin-Christie

Deborah Carre

Angelica Colucci

Rachel Evans

Malcolm Farrow

Doug Fitch

Hannah McAndrew

Elena Fleury-Rojo

Anne Fontenoy

Helen Fry

Claire Gaudion

Emma Hogbin

Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn

Museum

Lizzie Jarvis

Seeun Kim

Penny Maltby

Michelle Mateo

Mark Matthews

Rachel O’Connell

Farah Qureshi

David Rodgers

Lydia Stonely

Rebecca Walklett M E M B E R S

INTRO

“Congratulations to all at HC for creating a lively, helpful group for all who love crafts and craftsmanship.”

- Sue Clasen

I am excited to be curating the second Heritage Crafts annual Members' Showcase this year! Our members continue to create a wonderful community of full-time professional makers to the weekend warrior hobbyists

This showcase is to share the amazing crafts that our members engage in and the creative pieces that come out of that practice. In addition to showing off their work, I want to thank our members for all their support they have given to Heritage Crafts We could not do nearly all the fun and amazing events, research, publications, bursaries, and more without the support of our members

From attending events across the UK to helping us grow as an organisation at our AGM meetings, to liking and sharing our work on social media The Heritage Crafts team is so grateful for all that our members do to support our mission of promoting and safeguarding traditional crafts and skills.

To learn more about our membership and join the Heritage Crafts creative craft community go to www.heritagecrafts.org.uk

Happy Members Month!

Bizz Fretty Membership Officer

CHRISTINE ADDLEY

Chair Seating & Caning Maker

I began re-seating chairs professionally in 1978, initially with hand cane. Later I learned rush seating at Dr. Bernard (Bill) Cotton’s restoration workshop near Lechlade, taught myself to use seagrass, Danish cord and loom cane, and gained a City and Guilds qualification in traditional and modern upholstery.

My work over the years has included chairs of all shapes and sizes from important furniture to simple cottage chairs. I demonstrate re-seating at local shows and museums, as well as holding a weekly class

JENNY ADIN-CHRISTIE

Embroiderer & Designer

I am a specialist, professional hand embroiderer and designer, with an innate passion for creating individual work, for the study and repair of antique embroideries, and for passing on my skills through teaching.

I have spent over 20 years studying antique embroideries and perfecting traditional techniques. My joy is now to conjure with these, to create new and exciting combinations, keeping the medium fresh. I love to juxtapose the exacting hand skills of my training against the fluidity of softer sketched grounds created using pencil, brush and machine.

Stories and tales are the spark, drawing the essential foundation, and thread the palette for expression Ideas are everywhere, I see the world in stitches!

I create usually three-dimensional embroideries such as birds, brooches and purses, inspired often by the ingenuity of 17th century needlework. These always have a purpose and use such as needlework etuis, with ingenious working components. I love to combine the embroidery with skills in metal smithing and 3d printing

CARRÉDUCKER LONDON LIMITED

Leather

Worker

Deborah Carre

"We create engaging, tactile objects that evoke comfort and invite contemplation and touch; informed by a beachcomber’s eye, remote island life and long walks, observing the natural world.

Ours is a maker-lead approach, a synergy between our cordwaining expertise and material mastery, to create organic forms and vessels that meld heritage, innovation and the timeless allure of leather."

ANGELICA COLUCCI

Fashion Designer

Brand: COLUCCI

About:

COLUCCI is a luxury fashion house based in London that epitomizes timeless elegance and impeccable craftsmanship.

Website: https://colucci.uk

RACHEL EVANS

Basketmaker

I run my business, Wheatcroftwillow from my workshop in the heart of the Churnet Valley in the Staffordshire Moorlands. Drawing on my years of training and apprentice style learning I make a range of traditional baskets as well as more creative, contemporary work. Using natural colours and weaves, I can create a piece of work that is both beautiful and is made to last.

I grow about half of the willow I use, using organic principles, providing habitat for wildlife and reducing my carbon footprint. I grow unusual varieties that add colour and interest to my work and I supplement this with Somerset grown willow I feel it is important to try and live lightly upon the earth and this includes my business

Our ancestors often gathered materials from around their homes to use in the making of functional baskets, developing a deep knowledge of plants and their uses. In 2020, due to lockdown, I started experimenting with other natural and wild materials found near my home, bark, rush and split hazel I feel this use of local and natural resources is becoming more relevant to todays society, using what we have locally in a low impact way to create practical and beautiful items

MALCOLM FARROW

Basketmaker

Region: Highlands, Scotland

Project: Trio of garden trugs

DOUG FITCH & HANNAH MCANDREW

Potters

We make slipware ceramics using traditional techniques to make pots with out own voices.

The product shot is of a piece of both of our work.

Slip trailed sextant poppy charger. 48cm diameter.

Applique swag jug in green. 32cm high.

Photo Credit: Shannon Tofts.

ELENA FLEURY-ROJO

Flameworking/ Scientific Glassworking Techniques

Business: Red Flower Glass

Region: East Anglia

Project: Message in a Bottle

ANNE FONTENOY

Visual Artist and Dress Designer

Description:

Handsewn ladieswear, hand embroidery & beading

Photo description:

Hand sewn & embroidered silk wedding dress

HELEN FRY

Weaver

Description:

I am a hand weaver, designing and making bespoke lengths of braid from my home in Shropshire.

Photos:

1. Collection of handwoven braids, woven in natural yarns; silk, wool, linen, cashmere/ramie

2. Photo of myself in my home studio space, taken by Tom Barker

CLAIRE GAUDION

Basketmaker

My basketry specialises in traditional, heritage Guernsey baskets, a craft that has been in my family for generations and that I have learned from my dad, Max Gaudion.

EMMA HOGBIN

Letterpress

Name

Princetown Press

Region

Dartmoor, Devon

Photo

Star Jelly Whisky Single

IRISH LINEN CENTRE & LISBURN MUSEUM

Damask weaver (linen)

Makers: Alison McNamee and Donna Campbell are full-time linen handloom weavers at the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum

Region: Northern Ireland

Project: They are currently renovating a 170 year-old Irish damask handloom

LIZZIE JARVIS

Wood Worker

My name's Elizabeth Jarvis, I'm a woodworker and this is a tulip box formed with mitre joints and made from wood offcuts. The tulips were cut with a coping saw so that they slot together and are bolted in place to make them detachable.

SEEUN KIM

Jeweller

Seeun Kim (She/Her) is an Oxford-based South Korean metal craftswoman, visual artist and educator. From her perspective, she believes that the human hand is a gift from human evolution. Even though today there are several technologies, handicraft products have a high scarcity and sophisticated beauty compared to mass–produced manmade products.

PENNY MALTBY

Straw Worker

Description:

Straw work with passementerie

MICHELLE MATEO

Splint Wood Basketmaker

Michelle Mateo is a splint wood basket maker located in Wales who is largely self-taught, learning to weave her first basket in 2014 and has been teaching ash splint basketry for over six years, recently learning to weave with hazel and oak. She enjoys working off-grid with hand tools, using only hardwood that is locally sourced, from sustainably managed woodlands as part of a natural thinning and woodland regeneration process.

MARK MATTHEWS

Sail Maker

Mark started as a sailmaker in 1990, aged 16, when he became an apprentice at Kemp Sails in Wareham In over 30 years, his work has embraced many different types of sail making from working on the Olympic dinghy sails in 2012 to those of large modern yachts.

Since 2018 he has been teaching sailmaking at the Boat Building Academy (BBA) in Lyme Regis and this has developed his interest in sailmaking for classic boats and for traditional techniques.

Further research into traditional skills has led him to work with Ratsey & Lapthorn in Cowes and worked with Cowes Classic Boat Museum creating the sail for the 1872 built classic ‘Catboat’ Vigia

This year he has teamed up with Dawes Twine Works at West Coker and their important work in the recreation of the renowned Coker Canvas - a much sought after sailcloth that became the quality standard for the British Navy and for yachts taking part in the early years of the America’s Cup.

RACHEL O’CONNELL

Marbling Artist

ROCWORX

Image 1

Marbled Chevron linen lampshade on paper inner and recyled metal frame. On English Oak lamp base

Image 2

Me in my workshop

FARAH QURESHI

Jeweller

The image with the silver piece is of a table piece made for the King’s Coronation.

It's made in segments and contains symbolism, celebrating those who helped communities during the pandemic.

DAVID RODGERS

Wood Worker

I'm passionate about working with wood using traditional tools & techniques - now a days that means Wood Turning.

LYDIA STONELY

Doll Maker

"Beautiful artisan dolls individually created and made for play.”

Lydia Stonely has a passion to spark children’s imaginations and encourage creative play through her dolls. Reconnecting with nature is a theme in her work and her leaf baby collection encourages children to venture out of doors in search of woodland magic. Her dolls are made using pure British wool and draw upon traditional Waldorf dollmaking techniques

Member of the British Toymakers Guild and featured on the Crafts Council Directory ”

The photo submitted is of Jane the bodger, here’s her making story. In May 2023 I spent a weekend at the Bodger's Ball - a get together of the Association of Pole-lathe Turners & Green Woodworkers - I tagged along with my husband Jane is inspired by the women I met at the Bodger's Ball. They practiced their traditional wood crafts with pure passion - and I made Jane's head whilst I watched them work over the weekend. My husband carved Jane her own little wooden spoon - a item often made by green woodworkers. The silk yarn in her hair was gifted by a traditional spinner I met there -and the wool yarn was purchased from a crafter working with natural dyeing. Her wood buttons are handcrafted by the same crafter - the Woodland Haberdasher. She has a wood shaving in her hair as the workers on the pole lathes get covered in them!

REBECCA WALKLETT

Coppersmith

I am a coppersmith working in Cornwall. This picture shows several raised copper bowls, the largest is 25cm in diameter and the small rounded bowl measures 9cm high. They have all been coloured using a traditional verdigris patina, applied while the object is warm. Then finished with several layers of beeswax to protect the patina.