The Crafts Council has launched the first Market for Craft report to identify the global appetite for British craft measured over the past decade, revealing that our passion for handcrafted products has never been greater. Craft sales have increased from £883 million in 2006 to £3 billion in 2019. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic Crafts
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The British Craft Trade Fair (BCTF) has announced that it will run an online, interactive exhibition for designer-makers who are already signed up for this year’s event. The online show will be open to registered and approved buyers from June 14 – 15 (10.00 – 17.00) via the BCTF website with this year’s BCTF award-winners
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Now more than ever it is time to seize the day and support local designer-makers alongside independent retailers so we can help create a more sustainable and circular economy. The design talent on our home shores is so exceptional that we don’t have to look very far to find those unique products which will entice
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Craft Buddy Ltd, designer and manufacturer of innovative, art, craft and hobby products, is thrilled to have been awarded GOLD by the team at online family platform Bizziebaby, for the best-selling Crystal Art® Card kits in the Arts & Crafts category. With a technique similar to painting by numbers, crafters place coloured crystals onto an
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The British Craft Trade Fair (BCTF) has revealed a major new development for the 2020 event, which will be opened to the public for one day before the full retail trade show gets underway. Show organiser, Margeret Bunn, announced the changes on the first day of BCTF 2019, which opened on Sunday April 7 and
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As we look ahead to the British Craft Trade Fair we see a wealth of incredible design talent waiting to be discovered by retailers. One such designer is Rhianne Sian, who grew up in a rural area of County Durham where she is, in her own words “surrounded by visual inspiration, whether it is wildlife,
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