National Maker Directory

Handcrafted woodland furniture from the wild Cornish moorlands.

Burr & Knot is a new furniture design studio specialising in the creation of wild and beautiful nature-inspired pieces. Working with raw materials, design is at the core of every unique handcrafted piece and it is a love for using natural materials, combined with a commitment to superior quality, that sets Burr & Knot apart from other furniture brands.

My work is inspired by a love of the natural world, and an interest in folklore and fairy tales. The flora and fauna of the English countryside is a reoccurring theme and I like to draw creatures well known in the landscape and part of English folklore. I’m also slightly obsessed with pattern and decoration! […]

“Scandi meets Cornish”.
Natural Scandi elegance & Coastal Cornish ruggedness.
Made in Cornwall by Swedish jeweller Carin Lindberg.

The Rugged collection is inspired by the spectacularly rugged north Cornish coastline with its wild cliffs and rock textures. The ever changing colour of the waters; from pale grey-blue through vibrant turquoise, to deep emerald green. From the hazy white of sea mist and the vibrant greens of the surrounding landscape, to the moody greys of stormy skies. Textured metals and gloriously gleaming gems reflect this in a collection full of character, attitude and colour, just like north Cornwall. A piece of Cornwall to treasure and enjoy every day.

CARLSSON 1064 gives unworn jewellery a new lease of life. I repurpose and transform clients’ own gold or silver jewellery by melting it down and creating something new. The design considers the piece’s history and the jewellery is made to suit the client’s individual style and taste.

I melt down the gold, forge or mill out the shape and form and then use traditional goldsmithing techniques to create the new treasures which often include repurposed gemstones. Jewellery and gemstones can be so meaningful and have the power to hold much more sentimental value than money could ever buy.

It is such an honour to transform the unworn into something that is cherished and can have a second lease of life.

I graduated in 2006 from Brighton University with a First Class in Wood, Metal, Ceramics, & Plastics. Since then I have developed my work producing collection’s and limited edition ranges of wearable but unique handmade pieces.

I use many materials but predominately work in nylon monofilament, each piece is individually constructed and dyed, making every piece unique. I find inspiration from everyday observations that other people often pass by, moss on the garden wall, UHT milk pots, and fungi growing on cheese. I am obsessed with multiples, and I am very much inspired by colour, flora and fauna, science and its order and structures. I always look for new materials, and different ways to manipulate them.  My work is tactile and I encourage the wearer to change and manipulate the pieces, once handed over is out of my control. I like that the work keeps evolving without me.

Carol completed her MA in Jewellery with Distinction, at the CASS in London in 2015.  Carol has always loved stories and jewellery has become the means for her to tell her own. Her work takes inspiration from her memories, experiences and the contradictions and contrasts of life, explored in a subtle rather than explicit manner […]

I have been working as a stained glass artist since 1994. Using these techniques I make individual pieces of jewellery and mosaic. Using the copperfoil method (glass, copperfoil and lead free solder), my jewellery combines glass, paper collage and mixed media. I also make glass and paper tiles that I use in mosaics. All of my work can be personalized, incorporating text, names or dates into the collage.

I am a ceramicist and linocut printmaker based in Greenwich, London. For my hand built ceramics I explore abstract mark making using textures and mono print techniques on greenware clay with colour clay slips and oxides. At the next stage I use matt and shiny glazes and wax resist to create different surface effects. My main body of work is […]

I work from my studio on the coast of the beautiful Gower Peninsula. I specialise in creating contemporary and original black and white papercut artwork. I love simple, bold and graphic imagery and I aim to create designs that bring a smile. I am inspired by the naivity of primitive art, the humour of childrens’ […]

“Every piece of jewellery I make has a little piece of me in it, it evolves from my love of nature and the desire to create something of lasting beauty.”Caroline Reynolds studied jewellery design at Central School of Art having been encouraged to do so, by a close friend serving an apprenticeship at a local […]

I am a silversmith and jewellery designer/maker based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I create unique, contemporary wearable pieces of art using traditional silversmithing and jewellery making techniques. I trained at the University of Ulster in jewellery making and silversmithing, and at Waylands Silversmith and Jewellery School in Dublin. I am inspired by everything around me at any given time, in particular I find my inspiration in nature.

Catherine Ball hand crafts her ceramics using fine white porcelain. The Stitched ceramics collection challenges conventional ceramics through the development of an innovative technique and uses both stitching and buttons as a form of decoration. Catherine Ball is a young British designer/maker based in the lake district of Cumbria. Catherine Graduated from Cumbria Institute of […]

Originally trained as a fashion designer, Catherine Peddle then used her skills to train as a Design Technology teacher. From here she developed her fabric printing techniques and embellishment and established her business dyeing, printing and making her own lino prints on linen to make art that is primarily inspired by flowers.

Catherine has work in different galleries and exhibits with the Artist Network Bedford exhibitions.

With a First BA (Hons) in Textile Design, I have been a contemporary stitcher for 30 years, mainly using my craft for the past 25 years to support vulnerable pupils as a Behaviour Consultant and trainer within Educational Settings. Lockdown gave me the space and permission to become a full time contemporary stitcher and complete two projects called “Circles’ and ‘Blossom’. Drawing nature is the starting point for all my embroideries using mixed media and a mark making kit which includes a toothbrush, a sharpened chop stick and numerous twigs. I am right handed but draw with my left: this gives me a sense of freedom and can create some really interesting shapes. All embroideries are developed from my drawings then formed using seeding, couching, running and occasionally blanket stitch into Wallhangings. Stitch for me is a therapy, there is a calmness that comes with the rhythm and routine of a needle, thread and fabric. I apply the therapeutic practice of Slow Stitching throughout my work as well as giving priority to research and the creative process. Presently I am inspired by the concept of Animism which is a belief that all beings, animals, plants, land and waters possess a distinct spiritual essence.

Initially I studied engineering, followed later by art and, for me, making jewellery has been the happy combination of these two disciplines. I studied jewellery at the Yorkshire Craft Centre for five years both during and following a Certificate for mature students course at Bradford College.

All my jewellery is handmade in my workshop atop the – often – windswept Pennines. Surrounded as I am by Emily Bronte’s ‘high waving heather’ and the green wooded valleys, it is little wonder that my work is inspired by nature. The veins of a leaf and the rain or dewdrop glistening on it are some of the details I’ve drawn down. I work with silver and semi precious stones and am inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement in both Britain and Vienna at the turn of the last century.

I produce illustrated sculptures. Images are drawn, cut out and reassembled in to a three dimensional form. I work with a very tough, hand-made paper that is strong enough to be structural, and has a charming texture and tone. I seek to provide moments of joy, so humour, love and surprise are recurrent themes and I relish the expressions of delight that my work causes. As an illustrator I am self-taught since O level. I have a degree in Industrial Design which contributes to the structural element of my work. I’m drawn to help people express their appreciation for others, so there’s great tenderness in this work. I generally start from the emotion I wish a piece to evoke, and design from there.

Cathy Newell Price designs and makes contemporary jewellery from her studio on the Bere Peninsular next to the Tamar River in West Devon. She uses a variety of techniques to transform precious metals to reflect botanical forms and scenes.  These include chasing and repoussé, direct casting into one-off hand-carved moulds and saw piercing.  These are […]

I create sterling silver earrings, necklaces and bracelets using my own handcrafted lampwork glass beads in my home studio in Cheshire, England. Formed in a hot flame using a propane and oxygen powered torch, each lampwork bead is individually handmade and unique.

My lampwork glass forms the focal part of my jewellery designs, each one a tiny little work of art. There is something hypnotic about working with hot glass, manipulating it in the flame and using a combination of heat and gravity to control the flow and create something beautiful. I learn something new every time I fire up my torch, and hope that my fascination with glass translates into my jewellery.

I make contemporary utility wares, but also create burnished and raku decorative items.  I am constantly developing my work and I am inspired by the beautiful Tamar Valley where my studio is based.