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5 DAYS AGO - We’re also delighted to welcome back some of our students for respite and therapeutic gardening. Our priority is their safety and wellbeing and our reduced opening hours reflect this as currently we can only welcome customers when we’re not running student sessions. Lockdown has been particularly difficult for those with learning disabilities, autism, and other sensory needs. Routine and structure have been disrupted, causing stress and anxiety as people haven’t been able ..... Collapse

30/06/2020 - The official Craft Business Magazine website - all the latest news and product reviews from the crafts sector, plus interviews with key industry figures Collapse

28/06/2020 - The official Craft Business Magazine website - all the latest news and product reviews from the crafts sector, plus interviews with key industry figures Collapse

25/06/2020 - The official Craft Business Magazine website - all the latest news and product reviews from the crafts sector, plus interviews with key industry figures Collapse

22/06/2020 - The official Craft Business Magazine website - all the latest news and product reviews from the crafts sector, plus interviews with key industry figures Collapse

20/06/2020 - The support group teaching women how to build houses, mend cars and work togetherIdle Women cofounders Rachel Anderson and Cis O’Boyle originally wanted to open a touring arts centre exclusively for women. But, conscious of the many cuts to funding during a decade of austerity, they decided on something that couldn’t be “closed down or taken away”. This meant owning their resources.They decided they could stretch to a narrowboat and, in early 2016, built the 55ft Selina Cooper and bought a permanent mooring in Nelson, Lancashire. The boat now houses artists in residence and provides space for floating workshops, skill exchanges, social gatherings and outreach projects for vulnerable women. Continue reading... Collapse

17/06/2020 - Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and Patti Smith all played guitars made from wood salvaged from New York buildings. Now there’s a documentary about the eccentric genius who crafted themRick Kelly’s guitar shop occupies the ground floor of a red brick tenement at 42 Carmine Street in New York’s West Village. Kelly has been building, repairing and talking guitars on the site since 1991, having spent the 1970s punk era around the corner on Downing Street. “The city was real gritty and dirty back then, you couldn’t even walk in Central Park, you’d get mugged for sure,” Kelly says. “I liked it that way.”Carmine Street Guitars, the subject of a delightful documentary by Ron Mann, is one of the last redoubts of “Old New York” as Kelly calls it. On a typical day, Kelly’s elderly mother Dorothy will be working the cash register; his 26-year-old apprentice Cindy Hulej, will be blow-torching a custom design on to a guitar body; while Kelly will be at his workbench planing away a piece of wood. At one point Collapse

10/06/2020 - My mother, Gillian Maddison, who has died aged 92, was a pioneering craftsperson and inspirational teacher.A skilled letterer, she was an influential figure in the renaissance of the art of making stone memorials and an early supporter of Memorials by Artists, an organisation dedicated to creating high-quality, individualised memorials. Continue reading... Collapse