Friday Folks – Jane Blease

This week, Friday Folks features Manchester-based designer maker, Jane Blease. We first encountered Jane in October 2010, when she exhibited at the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair. Her stand really caught our eye and we highlighted her work in the blog we posted about the event. Six months on, she’s going from strength to strength! […]

Bookmarks: Illuminate – Contemporary Craft Lighting

Today’s Bookmarks review, of Illuminate – Contemporary Craft Lighting, is the debut publication by someone we’ve blogged about in the past. The book’s author, Hannah Nunn, is a designer/maker – specialising in beautiful & delicate paper-cut lamps. She also owns and runs Radiance – a lighting & craft boutique – in Hebden Bridge where she’s […]

Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair ’11

The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair 2011 is being held this weekend in Manchester city centre – we went to the preview night on Thursday. It was great to see designer-makers whose work we’ve long admired – there was also the thrill of seeing fresh, new exhibitors. We featured Ken Eardley, whose ceramics are shown […]