William and Tilda create authentic reproduction accessories from 1940s wartime Britain. Each piece embody’s the ethos of wartime restrictions and the make do and mend campaign. Utilising fabric scraps from local Yorkshire mills, they minimise waste by creating a diverse product range, using even the smallest remnants to craft flower brooches inspired by original wartime …
Will Sharp Jewellery is a Leeds-based Contemporary jewellery brand with a sustainable focus. Inspired by mid-century design the jewellery is lightweight and perfect for everyday wear. Made using PLA, a plant-based, sustainable material and recycled silver. Processes involve 3D printing and traditional jewellery making techniques.
Whispering Tree Designs uses natural dyes and eco-prints to capture botanical beauty on textiles, such as clothing, accessories, yarn and homeware. Emily, Whispering Tree Designs’ creator, ethically forages for natural dye stuffs in local woods, gardens, roadsides and collects food scraps from the kitchen to welcome colour into dye vats and fabric bundles. The creation …
Taaryn Brench is an independent designer and illustrator based in Leeds. Analogue processes and happy accidents are at the core of her process. Taaryn’s work is characterised by a love of colour, pattern and playfulness which is applied to hand-sewn textiles, greetings cards and jesmonite accessories and sculptures.
Danielle is a studio potter living and working in North East England. Her work is influenced by the natural beauty of the local coastline. Danielle’s main body of work is hand-thrown ceramic vessels. The juxtaposition between the organised shape and form of her pieces along with the abstract and often expressionistic glaze offers an element …
Sophie handcrafts small-scale metal forms and contemporary jewellery, adding texture and detail with playful enamel mark-making. Her work explores the tactile quality of objects, creating beautiful yet unusual pieces that are designed to be handled. She gathers inspiration mostly from rugged rock forms and textures using photography as a reference, but also likes to allow …
Nancy presents a range of contemporary ceramics with a strong emphasis on form, inspired by her love for ageing industrial buildings. Naturally occurring colours and textures bring a grounded, earthy element and Nancy describes her work as a conversation between these two worlds, thus drawing attention to the material composition of clay itself. Functional yet …
Marie Canning, Ceramic Artist and Animal Activist, creates enchanted porcelain scenes that tell stories of the farmed and wild animals that dwell with them. The scenes are designed to be played with, each porcelain element separate to the other, to open up the childlike curious spirit dormant in the adult. The scenes are designed to …
Davinder and Caroline are a creative couple that bring together their strengths to create the MADAHER brand. Both are Textile designers and each bring their strengths to create these beautiful embroidery kits made in their Otley studio in Yorkshire. Davinder’s strength is print and Caroline’s is embroidery. Both are inspired by nature, especially around Yorkshire …
Jill Stewart lives and works in rural Northumberland and handmakes jewellery and clocks, also sometimes small metal birds and animals. She works in mixed metals- silver, brass and copper with blue titanium, to use the contrasts produced by the different metal surfaces. Etching and surface marks add pattern and texture, and heat effects heighten the …