Tag: Design@HEART
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Who’s who at Design@HEART 2019
Just two days to go! 10am-4pm at Headingley HEART Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds LS6 3HN Here’s a round up of our artists and craftspeople. We have some old favourites but plenty of new stalls too. We hope to see you there! Inkylinky by Liz Samways I’m a Leeds-based jeweller and printmaker, working primarily…
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Everyone Loves Bags!
Sue Turrill of Nuthatch Designs will be back at Design@HEART this December with her beautiful tweed bags. Here she is talking about her work: When I was a small child I would spend weeks in the summer with my two siblings staying with our Grandmother and her two sisters. That was when I really started…
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Be Dispensable: the first rule of fair management
By Becky Moore As some of you know, I’m not just a fair organiser, I’m also a designer-maker myself. I think that gives me an insight into what our stallholders need and expect from fairs. They’re looking for a well publicised, well organised, well attended platform from which to sell their products. It sounds like…
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When you give up a successful career
Julie Ashworth is our latest designer-maker to take over the blog. Like many of us, it’s not her first career. Read how she gave up a successful career as an author and created award-winning greetings card company, Yoojoo. Designing and making greeting cards isn’t my first career, I originally trained as a teacher of Art…
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Old Linen and Cups of Tea Round at Emma’s!
In our latest blog-takeover, Emma Mears explains how she swapped a teaching job for a full time career in textile art. I began making and creating eight years ago, when I left my career in teaching. I enrolled on several short courses, in felting, drawing and painting, embroidery and textiles and ceramics and basically, never…
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I started the business to justify how many tools I’d bought!
Our next fair is only 9 weeks away, and there’s so much lovely stuff from very talented artists and craftspeople. So for the next few weeks, we’ll be handing over the blog to some of them, to tell us about themselves and their work. Today, Helen Drye of Silver and Stone Jewellery Design talks about…
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Your Christmas Shopping Guide
Looking for those perfect presents for friends, family and colleagues? We’re here to help! Here’s some ideas from Design@HEART exhibitors next month to get you started. The Makers Know someone who likes making and creating? Check out these crochet and sewing project kits from Elm Rocks and Sally Sally. And for the knitters, Ed Bennett…
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