At the craftscotland website we receive a regular flow of enquiries from all over the world asking a huge range of questions about events and people featured on the website.

Since September 2006 we have put potential buyers in touch with many makers including ceramicist Craig Mitchell, basketmaker Jimmy Work, textile designer Ginger, jeweller Grace Girvan and automata designer Ruth Chalmers.

We are often asked for contact details by galleries or museums wishing to exhibit work by a maker and those we have helped include the Craft Centre in Wimborne, Contemporary Applied Arts, the Broughton Gallery, the Green Gallery, Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge, Mass and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

We regularly receive media enquiries from national publications such as the Times and Sunday Telegraph magazine, freelance writers, Scottish newspapers and magazines.  Examples include the Scotsman magazine featuring a silver bowl by Grant McCaig as their 'Object of Desire' and Homes and Interiors Scotland including work by silversmiths Marion Kane, Eileen Gatt and Roger Millar in a Christmas feature. 

A more unusual enquiry was from the TV programme Blue Peter looking for someone to demonstrate making a broomstick to a group of children in a Harry Potter style garden makeover near Edinburgh.

Another area where we have helped is with commissions.  For example we were contacted regarding a memorial garden for a school in London’s docklands where they were trying to source Orkney stone which they then needed to be engraved.  We were able to put them in touch with stonecarver Gillian Forbes who could organise the stone and carve the lettering.

This is just a handful of the enquiries we have answered which can also include helping makers contact other makers, such as someone from Europe wanting to know if anyone in Scotland still made nettlecloth so they could advise her on how to make it.

In addition, the many makers registered on the maker directory, which enables visitors to the website to make direct contact with them, have also told us about receiving enquiries from shops, galleries and for commissions.

Every maker based in Scotland can have a free listing on the Maker Directory on the craftscotland website. 

If you want to make sure you can be contacted about your work register on the craftscotland directory as soon as possible. 

If you are already registered remember to make sure your entry is up-to-date.  If you have any amendments or a new image email enquiries@craftscotland.org

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