Craft Directory

Alison Thyra Ceramics

Ceramics

Alison Thyra Grubb graduated from Gray’s School of Art in 2019 and is currently based in Aberdeenshire.‘I create geometric slip cast ceramics using lustre glazes. My practice combines traditional glazing…

Aberdeenshire

Cara Louise Walker

Glass, Jewellery

​Cara Louise Walker is an emerging glass artist and designer fromGlasgow, Scotland.With a Master of Fine Art in Glass, a BA Hons Degree in Three Dimensional Design and an HND…

Glasgow (city)

Cove

Textiles

Inspired by the hidden places within nature and a desire for escape and adventure, Catherine creates luxuriously original knitted textiles for the home and body. Protection and intimacy play a…

Highlands (including Inverness and Skye)

Cecilia Stamp

Jewellery

Inspired by abstract forms from machinery, architecture, packaging and the man-made, Cecilia creates graphic contemporary jewellery with an understated palette and considered simplicity. With an eye for colour and shape,…

Glasgow (city)

Charlotte Cadzow

Ceramics

Charlotte Cadzow is based in East Lothian and combines a studio based practice at home with teaching at local schools and site specific projects, private commissions and residencies.She graduated with…

The Lothians (Mid, East and West)

Claire Allain Jewellery

Jewellery

I have been making Jewellery since graduating from Birmingham School of Jewellery back in 1998.I have been fortunate enough to live and work on both sides of the planet…

Perth and Kinross

Claire Frickleton

Textiles

I have recently graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Design with Honours in Textile Design. My work focuses on the concept of…

Falkirk

Clare Dawdry

Ceramics

I make useful pots that are well crafted and a pleasure to use. Bowls, mugs, vases and jugs are the foundation of my practice and provide infinite possibilities in exploring…

Dumfries & Galloway

Daniel Lacey Design & Furniture

Furniture Making, Woodworking

Graduating from the internationally renowned School for Master Craftsmen in Wood at Parnham House, Daniel initially polished his skills working in and around London, before returning home to Scotland in…

Dumfries & Galloway

Elin Isaksson Glass

Glass

Elin Isaksson is an Artist & Designer-Maker, she graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2006 with an MA in Design & Applied Arts and she is now teaching glassblowing…

Eve Campbell

Textiles, Ceramics

With an interest in creating surface pattern inspired by Scottish nature and architecture Eve creates printed wallhangings and ceramic tiles. Through paper stencilling and screen printing her prints capture the…

Argyll & Bute

Fiona Hermse

Jewellery, Textiles

Originally from Aberdeenshire, Fiona Hermse is a Visual Artist, Jeweller and Community Artist now based in East Lothian. She has a particular interest in difficult to reach audiences and…

The Lothians (Mid, East and West)

Hannah Louise Lamb

Jewellery

A graduate of The Royal College of Art (2004), and Glasgow School of Art (2000), Hannah works from her studio near Edinburgh, making jewellery to commission and for exhibitions.Hannah’s jewellery…

The Lothians (Mid, East and West)

Harriet Jenkins

Silversmithing & Goldsmithing, Ceramics

My practice was greatly influenced by my work as a baker during my studies. The artisan bakery in the Southside of Glasgow offered a space that supported local artists and…

Lanarkshire (North and South)

Hilary Grant

Textiles

Hilary Grant is a textile design studio based on the Orkney Islands. We specialise in original knitted pattern and compositions - for blankets, wall hangings, scarves and accessories. We are…

Orkney Islands

Flight Weaving

Textiles

The sophisticated, exclusive and luxurious textiles that Janis produces form a range of high-quality, hand-woven items, which combine traditional skills and techniques with contemporary designs.Produced in small runs and one-off…

Scottish Borders

Jasmine Linington

Textiles

Jasmine Linington has recently graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a Master of Fine Arts in textiles. Concerned by the devastating environmental impacts of the fashion and textile industries,…

Edinburgh (city)

Jen Smith Ceramics

Ceramics

Jen began making professionally in 2015.She has since completed an internship working with renowned ceramic artist Frances Priest and Atlas Arts on ‘Patterns of Flora’ which is installed at Raasay…

Glasgow (city)

Joan Fraser

Textiles

After graduating from Gray’s School of Art, I followed a career in the design of teaching media until returning to Shetland and founding my luxury accessory business, Fraser. I learnt…

Shetland Islands

Jon Christie

Furniture Making, Woodworking

Twenty years ago, when I visited Denmark to meet my wife’s family, I had a ‘eureka’ moment. In their houses, I was astonished to see styles of furniture and lighting…

Dundee (city)

Jonathan Rose

Furniture Making

Jonathan is an engineer at heart and loves to solve problems hands on. His passion is designing and developing contemporary furniture for our current world. He wants to make quality…

Aberdeenshire

Julia Smith Ceramics

Ceramics

Julia lives and works in Ardersier near Inverness. The studio was established in 2010 after Julia moved to the Highlands from Glasgow. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art in…

Highlands (including Inverness and Skye)

Align Jewellery

Jewellery

Kate McLaughlin started her creative career with architecture, studying at Edinburgh College of Art and practising across Scotland. The influence of this is heavily felt in her jewellery designs. Kate’s…

Perth and Kinross

Katherine Pentney

Textiles

Drawing on nature and the Scottish landscape, The Canny Squirrel creates a range of characterful handmade Harris Tweed cushions, accessories and homewares featuring intricate free motion embroidered animal designs from…

Renfrewshire (and East)

Kathryn Hinton

Jewellery, Silversmithing & Goldsmithing

Kathryn Hinton is a jeweller and silversmith based in Edinburgh. After completing a BA (Hons) in silversmithing and jewellery at Kent Institute of Art & Design (2003) she undertook postgraduate…

Edinburgh (city)

Keiko Mukaide

Glass

Originally from Tokyo, she graduated from the Royal College of Art. She has been a research fellow at Edinburgh College of Art over decade. Her works have been exhibited internationally…

Edinburgh (city)

Kira Phoenix K'inan, KPKinan

Glass, Ceramics

Over the past five years I have developed several glass drawing techniques that stemmed from transferring the language of a two dimensional line drawing on paper into three-dimensional sculptures. Each…

Edinburgh (city)

Lizzie Farey

Basketry & Willow Weaving

Lizzie Farey’s intricate structures capture a still moment, a distillation and order. Calm after a storm.Intimate forms provide a hint of the process of creation. We can see and even…

Dumfries & Galloway

Maggie Williams

Textiles

‘Inspiration is gained from my surroundings; be it the play of light on inky seas, the ever-changing weather, lichen encrusted rock, the delicate tapestry of wildflowers on machair, undulating lines…

Highlands (including Inverness and Skye)

Mhairi Abbas

Textiles

Mhairi Abbas is an award winning Scottish Textile Designer known for her luxury contemporary accessories. Passion for colour, design and hands on craftsmanship is the driving force of her work.Born…

Dundee (city)

Michele Bianco

Ceramics

After initially training in Architecture, I realised that I was much more interested in hands-on making and studied Fine Art at Leeds College of Art and the University of Northumbria.…

Highlands (including Inverness and Skye)

Michele Daykin Jewellery

Jewellery

Michele Daykin is a contemporary jeweller based in Fife at the Fire Station Creative. She started her HND in Jewellery making with a background in textiles as she had previously…

Fife

Michelle Lowe Pottery

Ceramics

Michelle is a studio potter, making small batches of hand-thrown and decorated functional pots in her garden workshop on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She also makes one-off exhibition pieces and…

Edinburgh (city)

Namon Gaston

Furniture Making, Woodworking

A longstanding love affair with design is the basis for the pieces of furniture produced by Namon in his workshop in East Lothian. His carefully proportioned and considered furniture designs…

The Lothians (Mid, East and West)

nielanell

Textiles

Nielanell is a Shetland knit studio founded by designer Niela Kalra. My alternative Shetland knitwear is inspired by the traditions and techniques of our islands’ textile heritage, but I follow…

Shetland Islands

Roisin Connolly Jewellery

Jewellery

Roisin Connolly Jewellery is based in the creative design studios, Custom Lane (Leith, Edinburgh). From her workshop Roisin welcomes bespoke commissions of all shapes and sizes, from Engagement rings to Wedding…

Edinburgh (city)

Littlehouse Jewellery

Jewellery, Jewellery

Grounded in a belief that beauty lies in elegance,understatement and handmade uniqueness. Littlehouse Jewellery is a brand dedicated to restraint in design. Founder Sally Cuthbert designs and hand makes with…

Edinburgh (city)

Sarah Paramor Baskets, Applecross

Basketry & Willow Weaving

Sarah Paramor uses traditional basketry skills to create contemporary basketry, mainly unconventional bags for exhibition and for the catwalk. Sarah has plaited hairmoss to resemble tweed on one side and…

Highlands (including Inverness and Skye)

Stefanie Ying Lin Cheong

Silversmithing & Goldsmithing, Stone Working

Since Graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 2013 with a degree in Silversmithing and Jewellery I have organically developed a portfolio career spanning Jewellery and Object design and making,…

Glasgow (city)

Viv Lee

Ceramics

Born in Hong Kong, artist Viv Lee lives and works in Glasgow. Graduating from The Glasgow School of Art in 2017 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture, Viv…

Glasgow (city)

Akvile Su

Jewellery

Akvile's metalwork is focused on the concepts of minimalism & sustainability while using traditional techniques in modern ways. It often takes a critical view of social issues therefore she creates…

Edinburgh (city)

Green Thomas

Textiles

Green Thomas are design duo Emma Green and Alan Thomas Dibble. Graduates of the prestigious Central Saint Martins in London both have worked with global brands and retailers designing knitwear. From…

Glasgow (city)

Alison Kinnaird

Glass

Alison Kinnaird has an international reputation as a visual artist and musician.One of the world's leading glass artists and engravers, with work in public, royal and private collections throughout Europe,…

The Lothians (Mid, East and West)

Alison Wibmer

Textiles

Originally from rural Herefordshire, I have spent the last few years living and studying in Edinburgh, and have recently graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA (Hons) degree…

Edinburgh (city)

Amanda Baron

Glass

Amanda Baron graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA (Hons) in Architectural Glass in 1992. She has completed numerous commissions for private, religious and secular buildings and has worked…

The Lothians (Mid, East and West)

Amanda Simmons

Glass

I make kiln formed glass vessels, playing with gravity in the kiln. Manipulating mass, heat, colour and time I aim to create complex, elusive work that has intense colour and…

Dumfries & Galloway

Angus Ross

Furniture Making, Woodworking

At his studio-workshop in Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Angus Ross bends, moulds, sculpts and folds wood to create site specific furniture for private clients and public spaces. The scale varies from intricate…

Perth and Kinross

A.J Ceramics

Ceramics

Being raised on Orkney, I never fully appreciated the wealth of inspiration that can be drawn from its landscape. Studying away from home made me realise how much I had…

Orkney Islands

Beth Lamont

Ceramics, Jewellery

Beth Lamont is a ceramic jewellery and accessories Designer/Maker who is inspired by the clean form and feel of ceramics. She uses a parian porcelain ceramic material in a slip…

Edinburgh (city)

Bryony Knox

Jewellery, Silversmithing & Goldsmithing

Bryony's elegant work brings a hint of humour and glamour to the simple items we use in our daily rituals. Covering a wide span from the theatrical to the everyday,…

Edinburgh (city)

Caitlin Hegney

Jewellery, Silversmithing & Goldsmithing

I visualise myself as a collector and researcher of information and materials. My work celebrates eclectic fragments of folklore through materiality. My practice simultaneously references, but also subverts, ancient aesthetics…

Argyll & Bute

Cally Booker

Textiles

Cally Booker is a handweaver, textile designer, writer and teacher. In one-off pieces and in micro collections of accessories and homewares, she makes extensive use of multi-layered weaves. The interplay…

Dundee (city)

Carrie Fertig

Glass

Carrie Fertig is a maker specialising in flameworked glass from her Edinburgh studio. She makes lighting that doubles as a musical instrument echoing her sound installations. Chandeliers are comprised of…

Edinburgh (city)

Choi Keeryong

Glass

The primary aim of my artistic practice has been to explore the ambiguity inherent in the cultural interpretation of belonging and to create awareness of the stereotyping that can occur…

Edinburgh (city)

Eleanor Symms

Jewellery

Graduating from Edinburgh College of Art as a mature student in 2012, award winning artist jeweller, Eleanor Symms, has exhibited in the UK and internationally and has work in a…

The Lothians (Mid, East and West)

Fiona Byrne-Sutton

Ceramics

Fiona's freestanding ceramic and crystocal plinth assemblages are named The Angel’s Share, an industry term for the portion of whisky lost in evaporation in the cask barrel. Here however, the…

Highlands (including Inverness and Skye)

Fiona McIntosh

Textiles, Textiles

From her studio in Edinburgh, textile designer Fiona McIntosh designs and produces a range of hand dyed and hand silk screen printed fashion accessories using the 'discharge' method of printing.…

Edinburgh (city)

Collingwood-Norris

Textiles

Collingwood-Norris design and make colourful luxury knitwear, using traditional skills and low impact manufacturing techniques to create accessories for men and women. Designer Flora Collingwood-Norris hand frames each piece in…

Scottish Borders

Frances Priest

Ceramics

Frances Priest is an Edinburgh-based artist. Her current work explores cultural histories of ornament and decoration through collections of ornately drawn and coloured ceramic objects. She combines a studio-based practice…

Edinburgh (city)

Gavin Burnett Ceramics

Ceramics

Having trained at Edinburgh College of Art and left with a BA(Hons) in Applied Arts, Gavin has continued to work in the ceramic industry, including ceramic and glass specialist in…

Fife

Genna Delaney

Jewellery, Silversmithing & Goldsmithing

I’m an award winning, highly sought after, Scottish jewellery artist based in Wasps Studios, Dundee. I have been running my practice since October 2006, after graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone…

Dundee (city)

Heather Shields

Textiles

Heather Shields is a textile designer and weaver specialising in vibrant, contemporary fabrics, homeware and accessories. Based in Gourock on the west coast of Scotland, she designs her cloth using…

Glasgow (city)

Heather Woof

Jewellery

Heather Woof designs and makes contemporary jewellery from her Edinburgh studio. Inspired by pattern, rhythm and movement, Heather's designs are characterised by clean lines and sculptural forms. Heather has a passion…

Edinburgh (city)

Helen Miles

Mosaics

Helen Miles trained with mastercraftsmen in Greece who taught using traditional methods with a focus on Byzantine iconography. She later became interested in Roman mosaics and now makes contemporary pieces…

Edinburgh (city)