Craft Directory

Sally-Ann Provan

Millinery, Textiles

Sally-Ann Provan is an award-winning milliner with a far reaching reputation for distinctive design, and a client base stretching round the world. She creates distinctive elegant modern millinery exploring form…

Edinburgh (city)

Aubin Stewart

Jewellery

Aubin Stewart is a jewellery designer creating dinstinctive vibrant collections, with a strong focus colour and composition. Materials employed are often re-purposed objects which are scavenged, collected or off cuts…

Aberdeen (city)

Caitlin Hegney

Jewellery, Silversmithing & Goldsmithing

Caitlin looks for rhythms and patterns that transcend ancient times, interpreting them for the present day. Drawing is at the root of her practice. She uses hand-made tools to translate…

Argyll & Bute

Iseabal Hendry

Leather Working, Textiles

I am a textile designer and maker based in the Scottish Highlands. Originally inspired by traditional craft found locally, including basket weaving and roof thatching, I weave all my products…

Highlands (including Inverness and Skye)

Skye Silks

Textiles

Inspired by the ever changing colours of the Isle of Skye, the sea and waterfalls, misty sky, stunning sunsets, flowers and moorland, Jaine of Skye Silks creates individually designed and…

Highlands (including Inverness and Skye)

Tom McEwan

Bookbinding

Tom is a multi-award winning design and craft bookbinder working from studio premises on Irvine's historic harbourside area where he produces work on commission or for exhibition. His work is…

Ayrshire (East, South and North)

Yellow Broom

Furniture Making, Woodworking

The Yellow Broom studio nestles quietly within the Cairngorms National Park. We are a two person collaboration consisting of two Edinburgh College of Art sculpture graduates Clare Waddle & David…

Highlands (including Inverness and Skye)

Gavin Robertson Furniture

Furniture Making, Woodworking

Gavin Robertson founded his business in 1993 with the aim of designing and making furniture of the highest quality. Some 30 years on, the now well established British company Gavin…

Highlands (including Inverness and Skye)

Lyndsay Fairley

Jewellery, Silversmithing & Goldsmithing

Lyndsay’s current jewellery collection, Na Mara, arose after a visit to an industrial North Queensferry beach with friends. Captured by the messy, ugly compositions of debris that had been created…

The Lothians (Mid, East and West)

Urban Folklore

Jewellery, Silversmithing & Goldsmithing

Ali Forbes is a Glaswegian jewellery design graduate of the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins, London. She first discovered jewellery making and design when she participated in…

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)

Cressa's Glass Works

Glass, Glass

I work from my studio in the Briggait WASP studios Glasgow, Working mainly with kiln-formed bullseye, opaque glass, I use the techniques of fusing, slumping, draping and sandblasting the glass…

Glasgow (city)

Duke Christie

Woodworking, Furniture Making

Utilising the fruits of my 35 years working with wood, both as a furniture maker and sculptor, I strive to create objects which reflect the simple things that enrich our…

Moray

Luing Smith

Jewellery, Silversmithing & Goldsmithing

Based in Edinburgh, Fiona is a designer/maker of contemporary unisex fine jewellery. Drawing inspiration from ancient jewels and an idea of unearthed treasures, Fiona's new work predominantly uses reticulated…

Edinburgh (city)

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

Jasmine Linington

Textiles

Jasmine Linington is a textile artist based in Edinburgh. Graduating in 2019 with an MFA in Textiles from Edinburgh College of Art, Jasmine spent her time exploring the potential of…

Edinburgh (city)

Jonathan Pang

Furniture Making

Jonathan Pang is a furniture maker and designer based in Edinburgh, who specialises in the manufacture of custom pieces of free standing furniture. Graduating from the Glasgow College of Building and…

Edinburgh (city)

SABEL Bespoke Leather Design

Following a successful career in brand, design and theatre, Mia Sabel left her job in the City to retrain as a Saddler. Once qualified, a QEST Scholarship enabled her to…

Highlands (including Inverness and Skye)

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

Katie Watson

Silversmithing & Goldsmithing, Jewellery

The foundations of Katie’s designs start with a walk through woodlands, along coasts and across mountains. Drawing mainly from around her hometown of North Berwick and The Isle of Arran.…

Edinburgh (city)

Pieter van der Werf

Textiles

Pieter van der Werf is a Dutch textile designer & visual artist based on the West Coast of Scotland. He designs & creates large-scale textile art - single pieces up to…

Argyll & Bute

Ruth Brown

Jewellery, Silversmithing & Goldsmithing

Changes which accompany the movement of light across the reflective, linear planes of a city provide Ruth with a basis for visual exploration to create her collections of bold, geometric…

Glasgow (city)

Sarah Paramor Baskets, Applecross

Basketry & Willow Weaving

Sarah Paramor uses heritage basketry skills to create contemporary basketry for exhibition and for the catwalk. Sarah has plaited hairmoss to resemble tweed on one side and AstroTurf on the…

Highlands (including Inverness and Skye)

Siobhan Healy

Glass, Metal Working

Healy Arts has been established to continue the work of Siobhan Healy work in experimentation with glass, crystal and precious metals. Techniques: The Healy Arts studio incorporates hot glass, cast…

Glasgow (city)

Studio Brae

Ceramics

Studio Brae handcrafts sculptural yet purposefully functional objects using clay, incorporating locally sourced, high-quality, natural and sustainable materials wherever possible. Each piece is mindfully fashioned, in small batches, into iconic…

Edinburgh (city)

Vicky Shaw

Ceramics

Vicky creates ceramic compositions that explore the printed surface and the relationship of the objects and the space they occupy. Surface qualities, mark-making and colour are an important aspect of…

Orkney Islands

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)

Angus Ross

Furniture Making, Woodworking

At his studio-workshop in Aberfeldy, Perthshire, award-winning designer and maker Angus Ross bends, moulds, sculpts and folds wood to create site specific furniture for private clients and public spaces. The…

Perth and Kinross

Ellen Martin

Textiles

I am a Scottish designer specialising in printed and dyed textiles. In spring 2019, I spent four months studying in Kyoto, where I learned traditional Japanese textile techniques while gathering…

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 on the coast in North Berwick, East Lothian, making jewellery…

The Lothians (Mid, East and West)

JENNIFER ALFORD CERAMICS

Ceramics

Jennifer Alford is an award-winning Irish artist whose work features in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. She makes wheel-thrown contemporary ceramics. Jennifer grew up in Dublin…

Angus

Jon Christie

Furniture Making, Woodworking

Jon spent 20 years dealing in classic 20th century design before moving into further education for the first time at the age of 40. In 2013 he started University after 2…

Dundee (city)

Siri Ceramics

Ceramics

My background in filmmaking has inspired me to create narratives for my ceramic pieces in which science and mythology intertwine in comment to the human condition. By using the symbol…

Fife

Max McCance Furniture

Furniture Making, Woodworking

Max was raised and educated in Glasgow. In 1981 he moved to Italy, to study furniture, sculpture, and design, eventually setting up his own studio in Tuscany. In the late…

Fife

Sheila R McDonald

Silversmithing & Goldsmithing, Jewellery

I am an artist designer working in silver and vitreous enamel. I make pieces of jewellery and small silver objects using many different traditional techniques.Drawing and painting has always been…

Edinburgh (city)

Tracy Wilson Jewellery

Jewellery

Design has always been one of my passions. I studied Interior design, following this with Masters and worked in a design environment for 17 years. I changed career direction, completed…

Edinburgh (city)

ACME ATELIER

Textiles

Over twenty years ago I founded ACME Studios; a creative collective working within the museums and heritage sector, providing interpretive responses to sites and situations that communicate stories in playful…

Moray

Chris Donnelly Ceramics

Ceramics

Chris studied ceramics in Calgary and Nova Scotia, Canada. He makes tableware from his studio Cyan Clayworks in Edinburgh.His intention is to bridge the rich industrial ceramic heritage in the…

Edinburgh (city)

Christina Hirst Jewellery

Jewellery, Metal Working

Christina is a jewellery maker based at Coburg House Studios in Leith, Edinburgh. She spent her childhood growing things and making things, then took these two passions to Duncan of…

Edinburgh (city)

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…

Stirling

Milomade

Jewellery, Metal Working

Over the years, the coast has become a huge inspiration for my work. I am drawn to the tactile qualities of my natural surroundings and daily walks on the beach…

Fife

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…

Inverclyde

Jessamy Kelly

Glass, Ceramics

Dr Jessamy Kelly is a glass artist based in Edinburgh, she studied Glass and Ceramics at the University of Sunderland and went on to complete her Masters in Glass at…

Edinburgh (city)

Lara Scobie Ceramics

Ceramics

Lara Scobie's ceramics are intuitive. Starting with an instinctive process of mark making, her work is receptive to the moment hand-touches-clay. The ceramics relay the spontaneous process of hand-to-paper drawing;…

Edinburgh (city)

Rugaura

Textiles, Furniture Making

I create unique, striking, hand crafted textile heirlooms, from a desire to strengthen links between art, nature and humanity. Provenance of materials is as important to me as quality…

Dumfries & Galloway

Olive Pearson Designs

Textiles

Olive is the designer and maker behind the brand Olive Pearson Designs. Her practice thrives on her exploration of pattern through colour and colour through pattern. The current focus is…

Glasgow (city)

Patricia Shone

Ceramics

I returned to the North and to making ceramics when I moved to the Isle of Skye 25 years ago. I am inspired by the geology and textures of the…

Highlands (including Inverness and Skye)

The Canny Squirrel

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)

Avesha DeWolfe

Ceramics

Avesha DeWolfe’s pots are the sea captured in vessel form. Growing up in coastal Maine and now living in coastal Scotland, Avesha has an intimate understanding of and adoration for the…

The Lothians (Mid, East and West)

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)

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 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)

Helen Ruth Scarves

Textiles

Helen Ruth is a luxury accessories label specialising in digitally printed silk and wool scarves, printed and hand-finished in Scotland.   Each scarf starts with original hand-drawn illustrations, usually in pen and…

Aberdeen (city)

Jen Cunningham Jewellery

Jewellery

Jen’s crisp bold jewellery is inspired by landscapes and the compelling call to, and connection with, the mountains. The summits, battered by salty air and ever changing weather, in rural…

Highlands (including Inverness and Skye)

Jo McDonald

Paper Making, Textiles

History... Storytelling... Truth... Accuracy... Proof... Fact... Fiction... Entertainment... Adventure... Community... Connection... Constructed... Identity... Imagination... Interpretation... Memories... Traces... Collective memory... The Written Word... Reliability... Biography... Autobiography... Secrets... Power... Control... Comfort...…

Edinburgh (city)

Karolina Baines Jewellery

Jewellery, Silversmithing & Goldsmithing

Karolina Baines is a jewellery designer and maker based in Edinburgh. Her designs combine vibrant colours with a sense of movement to create sculptural jewellery with an elegant yet playful…

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

Pauline Burbidge

Textiles

I am a textile artist/ designer/ quiltmaker. It has been my profession for forty years. I studied at St. Martins Art College in London. My work links with the tradition…

Scottish Borders

Rachel Davies Mosaics

Mosaics

Rachel Davies creates contemporary mosaic art using slate, stone and glass. She combines traditional and modern techniques to process her materials which she then uses to build mosaics, with an…

Stirling

Shirley Warnock-Lowe

Jewellery

Shirley came to jewellery later in life, having been a successful tattooist and body piercer for more than 20 years, she has travelled the world and stayed in many places…

Dundee (city)

Fernweh UK

Textiles, Leather Working

Graduating from Fashion Design at Grays School of Art, Laura Sherriffs went on to set up her own accessories brand, Fernweh UK. Fernweh UK is inspired by a passion for…

Aberdeen (city)

Paper Houses Design

Textiles

Paper Houses Design is a textiles lifestyle brand based in Aberdeenshire. Creating lifestyle products that connect people with their homes, themselves and their well-being. Inspiration for designs come from the…

Aberdeenshire