Here you will find a random selection of the expertly made products from our directory of The Makers. If you see something of interest, click on the image for details about the item and the highly skilled craftsperson who made it. From there you can go to the maker’s profile and find out more about their products and services.
4 Sheet Pack “David Cox” Wove 140lb / 300 gsm Full Imperial Sheets
4 Sheet Pack “David Cox” Wove 140lb / 300 gsm Full Imperial Sheets
Full Imperial Sheets 56 x 76cm
Handmade rag watercolour paper ~ Tub-sized with Gelatin.
This paper is made from cotton and linen rag, with other fibre inclusions, to recreate the warm tones and surfaces familiar to artists in the late 18th Century. These papers are flecked with fragments of unbleached jute and linen fibre.
Pug Little Toy Dog
Pug is made from a beautiful dense German mohair fur fabric. Legs are fully jointed with cotter pin joints and may be positioned. Eyes are traditional black glass toy eyes with wire back-loops. Filling is high quality carded polyester fill. Pug wears a vintage crepe silk scarf square.
I sew all my toy dogs by hand, with a few seams completed on my vintage Bernina sewing machine. They are made with great care using traditional techniques. All my toys are finished with an individual sewn in tag authenticating each one as a genuine ‘Little Toy Dog’.
Measurements: 17cm nose to tail, 19cm feet to top of head when standing.
Willow hurdles
Woven willow hurdles, to suit your needs, from finely woven basket willow panels to chunkier cleft willow fencing made in situ.
Berry Bowl
A stylish way to keep your berries! Rinse and eat! Feet imprinted with my swaledale stamp. Sizes vary. Bowl shown glazed with Iron Ochre Blue and fired in reduction. Price ranging from £40-60.
Wee Moulded leaves
Wee moulded leaves available in various different types of leaves and colours. Perfect for your jewellery or loose change.
Size: 11cm x 11cm approx
Needle felt picture kit (starter)
Everything you need to create two pictures approx 2.5″ square including two gift card mounts and envelopes. £15 including postage to UK.
Flower Printed Mug
Standard size mugs imprinted with Lapsana comunis, or commonly called Nipple Wort, flower pods. They are a beautiful, delicate and yet hardy plant… and make exquisite impressions in the clay. The flower detail is glazed with Greywacke Gritstone to make it POP, whilst the body is glazed in Iron Ochre Cream or Iron Ochre Blue (Iron Ochre Cream in photo shown). Price per mug £16.
Cane+Rush homewares at sportsmanscorner
All items are individually handmade and woven in cane or rush, baskets, storage containers, cane and rush table and placemats, platters, napkin rings and cane crossbody contemporary bags.
Single Map Butterfly
Single box-framed Map Butterfly – hand stitched vintage map on watercolour paper. Available as a bespoke commission with a choice of map locations and colours.
Workshops and Courses
Maire Curtis Bespoke Embroidery offer a range of hand embroidery courses for all ages and abilities.
Courses and workshops for 2 -8 attendees are held at Fun2Do, Scotch Street, Carlisle.
Our stitching retreats are held at The Hundith Hill Hotel, Lorton, Cumbria (Accommodation available)
We provide tailored courses for organisations and groups and tutor at Craft Sanctuary Stitching Retreats.
Our workshop programme covers a wide selection of hand embroidery skills including Goldwork, Crewel work and Irish Lace.
For those who would rather study at their own pace or who may not be able to attend our workshops, these courses are now available as distance learning courses.
All students on courses receive a certificate and all courses except the Craft Sanctuary retreats can be booked online via our secure PayPal payments system.
Riven green oak bench
A one off each time, riven along the natural lines of Yorkshire oak trunk.
Handtooled Leather bobber saddle
Handtooled motorcycle saddle made from 2.5mm veg tanned leather, the sugar skull design is then handtooled, after tooling the leather is wet moulded to the base, then hand dyed and painted, then finally double loop laced and treated to 3coats of a beeswax based balm and a final coat of resoline to weather proof the saddle.
Clocks
I have a range of my own unique designs of
Bronze, iron and Aluminium clocks.