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Keep it Local Craft Show

Craft Fair

Standen House, East Grinstead, West Sussex

Friday, 22 September 2023 (3 day event)

Handmade Craft Fair

Craft Fair

Olde Watermill Shopping Village, Barton Le Clay, Nr Luton, Bedfordshire

Saturday, 23 September 2023

Autumn Market

Craft Fair

Magnolia Park, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Saturday, 23 September 2023

September Food and Craft fair

Craft Fair

Magnolia Park, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Saturday, 23 September 2023

Artizan Craft Market South West

Craft Fair

Flourish at Glenavon Farm, Saltford, Bristol, Bristol

Saturday, 23 September 2023 (2 day event)

Hungerford Craft and Gift Market

Craft Fair

Hungerford Corn Exchange, Hungerford, Berkshire

Saturday, 23 September 2023

Marlborough Craft and Gift Market

Craft Fair

Marlborough Town Hall, Marlborough, Wiltshire

Saturday, 23 September 2023

Chichester Craft and Gift Market

Craft Fair

Chichester Assembly Rooms The Council House, Chichester, West Sussex

Saturday, 23 September 2023

Arley Hall food and drink Festival

Craft Fair

Arley Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire

Saturday, 23 September 2023 (2 day event)

Simply events...Autumn craft market

Simply events...Autumn craft market

Langham Community Centre, Langham, Essex

Saturday, 23 September 2023

Wensleydale Craft Fair

Wensleydale Craft Fair

The Market House, Hawes, Wensleydale, North Yorkshire

Saturday, 23 September 2023 (2 day event)

Essex Autumn Shopping Fair

Craft Fair

Cressing Temple Barns, Cressing, Braintree, Essex

Saturday, 23 September 2023 (2 day event)

Folk and Bespoke Artisan Craft Fair

Folk and Bespoke Artisan Craft Fair

The Mill Arts and Craft Centre The Rayleigh Mill, Rayleigh, Essex

Saturday, 23 September 2023

Small Business Fair

Small Business Fair

Portchester Parish Hall, Portchester, Fareham, Hampshire

Saturday, 23 September 2023

Craft and Gift Fair

Craft and Gift Fair

Field Place, Worthing, West Sussex

Sunday, 24 September 2023

Tunbridge Wells Artisan Craft and Gift Markets

Tunbridge Wells Artisan Craft and Gift Markets

One Warwick Park Hotel, Tunbridge Wells, Kent

Sunday, 24 September 2023

Rutland Food and Drink Festival

Craft Fair

Oakham Castle, Market Place, Oakham, Rutland

Sunday, 24 September 2023

Handmade Craft Fair

Craft Fair

Olde Watermill Shopping Village, Barton Le Clay, Nr Luton, Bedfordshire

Sunday, 24 September 2023

Surrey Villages Craft Fair

Craft Fair

Shere Village Hall, Shere, Guildford, Surrey

Sunday, 24 September 2023

Dulwich Village autumn Fayre

Dulwich Village autumn Fayre

St Barnabas Parish Hall, Dulwich Village, Dulwich, London

Saturday, 30 September 2023

Sevenoaks Stag Plaza Artisan Crafts and Gift Fair

Sevenoaks Stag Plaza Artisan Crafts and Gift Fair

The Stag Plaza at The Stag Theatre Community Arts Centre, Sevenoaks, Kent

Saturday, 30 September 2023

Godalming Craft and Gift Market

Craft Fair

Godalming Borough Hall, Godalming, Surrey

Saturday, 30 September 2023

Abingdon Craft and Gift Market

Craft Fair

Abingdon Guildhall, Abingdon On Thames, Oxfordshire

Saturday, 30 September 2023

Devizes Craft and Gift Market

Craft Fair

Ceres Hall The Corn Exchange, Devizes, Wiltshire

Saturday, 30 September 2023

Surrey Villages Craft Fair

Surrey Villages Craft Fair

Shere Village Hall, Shere, Guildford, Surrey

Sunday, 1 October 2023

Cambridge Bead Fair

Cambridge Bead Fair

Harston Village Hall, Hartston, Cambridgeshire

Sunday, 1 October 2023

Gordale craft and gift fair

Craft Fair

Gordale Garden Centre, Burton, South Wirral, Cheshire

Friday, 6 October 2023 (3 day event)

Faversham Artisan Crafts and Gift Fairs 2023

Faversham Artisan Crafts and Gift Fairs 2023

The Alexander Centre, Faversham, Kent

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Lyndhurst Craft and Gift Market

Craft Fair

Lyndhurst Community Centre, Lyndhurst, Hampshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Guildford Craft and Gift Market

Craft Fair

Guildford Guild Hall, Guildford, Surrey

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Godalming Craft and Gift Market

Craft Fair

Godalming Borough Hall, Godalming, Surrey

Saturday, 7 October 2023

The HandCrafted Market - Parkgate and Neston

The HandCrafted Market - Parkgate and Neston

Parkgate and Neston United Reformed Church, Parkgate, Cheshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Craft and Gift Fair

Craft Fair

Stokesley Town Hall, Stokesley, North Yorkshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Folk and Bespoke Artisan Craft Fair

Folk and Bespoke Artisan Craft Fair

Firstsite Colchester, Colchester, Essex

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Wensleydale Craft Fair

Wensleydale Craft Fair

The Market House, Hawes, Wensleydale, North Yorkshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023 (2 day event)

Simply events...Autumn craft market

Simply events...Autumn craft market

Venture Centre 2000, Lawford, Manningtree, Essex

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Lymington Makers Market by NFMM

Craft Fair

The Lymington Masonic Hall, Lymington, Lymington, Hampshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Farnborough Craft Fayre

Farnborough Craft Fayre

Queensmead Farnborough, Farnborough, Hampshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Fluid Art Workshop

Fluid Art Workshop

Salvation Army Building, Eston, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Stotfold Mill Working Steam Weekend

Stotfold Mill Working Steam Weekend

Stotfold Watermill and Nature Reserve, Stotfold, Bedfordshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023 (2 day event)

Portsmouth Autumn Fair

Portsmouth Autumn Fair

St Marys Church, Fratton, Portsmouth, Hampshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Surrey Villages Craft Fair

Craft Fair

Shere Village Hall, Shere, Guildford, Surrey

Sunday, 8 October 2023

Handmade Only Craft Fair

Handmade Only Craft Fair

Field Place, Worthing, West Sussex

Sunday, 8 October 2023

Rutland Pet Festival

Craft Fair

Oakham Castle, Market Place, Oakham, Rutland

Sunday, 8 October 2023

Frome Showground Flea Market and Craft Fair

Frome Showground Flea Market and Craft Fair

FROME SHOWGROUND FLEA MARKET AND CRAFT FAIR, Bunns Lane, Frome, Somerset

Sunday, 8 October 2023

Dobbies Carlisle craft and gift fair

Craft Fair

Dobbies Garden World, Carlisle, Cumbria

Friday, 13 October 2023 (3 day event)

Sevenoaks Stag Plaza Artisan Crafts and Gift Fair

Sevenoaks Stag Plaza Artisan Crafts and Gift Fair

The Stag Plaza at The Stag Theatre Community Arts Centre, Sevenoaks, Kent

Saturday, 14 October 2023

Romsey Craft and Gift Market

Craft Fair

Romsey Town Hall, Romsey, Hampshire

Saturday, 14 October 2023

Pywright

Pywright

Chelmsford, Essex

Pyrography is the process of burning a picture or pattern into wood or leather, possibly ...

Lynnes Crafts

Lynnes Crafts

Barnsley, South Yorkshire

I have been making sewn gifts and cross-stitch pictures for over 30 years as a hobby ...

Sue Pearson

Sue Pearson

Crawley, West Sussex

I have for sometime , worked with a variety of arts and craft media, but I am now focused ...

Gumec Crafts

Gumec Crafts

Iver, Buckinghamshire

Hello, my name is Gumec and I am the owner of Gumec Crafts. Gumec Crafts is a new company ...

Choughed Online Art

Choughed Online Art

Bromley, Kent

Hello. I am Paul, and I run Choughed, an online art gallery based in Bromley, Kent. I ...

Vintage Concepts by Zou

Vintage Concepts by Zou

Barnsley, South Yorkshire

I love the magic and unique mood captured in every piece I have made. All these wooden ...

Miniature creations

Miniature creations

Winchester, Hampshire

We are based in Kings Worthy near Winchester and have been making miniatures for just ...

LB Clay Crafting

LB Clay Crafting

Rochester, Kent

Uniquely designed handcrafted Clay products made by myself a visually impaired Potter. ...

Artworks by Jan

Artworks by Jan

Ferndown, Dorset

A self taught artist who uses painting to relax and escape my structured life!! I really ...

Violet Haze Handcrafted Silver Jewellery

Violet Haze Handcrafted Silver Jewellery

Yedingham, North Yorkshire

Handcrafted in our North Yorkshire Studio Totally unique pieces of Jewellery made from ...

La Chaise Crafts

La Chaise Crafts

Scarborough, North Yorkshire

Welcome to our craft world, Nick and Julie are pleased you are here to have a look around. ...

Angela Lilley Photography

Angela Lilley Photography

Leek, Staffordshire

As well as being a wedding photographer I also undertake portrait photography, product ...

Crafty Heidi

Crafty Heidi

Southampton, Hampshire

I started out in September 2015 therefore my stock is increasing gradually, so make sure ...

Lilli Creative

Lilli Creative

Orpington, Kent

Firstly, I extend a warm welcome to Lilli Creative’s range of unique home decor. It has ...

Hope Jewellery

Hope Jewellery

Surbiton, Surrey

My name is Vicki Wainwright and I live in Long Ditton, Surrey and I have a passion for ...

Umbrella Events

Umbrella Events

Storrington, West Sussex

Fayre organiser mainly craft fairs over the last 20 years in West Sussex We try to find ...

Jacqueline Redfern

Jacqueline Redfern

Sherborne, Dorset

I love to paint nature, water and wildlife. I mostly use acrylic because of the depth ...

Niche Wreaths

Niche Wreaths

Woking, Surrey

Mummy of two, NHS nurse and creator of unique wreaths. I love to make beautiful, bold, ...

Fernies Garden

Fernies Garden

Brighton, East Sussex

The inspiration for my business came from my two great loves in life - my garden, which ...

Caliston Art

Caliston Art

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

I am a self taught artist, originally specialising in watercolours until 2019 when I ...

Brushstrokes

Brushstrokes

Ashford, Kent

Brushstrokes (Lucy) is a Kent based artist who specialises in Pencil drawings. As well ...

Nicholas Michael Photography and Woodcrafts

Nicholas Michael Photography and Woodcrafts

Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Nicholas Michael Photography and Woodcrafts I have always been interested in photography ...

Marinova Creative

Marinova Creative

Woodford Green, Essex

Victoria McGillicuddy is a London based artist and art teacher and the sole abstract ...

Rust and Wonder Photography

Rust and Wonder Photography

East Molesey, Surrey

My name is Carrie Hart, and Ive had a long time passion for interiors and nature. In ...

Warm Woolies

Warm Woolies

West Malling, Kent

I was taught to knit quite a few years ago by my grandmother, we spent many hours making ...

Handcrafted Wood Products

Handcrafted Wood Products

Leeds, West Yorkshire

Handcrafted wood products by Peter McDonnell. Hi I am self employed and make individual ...

Cheryl Donlon Art

Cheryl Donlon Art

Haywards Heath, West Sussex

I’m inspired by everyday life and people but growing up in South Africa has given me ...

Nanny Bons handmade teddy bears and gifts

Nanny Bons handmade teddy bears and gifts

Harlow, Essex

I have made soft toys from an early age as a hobby and then went on to making toys for ...

Kinnys Creations

Kinnys Creations

Andover, Hampshire

I am involved in the production of picture art using pebble and rock media with the addition ...

Wooden Gifts Boutique

Wooden Gifts Boutique

Bognor Regis, West Sussex

I make wooden products on the electric lathe and pole lathe i make wooden bowls, platters, ...

Youve Been Framed By Carol M

Youve Been Framed By Carol M

Torquay, Devon

Beautiful handcrafted led light up framed pictures, high quality frames and vibrant colourful ...

Margaret J Boutique

Margaret J Boutique

Ipswich, Suffolk

My Name is Mags polley and I love making original pieces for myself and friends. One ...

Astral Anemones

Astral Anemones

London, Surrey

I make wildly embellished handmade brooches for clothes and hair using vintage wools, ...

One Off and Limited

One Off and Limited

Banstead, Surrey

I am an artist this is my passion I love to crest and appreciate beauty. My love for ...

Flossie Flowers

Flossie Flowers

Hanworth, Middlesex

I make fabric flower gifts, this includes flower vases, brooches, decorations and hair ...

Emreyhill Jewellery

Emreyhill Jewellery

Sevenoaks, Kent

Emreyhill is a unique creative small Family business based in Kent. We use ethical antique ...

carbon fibre pens

Exhibitor

Skegness, Lincolnshire

Made today for Craft Fair on Sunday to go along with my other pens, these are a type ...

Carbon Fibre Pens

Carbon Fibre Pens

Skegness, Lincolnshire

Three carbon Fibre Bolt Action Pens made today for Craft Fair at Elsecar Heritage Centre ...

Resin Tips and tricks

Exhibitor

Eastleigh, Hampshire

My hairclips are my best sellers on my craft stall, particularly in Summer. I have come ...

Bisque firing

Bisque firing

Banstead, Surrey

Been working hard to fill the kiln and very excited to be nearly ready for the bisque ...

Ships wheel coffee table

Ships wheel coffee table

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

This unusual item blends 2 types of wood to give a rippling flow in the grain, reflective ...

Suffolk village signs

Suffolk village signs

Woolpit, Suffolk

Im fascinated by Suffolk village signs so I came up with the idea of photographing these ...

Latest marine inspired work at New Place pottery

Latest marine inspired work at New Place pottery

Banstead, Surrey

Just completed some more of my ceramic Octopots... Love doing these as I love octopuses ...

Crafts by Lauren with here

Exhibitor

Felixstowe, Suffolk

I wasnt a natural sewing at school. I lacked concentration and the schools textile teacher ...

Buxted Craft Fair and Open Day 18th May 2024

Buxted Craft Fair and Open Day 18th May 2024

Buxted near Uckfield, East Sussex

The date for 2024 is now confirmed for Saturday 18th May, with a register of interest ...

Indian Summer Part 3

Indian Summer Part 3

Kings Lynn, Norfolk

Another day (well 2 actually). Another adventure (or 300). We started off Thursday again ...

Summer

Exhibitor

Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire

i have two new delicious fragrances, perfect for the Summer. Escape to a tropical paradise ...

Loved Barton Bear holiday events What Next

Loved Barton Bear holiday events What Next

Barton Le Clay, Bedfordshire

Barton Bear enjoyed their Teddy Bear Picnic and Bear, Bees and Seeds planting Sunflowers ...

Custom Printed Stickers

Custom Printed Stickers

Stafford, Staffordshire

We use the latest digital label printing equipment and its ideal for printing short run ...

Buxted Craft Fair Saturday 20th May 2023

Buxted Craft Fair Saturday 20th May 2023

Buxted near Uckfield, East Sussex

A record breaking event this year, both in terms of numbers attending and exhibitors ...

Indian Summer Part 2

Indian Summer Part 2

Kings Lynn, Norfolk

Indian Summer Part 2 Having arrived safely in Dehli I experienced my first insight into ...

Indian Summer Part 1

Indian Summer Part 1

Kings Lynn, Norfolk

As many of you know, we here at Sew on and on like to specialise in Indian Fabric what ...

Foreword

Foreword

Kings Lynn, Norfolk

What follows in this book are really just the thoughts and feelings of myself and how ...

Art Exhibition at Haughton Staffordshire

Art Exhibition at Haughton Staffordshire

Stafford, Staffordshire

St. Giles Church Haughton, Staffordshire, is holding an art exhibition displaying oil ...

Half Priced Self Adhesive Labels for your Products

Half Priced Self Adhesive Labels for your Products

Stafford, Staffordshire

We are offering 50 percent off our self adhesive a labels for all UK Crafters. Just visit ...

Sticky labels for Bath Bombs

Sticky labels for Bath Bombs

Stafford, Staffordshire

Our self-adhesive sticky labels are ideal for labelling all your craft products. Weve ...

Dippy Craft Fair Bakewell

Dippy Craft Fair Bakewell

Stafford, Staffordshire

I have visited Dippy Craft Fair at Bakewell today and have met many great crafters, from ...

Sticky labels do really work

Sticky labels do really work

Stafford, Staffordshire

Keep your customers coming back to you by sticking your name, address and contact details ...

My first year as a crafter

My first year as a crafter

Northampton, Northamptonshire

Having taken the decision to pursue my passion I was worried about how people would react ...

Buxted Craft Fair Saturday 20th May 2023

Buxted Craft Fair Saturday 20th May 2023

Buxted near Uckfield, East Sussex

On Tuesday 16th May at 11.30 our Event Organiser Keith Revoir will be on Ashdown Radio ...


Damien Hirst

(Born 1965 in Bristol), Painting,Sculpture

Controversial British artist and sculptor.

James Brian Jacques

(Born 1939 in Liverpool in Merseyside), Fiction

A write of childrens novels in the Redwall series among others. Many of the characters in his books where based on the people that Jacques had met.

Patrick Lichfield

(Born 1939 in Staffordshire), Photography

Patrick Anson was the 5th Earl of Lichfield. He became one of the most famous photographers of the 20th century.

Ken Smith

(Born 1938 in Rudston in East Riding of Yorkshire), Poetry

Ken Smith was a British poet and co-editor of Stand magazine from 1963-1972. One of his works, The Pity won the Gregory Award in 1964.

David Bailey

(Born 1938 in Leytonstone in London), Photography

Famous 20th century fashion and celebrity photographer

David Hockney

(Born 1937 in Bradford in West Yorkshire), Painting,Photography

Voted the most influential British artist of the 20th century.

Dennis Potter

(Born 1935 in Berry Hill in Gloucestershire), Fiction

Potter was a writer of fiction such as Pennies from Heaven, The Singing Detective and Blue Remembered Hills. He mixed reality and fiction with popular culture.

Ted Walker

(Born 1934 in Lancing in West Sussex), Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

He was a journalist, writer of short stories, poet and broadcaster. His poem the Fox on a Barn Door is about his view of the countryside of Sussex.

Bryan Stanley Johnson

(Born 1933 in London in London), Fiction

The writer of Christie Malrys Own Double-Entry in 1973, a dystopian meta-fiction about a disalutions man rans his life using the Double-Entry book keeping system.

Bridget Riley

(Born 1931 in Norwood in London), Art

Bridget Riley is a British artist who was born in Norwood, London. After attending Cheltenham Ladies' College, she studied at Goldsmiths College and the Royal College of Art. She is known for her Optical Art, an abstract style which utilises optical effects to engage and stimulate the viewers senses. One of Britain's best known artists, her work appears in major collections around the world.

Robert Radford Welch

(Born 1929 in Hereford in West Midlands), Silversmith

Welch trained as a silversmith in Birmingham but was influenced by the modernism of Scandinavian designs and created clean and functional designs.

Jean Simmons

(Born 1929 in Lower Holloway in London), Music, Theatre

She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1948 for her role in Hamlet, the Laurence Olivier version. During the 50s she moved to America and work in Hollywood. She performed in the Londons West End during the 70s.

Jane Grigson

(Born 1928 in Gloucester in Gloucestershire), Nonfiction

Jane Grigson was an English cookery writer. She wrote her first book Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery in 1967 and went on to write many more cookery books.

Derek Davis

(Born 1926 in Wandsworth in London), Pottery and ceramics, Painting

Derek Davis developed his ceramics, coming up with several innovative techniques. In 1994 he had an eye operation which afterwards left him unable to work with the pottery kiln, which was when he then started to focus on his painting.

Joan Aiken

(Born 1924 in Rye in East Sussex), Fiction, Nonfiction

She became a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1999, for her services to literature. Her well know early works include The Whispering Mountain and Black Hearts in Battersea. Over the year she has written, plays and poems, period and modern novels, supernatural and magic works, non-fiction and worked with illustrators on picture books.. In all she wrote more than a hundred piece, and readers of her works gained many new friends.

Elizabeth Bartlett

(Born 1924 in Deal in Kent), Poetry

Elizabeth Bartlett was a British poet. She worked for the health service and for the Home Care Service and it was in this environment that she was provided with material for some of her most emotive poems.

Anthony Alfred Caro

(Born 1924 in New Malden in London), Sculpture

Caro was a modernist sculptor who found success in the 1950s. He is also accredited with being the first person to remove the plinth, allowing viewers to be more connected with his work.

Dick King Smith

(Born 1922 in Bitton in Gloucestershire), Fiction

He is perhaps best known for writing The Sheep-Pig. Not heard of it? Well in America it was known as Babe, the Gallant Pig and adapted for film in 1995 as just Babe.

Susan Williams Ellis

(Born 1918 in Guildford in Surrey), Pottery and ceramics

She was the cofounder of Portmeirion Pottery. A designer and business woman. She was the daughter of celebrated architect Clough Williams-Ellis, famous for the development of Portmeirion in the Italian style.

Daphne Hardy Henrion

(Born 1917 in Amersham in Buckinghamshire), Sculpture

Known as having a distinguished career as a sculptress.

Antonia Forest

(Born 1915 in Hampstead in London), Childrens Fiction

Forest was a writer of books aimed at a young audience, you may as a child have read her most famous works about the Marlows.

Hammond Innes

(Born 1913 in Horsham in West Sussex), Fiction, Nonfiction

Innes was a prolific novelist with around thirty titles to his name. He also wrote childrens books and non fiction on travel.

Conroy Maddox

(Born 1912 in Ledbury in Herefordshire), Collage, Fiction, Painting

A collagist, painter and writer. From 1935 on wards he was a part of the Surrealist movement.

Mary Wesley

(Born 1912 in Englefield Green in Surrey), Fiction, Nonfiction

She was without doubt a very popular writer of fiction, Wesley had her last novel Part of the Furniture published in 1997 at age at age 85. It was about a girls life story moving to the West Country and finding her independence and not being just part of the furniture.

Wilbert Awdry

(Born 1911 in Ampfield in Hampshire), Fiction

Writer of the well loved and very popular Thomas the tank engine along with many other stories in the railway series of books. He is perhaps better known as the Reverend W. Awdry.