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Arts and crafts in Suffolk

(including Babergh, Forest Heath, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk, St Edmundsbury, Suffolk Coastal and Waveney) is in the East of England of England. It has a population of around 730,000 and covers approximately 380,000 hectares. Here is a list of nearby or neighbouring counties: Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk

County flag of SuffolkSuffolk is mostly flat, with few hills and the counties ancient open heaths and coast, with its beautiful beaches and picturesque towns, are Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The county town of Suffolk is Ipswich, where you can visit Christchurch Mansion, a Tudor house which contains period furnishings, a contemporary art gallery and a collection including ceramics, costumes and Victorian toys. Paintings on show include works by two of Englands most famous artists, who were born in Suffolk, Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable, whose landscape paintings of the area in which he lived caused it be called Constable Country. Gainsboroughs House in the town of Sudbury was bought by the father of Thomas Gainsborough several years before he was born and was his childhood home. The 16th century house is now a museum devoted to the life and work of Gainsborough, with period furnishings and a collection of the artists work including paintings, prints and drawings. Performing arts venues in Suffolk include the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds, the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, the Haverhill Arts Centre, the Seagull Theatre in Lowestoft and The Apex in Bury St Edmunds.

There have been many archaeological sites found in Suffolk, but perhaps best known is Sutton Hoo, where an Anglo Saxon ship burial dating back to the 7th century was discovered. The body of the high status man, believed to be a local king, along with much of the nearly thirty metre long wooden boat and burial chamber within were destroyed by the acidic soil. However the shape of the ship survived along with its iron rivets and a wide range of artefacts that he was buried with, such as textiles and finely decorated metal work. They include clothes, leather shoes, coins, a cushion, armour, helmet, sword, silver vessels, bronze bowls and a gold buckle and clasps. Some objects, such as the shield, had to be reconstructed and the Sutton Hoo treasures are now on display at the British Museum in London. At Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, visitors can see a reconstruction of the burial chamber and replicas of the finds. Other attractions in Suffolk include Ipswich Museum, Melford Hall, Framlingham Castle, St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, Southwold Pier, Orford Castle, Little Hall in Lavenham, Flatford Mill in East Bergholt, Ickworth House near Bury St Edmunds and the Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket.

Margaret J Boutique

Margaret J Boutique

Ipswich, Suffolk

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

Hollybush Hope Alpacas

Hollybush Hope Alpacas

Stowmarket, Suffolk

We have a small herd of 12 Alpacas. They produce a wonderful array of yarn once a year ...

Helspretties

Helspretties

Sproughton, Suffolk

I am at my happiest when I am in my little study being creative.I love the idea that ...

Earthsent

Earthsent

Tostock, Suffolk

I love diffusers but there doesnt seem to be much choice for refill oils for them, so ...

Nicki Noodle Craft

Nicki Noodle Craft

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

I love to create unique and functional pieces of table art using the medium of wet felting. ...

Unique prints 101

Unique prints 101

Lowestoft, Suffolk

Favourite Hey its Unique Prints. Fun, individual, Bold, eye catching, expressive, graphic, ...

Prince Crafts

Prince Crafts

Woodbridge, Suffolk

Husband and wife team producing turned wood products, glass lamp work beads and jewellery, ...

Jewellery By Me

Jewellery By Me

Stowmarket, Suffolk

Jewellery By Me produces custom designed jewellery. We display and sell our products ...

April Blossom Studios

April Blossom Studios

Ipswich, Suffolk

Welcome to April Blossom Studios In my life, I possess two main passions, art and nature. ...

Daydreaming Jewellery

Daydreaming Jewellery

Ipswich, Suffolk

Hello, Welcome to my listing. Jewellery is a very personal thing isnt it?we have to ...

Keadle Woodworks

Keadle Woodworks

Ipswich, Suffolk

As a wood artist Keadle Woodworks uses natural wood products to explore shape color and ...

Fated Yarns

Fated Yarns

Ipswich, Suffolk

A selection of luxury hand dyed yarns for knitting and crochet, in semi solid, variegated, ...

Ria Crosbie

Ria Crosbie

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

I have cards printed with my own designs, they are very varied in design. It is a small ...

Joanna Marciniak

Joanna Marciniak

Sudbury, Suffolk

I am a self-taught crochet artist. I create retro styled modern items such as my granny ...

Radiance and Aroma

Radiance and Aroma

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Radiance and Aroma a small local business based in Suffolk introducing our high-quality, ...

Bright Eternal Home

Bright Eternal Home

Ipswich, Suffolk

At Bright-Eternal Home I make beautiful hand poured soy wax melts in a variety of gorgeous ...

Hart Glass

Hart Glass

Sudbury, Suffolk

My work centres on the conservation of endangered flora and fauna celebrating the sublime ...

Reggie Couture by Trace

Reggie Couture by Trace

Woolpit, Suffolk

My craft seems unique. I have combined my passion for photography and sewing. I photograph ...

Key to my Treasure handmade gifts

Key to my Treasure handmade gifts

Haverhill, Suffolk

I began my venture by making my own costume jewellery when I couldnt find the design ...

Home and Hearts Design

Home and Hearts Design

Gazeley Newmarket, Suffolk

Home and Hearts Design - I make bespoke bunting, gift tags, gift bags and the occasionally ...

Rustik Love

Rustik Love

Mildenhall, Suffolk

Proudly supplying the finest yarn from Portugal for the purposes of crocheting. 100 percent ...

Farr

Farr

Colchester, Suffolk

Hi, my name is Veronica and I specialise in creating fused glass art pieces using Bullseye ...

Crafts with Lauren

Crafts with Lauren

Felixstowe, Suffolk

After years of thinking about it I am finally doing it... This is Crafts by Lauren. ...

Dragonfly Acrylics

Dragonfly Acrylics

Ipswich, Suffolk

Hello, I’m Sarah, the owner of Dragonfly Acrylics® and maker-in-chief. Thank you for ...

Dottie Bears

Dottie Bears

Sudbury, Suffolk

Dottie Bears are ooak collectable teddy bears created from my own designed patterns using ...

Olive Laurel Tree Arts

Olive Laurel Tree Arts

Steeple Bumpstead, Suffolk

I create fun, quirky, hand painted, original slim box canvases. I mostly find inspiration ...

Earthly Treasures

Earthly Treasures

Lakenheath, Suffolk

Earthly Treasures is inspired by my love of the Earth and making beautiful things from ...

Timble Lore Folk Art

Timble Lore Folk Art

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

I make assemblage art inspired often by history from natural plant materials and reclaimed ...

The Playful Weaver

The Playful Weaver

Mendham, Suffolk

I am a wool and yarn producer and textile creative. We have a small flock of rare breed ...

Rebecca Abbott

Rebecca Abbott

Hadleigh, Suffolk

Lino printing is a well-established process that many remember from school. The material, ...

The Happy Hare Designs

The Happy Hare Designs

Barningham, Suffolk

The Happy Hare Designs Unique - handmade Hare Sculpture Welcome to The Happy Hare Designs. ...

Jane Laya Textiles

Jane Laya Textiles

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Customers can choose from a variety of scarves which are hand dyed using the Japanese ...

Zone party Treatz

Zone party Treatz

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

We are Suffolk based. We ve been running for over 2 years. We can cater for any occasion ...

Lilyo By Jess

Lilyo By Jess

Sudbury, Suffolk

This business was gifted to me by my friend before she sadly passed away in 2020. She ...

Hope And Grace

Hope And Grace

Red lodge, Suffolk

Hope And Grace was founded in 2020 and produces luxury home fragrances to suit your lifestyle. ...

Paula Barry

Paula Barry

Great Waldingfield, Suffolk

Bracelets and necklaces hand made out of semi precious gemstone beads and freshwater ...

Rustik Love

Supplier

Mildenhall, Suffolk

Proudly supplying the finest yarn from Portugal for the purposes of crocheting. 100 percent ...

Suffolk village signs

Suffolk village signs

Woolpit, Suffolk

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

Crafts by Lauren with here

Exhibitor

Felixstowe, Suffolk

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

New crafter new products

New crafter new products

Lowestoft, Suffolk

I Am a new craftsman in jewellery and I love working with a certain gemstone called Labradorite. ...

New designs

Supplier

Lowestoft, Suffolk

Hi Guys and girls crafters and shoppers, I was looking for some inspiration or some ...

Just arrived at UK Craft Fairs

Just arrived at UK Craft Fairs

Hundon, Suffolk

How exciting! Today marks the day I start using this website in full. I am very keen ...

2019 Mayfair Bazaar Some Space Available

2019 Mayfair Bazaar Some Space Available

Mildenhall, Suffolk

The RAF Mildenhall Spouses Association is looking for quality merchants who wish to participate ...

Owls and faeries

Exhibitor

Lakenheath, Suffolk

My goodness, I wanted a challenge and this wired owl Im working on is certainly that! ...

Unicorn brooch

Exhibitor

Lakenheath, Suffolk

Ive made a variety of unicorn brooches, namely three, the copper one in the picture, ...

Happy New Year

Organiser

Woodbridge, Suffolk

Welcome to 2018 which promised to be a fantastic year. Remember throughout the year: ...

Its looking a ittle lot like Christmas

Organiser

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Preparations are underway, just a few tweaks and then we shall open our Christmassy barn ...

Why Knitters Should Love Sewing

Exhibitor

Ipswich, Suffolk

When I talk amongst knitters there seems to be an over whelming percentage of knitters ...

How To Skirt and Sort Your Fleece

Exhibitor

Ipswich, Suffolk

A few weeks ago I went to a local farm and helped with sheep shearing day. As I had never ...

This 1 Process to Keep your Stash Under Control

Exhibitor

Ipswich, Suffolk

My yarn stash is out of control! My fibre stash is not! But what have I done differently? ...

6 Things You Need to Know as a New Knitter

Exhibitor

Ipswich, Suffolk

Recently I started reminiscing about when I began knitting all those years ago, and the ...

5 Valuable Tips for Successful Car Knitting

Exhibitor

Ipswich, Suffolk

Car journeys as a passenger have the ability of being, well, boring. Especially travelling ...

8 Essentials to Make your First Sheep Shearing Awe

Exhibitor

Ipswich, Suffolk

So you’re about to head to your first sheep shearing and you’re wondering what you need? ...

How To Clean Your Precious Spinning Wheel

Exhibitor

Ipswich, Suffolk

When was the last time you cleaned your spinning wheel? Have you just acquired an old ...

Happy New Year

Organiser

Woodbridge, Suffolk

appy New Year. We are really looking forward to the coming year which we believe will ...

We will be celebrating 25 years at BlackthorpeBarn

Organiser

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Preparations are well under away for our 25th year of Crafts at Blackthorpe Barn. WK1 ...

Love British Love Handmade

Organiser

Woodbridge, Suffolk

Well what can I say, Quintessentially British Events and its teams feet are itching and ...

25 days to go til we open our British Crafts doors

Organiser

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Preparations are going well here at Blackthorpe Barn, Suffolk. We are creating a bigger ...

Next Burnham Market Hylands House Aldeburgh

Organiser

Woodbridge, Suffolk

Unique and Fabulous Venues this Summer in ABC1 Areas With a fantastic start to 2014 ...


Thomas Woolner

(Born 1825 in Hadliegh in Suffolk), Poetry,Sculpture

Thomas Woolner, English sculptor and poet, RA. He was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

John Constable

(Born 1776 in East Bergholt in Suffolk), Painting

A romantic painter, known for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, now known as Constable Country.

Thomas Gainsborough

(Born 1727 in Sudbury in Suffolk), Painting

A talented English portrait and landscape painter. Perhaps his best known work would be The Blue Boy. He was noted for the speed that he applied paint, working more from nature.

William Alabaster

(Born 1567 in Hadleigh in Suffolk), Poetry, Theatre

Alabaster was a English writer who often wrote in Latin. For example his work Roxana which was a drama.