Craft Fairs

Thousands of Craft events are held throughout the UK every year. They are held in all types of location from local village halls and schools to international conference centers.

UK Craft Fairs

The UK Craft Fairs site is an excellent resource for all UK based crafts people. It has been running since about 2004 and has lots of craft related stuff.

A craft fair gives skilled crafts people the opportunity to market and sell their creations. Usually the items produced are as part of a trade or they involve practical arts. Usually the items created have a practical function. However, equally they are often purely decorative. Crafts people tend to use natural materials like clay, glass, metal, textiles or wood.

To give you an idea of the sort of things you may find at a craft fair, we have created a list below. If an event is listed as a craft and gift fair you may also find mass produced items.

Applique

A small device or ornament added to the surface of for example a piece of ceramic work for decoration. In the case of needlework it refers to sewing a piece of fabric to another to create a design.

Crochet

The french word croche means hook. Crochet is a well known craft, where a hook is used to create an fabric from yarn or thread.

Decoupage

Decorating objects by gluing layers(usually of paper or card) into a three dimensional picture. Decoupage is similar to Collage.

Glass Bead making

People have been making glass beads for thousands of years. They can be either wound, drawn or moulded.

Glass blowing

Glass is heated and then the gaffer will blow air into the molten glass to form a parison using a blowpipe. Once inflated the molten glass is shaped.

Glass etching

By applying an abrasive, acidic or caustic substance to the surface of glass, it is possible to create beautiful art and or designs. Often this can be done after the glass has been blown.

Marquetry

Placing pieces of veneer (slim slices of wood less then 3mm thick) to form a design, pattern or picture on a structure like a table is called marquetry.

Mosaic

Simple the creation of a decorative design or decorative art by strategically placing coloured glass, ceramics, stone or other materials.

Pottery

Ceramic ware made of either earthenware (a generic composition of 25% ball clay, 28% kaolin, 32% quartz, and 15% feldspar), porcelain or stoneware and formed into a required shape and heated in a kiln is commonly known as pottery.

Pyrography

The art of burning wood or other materials to create a decorative effect. Pyrography literally means, writing with fire. When working on wood people tend to use, beech, birch and sycamore that are all light coloured hardwoods.

Wood carving

Working wood using cutting tools to create abstract or sculptural ornaments or objects.

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