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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

An excellent resource for craft events is a site called UK Craft Fairs. It has been running for many years and has lots of events listed plus interesting 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

G lass 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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Oakleigh fairs

One of the premier craft and county event organisers in the South East of England is Oakleigh fairs. They host more than fifty events each year. They are promoters of real food and have dedicated food halls at many of their events.
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Craft Fairs

Fakenham Craft Market
Saturday, 22 Nov 08
Fakenham

Double R Craft Fair
Sunday, 23 Nov 08
Bridlington

Rosebaskets Craft and Gift Fairs
Saturday, 29 Nov 08
Wakefield

Traditional Craft fair
Saturday, 29 Nov 08
Bedale

Winter Craft Fair
Saturday, 29 Nov 08
Northampton

D and K Art and Craft Fairs
Sunday, 30 Nov 08
Chippenham

D and K Christmas Art and Craft Fair
Saturday, 6 Dec 08
Chippenham

Kings Craft and Jewellery Fair
Saturday, 6 Dec 08
Woodstock

Horringer Crafts
Sunday, 7 Dec 08
Bury St Edmunds

Horringer Crafts
Sunday, 7 Dec 08
Bury St Edmunds

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