A new Essex-based business, marble events, is helping to promote the talents of craft makers and designers at its we are handmade contemporary craft and design fairs this year.
The ethos of these fairs is to provide opportunities for skilled makers to sell their crafts directly to the public. The fairs will be taking place in Essex at High Street venues in Great Dunmow, Ingatestone and Halstead and will provide shoppers with a range of fresh, innovative and affordable handmade products.
Dee Swain, who set up marble events, is enthusiastic about the new venture saying “ there is a wealth of talented people around making and designing quality craft items and who need places to showcase their products to the right people. There are also a lot of consumers wanting an alternative to mass- produced items for whom these fairs will offer a pleasant shopping experience. In addition we will be running short workshops at some of our events that offer participants the chance to learn a new craft and take away something they have made at the end of it”.
The first event is the we are handmade contemporary summer craft and design fair on Saturday 18th June at Foakes Hall, Great Dunmow. For further details about these events please visit www.wearehandmade.co.uk.
