Meet Nell Swift from Hem: Handwoven, who works on a restored 100-year-old loom, making scarves, blankets and cushions inspired by the North Yorkshire coast and the Peak District, mathematical sequences and, more unexpectedly, the tonal palette of Hollywood movies.
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Meet Elly Rowbotham, a printmaker based in Cornwall, who creates hand-printed linocut originals and limited-edition cards printed on her small printing press in St Ives.
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Meet Leisa Howes, a jewellery designer and metalworker whose work combines the influences of British folklore, Norse mythology, ancient landscapes and the sea with hand-engraving and metal stamping techniques, in a distinctive, pictorial style.
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Meet the Maker: Etchable Etchable was born when Hannah Preece decided to get out of a job that was making her unhappy, bought a laser-cutter and persuaded her partner Matt…
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As Day 4’s prompt for Joanne Hawker’s March Meet the Maker 2020 challenge is ‘Branding’, we look back how we got our logo of many colours – and how Folksy’s brand identity has changed over the past decade.