Craft Festival

01/06/2025

COUNTDOWN TO BOVEY!⁠
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5 DAYS TO GO!⁠
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Over 200 of the finest makers will be joining us at Craft Festival Bovey Tracey from Friday for one of the largest gatherings of makers in the UK. ⁠
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Enjoy workshops, over 20 demonstrations, talks, films, yoga, family entertainment and workshops, street theatre, live music and great food. ⁠
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📍 Mill Marsh Park, Bovey Tracey⁠
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📅 June 6-8⁠
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🎟️ Book your workshops and tickets in advance and SAVE. ⁠

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📸 Louisa Raven

31/05/2025

Time to book your accommodation for Craft Festival Wales at Castell Aberteifi - Cardigan Castle September 5-7. It’s going to bigger & better than ever!

Cardigan is officially on the foodie map — Financial Times just called it a "hotbed of culinary wizardry", and we couldn't agree more!

✨ Imagine waking up in a cosy cottage by the Teifi, then heading out for:
🥐 Sourdough croissants from Bara Menyn
🍩 Doughnuts + seaweed hash browns for brunch at Crwst
🍽️ Michelin-rated small plates at Yr Hen Printworks
🧀 Award-winning raw milk cheese from Caws Teifi Cheese
🍻 A pint of local ale from Mantle Brewery ltd.
🥃 Gin, whisky and rum from In the Welsh Wind
🔥 And a six-course fire-cooked feast at fforest

Whether you're a full-on foodie or just love good local grub, Cardigan’s thriving food scene is reason enough to visit.

Want to taste it all for yourself?
Stay nearby in one of our beautiful holiday cottages — the perfect base for a delicious West Wales escape. (Link in the comments)

31/05/2025

A blast from the past.

Another great collab with my good friend, Nick Hand from This time we worked with and on a Christmas campaign a couple of years ago with the slogan

BUY LESS

BUY BETTER

BUY HANDMADE

It was great fun to do and am grateful for working with great, likeminded people.

Meet over 200 makers at Craft Festival Bovey Tracey from June 6-8.

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30/05/2025

Just 7 Days to Go Until Craft Festival Bovey Tracey! ⁠
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There is so much to look forward this year.⁠
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I am hugely looking forward to meeting the makers from the Heritage Crafts Tent. I am in awe of the work that do and am delighted that Mary Lewis and Daniel Carpenter will be hosting ⁠makers at Craft Festival from the newly published Red List of Endangered Craft. ⁠ ⁠
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And if you buy your tickets in advance, you have the opportunity to vote for your favourite maker from Craft Festival. A link will be sent to you over the weekend of the Festival to vote for the People's Award. ⁠
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You can buy your tickets in advance or in person at in Bovey Tracey. ⁠
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We asked Daniel to choose his 5 Favourites from Craft Festival and here they are.⁠
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Felix the Wood
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Felix appeared with me on BBC Radio Cornwall earlier this year for a feature on the value of heritage craft skills. Not only is he one of the finest examples of the resurgence of wooden spoon carving in the last ten years, he's also an eloquent advocate for the section.⁠
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Wolfram Lohr

Wolfram showcases exceptional craftsmanship through his timeless leather goods, where traditional techniques and quality materials culminate in beautifully functional and durable accessories and homewares.⁠
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Bert the Potter
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Bert creates minimal stoneware pottery that enriches daily routines and spaces by balancing functional design with a natural, sculptural aesthetic. ⁠
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The Flax Project
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Flax working enters the Red List of Endangered Crafts in 2025 but the story is one of hope rather than despair. Its reemergence is particularly timely considering the need to explore the possibilities of local, sustainable fibre production to counteract the environmental devastation of fast fashion.⁠
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Llio James
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Llio demonstrated for us at our recent Celebration of Heritage Crafts in Wales event, her work being the quintessential example of balancing traditional methods with a contemporary sensibility, to produce work that everyone covets. ⁠
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📍 Mill Marsh Park, Bovey Tracey⁠
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📅 June 6-8⁠
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🎟️ Book your workshops and tickets in advance and SAVE. ⁠
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https://bit.ly/BoveyTracey2025

30/05/2025

A Reminder…

With 7 days to go until Craft Festival Bovey Tracey, a reminder from back in 2020 from with words by the late Vivienne Westwood.

Meet over 200 makers, who make things very well, to last.

📍 Mill Marsh Park, Bovey Tracey⁠
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📅 June 6-8⁠
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🎟️ Book your workshops and tickets in advance and SAVE. ⁠
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Link in Bio

28/05/2025

Craft Festival Bovey Tracey in the Press! ⁠
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Great to see our makers popping up in Devon Life, AGAIN! ⁠
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Thank you to for the great coverage of makers from Craft Festival Bovey Tracey in the latest edition. ⁠

Makers featured include:
Tammy Crawford-Rolt
Ambrise Vevers
Rebecca Furze
Beth Osment
Ann Bruford
Memori Prints
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You can meet over 220 makers at Craft Festival Bovey Tracey in 10 days time!⁠
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📍 Mill Marsh Park, Bovey Tracey⁠
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📅 June 6-8⁠
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🎟️ Book your workshops and tickets in advance and SAVE. ⁠

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28/05/2025

Great to see Craft Festival in the local paper. Thanks to Make Southwest for hosting us. Thanks also goes to Bovey Town Council, Wignallls, Pretzel Studio and Bovey for Business.

See you at the Festival next week.

Sponsors and supporters of Craft Festival gathered at MAKE Southwest earlier this week to celebrate the lasting local partnerships that help enable this not-for-profit event to be hosted in Bovey Tracey each June. Over 10,000 people attended last year.

27/05/2025

Cinema at Craft Festival⁠
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You may have heard the recent devasting news of the fire at Bicester Motion, our hearts go out to the families of everyone affected. ⁠
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One of the casualties of the fire, we are very sorry to report, our Vintage Mobile Cinema, Audrey. We send Ben and all the team our thoughts and hopes that something can be salvaged. ⁠
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Stepping into the breach, is Sol Cinema, the World’s smallest, solar powered, mobile, picture theatre. We hope you enjoy it! ⁠
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Craft Festival Bovey Tracey⁠
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📍 Mill Marsh Park, Bovey Tracey⁠
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📅 June 6-8

26/05/2025

Great to see us featured in Visit South Devon's Blog.

Less than 2 weeks to go! Grab your tickets now & SAVE!

Award-winning Craft Festival Bovey Tracey will return to Mill Marsh Park, Bovey Tracey from June 6 to 8th, 2025.

23/05/2025

5 Favourites from Craft Festival Bovey Tracey. ⁠
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With just 2 weeks to go, we are delighted that QEST CEO, Deborah Pockcock LVO, agreed to chose her 5 Favourites from this year's line up of makers. ⁠
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We have worked with QEST for a number of years now and it's been a great honour and lots of fun! Thanks to everyone at QEST for their hard work and dedication to promoting and supporting making. ⁠
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Here are Deborah's 5 Favourites. ⁠
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Addicted to Patterns
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Justyna’s hand-painted and hand-printed wall hangings are a real stand-out for me; combining true craftsmanship and a vivid imagination – lots of bold patterns and colours. We’re very proud that Justyna is a QEST Scholar.⁠
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Angus Wood Blacksmith⁠
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I like the fact that Angus combines contemporary methods and traditional blacksmithing techniques in his hand-forged home and kitchenwares. I particularly like the ergonomic shapes and the fact that he aims to recycle and repurpose as much metal as possible. ⁠
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GR Hawes⁠
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I’m fascinated by the glassblowing technique. Graeme’s work is beautiful – I love the vibrant colours and shapes he produces. I need to own a piece!⁠
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Rosemary Jacks⁠
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I love the quirky, fun and functional design of Rosemary’s ceramics – particularly those pieces with elephants! Looking at these pieces made me smile. ⁠
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Tom Moy Studio⁠
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The furniture that Tom produces is aesthetically beautiful – clean, simple lines – and using the highest standards of craftsmanship. The tree-planting initiative is admirable - with 10 trees planted for every piece of furniture the Studio creates.⁠
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📍 Mill Marsh Park, Bovey Tracey⁠
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📅 June 6-8⁠
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🎟️ Book your workshops and tickets in advance and SAVE ⁠

https://bit.ly/BoveyTracey2025