APPLICATIONS OPEN · SMALL COHORT, FOUNDER-REVIEWED

For the makers who'd rather be one of fifty than one of fifty thousand.

Heritage craft, made by hand in the UK and Northern Ireland, sold to buyers who can tell the difference.

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Read by Rosie, personally.

ALREADY ON THE HAUD

Some of the makers you'd be alongside.

Elyn Middleton

Hand-stitched patchwork quilts and quilted tapestries, made slowly in a Sheffield living room. · Sheffield, South Yorkshire

Elyn (pronounced like Erin with an L) works in her living room in Sheffield.

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The Bumbling Basketeer

Oak swill baskets and hand-bound brushes, made in rural Perthshire. · Crieff, Perthshire

Simon Cooper is the only oak swill basket maker left in Scotland.

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Tightrope Knots

Hand-spun cotton, flax and dead-stock rope, twisted into dog leads, doorstops and juggling balls. · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Gem Bowes is one of a small handful of people still making rope by hand in Britain.

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Lucy Hook-Child

Hand-plaited corn dollies and harvest tokens, made in Layer de la Haye from heritage straw. · Layer de la Haye, Essex

Lucy works in straw, which is a sentence that does not begin to describe what she does.

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HOW WE WORK

A short call, where it helps.

Where the fit looks right, we set up a short call with Rosie before approving. This is how the work gets known well enough to write about, and how you know what you are agreeing to before any of the paperwork starts.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

We are looking for makers who care about getting this right.

We are not the right home for mass-produced goods, resold items, or work that is widely available on the high street.
If you are unsure, apply anyway.

Made by hand in the UK or Northern Ireland

By you, or by a small workshop you work in. Not imported, not resold, not finished off after being mass-produced abroad.

Material literacy

You know your medium. You can talk about why you chose this clay, this oak, this dye, this loom. The how matters as much as the what.

A point of view

Your work should look like yours. We are looking for makers with a recognisable hand, not catalogue-style production.

Heritage or traditional craft, broadly defined

The Heritage Crafts Red List sits at one end. Skilled hand-making in a long tradition sits at the other. Both are celebrated.

Interested? Apply here

MORE THAN A MARKETPLACE

We work for our makers, off the website too.

We are always working on new ways to put our makers in front of the right people. Recent makers have been featured in our pop-up shop, written about in the journal, and shared on Instagram. There is more coming this year.

STORIES FROM THE MAKERS

We tell the story properly.

We are always looking for makers with interesting stories to share on Instagram and in the journal. Here are a few from recent visits.

APPLY

We invite you to join us.

There's no reason not to apply.

You would be joining the makers already on The Haud. Each had a conversation with me first.

The form takes about ten minutes. All you need is a few sentences about your craft and a handful of images of recent work. You can save and come back if you need to.

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I read every application. If the fit looks right, I will be in touch, sometimes with a few more questions, sometimes to set up a short call.

Rosie x