NEWS NEWS NEWS
SUMMER Issue of UK Handmade 2009
The Summer Issue of the UK Handmade Magazine is ready to view from the website, packed full of articles including an interview with the fabulous Lucie Summers, lots and lots of business advice from setting up your first craft fair to approaching publishers, as well as the usual how-to's and recipes. Very proud of the team, who have pulled out all the stops to make this issue a quality, informative and entertaining read. We hope you like it!
UK Handmade is a design led online magazine committed to showcasing and promoting the best creative talent the UK has to offer. Artists and designers from across all of the art disciplines have a place here including photography, feltmaking, jewellery, fashion and art.
In a time when people are realising the importance of spending quality time with the family, small businesses are being started from the kitchen table and becoming an integral part of our overall lifestyle. We want to bring back the skills of our grandparents, grow vegetables with ourchildren, to make do and mend and return to an ideology that previous generations took for granted.
But we are realists too; in order to live like this in today’s world we need to be financially self-sufficient. An increasing number of online selling venues are allowing makers and designers to sell their goods with very little set up costs and as a result handmade items are currently experiencing a renaissance.
The term 'handmade' is now an indicator of quality, care and professionalism that is second to none and something we at UK Handmade wish to encourage and celebrate.
