Meet Our Makers: A Map of UK Craftsmanship Behind Our Homewares
The last year has seen a lot of change for the store, most notably our move from Kentish Town to Hampstead last summer. In the coming months we’ll also be rebranding, an exciting step that reflects our evolution and marks the start of a new chapter. I can’t wait to begin sharing this new concept with you, so keep an eye on our Instagram and newsletter for updates.
One thing that has never changed is our commitment to sourcing the very best handmade homewares from UK-based makers. We have now been working with many of the incredibly talented 36 craftspeople listed here for close to six years. With this map, we wanted to celebrate the places that offer inspiration to our artists and makers, and in turn extend the narrative of each piece you take home with you. Every item begins its life in a maker’s studio and finds its next chapter in a space that inspires you.
Every day we champion craftsmanship and considered, thoughtful design, practised in a sustainable way. Our role is to curate a collection of exceptionally made ceramics, woodwork, leatherware, textiles, home fragrance and original fine art - so that our makers can stay focused on what they do best: making. This craft ecosystem, and the quiet power it has to enrich your everyday life is our very reason for being, and your part in collecting these wares is integral to that mission.
We believe in the joy of using handmade objects in daily life, bringing something unique and meaningful to moments that might otherwise go unnoticed. These pieces are not just beautiful, but made to be used and enjoyed, grounding us in the present and connecting us to both material and maker.
Explore the map above, click the links below, and discover where each piece begins its journey. And if you’d like to share your story, we’d love to see where our wares end up so do send us a review or tag us in a post, and we’ll reshare as many as we can.
Makers Map read clockwise from Edinburgh
Makers of Edinburgh
Polish ceramicist, based in Edinburgh
Interior design to potter, Agata found her calling crafting tableware for everyday use. Refined shapes, considered throwing, glazed in neutral and organic tones inspired by the Scottish landscape.
Ceramics inspired by natures mark on the landscape.
Kirsty, studied textiles at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen. Simple forms taken from an interest in past objects – milk churns, chemistry beakers and enamel wear – and finished in painterly glazes.
Great chocolate, no downside.
Their cocoa farm is the first in the world to be certified by slavefreetrade.org. Single estate cacao, crafted in Scotland into delicious bars and interesting flavours.
Makers of London
Slab built ceramics with bold forms.
Emma de Clercq creates bold shapes in textured stoneware with stark, bright contrasting glazing. Recent developments have seen a more painterly approach to surface design.
Hand pulled screenprints from her East London Studio.
Clare studied Printed Textile Design before printmaking. Her incredible body of work is inspired by cities, landscapes, botanicals and animals. Her newest collection a series of original pencil drawings of our very own Heath.
Home fragrance from market stall to full bricks and mortar empire.
Founded by Niko and Paul, with an inspired ethos to Create, Curate, Collaborate and build Community. Incense reimagined for the modern home.
Where handbuilt and wheelthrown pottery Made it at Market.
Emily’s signature style is a joyful exploration of classical shapes with a modern pop cartoonish twist. Predominantly self-taught, Emily featured on the BBC’s Make It At Market where she was mentored by London legend, Florian Gadsby.
Sarah’s search for the cleanest home fragrance that we’re all thankful for.
Proudly poured in England, products are crafted responsibly with locally sourced ingredients and sustainable packaging. Ethically minded right to the wick.
From fine art painting to a fiddly Nerikomi ceramics practice.
Fern creates meticulous patterns from hand-coloured clays, that are then rolled into slabs and forms into perfect shapes. Exquisitely thin mugs in clear glossy glasses and perfectly crackled geometric vases.
Ceramics in use throughout the home.
For Lydia, the Architect and product designer behind fettle we mean throughout the home. As façade cladding, lamp covering and splash backing. Tableware in endlessly tessellating, geometric forms.
Knitwear inspired by Italian and Scottish ancestry.
Giannina sustainably sources the softest merino wool, that is knitted in her bold mid-century designs at a small factory in Leicestershire, before hand finishing at her Hackney studio.
Bold abstract printmaking inspired by Cornish Seascapes
Hannahs limited edition of screenprints bring the quality of line, shape and colour to the fore. A remembered moment caught, suspended, for the viewer.
Home fragrance routed in the harmony of opposites.
In a search for balance, Steph played homage to her Chinese heritage. Grounded in nature and the elements, their home fragrance is always small batch and uses responsibly sourced ingredients.
Functional ceramic homeware with unique playful personalities.
A partnership born of lockdown conversations between two friends. Libby and Nic bring experience from different creative worlds to create their shared ceramics practice.
Humour infused with cosmic alignment and everyday self-care.
Zodiac-inspired soaps, each crafted with the traits of every sign in mind. British-made and proudly vegan, Horosoaps offer a fresh perspective for beauty and wellness.
Inspired by the warmth of handwritten correspondence.
A family business with a distinctive aesthetic, Katie creates an incredibly range of greetings cards from her North London studio. Unique designs from a company that’s been plastic free since 2020.
Contemporary forms from a desire to make good, quiet pots.
Lily works with clean simple forms, driven by experimenting with process and approaches to clay as a material. Predominately using the potter’s wheel, Lily is a self-taught potter based in Deptford railway arch.
New Zealand potter throwing shapes on the Deptford foreshore.
Lilly Maetzig of Mae Ceramics makes both handbuilt and wheelthrown wares with clean lines and a minimal aesthetic. Her limited colour palette of glazes is often applied in new ways to add depth, texture and personality to her pots.
Seasonal inspiration for the best eats morning, noon and night.
Emma Cantlay might mainly be about breakfast, but she also dabbles in illustration, food styling and sensational seasonal supper clubs. Her annual sell-out illustrated calendar is a year-round page turner.
Handcrafted leather goods for the everyday.
Architect cum leatherworker, Michelle, uses traditional saddlery tools and techniques to create functional pieces with simple geometries and clean lines. Each piece ages with use to form a patina and character unique to its user.
Modern glassware handmade in the Atlas Mountains.
A collaboration between two London based designers and a traditional factory in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco. All the glassware is made from recycled glass which means the colour and surface markings are unique to each item.
Makers of Leigh-on-Sea
Colourful ceramics with playful illustrations.
Beci has a focus on playing and experimenting through making. Her whimsical faces and use of colour carry through all her work from minuscule salt spoons to her larger characterful planters and individual person mugs.
Makers of Faversham
Sustainable paper goods for lovers of design.
Kayleigh creates beautiful, sustainable greeting cards for design lovers. Their products are thoughtfully created to complement a modern, minimal aesthetic whilst being conscious of the planet.
Makers of East Sussex
Playful ceramic objects that hint at function.
Jode’s work explores themes around the domestic environment, the art of collecting and the power of scale. Interested in abstract patterns that can be found in everything from flotsam to flora, she makes families of pots that sit together yet each is unique.
Makers of Brighton
Slipcast porcelain in precise, angular forms.
Emma creates wares inspired by Brutalist architecture, with classic asymmetrical proportions and heavy forms. An excellent product designer, Emma uses interchangeable moulds that work in sync with one another to make unique forms.
Makers of Devon
Eco-friendly greeting cards featuring the artwork of Jo Waterhouse.
All Hadley designs start life as an original artwork: a collage, drawing or print. Their cards are designed to look so good on a shelf or mantelpiece that they’ll be kept up there long after the occasion has passed.
Makers of Cornwall
Aim to bring joy, infusing life with colour.
Tara was keen to combine a passion for design with her engineering background, to create a range of functional, beautiful lifestyle products. Candle holders crafted from laboratory borosilicate glass and available in a range of playful colourways.
Makers of Bristol
Functional ceramics that blend elegant forms with complimentary colours.
Anna works with slipcast porcelain. Known for its whiteness, porcelain provides the perfect canvas for Anna's hand-painted Splatter glazes and dyed clay bodies in her Speckle, Syros and Dreamland collections.
Tactile ceramic forms which sit comfortably in the hand.
With a focus on utility, Liz aims to create tactile forms which sit comfortably in the hand. Her process of creating pots spans two to three weeks and differs with each season; the slightest change in temperature or humidity alters her rhythm of making.
Slipcast ceramics blurring the line between function and sculpture.
Sophie’s work has a playful approach to the use of her material and the narrative within the surface decoration. She uses different techniques to explore and develop an understanding of her practice from her garden studio in Bristol.
Makers of Pembrokeshire
Rollicking puns and witty one-liners for the front of greetings cards.
Frankie and Tom celebrate the general mess of life, reminding them that laughter is the glue that holds everything together. Their creations mirror this philosophy – a delightful mix of whimsy and heartfelt sentiment that never fails to get a smile.
Makers of Oxford
Mindfully made ceramics, influenced by nature and architectural design.
With a background in fine art painting, Emily’s work intricately layers, cuts and reconfigures coloured clay to form patterned slabs. The making process is intuitive and reflects a desire to create works that have elements of calm, presence and flow.
Makers of Northamptonshire
Modern wooden tableware from sustainable British timbers.
Ellie and Sean are passionate about the beauty of British timber and investing in a sustainable timber supply from suppliers that are as passionate about what they do – often knowing the exact location the tree grew from the wood turned.
Makers of Manchester
Porcelain practice founded in Peckham and based in Manchester.
Colour and movement play a strong part in James’ Action Casting project, the technique of pouring stained porcelain into a mould to create unique pieces. The colour dictating its own path which is then fired permanently into the work.
Makers of Sheffield (recently relocated from Cornwall)
A family collective of potters, making future family heirlooms.
The process of making is slow and thoughtful, taking care to choose the proper way over the easier way. Each object is made by hand from clay sourced locally and fired using green energy.
Makers of the Pentlands
Elegant silhouettes subtly decorated with earthy hues.
Cara was born and raised in Scotland, with ceramic experience gained in London, Stockholm and rural Denmark. Her work has a fine balance between glazed and unglazed stoneware making each object incredibly tactile to hold and use.