Glass

Studio glass or glass sculpture is the modern use of glass as an artistic medium to produce sculptures or three-dimensional artworks. Specific approaches include working glass at room temperature cold working, stained glass, working glass in a torch flame (lampworking), glass beadmaking, glass casting, glass fusing, and, most notably, glass blowing.

British Glass Art owes much to the long history of craft. The majority of its glass blowers who operate small studio furnaces produce aesthetically beautiful though primarily functional objects. Technical skill as a blower is given as much importance as the artistic intent.

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Wood

As a contemporary artistic medium, wood is used in traditional and modern styles, and is an excellent medium for new art. Wood is used in forms of sculpture, craft, and decoration including chip carving, wood burning, and marquetry. Wood offers a fascination, beauty, and complexity in the grain, that often shows even when the medium is painted. Wood is used by carpenters to create many useful items such as cabinets, furniture and musical instruments.

Artists use wood for sculpture because it is plentiful and inexpensive when compared to other media like stone or bronze. It is in some ways easier to shape than harder substances, but an artist must develop specific skills to carve it properly. Wood does not last as long as other sculpting media because it can be affected by water rot, dry rot, insect invasion and fire.

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Ceramics

In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery. Some ceramic products are regarded as fine art, while others are regarded as decorative, industrial or applied art objects, or as artifacts in archaeology. They may be made by one individual or in a factory where a group of people design, make and decorate the ware. Decorative ceramics are sometimes called "art pottery".

Studio pottery is made by artists working alone or in small groups, producing unique items or short runs, typically with all stages of manufacture carried out by one individual. It is represented by potters all over the world but has strong roots in Britain.

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Textiles

Textiles - covers a wide range of Crafts and Skills to produce material, or products from a variety of different processes. These processes vary from spinning and weaving, knitting, crochet from yarn or fibres.

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Jewellery

Throughout our events you will find a fabulous selection of many different types of Jewellery. From gold to silver and precious to semi-precious stones, the designs will vary, but the quality will not. 


As an added feature at our events, we've encouraged some of our jewellers to actually show you how they craft their designs. you can watch this fascinating skill and would encourage you to actively participate by asking questions.

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Pyrography

Pyrography is the word taken from the Greeks meaning fire and markings - it is the art of decorating a receptive surface with a heated tool. Many different materials, such as leather, gourd, horn, and bone can be used as a working surface for pyrography, but wood is perhaps the most common, so the pyrography is often called "woodburning."

This is a bit of a misnomer, however, since it implies the art form is restricted to wood, which it is not. With specialized tools and the necessary level of skill, the pyrographer can produce pictorial work on any receptive surface as subtle in the use of line and shading as that of any other monochrome art form.

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Art

Art plays a big part at Living Heritage Craft Fairs from oil paintings on canvas to original prints and everything inbetween. You will have a chance to meet the artist's themselves, chat and discuss the art and even take a masterclass and produce you own piece of artwork under the expert guidance of one of the artist's. Photographic art is one of those unique talents not many posess, to be able to capture the right moment in time or its lost forever, stunning photgraphy will always be a feature for you to buy that unique piece of artwork.

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Food

Food Halls at Living Heritage offers a delightful combination of gourmet foods, beers and wines as well as unique exotic foods from further afield. Why not sample and buy a wide range of produce from around the UK and from around the world, from locally produced wines, spirits and cordial's. British cheeses of all flavours from Stilton and Cranberry, Pineapple and Chedder and even Marmite. Sausages, pies, locally produced meats and lots more besides. 

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Additional Crafts

With so many Crafts and Demonstrations at Living Heritage Craft Fairs, its hard to catorgaries all of them. At the Shows you will find a wide range of Skills on Display that may use a number of different techniques to produce hand crafted goods.

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