The CraftHub Project
Craft Hub is a European project focused on Craft in the context of cultural heritage and its continuing relevance in contemporary practice.
The project activities involve investigating and documenting craft skills and processes, their differing application in creative practice across Europe, and questions of cultural specificity & individual motivations of practitioners.
Material Library
Craft Hub’s material library presents a growing collection of material samples that demonstrate the material effects achievable by different craft processes. The library also provides details about the processes used as well as the stories and culturally specific backgrounds of craft. We invite you to search the library, to learn about Craft, materials and making.
If you’d like to find out more, how you might get involved, or how you might commission a craft-maker, do contact us info@crafthub.eu
If you’re a maker and would like to contribute samples please use this form.
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Colour Index
Painted paper sample for colour investigation
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Paper weave sample #4
Experimenting with colours and patterns
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Big Scale Paper Weave
Technique to explore colour proportion and composition
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Relief composition #2
Experimenting with surface and texture
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Silkscreen
Graphic patterns with clear delineation of shapes can also be prepared without a raster
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Compositional Yarn Winding
A great tool for colour and design composition
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Walnut (wood)
A rich, chocolate coloured timber, generally straight grained.
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Paper weaving
Samples of paper weaving using paper strips
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Small Scale Paper Weave
A great tool for pattern and colour structure
Craft Practitioners
Craft Hub’s Practitioner Gallery showcases the work of professional craft practitioners from across Europe. The gallery gives a glimpse into the working practice, motivation and passions that drive craft makers. We invite you to explore the gallery and be inspired!
If you’d like to find out more, how you might get involved, or how you might commission a craft-maker, do contact us info@crafthub.eu
If you’re a maker and would like to contribute samples please use this form.
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Kyrre Andersen
I like to work with hard materials through the use of traditional craft techniques to the use of advanced digital tools. The ideas are often developed based on the forms of nature for further development through 3D programs.
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Naomi Seaward
Passionate, Innovative Pattern & Print Designer
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Eira McCallum
The process is the most important part of the project.
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Louise Lang
The material glass is for me a constant search and a huge field of research to focus on.
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Farah Qureshi
A designer maker specialising in jewellery and cutlery
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Astrid Heimer
I am a ceramicist, and the sculptures I make are figurative as well as abstract.
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Marica Montemurro
I work with graphic design and communication linked to images and illustration for children books
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Colette Langan
I enjoy every aspect of the stained glass process, in particular I enjoy fusing and glass painting.
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Michelle Gialanze
I love the way oil paints allow you to create textures
Are you a Craft Practitioner in Europe?
Apply for a profile and share you materials you are working with.
Show your work on the CraftHub platform and join the community.
Activity Gallery
Craft Hub’s Activities Gallery shares details of all the activities being driven across Europe by the Craft Hub partnership including, craft workshops to develop craft audiences and their understanding and appreciation for craft, capacity building and transnational mobility opportunities for craft professionals, podcasts, craft tutorials and much more.
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If you’d like to find out more, how you might get involved, or how you might commission a craft-maker, do contact us info@crafthub.eu
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How to create botanical colors on textiles with natural dyeing methods?
Interview with Chloe Scadding
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Bicentenary Quilt project: bringing communities together, sharing stories, celebrating heritage
The UWTSD Bicentenary Quilt project which brings communities together, sharing stories and celebrating heritage.
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Bricks and Tiles – Forms of construction
Beginning on April 5, 2022, Crafthub partner NOVA University (Caparica, Portugal) hosted nine craft practitioners from different nations over the course of a week at the School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA) and at Oficinas do Convento (Montemor o Novo).
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Discover the Williams and Cleal Furniture School
Craft Hub is delighted to be working with Williams and Cleal Furniture School to offer a two-day workshop in an idyllic location in the heart of Somerset, UK.
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Discover Uccio Matera Lab’s papier-maché
Let’s discover Eustachio Santorichirico and its Uccio Matera Lab’s papier-maché.
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How the Crafthub project can help artisan start-ups identify opportunities for creative and sustainable growth
Crafthub Italian partners, Materahub, are working with a local start-up creative studio in Matera to experiment on the development of original products and identification of new audiences.
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