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February/March 2021 |
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| Regular features, news, events, Q&A special - and much more |
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| STAEDTLER’s Design Journey range inspires creative calm |
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STAEDTLER's Design Journey collection is a complete range of products for the hobby artist, from sketching pencils and double-ended colouring pens to paints and pastels. Offering high quality tools for a number of artistic mediums, the Design Journey range allows users to relax and unwind as they take a break from everyday life and enjoy some creative calm. Designed to inspire creativity, Design Journey products motivate beginners to start their creative journey and encourage more advanced hobby artists to try new techniques, whether it's ambling through an adult colouring book after work, exploring the world of calligraphy or taking the time to add splashes of colour to a blank canvas on the weekend.
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| Sakura celebrates its 100th anniversary |
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Sakura celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Sakura initially created their ground breaking Cray-pas oil pastels in 1921 in Osaka, Japan. In 1982 the firm also launched its most famously known ink pens called Pigma Micron. As well as the Pigma Micron Sakura also invented the first gel-based ink known as Sakura Gelly roll pen. With this celebration in mind the Sakura family wanted to create something special to celebrate. Below we have a number of products that focuses on this important milestone.
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| OLFA’s history |
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OLFA is now back on the scene with a much larger range of crafting tools in stock than ever before. So whether it's model making, paper cutting or intricate designs, OLFA has perfect tools for you. With decades of expertise under their belt, OLFA's origins can be traced back to 1956, when Mr. Yoshio Okada, the founder of OLFA, invented the world's first snap-off blade cutter. The inspiration for this innovative idea came from breaking off segments of chocolate bars and analysing the snapped edges of broken glass. This invention sparked a series of original products, including the world's first rotary cutter.
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| Littondale life |
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Andrea Heaton, director of Littondale Craft Fabrics and Waddings (formerly Ebor Fabrics Ltd) discusses their own collections designed by herself and her husband Andrew, and takes us back through the history of this renowned fabric company. The company is optimistic for the future, being a hobby industry, which has flourished during the pandemic, and hopes the people who have started to sew during the lockdowns continue to do so! Here is what Andrea had to say...
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| The fabrics of the future |
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During this current world situation, many of the new products Michael's Bridal Fabrics has added to its collection have been eco-friendly. There are a variety of reasons why fabrics can come under this category. Among the products being offered are French laces using organic cotton and organic viscose where the trees cut down to make the wood pulp into viscose are renewed with two new trees planted for each tree cut down. There are also some guipure laces which are 90 per cent recycled polyester.
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| ‘Diamond Painting’ craft craze is huge during the pandemic |
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Britain may well have left the EU, but one arts and craft trend appears to have crossed the Channel from Europe to the UK prior to Brexit and is now riding a wave of popularity that has been accelerated by a series of covid-related national lockdowns. UK-based Craft Buddy Ltd® has analysed just how much its UK business and its core customer base has been affected by the rapidly-growing popularity of 'Diamond Painting' in the UK, mirroring an earlier trend across Europe.
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| Bringing the world of crafts together |
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The Craft Network is a brand-new initiative which has been created to provide the UK craft industry with a joined-up and credible approach to help stimulate and sustain the growing creative craft market. Brought to you by ICHF Events and Bert & Gert's, the Craft Network will bring the B2B world of crafts together through networking, mentoring and knowledge sharing.ICHF Events are the UK's leading and longest standing organiser of both trade and consumer craft, hobby and lifestyle events. Bert and Gert's are the renowned organisers of craft events and markets across the UK. Both companies are family-owned businesses with a strong community focus, the Craft Network is perfectly aligned with their company values.
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| Stamp shop up for sale |
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Blade Rubber Stamps was started in 1996 by the current owners Kaye Flack and Graham Adams. The business specialises in selling craft rubber stamps and accessories from the United Kingdom, Europe, The USA and Japan. Blade Rubber Stamps has its own original brand of rubber stamps designed for the company over the years by talented artists and designers, and manufactured in its own workshop which is located in Wales. The retail shop is located in Bloomsbury, London.
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| Scam website alert |
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Sue Nayler, director of The Wholesaler (UK) Ltd has made Craft Focus aware of fraudsters claiming to be their company. Here's what Sue had to say, "The Wholesaler Ltd web address: https://www.thewholesaler.co.uk has recently been made aware of the existence of a scam website using the url: https://www.thewholesalerukltd.com.This fraudulent site is calling itself The Wholesaler (UK) Ltd and is using our company registration number on its site and on invoices that it's sending out. It's also using the address of our accountant as its contact address.
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