JAKAR front cover_ADS 07/03/2019 11:40 Page 1 £3.50 ISSUE 138 MARCH/APRIL 2019 CraftBusinesswww.craftbusiness.com The leading trade title for the craft industry AWARDS INFLUENCERS INTERVIEW Craft Best in the BUSINESS Who’s a The Queen AWARDS industry 2019 (paper) cut of Couture celebrated above the rest? Craft P8 P18 P24 ARTCOE page_ADS 08/03/2019 11:25 Page 1 NEWS 3 Patrick Grant launches Future Textiles London Welcome z Patrick Grant, the Savile Row tailor and judge of television’s z Mark Hayhurst z @craftbiz The Great British Sewing Bee, z
[email protected] helped to launch The Prince’s Foundation’s fashion and textiles z Well the year seems to be racing ahead already! education programme for At the time of writing this introduction Brexit is still a London secondary school couple of weeks away. And without a crystal ball I have no idea pupils. Patrick what’s going to happen. By the time you read this we could Grant launched Future Grant and have left with a no deal, we could have managed to thrash Textiles London, an extension of a Jacqueline out a deal or the deadline to leave has been extended. One successful initiative by The Prince Farrell at the thing that I hope is that by the next issue all the uncertainty of Wales’s charity, alongside launch of will have gone and we know what we have to deal with. Jacqueline Farrell, co-founder of Future Textiles London, Trinity But on to happier things. I was honoured to hand out the the Future Textiles programme Buoy Wharf.