Made in Northern Ireland
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What we do in Made in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland A celebration of crafts and The National Trust in Northern Ireland looks after the places you locally sourced giftware love, forever. This includes more than 200 special buildings and outdoor places across 46 square miles of beautiful countryside, farmland and coast. We are for everyone - with 2.5 million visitors enjoying these special places every year. As a charity we rely on the support of more than 72,000 passionate members and 2,500 dedicated volunteers, from all walks of life. Giant’s Causeway, 60 Causeway Road, Bushmills, Co. Antrim, BT57 8SU T: 028 2073 1855 We are proud to play a role in the E: [email protected] local economy - employing 500 W: nationaltrust.org.uk/giantscauseway people. We think and act locally, investing £20 million in projects in Northern Ireland over the next few years. The National Trust is a registered charity no. 205846 Designed and printed by Impact Printing, Ballycastle on recycled paper. Photography by Art Ward, visulante.com. Please recycle this booklet after use. © National Trust 2016. 2222. Mark Seaton 3333. Terrae Contents - the Artists and Artisans Graphic Design Prints Hand Crochet The Giant’s Causeway T: 07791 040 593 T: 07521 902 314 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] Artists and Artisans W: markseaton.co.uk W: facebook.com/terraejewellerydesigns Carrick-a-rede Rathlin Island 2323. McCullough Furniture 3434. The Early Bird White Park Bay Rope Bridge Page Page Natural Wood Craft Hand Crafted Home Wares Giant’s Causeway T: 07747 035 937 T: 07851 262 333 25 26 Key 1. Amor Rustic Arts 02 19. Kara Irish Pottery 11 Ballintoy E: [email protected] E: [email protected] Portstewart Strand Portrush Ballycastle Pebble Pictures Stone Coasters W: mcculloughfurniture.com W: theearlybirdonline.com 8 Bushmills 1 Artist / Artisan Castlerock 11 2 Downhill Demesne 27 Portstewart 21 2. Anne Kelly 02 20. Katy Honey 11 2424. Mount Ida Pottery 3535. Victoria Bentham 22 National Trust Fine Art Prints Pure Irish Honey and Helett House 31 Ceramics Ceramics Cushendun Places, Coast 3. Antrim Rain 03 21. Kitty Dickson 14 T: 028 9269 3691 T: 07980 009 859 Coleraine and Countryside E: [email protected] E: [email protected] 15 Handmade Soaps Fine Art Prints 18 W: mountidapottery.co.uk W: victoria-bentham.co.uk Cushendall Towns Londonderry 4. Aunt Sandra’s 03 22. Mark Seaton 14 6 and Cities 2525. North Coast Smokehouse Ballymoney Confectionery Graphic Design Prints 28 19 Limavady Smoked Goods 17 5. Blackthorn Foods 04 23. McCullough Furniture 15 T: 07835 403 340 Glenarm Confectionery Natural Wood Craft E: [email protected] 20 3 30 W: northcoastsmokehouse.com Co Londonderry Co Antrim Skernaghan 6. Blue House Gifts 04 24. Mount Ida Pottery 15 Point Hand Crafted Gifts Ceramics 2626. Nollaig Designs 34 Natural Wood Crafts Portmuck Gray’s Printing Press Ballymena Larne 7. Bog Standard 05 25. North Coast Smokehouse 16 T: 07435 565 865 10 Fragrance Products Smoked Goods E: [email protected] Strabane 23 14 8. CGL Photography NI 05 26. Nollaig Designs 16 2727. Peter Nash Photographic Prints Natural Wood Crafts Photographic Prints Magherafelt Antrim T: 028 7083 2467 Co Tyrone 9. Claire Frances 06 27. Peter Nash 17 Springhill Patterson’s E: [email protected] Wellbrook Photo Greeting Cards Photographic Prints W: peternashphotography.com Spade Mill Bangor 29 Beetling Mill 5 4 10. Cove Workshop 06 28. Piece Makers 17 2828. Piece Makers Cookstown Divis and the 33 12 35 Black Mountain 9 7 Marquetry Natural Wood Craft Natural Wood Craft Belfast Newtownards T: 07463 970 900 magh The Crown Bar 16 32 11. Crafty Coast 07 29. Sharon Regan Art 18 13 Mount E: [email protected] Minnowburn Belmont Tower Textile Art Sculpture W: piecemakersgifts.com Dungannon isnabreeny Stewart Lisburn 12. Cula Ceramics 07 30. Steensons 18 Strangford 2929. Sharon Regan Art Co Fermanagh Lough Ceramics Hand Crafted Jewellery Sculpture The Argory Ardress Lurgan Rowallane Garden 13. Dasalee 08 31. Taisie Crafts 19 T: 07546 771 269 House E: [email protected] Co Down Textile Art Natural Wood Craft Portadown W: sharonreganart.co.uk Castle Ward 14. Deirdre Sprott 08 32. Tee and Toast 19 3030. Steensons Castle Coole Banbridge Watercolour Prints T-shirts Armagh Downpatrick Hand Crafted Jewellery Enniskillen 24 T: 028 9024 8269 1 15. F. Mc Cool & Co 09 33. Terrae 20 Florence Court Crafts and Giftware Hand Crochet E: [email protected] Murlough National W: thesteensons.com Co Armagh Nature Reserve 16. Flax Fox 09 34. The Early Bird 20 Screen Prints Hand Crafted Home Wares 3131. Taisie Crafts Derrymore House Newcastle Natural Wood Craft Crom Newry Slieve Donard 17. Heritage & Hope 10 35. Victoria Bentham 21 T: 07514 032 990 Metal Art Ceramics E: [email protected] Mourne Coastal Path 18. Iris Belshaw 10 3232. Tee and Toast Ceramics T-shirts T: 07968 473 141 E: [email protected] W: teeandtoast.com Celebrating and promoting crafts in Northern Ireland Flanked by the wild North Atlantic Ocean In this little booklet we introduce you to and a landscape of dramatic cliffs, for some of Northern Ireland’s artisans and centuries the Giant’s Causeway has crafters and invite you to view our range of intrigued and captured the imagination beautiful gifts – imagined, designed and of all who see it. The basalt columns made in Northern Ireland. continue to provide a source of inspiration We are confident that you will find for many artists and artisans today. something special to take home and The National Trust, conservation charity treasure as a souvenir of your visit to the and proud guardian of Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway and the beautiful iconic World Heritage Site, supports and North Antrim Coast. showcases a wide range of creative talent and hand crafts in the Visitor Centre - from lovingly handcrafted jewellery, textiles, ceramics and confectionery to fine art and Supporting the photographic prints. The designs of many Northern Ireland crafts of the items have been inspired by the amazing basalt columns, the landscape, and giftware industry... the sea, and the flora and fauna of the Causeway Coast area. Artists and Artisans 1 1. Amor Rustic Arts 3. Antrim Rain Pebble Pictures Handmade Soaps Anita Morrison hails from ... beach pebbles Dawn Demaine is from The natural soap bars Co Down and is a batik and drift wood Glencloy in the Glens of contain no artificial artist primarily, but designs Antrim and her handmade hardeners, preservatives or other rustic gifts and décor soaps are made from colour and are very gentle for the home. She draws all natural ingredients on the skin. Each bar is her inspiration from nature Due to the natural including rainwater hand cut, trimmed and and her love of coast qualities each item varies collected from high in the beautifully gift wrapped. and countryside. slightly, and can also be Antrim hills. personalised with dates, Take home a Anita’s unique pebble names or messages. Dawn scents her soaps little piece of pictures are proving very using pure essential popular with visitors at oils such as lavender County Antrim the Giant’s Causeway. T: 07817 055 931 and neroli which, The pictures are made unlike highly perfumed E: [email protected] from beach pebbles and artificial fragrances, give T: 07834 543 619 drift wood and have W: amorrusticarts.com a soft subtle scent with E: [email protected] a lovely rustic feel. therapeutic qualities. 2. Anne Kelly 4. Aunt Sandra’s Fine Art Prints Confectionery Anne Kelly is the daughter Fascinated and inspired by Aunt Sandra opened her Candy making of the late Jim McGill a the ever changing moods confectionery shop in demonstrations, chocolate well known traditional Irish and atmosphere that are to the heart of Belfast in workshops, chocolate fiddler in North Antrim. be seen in the skies, land 1953. Sixty years later, her roadshows and much much She is a mother and and seas in her beloved tradition of handcrafting more are also on offer. grandmother who has North Antrim Coast, confectionery continues Bite into her exclusive range lived all her life on the Anne strives to capture in the family through her of Finn McCool goodies nephews David and Jim North Coast. this in her paintings. and remember to take the Moore. All of the candy and sweetness of Northern Anne has always had a fudge is still made by hand. yearning to paint and she Ireland back home from the fulfilled that dream several Today Aunt Sandra’s treats Giant’s Causeway. years ago under the expert are delighting taste buds tuition of professional artist T: 07738 275 548 all over the world as well as … delighting taste and tutor, Hugh Rice. E: [email protected] around the corner. Tours of the Candy Factory are buds all over the world popular with adults and T: 028 9073 2868 children alike and E: [email protected] Aunt Sandra’s hosts many a birthday party. W: auntsandras.com 2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/giantscauseway Artists and Artisans 3 5. Blackthorn Foods 7. Bog Standard Confectionery Fragrance Products Blackthorn Foods was Only the finest ingredients Bog Standard is a boutique Alix believes that “wherever established in Belfast in are used with no artificial Irish giftware company you travel in Ireland you 2004 by three sisters who additives, preservatives established more than 10 can’t fail to be seduced grew up making fudge or transfats. Unlike years ago by Alix Mulholland time and time again by the and then turned their many commercial fudge and based in Newtownards, beauty, sights and smells love of all things sweet manufacturers their range Co Down.