ROYAL TALENS front cover v5_ADS 09/03/2018 15:39 Page 1 £3.50 ISSUE 130 MARCH/APRIL 2018 CraftBusinesswww.craftbusiness.com The leading trade title for the craft industry New For 2018 Extended Range • Now 59 Brush Colour Markers • 60 Ink Colours, With Pipettes www.royaltalens.com INTERVIEW AWARDS TRENDS From Blue Industry Craft The rise BUSINESS Peter to excellence AWARDS of DIY Buttons rewarded 2018 weddings P24 P11 P26 2 NEWS Crafter’s Companion Welcome announce new partnership T Mark Hayhurst T @craftbiz T Crafter’s Companion has After being approached by T [email protected] partnered with the innovative Imagination Crafts a number of craft companies, owner Sue Baker craft and art supplier, Sue and Harvey began to T I don’t think show fatigue has set in just yet! Imagination Crafts. design and produce craft My feet may have just recovered from walking the fl oor at Owner Sue Baker and her products for the UK and Creativeworld and the one thing I will take away is to wear a more husband Harvey will be working European craft markets, and comfortable pair of shoes next time around! alongside Crafter’s Companion when they moved back to But we take a look back at what Frankfurt had to offer in this to expand their product the North East of England 16 issue and what exhibitors had to say. offering and develop brand- years ago to be nearer family, Following hot on the heels of Germany was CHSI Stitches at new ranges with the support they opened their own stores the Birmingham NEC. It was good to see a lot of you at the show. of Sara Davies and her team. and continued to produce Also thank you to all those who turned up for the Craft The merger is an exciting innovative craft products Business Awards 2018 ceremony and congratulations to all those opportunity to bring two of the available in shops, online and who picked up trophies on the night. UK’s leading brands together in on TV shopping channels. A full list of the winners is included in our awards section in one place. Crafter’s Companion “We’ve grown to be a really this magazine. founder Sara Davies, MBE, said, popular and well-respected It was great to see so many people there and the respect that “Sue and Harvey have been in the brand,” said Sue. “And have the industry has for these awards. industry for over 25 years, having always prided ourselves on We also take a look at what’s coming up at h+h cologne. worked with shopping channels keeping that personal touch. Also we preview what will be on offer at this year’s London Hochanda, QVC and Create & We’ve now reached a point Stationery Show at the Business Design Centre in Islington, north Craft, and are well respected where we want to expand our London, this April. amongst industry professionals product range even further After having to dig my car out of a snow drift spring is in the air, as well as by consumers. After studying Interior Design, and make it more widely now that the ‘Beast from the East’ has sloped off over the horizon “The unique range of Sue met Harvey when working available, and teaming up with (hopefully), and wedding-fever will likely grab the nation. mixed-media products offered for a TV production company a company as successful We take a look at the trend for DIY weddings and how retailers by Imagination Crafts can and together they worked with and innovative as Crafter’s can take advantage of this phenomenon. be used for home décor and designers such as Laurence Companion seems the perfect And if you have ever wondered what it would be like to spend a creative textiles as well as Llewellyn-Bowen on TV shows way to be able to do that. day in Debbie Shore’s shoes then you can fi nd out in out article 24 cardmaking and papercraft, like Changing Rooms, Home “The partnership means hours as.... so it’s a versatile range that Front, This Morning and Lorraine. that I can focus on my I hope you enjoy reading our March/April edition. I’m sure our customers will Sue and Harvey set up their own passion of product design so love and I’m so excited that specialist shops in London and we can offer crafters a great we’ll be working together.” became the biggest producers of combination of top-quality Sue Baker began her love of MDF, stencils and paint products products across a wide variety ON THE RECORD crafts at a young age and started at that time, working with high- of applications and techniques, her design career in the theatre profi le clients and celebrities as all while maintaining that “My Blue Peter days showed after leaving drama school, well as meeting and working personal feel. I’m really excited working with the Royal Ballet with the forerunners of creative to be working with Sara and me how important ‘making’ is and theatres in the West End on crafting and paint experts like her team to bring you some for children; using your hands prop design for their productions. Annie Sloan and Jocasta Innes. amazing new products!” to create all sorts of things to encourage kids to be creative and make a mess” Trimcraft to collaborate with the JANET ELLIS Victoria and Albert Museum SMALL FIRMS STILL NOT PREPARED T Nottingham-based Arts and Crafts supplier The Arts and Crafts Movement archive at the Trimcraft are launching a new collaboration with V&A, bringing designs to life from one of the FOR NEW DATA REGULATION the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). most infl uential and far-reaching movements T Federation of Small Businesses position to reach small businesses Trimcraft has been supplying both multiple of modern times. (FSB) research shows that over a and so we’re going to step up and independent retailers with premium branded Featuring a selection of co-ordinating Craft third (33%) of small businesses efforts to help and support them products for over 40 years and has had great papers in paper pads of various sizes, this have not yet started preparing for get data ready, while continuing to success with other licenced brands. Now, the collection showcases natural patterns inspired the introduction of the General make sure the Government company are pleased to bring the diverse by the fl ora and fauna of the British Data Protection Regulation implements the regulation in the collections under the V&A brand to life as part of a countryside. The collection also consists of an (GDPR) while a further third fairest way for small fi rms. papercraft collection. array of embellishments such as Adhesive (35%) are only in the early stages “The GDPR is the biggest Celebrating creativity at the highest level, the Pearls, Paper Blossoms and more, as well as of preparations. shake-up in data protection to date V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and a range of Creative Ribbons to adorn a variety Only eight per cent of small and many small businesses will be design, and its endorsement is globally of crafts. businesses have completed their concerned that the changes will be recognised. The collection was previewed a preparations. In light of the too much to handle. It’s clear that Trimcraft’s collaborative collection has been Creativeworld, Frankfurt, and launched in major fi ndings, FSB is launching a GDPR a large part of the small business adapted from a selection of fabric swatches in retailers like Hobbycraft shortly after. awareness raising campaign, community is still unaware of the dubbed ‘BeDataReady’ in the run steps that they need to take to up to the May 25 deadline. comply and may be left playing A sector breakdown shows catch-up.” that in retail and wholesale 41 per The FSB campaign is being cent have not yet started welcomed by UK Information preparations; 50% have started but Commissioner Elizabeth Denham, not completed and just three per who said: “Research suggests the cent have completed preparations. SME sector is less prepared than Small businesses in the fi nancial others for the changes. We know services sector are the most that many small businesses are prepared with 82 per cent of keen to get it right, but with so respondents having started or much misinformation out there it’s completed their GDPR diffi cult for them to know what’s preparations. right and what’s not. It is therefore Mike Cherry, FSB National very welcome that FSB is running Chairman, said: “FSB is in a unique this campaign.” www.craftbusiness.com NEWS 3 What's going to be on trend in design for the year ahead Top British designer Wayne Hemingway, co-founder of The National Festival of Making taking place on May 12-13 2018 (www.festivalofmaking.co.uk), looks ahead at what’s going to be hot this year z WHAT'S GOING TO BE COOL FOR 2018? IT SEEMS PEAKDALE 1.8 2 COL_ADS 09/03/2018 09:13 Page 1 EVERYTHING FROM EMBROIDERY TO SUSTAINABILITY ARE GOING TO BE ON TREND. z Finding Your Thread: Many thought that cross-stitch and embroidery was something that your Nan did and would never be cool National Festival of Making again? They were wrong of course, here we are in 2018 and it appears ever more creatives are looking to the sewing box to not only realise their ideas, but find inner is set to return peace too.