Casa dos Artesans – Ribeira Sacra

Holiday cottage in rural Galicia (sleeps 2 - 5). Experience spectacular scenery, rural life, wine, art and Spanish craft. Learn basketry or textile weaving on holiday or visit the nearby craft workshops. "Lovely furnishings, colours ... and comfy beds" (client comment).

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Bag Design with hand-woven fabrics – Advice and Tips from Adele Orcajada

Tips on bag design from Adele Orcajada, a professional from the world of Spanish fashion and accessories design. Adele spends 3 weeks learning to weave her own hand-woven fabric for bags and shoes in Anna Champeney Estudio Textil in Galicia, north Spain. The difference between industry and craft-made bags. How many handbags does industry produce? [more...]

Luxury brands like Hermes or independent craft producers? Where to buy this christmas?

Hermes, luxury brands and craft. What do they have in common? This winter Hermes is borrowing heavily from the craft sector, featuring images of their artisan workers in their catalogue and even passing themselves off as “contemporary craftsmen” in Vogue magazine adverts. But for those people looking for exclusive, well-made and unusual objects would do just as well to look to their local independent craftspeople rather than the big brands. Smallscale craftspeople lack the marketing and publicity budgets of the big names but offer quality, skill and distinctive hand-made products which just as exclusive (if not more) as luxury branded goods. [more...]

Spanish crafts for christmas Anna Champeney Estudio Textil & Lluis Grau – Louet Spring 110 floor looms now in stock

Spanish crafts online for christmas from Anna Champeney Estudio Textil (loom-woven high quality textiles from linen, wool, alpaca and natural dyes) and Lluis Grau, Spanish basketmaker. Also gift tokens for craft courses, yarns, looms, and Spanish craft holidays. [more...]