London Craft Week 2024

London Craft Week 2024

London Craft Week has been created out of a vision to spotlight outstanding British and international creativity and has grown from strength to strength, and is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year.

‘The festival brings together over 750 established and emerging makers, designers, brands and galleries from around the world. A curated selection based not on price or fame, but underlying substance. Plus, that essential dash of magic and inspiration that separates great from good.’ LCW

At Fortnum & Mason, we have always been a destination for exceptionally crafted, beautifully designed, joy-giving things and continue to celebrate and support British-based designers and craftspeople - those striving to keep traditions alive through their craft and who go against the tide to forge their own methods of creating.

This year, to celebrate London Craft Week 2024, Fortnum's are proudly partnering with Create Academy, who are on a mission to inspire the nation to discover their creative side, and host five incredible makers as they demonstrate their talents in a series of hands-on workshops themed around the dining table. 

Details of the wonderful workshops are below with links to book tickets alongside information about our Fortnum & Makers exhibition in Piccadilly, open now, and the panel talk with our Makers, hosted by Craftworks.

Please note, all the materials you will need for the workshops are included in the ticket price. 

Table Runner Printing

with Molly Mahon

Master the art of block printing to create your very own table runners with acclaimed textile designer specialising in joyful block-printed fabrics, wallpapers and homewares. Molly is an expert at creating pared-back designs with bold and zesty colours. Inspired by nature and the rich colours of India, her signature block prints focus on colour, texture and pattern, bringing joy into the home and an ancient craft into the modern-day. 

Date: Monday 13th May 
Time: 12-2pm 
Location: Food & Drink Studio, 3rd Floor 
Price: £60 
Capacity: 8 

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Dried Flower Place Cards

with JamJar

Discover the lost art of flower pressing to create beautiful dried flower place cards with Melissa Richardson and Amy Fielding, founders of flower pressing studio, JamJar Edit. Experts when it comes to preserving the beauty of nature, Melissa and Amy will share how they have reinvented the traditional art of flower pressing into a very modern craft form. 

JamJar was established in 2009 by Melissa, who previously founded and ran the successful London modelling agency Take Two for almost three decades. She is endlessly inspired by the changing seasons, and dedicated to using seasonal flowers (many grown at Jane Scotter's Fern Verrow), focusing on composition, colour and form.   

Date: Tuesday 14th May 
Time: 12-2pm 
Location: Food & Drink Studio, 3rd Floor 
Price: £60 
Capacity: 8 

Tea-Dyed Silk Ribbons

with Sian Cornish

In this workshop, you will learn about the history of natural dyeing with dyeing expert Sian Cornish, who will take you on a journey of creative and colour discovery, using Fortnum’s tea to create your own tea-dyed silk ribbons.  

Sian is a visual artist and creative director of botanical dyeing studio Lancaster & Cornish. Sian experiments with colour, plants and pigments to create work that is inspired by the beautiful land and seascapes of Cornwall, echoing the palette of the changing seasons and weather. 

Date: Wednesday 15th May 
Time: 12-2pm 
Location: Food & Drink Studio, 3rd Floor 
Price: £60 
Capacity: 8 

Botanical Themed Menus

with Katharine Amies

Having taught for over 10 years, Katharine Amies has come to see that given the right guidance, anyone can learn to paint if they want to. In this course Katharine invites you to join her in the deeply absorbing and creative process of translating what we see in nature onto a piece of paper, using watercolour to create botanical themed menus. Discover the tools and techniques you’ll need to be able to paint a variety of botanical specimens, from fruit to flowers.  

Katharine is a leading British botanical artist whose work seeks to capture the intimate essence of plants in a manner that photographs, despite their detail, fail to convey. Katharine trained at the Chelsea Physic Garden in 2000 and her work is represented in the Shirley Sherwood Collection of Botanical Art at Kew Gardens, which is the largest collection of contemporary botanical art in the world. 

Date: Thursday 16th May 
Time: 12-2pm 
Location: Food & Drink Studio, 3rd Floor 
Price: £60 
Capacity: 8 

Dried Flower Arrangements

with Bex Partridge

Discover the art of everlasting floral arranging. Learn to make soulful creations for your home, with expert guidance from Bex Partridge on harvesting and drying flowers.  

Bex Partridge is a leading dried flower artist, stylist and grower who specialises in creating sustainable everlasting designs, displays and installations. From her studio in Devon she works with dried flowers throughout their entire lifecycle; from seed to plant to harvest, and then on to drying and arranging. Her designs are wild, whimsical and nature-led, with a focus on seasonality and always free of any human intervention (no dying, bleaching or sprayed blooms), reflecting the natural world around us and offering the chance to bring nature into our spaces, however big or small. 

Date: Friday 17th May 
Time: 12-2pm 
Location: Food & Drink Studio, 3rd Floor 
Price: £60 
Capacity: 8 

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Looking for the perfect opportunity to learn a new skill?

We're offering 15% off on a subscription to Create Academy, where you can find online courses by industry leading experts.

All you need to do is use the voucher code FORTNUM15 on their membership checkout page.