Access all ateliers – London Craft Week is back

You can learn how to make natural dyes from The London Guild of Weavers, discover exactly how the Houses of Parliament get refurbished from the artisans actually doing the job, explore impossibly precise horology with the world’s finest watchmakers; watch type legend Alan Kitching demonstrate the art of letterpress, and even learn how to make castanets at the Spanish Embassy.

It’s the kind of event we at Zetteler go giddy for, so you can imagine how excited we are to be working with the London Craft Week team to share the schedule, support the burgeoning craft scene in the UK and beyond, and celebrate the act of creation in all its forms.

In many ways, it’s the perfect companion event to Collect. While Collect reveals the world’s most magnificent craft objects; London Craft Week shows you how they’re made. As founder and chairman Guy Salter OBE MVO puts it:

‘London Craft Week is a response to a renaissance in the appreciation of creativity and craft; to the role of hand, head, unique skills and true talent. It is another example of what, at its best, the world’s creative capital does so well – mixing glamour with cutting edge; heritage and contemporary and the commercial with the cultural.’

More than 200 individual events are scheduled to take place over the week, featuring an international cast of craftspeople in every field of making – so whether you’re interested in textiles or jewellery, paper or porcelain, leather or lace, there’s something to discover. If you can make it to the other side of London Craft Week without having learned something, then you’re either a master craftsman already, or lying through your teeth.