Featured Seller: Rosalind Craft Supplies
Rosalind Craft Supplies is the creation of Kate Jordan – Auckland-based crafter, gardener and beer geek – whose designs demonstrate an elegant combination of form and function to help keep crafters organised.
Meet the Maker
Featured Seller: Natale
Dunedin is not the first place that springs to mind as a likely source of Scandinavian style Christmas decorations with a philosophy inspired by Italian food, but in fact it is exactly where you will find Natale. In between a full time job and bee keeping on the side, Mel Adams is creating decorations with heart, to bring a little more joy to your Christmas.
Featured Seller: 11 Post Studio
11 Post Studio is the collaborative venture of Katie and Mike Maahs, working from their home on Waiheke Island. Each artists in their own right, Katie and Mike are inspired by the beauty, history and symbolism of New Zealand postage stamps and combine their skills to create distinctive artworks accentuating these aspects of the humble stamp.
Featured Seller: Kinetic Craft
While many crafters find time flies when they’re in the creative zone, Court Theatre set builder Richard van den Berg is more aware than most of the minutes ticking by – he spends his spare time in his Christchurch home studio designing and creating clocks, which he sells in his aptly named shop, Kinetic Craft.
Featured Seller: Jenny Keate
Award-winning object designer Jenny Keate is blurring the lines between industrial design and handcraft in her Wellington studio, with her Luminant lamp paying tribute to a material central to craft.
Featured Seller: Native Creative
From her studio overlooking stunning native bush in the beautiful Bay of Plenty, Aly Bennett has built up her craft business, Native Creative, from an original range of collages on plywood to a collection of innovative product designs inspired by New Zealand birdlife.
Featured Seller: Sandra Waine
Printmaker and crafter Sandra Waine hails from the seaside suburb of Devonport in Auckland, where she works from her home studio creating her bright and distinctive prints, stationery and gorgeous tea towels.
Featured Seller: Whalebird Jewellery
Jewellery designer Hannah Clayton has been crafting her wares in a little house on the hill over looking Whitianga Bay for the last seven years. Already established selling under her own name through design stores and galleries throughout New Zealand, this year she launched Whalebird Jewellery, her own online shop on Felt.
Featured Seller: The Paperbird Society
Melissa Boardman is the creative force behind The Paperbird Society. Based in Wellington, Melissa was inspired by her love of birds to develop a range of bird-themed eco-friendly papergoods, which has evolved to include prints and tote bags featuring some of New Zealand’s favourite native birds.
Featured Seller: Plucky Sheilas
Justine Fletcher’s craft celebrates the inspiring life stories of famous women, with New Zealand suffragists featuring prominently in her work. Her Felt shop, Plucky Sheilas, houses a collection of jewellery and clothing that pays tribute to our rich heritage of strong female role models.