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Judi Archer

Judi Archer, textile designer and maker explores colour and form in her work whilst using texture to bring another dimension to her unique designs.
After many years as one half of award winning contemporary furniture design company, Archer and Co. Judi decided to re-energise her design process by completing an MA in Multidisciplinary Print Design. Ironically, this creative journey led her back to her roots in constructed textiles. Much of her research was centred around sustainability, in the textile industry and its relationship with craft.
Taking inspiration from ancient Japanese crafts such as Boro Boro, Judi started to re-purpose textiles and augment them with texture, such as tufting. This led to her fascination with the ancient and disappearing craft of tufting. Both the physical and meditative process enthralled Judi, and led to her embracing this craft, and making it her principal technique for making her homeware designs.
Judi’s formative working years were spent in the Belgian textile industry, learning from generations of Flemish weavers. Traveling extensively her influences come from far and wide, but her love of simplicity and geometric forms is clearly rooted in Northern European modernism and Japanese minimalism.

Judi makes her cushions, footstools, and art pieces all by hand herself, in her studio in Bristol, England. Sustainability and provenance are fundamental to her work, so she carefully sources her natural yarns, with colours and material specific to each project. She then sews and hand finishes each piece herself. All of her creations are beautiful, tactile, and lovingly crafted to be enjoyed and cherished in your home.

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The Capital of Craft Podcast with Rosa Harradine

Welcome to Season 5 of The Capital of Craft: Wales Special.

To celebrate the first Craft Festival Wales at Cardigan Castle, it was a real pleasure to interview Rosa Harradine for The Capital of Craft podcast. 

Rosa is based in Carmarthen and makes brooms and brushes. We talk about her creative life and how she began making brooms. It's a lovely story and I hope you enjoy listening. 

You can meet Rosa and 80 more makers at Craft Festival Wales from September 6-8, 2024 at Cardigan Castle. Rosa is also one of our demonstrators and you can also find her work in the Craft Festival Town Trail, which runds from August 30 to September 20th. 

Craft Festival Wales is funded by Arts Council of Wales, Ceredigion County Council and QEST. 

www.craftfestival.co.uk/wales

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Award Winning Festivals

Since 2003 we have run multi-award winning Festivals in Bovey Tracey, Devon, Cardigan and Cheltenham. In June, we host the UK's best loved and finest contemporary Craft Festival in Bovey Tracey featuring over 200 curated makers. Hosted in idyllic parkland on the edge of Dartmoor. Complimented by an dazzling number of workshops, demonstrations, masterclasses, talks, family activities, street theatre, live music and feasting! In March we head to the beautiful Regency town of Cheltenham, presenting 100 makers at Craft Festival at the Town Hall. In September we will be hosting our first Craft Festival Wales at Cardigan Castle.

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