Ink and Paper Den
Stacey is an architect with a special interest in listed buildings.
In her downtime she creates whimsical illustrations for her Ink And Paper Den, inspired by the things she finds enchanting.
She makes handmade cards, prints and more. She has created woodland wedding packages, business illustrations and commissions for special occasions.
Suzanne Hooson Embroidery
Suzanne creates original embroidered and appliquéd pictures and cards, using layered fabrics and free machine embroidery.
Clementine Suds
Clementine Suds makes natural bath, body and skincare products in Berkhamsted. They wanted products that were great for their skin and the planet; the choice was limited so they decided to make their own.
Clementine Suds uses the best ingredients, no nasties, and they are plastic-free, certified cruelty-free and vegan friendly. The best clean and green gift you could give!
Polka Dots and Roses
Polka Dots and Roses is a small sewing business run by Laura from her garden workroom in Stoke Mandeville.
She makes and sells a wide range of items at events and small independent shops locally.
She also runs workshops for children and adults, plus after school clubs which are very popular!
Cocoa & Paper
Cocoa & Paper was founded by Elisa back in 2013, whilst she was studying at university; back then, it was known as ‘Treats for Chocoholics’ as the business was started solely for making chocolate.
Elisa made chocolate in her spare time and attended many craft fairs to sell her products.
In 2017, Elisa took over and now runs her own card and gift shop. She spotted a gap in the card market and wanted to offer her customers something personalised and different – that is when the idea of the scratch cards arose. They were mainly designed for surprises such as holidays, days out or theatre tickets, as in Elisa’s experience, she never had anything physical to actually give, so the scratch card was a fun way to announce a specific surprise and a special keepsake.
In January 2020. Elisa changed the business name to Cocoa & Paper to represent both of her products together. Then, as you will be aware, COVID happened, meaning her card & gift shop, classed as non essential, had to close for several months.
Elisa decided to focus her efforts into her chocolates, working from home and she has never looked back!
Elisa now has her own unit based in Wing, Leighton Buzzard where she goes everyday to make her chocolates (as, during COVID, she outgrew her home kitchen and spare room rather quickly). She specialises in hot chocolate spoons, bars and her best seller – the personalised slab!
Marjorie Waye – Handloom Spinner & Weaver
Marjorie’s fascination with weaving commenced, age 8, at summer camp 400 miles north of Toronto. As an adult, she learned from a Dutch weaver whose father and grandfather were Master Weavers in the Netherlands. Further study at the Ontario College of Art & Design and at the Village Weaver hub in Toronto followed.
Marjorie’s original two looms moved to England with her in 1983. Completion of the Bradford Diploma in Handloom Weaving and a City and Guilds adult education module expanded her horizons.
Her teaching studio is now equipped with several carefully chosen looms and spinning wheels. She still loves working with traditional fibres such as wool, alpaca, camel down and silk, but recently has become challenged by some of the newer materials for spinning and weaving – bamboo, soyasilk, rose fibre and seacell.
Debbie Shrimpton Illustrates
Debbie Shrimpton Illustrates is a local based artist illustrating loved local landmarks, house portraits, car and campervan drawings, pet portraits and wedding venue illustrations, taking commissions to have ‘your treasured memories illustrated’.
Debbie’s freehand illustration style, attention to detail and fresh palette make her illustrations modern, happy, engaging and eye-catching.
Verity Bloom Makes
Felicity’s first stitching influencers were the women in her family who knitted, embroidered and
made clothes around her in her early years.
Having completed a BA Hons degree in Constructed Textiles at Middlesex Polytechnic London 1979-82, Felicity then spent some time in the 1980s designing and making handknitted Jumpers and accessories, selling at Covent Garden design market. After this, she taught Design Technology in Bristol and London, whilst working on commissioned work and selling at local markets in Bristol.
Felicity now designs and hand knits small accessories, such as hats and gloves, alongside designing hand stitched and embroidered Folk Art style, small Lavender filled house decorations, and framed pictures. She is influenced by the colours of nature, vintage clothing and Folk Art.
Chris Summers Sculpture
Chris Summers is passionate about creating art based on whatever scrap metal comes his way.
Metal sculptures, lighting and small tables are just a few of the items he is inspired to make.
Underash
Helen carves Linocut tile designs which she then prints onto natural linen (bought from dead stock suppliers as she tries to be as sustainable as possible).
The printed linen is then sewn to create cushion covers, bags and footstools.
Helen studied textile design and then became a primary school teacher, sewing in her spare time. After taking early retirement, she became interested in linocuts when she attended a weekend course. Helen’s father is a retired upholsterer who has taught her how to make and cover footstools using traditional, natural materials (horsehair and wool).
This is Helen’s first craft fair!
JG Resin
Jason and Gemma live in Chesham and spend their spare time creating wood and resin products.
In 2020, they both found themselves out of work and used this time to follow a long time passion of Jason’s – crafting high quality wooden homeware. Starting small with coasters, they’ve gradually increased their range to include tables, clocks and much more.
Jason’s favourite piece to create is dining tables as he enjoys the satisfying reward of a big piece of useful artwork after a lengthy process. Gemma enjoys preserving flowers the most as she finds the arrangement process cathartic.
Wild Lotus Designs
Wild Lotus produce hand printed Indian block print designs using natural materials and compostable packaging.
They have a range of designs from tea towels, napkins, table runners, aprons, accessory bags and tote or yoga bags to beautiful baby wear and pretty cards. They can also personalise items or make bespoke designs.
Everything is individually hand printed by them and makes great gifts or just a lovely treat for yourself!
Stephen Madden
Stephen Madden is a self-taught woodturner creating Wood Art from the locally gathered woods of the Chilterns, turning what would normally become firewood into handcrafted wood treasures.
Lets Be Cats Jewellery
Chesham-based Liz Turner is the face behind Lets Be Cats Jewellery and she loves to upcycle unusual materials into something new. Book pages, maps, bicycle inner tubes, playing cards and more are refashioned into jewellery, accessories, cards and decorations. She also takes commissions for her map work – jewellery and Christmas ornaments.
This year she has continued to hold a number of workshops using upcycled paper. You can also find her work at High Wycombe’s Craft Co-Op shop opposite TK Maxx in the Eden Centre, online at Etsy and at the Dickens Museum in London.
Mark Harding Blacksmith
Mark was trained at the Hereford College of Arts and he undertakes commissions both traditional and contemporary.
He can also be contacted for repairs, and restoration work.
LJC Pottery
Pottery is a lovely hobby for Laura – she says it’s good therapy throwing clay about!
Laura loves experimenting with new glazes to see what can be achieved using different colours together. Her style is very varied as she likes to try out new ideas such as her little vases with houses on them.
Twee Preserves
Twee Preserves grows, makes and sells a range of homemade delicious preserves, local honey, pure beeswax candles and gifts.
All made with love in Hertfordshire.
Julia Batten Glass
Working from her Chesham studio, Julia creates bold, quirky and colourful fused glass pieces.
Julia also runs popular workshops throughout the year and is very happy to be returning to exhibit at Chiltern Made! This year, her latest Christmas collection – Gingerbread Houses – will be a new addition to her stall!
Anidoodle
Kat is a local illustrator working on lots of cute and quirky gifts. These all include her fun cartoon style and range from adorable pin badges to humorous greetings cards, postcards and prints.
She has created her own comics including a family-friendly dinosaur adventure, Dinos and Dice Rolls, and is the illustrator on the more brooding series Tails of Mystery.
New to her stall this year is a set of five Christmas decorations, each featuring an adorable woodland creature. Also, a Christmas tea towel which has a fun festive illustration for each letter of the alphabet!
Dumbleberry Designs
Having enjoyed experimenting with fabric and thread for several years, Gaynor was looking for something cheerful and quirky to sew for Christmas. Awaking her ‘inner gnome’, she adapted an idea, loosely based on the mischievous Scandinavian gnomes, and added the on-the-spot personalisation which has been hugely popular.
The ‘family’ come in many colours, sizes and prices, from the tree hanging little guys to doorstop big fellas. Some will be stopping off in Bethlehem en route to the fair…
Create Your Happy
Liz and Laura established Create Your Happy from a desire to help people take time out to craft! They recognise the huge benefits from sitting down and ‘making’, and love to make crafting fun, achievable and accessible to all!
They are excited to return to The Elgiva in 2024 with their ever-growing Craft Kit range for adults and children. The kits contain crafting materials, full colour instructions and a link to a video guide, helping you learn and enjoy the latest craft trends such as macrame, crochet, decoupage, embroidery and jewellery making. They also run public, private and corporate craft workshops in the local area, in which they help people enjoy nourishing, mindful, creative experiences.
Niki Bell Art
Niki has always loved drawing and remembers as a child always having a pencil near to hand.
She was blessed with the most wonderful art teachers who all instilled in her that being an artist didn’t mean you were restricted to one medium – it meant that all aspects of art and design were to be explored and enjoyed and to these people she considers herself indebted.
From this education, she has always been interested in many aspects of art and design and painting came to her much later. Niki started in textiles, gaining her degree from Birmingham. After University, she went to work in Fashion and Fashion Graphic Design. Once Niki moved to the Chilterns, and started a family, she became hooked on the countryside around her. She found a passion for drawing British Wildlife and this developed into painting and printmaking. Niki wanted her paintings to be strong and have an element of wildness about them to capture the essence of the beautiful creatures. She found the best media to be Watercolour as this allows for fluidity whilst also being uncompromising.
Watercolour is a wonderful artistic medium that can create the most exquisite textures and ethereal qualities depending on the techniques used. Niki has been exploring and experimenting with these for over 10 years. Teaching allows her to share my love for this medium. She loves watching a student discover joy and satisfaction in their work.
Niki’s style is fluid and experimental whilst holding a realistic interpretation of the subject matter. She loves incorporating pastels into my work alongside stencilling and collage. When teaching, she encourages the understanding of techniques, colour mixing and experimenting so that a freedom and confidence can be found in the work.
Niki runs an art studio in Chesham, Buckinghamshire and teaches Watercolour, Acrylics, Mixed Media, Drawing and After School Art Clubs.
Erskistyle
Erskistyle hand made sterling silver jewellery is lovingly designed and created in the Chilterns.
Inspired by Mother Nature and imagination, the designs are unique and, as they are all hand made, nothing can be exactly replicated, making each thing a one-off piece.
Apart from seeing Erskistyle’s creations at Chiltern Made, they can also be seen at Chesham’s monthly Local Produce Market on the 4th Saturday of each month.
Holmsdale Wood
Chris has had an interest in trees and their timber from an early age. For the last twenty odd years his work and hobby has involved the use of wood and he’s still fascinated by its strength and beauty.
He likes sourcing timber that has natural interest and sometimes adding a variety of resins to hopefully make something that is interesting and unique. Chris also uses man made materials such as plywood and acrylic sheet.
Further to using a lathe, Chris makes all sorts of bird boxes, bird tables, bat roosts, &c. He also make slab/live edged tables all from local sources.
Wildflower Botanicals
Run by Anna, Wildflower Botanicals is an independent Chesham-based business offering natural products for wellbeing and positivity. Handcrafted with purpose, powered by aromatherapy.
Anna strives to innovate and offer products that are natural, ethical but also serve a bigger purpose in their customers’ lives – to support positive states of mind whilst enjoying the benefits of nature.
Anna’s vision is to create wellness products that do not cost the earth and her commitment is to only use sustainable, natural and high-performance ingredients.
Hooked On Leaves
Sarah from Hooked on Leaves is a natural dyer who uses plants, flowers and leaves to hand dye
and botanically print textiles.
Sarah makes wearable art from natural fibres like silk, wool, linen and cotton, combining the crafts she loves. She uses upcycled fabric and clothing as much as possible, to give new life to unwanted textiles and keeping them out of landfill!
Inspired by nature, Sarah can often be found gathering the leaves, flowers, and plants in the Chilterns where she lives, whilst walking her dog or from her own garden where she grows the flowers she uses to print and dye with.
Yvonne Makes
Yvonne is driven by her love of sewing with unusual materials, her latest being Pinatex, a fabric made from pineapple leaves in the Philippines.
Her printed cork fabric, produced by Portuguese cork farmers, is another favourite as it is sustainable, water resistant and vegan friendly. Leather has been a long time raw material, a recent source being offcuts from a local sofa factory.
Yvonne’s latest passion is making bum bags for adults and children; she is enjoying the many lovely printed cotton fabrics which appeal to children
Marie Jones Fibre Art
Marie Jones is a textile artist specialising in felt and embroidery work. Framed and unframed re-imagined landscapes, as well as needle felting kits, will be available to purchase as gifts for art collectors and crafters.
Heidi H Studio
Heidi makes and designs contemporary jewellery and wall art. She loves things that are modern, sleek and that you will not find easily elsewhere. Due to the nature of the materials Heidi uses, none of the items she creates will ever be identical.
Heidi was born and grew up in a seaside town in Denmark but later came to London to study Fashion. She is inspired by modern architecture and modernism; nature is often depicted in her creations.
Heidi creates wearable art – jewellery doesn’t have to be boring! She incorporates gold leaf and glitter into her concrete pendants and earrings, and glass seed beads into her felted merino wool necklaces. The concrete is very light weight and smooth to touch.
Growing up with large Rya rugs on the wall has left a lasting impression on Heidi and she aims to bring wool back into our homes. A natural material that often goes to waste, wool creates softness when hanging on the wall, is sound absorbent and helps with regulating moisture. Heidi creates statement pieces using the latch hook method, often incorporating hand felted items, silk cocoons and other natural materials. She supports independent small holders when buying wool or uses wool that would otherwise have gone to landfill.
Heidi works mainly with a natural colour palette, except for her felted jewellery, which is often abstract or bright. She makes smaller pendants as well as large statement necklaces, alongside stud and dangle earrings.
Made to Scale
Ali specialises in chainmaille and scalemaille jewellery, bridging the gap between timeless history and contemporary style. By using traditional techniques, she crafts pieces that are both durable and bold. From delicate necklaces to unique earrings and striking bracelets, her designs showcase the versatility and elegance of these age-old armour forms.
Katie Sarah Makes
Katie designs and makes cards and other artwork by hand with a pair of scissors. They’re well-worn and well loved with small blades and big handles so she can comfortably achieve the smooth edges she’s proud of! Her pieces are bright, colourful and, she hopes, sunny and cheerful.
Katie has made cards and she’s loved words and sentiment for as long as she can remember. Birthday cards and invitations were always homemade, and she just never stopped making. She sells in a handful of independent shops, craft fairs and markets, and at the Craft Coop in High Wycombe. Katie is either topping up stock, coming up with new designs, or working by commission.
JHSGlass
Jenny Hoole designs and makes contemporary, affordable fused glass pieces which are modern, timeless and individual.
As an award-winning commercial designer with a background in fashion design, Jenny brings fresh ideas to the glass making process. Her inspiration is drawn from a fascination with colour, texture and pattern. Her fashion background is a huge influence in the flow and structure of the glass pieces she makes – whether it is about the colour and pattern or coaxing the shape and texture to achieve the idea in her mind. The jewellery pieces are modern and individual often influencing larger pieces as they evolve. Jenny’s vessels are primarily functional because it gives them purpose.
Jenny applies layers of tiny particles of glass which are heated in the kiln, in multiple firings, to achieve her bright, clean colours – before the fused glass takes on a moulded shape in a further firing.
As a clothing designer Jenny’s passion is about enveloping a form with fluid colour and pattern, flowing around the body enabling subtle drape effects – for fleeting moments. Her exploration in glass is about harnessing these moments and taking them to a new dimension using fusing and moulding techniques to achieve a new form – captured for the light to play with… proving both compelling and complex.
Works made in series usually evolve from an initial idea from which a number of sparks grow in to new forms… perhaps the shape or functionality may alter as the body of work progresses.
Often the forms are dictated by the raw materials being used in the process. Different sizes of glass, from small particles to sheet glass suggest how a finished design might look after kiln firing, along with inclusions of metals, enamels, oxides or vegetable materials – all behave differently but impact on the visual of the final artwork
Jenny is a member of The Contemporary Glass Society, The Buckinghamshire Craft Guild and The Visual Images Group. She will be participating in Bucks Art Weeks in June 2025
Two Spoons Tea
Two Spoons are a Chesham-based company named after the tools of the trade – their tasting spoons!
For the taste-buds behind Two Spoons, Giles & Mark, their time has involved tasting over one million cups between them. They choose teas they love using their many years’ expertise and want to inspire curiosity in this amazing product.
They’ve come up with an award winning range of teas that can be found all over the county. They will be bringing along caddies of their new, seasonal, spiced tea – it’s not called Winter Warmer for nothing! But it in the meantime, put the kettle on!
Chiltern Bee
Chiltern Bee is a small, low intensity bee keeping venture, with hives located in the South Chilterns, mainly between Henley and Marlow (the Hambelden Valley).
Chiltern Bee was founded by a beekeeper who is a biochemist by training (worked Pharmaceutical R&D for over twenty years).
Only the local native bee species is kept, and the focus is beeswax rather than honey. Product development is centred on effective skincare, and all products are unique and formulated by the founder. All have been independently safety assessed, undergone stability testing and are registered with the UK cosmetic agency.
The products behave completely differently from “High Street” products.
Skin Balms are made with the purified honeycomb beeswax, sweet almond oil and coconut butter. These three ingredients create an intensively moisturising balm where the oil and butter moisturise the skin which is locked in by the beeswax forming an occlusive layer.
Lipbalms are made with beeswax, extra virgin organic olive oil and shea butter. They work the same way meaning that one application should be sufficient for an entire day.
Soaps are incredibly mild, yet are still true soaps in they are of a pH to kill bacteria and cleanse. This is due to the properties of beeswax and “superfatting” of the soap, making it gentle on the skin.
“Naked Bee” only have the bare minimum ingredients to produce an incredibly simple yet effective product. There are then generally three variants: Mandarin & Grapefruit, Lime and Lavender. These are created by adding cold pressed essential oils to the Naked Bee base.
In addition to cosmetics, Chiltern Bee also produce honey, candles, bath-bombs and beeswax based homeware products (chopping board conditioner, leather conditioner and furniture polish) as well as Beeswax Food Wraps.
Product sales support our local bee population!
