Leisure & culture
Crafts @ the Castle is an annual curated selling showcase event for high quality contemporary craft from county-based makers. It takes place at Bolsover Castle alongside the Derbyshire Food and Drink Festival (opens in a new window)
The crafts event started in 2004, and there is an emphasis on the demonstration of craft skills and products together with public iteraction.
The makers who exhibited at the latest event, held over the weekend of 17 and 18 May 2008 in The Riding School at Bolsover Castle included:
Heather Arbon – textile bags
Del Coombs – recycled art
Rachel Marnoch and Jenny Young, Earth - jewellery
Nicholas Hobbs - furniture
Natalie Holt, Fluidity Design – jewellery
Angela Parry, Inchcape - knitwear
Ingrid Karlsson-Kemp – textiles
Adele Kime - jeweller and designer
Elaine Lim-Newton - ceramics
Matthew Lovell – woodturner
Janine Mannion-Jones - pottery
Marge Elliott, MeMeMe – textile bags
Anne Menary – textile art
Linda Moss - art felt
Lesley Robinson - mosaics
Madge Spencer - pottery
Bob Campbell, Stig – furniture and recycled art
Karen Woods - textiles
Outdoor demonstrators:
Adrian Stapleton - blacksmith
Katherine Webster - signwriter
Robin Wood - bowl turner