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  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    FT SeriesThe home in 50 objects from around the world
    The home in 50 objects from around the world #27: the rag rug

    Multiple histories are layered in the cotton, tweed, silk and wool of these thrift rugs

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
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    Time to rethink the tile

    Lace-carved, feather-fringed and tessellated takes on flooring are the stars at Homo Faber 2022

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Interiors
    The Harewood Biennial showcases craft as a force for social change

    Designers address issues such as colonial heritage and diversity at the historic house near Leeds

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    Interiors
    Fashion and homewares brand Toast mentors emerging artisans

    Five New Makers are chosen annually in a non-profit programme run by the shop

  • Saturday, 22 January, 2022
    FT SeriesThe home in 50 objects from around the world
    The home in 50 objects from around the world #13: Gee’s Bend quilt

    Produced in a hamlet in the American South, these quilts have been likened to compositions of abstract art

  • Friday, 29 October, 2021
    FT SeriesThe home in 50 objects from around the world
    The home in 50 objects from around the world #3: Blue Mountain Pottery

    The elongated, stylised vases and animal figurines lent an otherworldly aura to Canada’s provincial homes

  • Friday, 15 October, 2021
    Interiors
    From horticulture to handicraft: a collection of plant-inspired homewares

    Petersham Nurseries has enlisted British makers for its new venture

  • Thursday, 5 August, 2021
    How To Spend It
    Future perfect: the father-daughter design duo making the medieval modern

    Artist Sophie Coryndon and her cabinetmaker father, Nick, work in wildly divergent mediums, but their creative collaborations uphold family traditions

  • Wednesday, 16 June, 2021
    Travel
    Postcard from Cairo: stitches in time at the Tentmakers’ Bazaar

    The ‘craftsmen on cushions’ are battling to preserve their centuries-old art

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    How To Spend It
    Preservation society: meet the craft revivalists

    The ceramicists, rush weavers and other dedicated artisans saving rare skills from the brink of extinction

  • Saturday, 10 April, 2021
    Watches & Jewellery
    Sapphires and steel: industrial materials show their mettle

    From carbon fibre to aluminium, alternatives to precious metals are making their mark in high jewellery

  • Saturday, 20 February, 2021
    House & Home
    The handmades’ tale: the artisans crafting new tools for trading

    Makers are navigating the pandemic with digital fairs, livestream selling, masterclasses — and champagne

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    House & Home
    A man of letters: where typography meets sculpture

    Artisan Iain Cotton makes hand-carved stone signs for houses and streets

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Travel
    The shipwright saving Britain’s maritime heritage

    The largest wooden cutter in more than a century sets sail amid a surge of interest in wind-powered cruises

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Travel
    The last thatcher of the Western Isles

    In the Outer Hebrides, only one craftsman still makes roofs with marram grass but tourism is helping keep the ancient craft alive

  • Friday, 2 October, 2020
    House & Home
    The Palladian mansion that became an artists’ hub

    A grand house in Scotland has been given new life as workshops for creatives and craftsmen

  • Friday, 11 September, 2020
    From waste to taste: the art of recycled ceramic tableware

    How a Liverpool manufacturer is creating sustainable dishes from broken plates and old building rubble

  • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Chip off the block – lessons from my father, JB Blunk

    As a new book shines a light on the work of the late American sculptor, his designer daughter recalls how his aesthetic shaped her own

  • Tuesday, 1 September, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Best in glass: the new wave of makers

    Meet the artists shattering tradition to create a fresh new art form

  • Saturday, 13 June, 2020
    Grow yourself happy: the gardener’s guide to wellbeing
    Cult gardening tools we really dig

    All the shears, spades and secateurs worth forking out for

  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
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    The perils of upcycling

    A DIY approach to tarting up furniture is to be advocated — but know your limits

  • Friday, 8 May, 2020
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    How to choose chic knobs for cupboard doors

    Look for something elegant and distinctive but not overbearing

  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2020
    Residential
    Traditional design ideas that give a contemporary bathroom a Moroccan feel

    Style options distilled from a confluence of African, Arab and Mediterranean cultures

  • Monday, 6 April, 2020
    Residential
    How to furnish a warehouse apartment

    Bohemian and industrial heritage options to help create a vintage inner city look

  • Friday, 27 March, 2020
    House & Home
    Meet Adrian Isaac, the man who couldn’t stop building

    This Lincolnshire resident has devoted his life to construction, from boyhood forts to his salvaged Tudor house

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