Speed Craft!

We're taking our Design Room out for the day and have organised our first ever Speed Craft event on Saturday 3rd November from 11.30am - 4.45pm at the monumental Galleries of Justice, Middle Hill, The Lace Market, Nottingham, NG1 1HN.

Spend the day with us and our selection of talented designers learning new creative skills in ceramics, mosaic, print, textiles, paper and glass!  Phew!
The designer line-up includes ceramist Katie Almond, mosaic artist Janine Nelson, printmaker Nikki Dennett , textile designer Lucy Renshaw, paper artist Phonia Richards and glass maker Stevie Davis.  There will also be a showcase of exquisite British made gifts that may tempt you for Christmas! The entire day is just £65, including homemade refreshments and a special sweet treat finale courtest of our resident tea lady Jo.
Call the shop on 0115 950 7776 to book or pop in and see us! 

This event is one of many taking place as part of the 'Debbie Bryan Nottinghamshire Craft Trail' in conjunction with the Lace:here:now season running from September 2012 - February 2013 across the City.

Debbie Bryan Nottinghamshire Craft Trail

Brand new news! Debbie Bryan Studio & Shop has been invited to be part of a lace season called Lace:here:now happening in Nottingham later this year.

The season will begin with Heritage Open Days from 6-9th September and finish around Light Night on Friday 15th February and the Festival of Words fortnight which finishes on 24th February 2013 (!)

It offers an exciting and innovative range of events, exhibitions, workshops , screenings and talks all around the subject of Lace.  Other listed venues include Nottingham Castle, Bonnington Gallery at Nottingham Trent University, Warner Gallery at Lakeside, Nottingham Contemporary, Broadway Cinema... and us! So we are in excellent company and very excited!

Our collection of events is entitled 'Debbie Bryan Nottinghamshire Craft Trail' and features contemporary craft, traditional design, interactive heritage open days, 'pop-up' tea parties and much more across several locations including our Lace Market Studio & Shop, Nottingham Castle, Wollaton Hall & Deer Park, Newstead Abbey, Framework Knitters Museum in Ruddington and Galleries of Justice for our 1st speed crafting event!

The 'golden thread' for our trail is lace, related social history and manufacture... with special collections inspired by lace and vintage drawings created by the makers of the lace supplied to Hampton Court for Catherine Middleton's wedding dress lace appliqué and the company that manufactured the lace embroidery for Lady Diana's wedding dress.

Please visit www.debbiebryan.co.uk/heritage for details on all our events, talks and exhibitions... or watch this space for more information!

Latest from Karlsruhe

At the beginning of May, Debbie took part in a group trip back to Karlsruhe in Germany as part of the Creative Twinning Project.  This time the group was made up of ten designers from across Nottingham and the East Midlands, generously supported by Design Factory. 
Hayley Banks from Design Factory came along to make links with creative organisations from across Baden Württemberg and beyond... And Mandi Chandler, Kate Bright and Georgina Gillen from South Nottingham College joined too, to see what opportunities exist and look into setting up a student exchange. 

Highlights of the trip included a guided tour of the University of Arts and Design (HfG) by Professor Ludger Pfanz and a visit to ZKM Media Museum.

Then the finale at Eunique Applied Arts Fair was a huge success.  Well done to all participating designers - Porcellana &Duomo, Foto Ceramica, JC Middlebrook, Ashi Marwaha, Catherine Carr , Rachel Helen Designs, Gillian Lee Smith, Paperwork and Suet Yi Yip - Many of whom stock our shop!
And the same again to our German Twins - Angelika, Brigitte, Nora and Philine!

Everyone's stand looked great and we recieved a huge amount of positive feedback, (including Anja's lovely blog) so watch the Creative Twinning Blog for developments!

Happy Queen's Jubilee

It's a great weekend to be British!  And we're proud to stock collections that are made in the UK from the very best designers in the country.  We're closed over the bank holiday but open again on Wednesday 6th June from 11am as usual.  We hope you all have a lovely long weekend, and that includes you, your Royal Majesty! 

We've brought the outdoors, indoors...

Look at our new grassy entrance!  We just need a well-stocked picnic basket with some pimms and we're all set for summer...

Heritage sites galore...

In keeping with our love of all things that relate to local heritage, we've been able to link up with local heritage sites and place exclusive collections at Nottingham Castle, Wollaton Park and Rufford Country Park.  So you can now pop along to any of these for a fantastic day out come rain or shine whilst also discovering special work from Debbie and other designers inspired by the historic locations.

See Corrina Rothwell's quirky illustrations (middle) at Nottingham Castle... or find Laurie Woodruff's lively drawings (bottom) of vintage lace machinery at Wollaton Park... or choose your favourite brooch at Rufford Park from Debbie's collection, designed with images of Rufford Abbey (top) and their famous bluebells encapsulated in the resin...

Living in Silk

We highly recommend you visit Nottingham Castle for this exhibition.  Travel through 5000 years of Chinese silk beginning with some of the earliest surviving fragments of silk cloth in the world, before continuing with sumptuous garments and accessories from the Qing and other dynasties.  Learn how silk has been produced for millennia and discover the rich colour, symbolism and exquisite craftsmanship of Chinese silk.  That's all before making that compulsory trip to the gift shop to pick up a souvenir... Perhaps we can tempt you with something from the Debbie Bryan Heritage collection in the glass cabinets???