Craftspeople - UK

• Art Workers Guild - Current Members

http://www.artworkersguild.org/members/

Contains contact details, e.g. links to Web sites of current members of the Art Workers Guild in London, listed by specialism, e.g. architect, archivist, art historian, blacksmith, bookbinder, calligrapher, cartoonist, decorative artist, design historian, filmmaker, furniture designer, glass artist, graphic designer, illustrator, interior designer, jewellery designer, landscape architect, medalist, mural artist, painter, potter, quiltmaker, sculptor, stained glass artist, television designer, typographer, weaver and wood engraver.

• Art Workers Guild - Past Members

http://www.artworkersguild.org/downloads/AWGpastm.pdf

Past members Art Workers Guild in London 1884-1984, listed by specialism [see above]. Contains details of when they were a member and their dates.

• Commission a Craftsman

http://www.commissionacraftsman.com/search.asp?type=people

Compiled by Commission a Craftsman, a London-based crafts agency. Currently [2010] contains profiles of over 120 contemporary craftspeople with examples of their work. You can search the site by name and discipline. Commission a Craftsman also issue a regular newsletter.

• craftscotland Maker Directory

http://www.craftscotland.org/Maker%20Directory/Crafts-Makers-AtoZ.html

Compiled by craftscotland, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Contains profiles of over 1,300 contemporary Scottish craftspeople with examples of their work. The site also contains Scottish craft news, and details of exhibitions.

• Crafts Study Centre

http://www.csc.ucreative.ac.uk/index.cfm?articleid=3899

The Web site of the Craft Study Centre at the University of the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey, England. Contains biographical information on numerous UK craftspeople with examples of the work and archival data.

• Crafts Council

http://www.photostore.org.uk/seSIMP.aspx?TYPE=MAKER

An index of over, 1,000 UK makers included in the collection of the Crafts Council in London, England. Contains résumés of varying lengths of each of the maker, together with photographs of their work.

• Society of Designer Craftsmen

http://www.societyofdesignercraftsmen.org.uk/members.php?c=members

A list of members of the Society of Designer Craftsmen [prior to 1960 known as the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society] with is some cases examples of their work and links to their web site.