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show news and events<br />
cross-over buying opportunities offered by the<br />
season’s premier retail buying event,” explained<br />
organisers Emap Connect. Visitors will discover<br />
a wide range of products in this craft-focused<br />
area, ranging from artists’ materials and card<br />
making kits to needlepoint, scrap booking, tools<br />
and accessories. Exhibitors already signed<br />
up include Dremel, Keepsake Card <strong>Craft</strong>,<br />
The Glitter Girls, <strong>Craft</strong> Fairy, China Butterfly,<br />
Krasnaya Nesting Dolls and Viridian.<br />
Emap Connect has enlisted leading hobby<br />
and craft press to help promote the new<br />
sector, including our very own <strong>Craft</strong> <strong>Focus</strong><br />
magazine and German trade title HobbyArt.<br />
Sector marketing initiatives will include the<br />
creation of a craft demo area, where TV<br />
personalities will be enlisted to present some<br />
of the ingenious new products developed by<br />
exhibitors. “Autumn Fair International is the<br />
festive season’s largest home and gift event.<br />
A total of 500,000 products and 50,000<br />
new launches will be demonstrated by 1500<br />
exhibiting suppliers,” said Emap.<br />
AUTUMN TRADE SHOW<br />
KREAVAK<br />
Dates: 4 - 5 September 2011<br />
Venue: Rijnhal Arnhem<br />
Opening times: 9.30am – 5.00pm<br />
Web: www.asws.nl<br />
AUTUMN TRADE SHOW KREAVAK<br />
Organisers of Autumn Fair KreavaK say<br />
“Various of exhibitors from European<br />
countries covering a whole range of products<br />
are a real hook for visitors to this event.”<br />
Known as the most colourful fair in Europe,<br />
this is a trade event for patchwork and<br />
quilting, jewellery, fashion fabrics, knitting and<br />
crochet, embroidery, craft and needlework,<br />
haberdashery, hobby, sewing machines, etc.<br />
Exhibitors come from all across Europe, with<br />
representatives from the United Kingdom,<br />
the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Spain,<br />
Switzerland, Austria and Denmark as well as<br />
Russia and the Ukraine. Refreshments are<br />
readily available and free tea and coffee are<br />
provided by organisers ASWS. “<br />
Autumn KreavaK promises a European event<br />
PERTH SHOW<br />
Dates: 11-12 September 2011<br />
Venue: Dewar’s Conference Centre, Perth<br />
PERTH SHOW<br />
Organised by Yvonne Jackson with the help of<br />
her brother Gavin, this trade show has a whole<br />
host of exhibitors including Solo <strong>Craft</strong>s, House<br />
of Handicraft, Classic Embroidery, Sehlbach &<br />
Whiting and Groves. Visitors will be able to<br />
see and buy the latest products in stamping,<br />
embroidery, crafts, haberdashery cross stitch<br />
and more. For more information: Yvonne<br />
Jackson, T: +44(0)777 087 0093, or<br />
+44 (0131 447 2066, E: y.jackson@tiscali.co.uk<br />
CONSUMER SHOWS<br />
Festival of Quilts<br />
The Festival of Quilts is at the NEC,<br />
Birmingham from 11-14 August 2011.<br />
Organisers Twisted Thread promise that<br />
“quilts will be on display in their thousands<br />
providing a stunning spectacle and will come in<br />
many guises from both competition entrants<br />
and professional artists such as Pia Welsch,<br />
Yoshiko Katagiri, Barbara Weeks and many<br />
more.” Over the last eight years the Festival<br />
of Quilts has earned a reputation for being<br />
the largest and most inspiring quilting event<br />
in Europe. Last year 34,000 people travelled<br />
from over 54 countries around the globe to<br />
attend. “For 2011 the shopping opportunities<br />
will be immense with over 300 companies<br />
selling a great variety of patchwork and quilting<br />
supplies,” said MD Andrew Salmon. The show<br />
will also offer vast numbers of workshops and<br />
lectures aimed at both the beginner and the<br />
expert exploring new territory from talented<br />
and respected artists and teachers. For further<br />
information, T: +44 (0)20 8692 2299 or visit:<br />
www.twistedthread.com.<br />
Lots of inspirational displays await visitors to the<br />
Festival of Quilts<br />
Power of Making<br />
This Autumn, the V&A and <strong>Craft</strong>s Council<br />
will celebrate the role of making in our lives<br />
by presenting an eclectic selection of over<br />
100 exquisitely crafted objects. The exhibition<br />
opens on 6 September 2011 and will run until<br />
2 January 2012. Exhibits range from a life-size<br />
crochet bear to a ceramic eye patch, a fine<br />
metal flute to dry stone walling. “Power of<br />
Making will be a cabinet of curiosities showing<br />
works by both amateurs and leading makers<br />
from around the world to present a snapshot<br />
of making in our time,” said the V&A.<br />
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