Try a new skill, make something by hand and complete a Design Challenge! Our workshops are led by professional makers, have a practical, craft focus and are designed to support team building and encourage creative expression and imaginative problem-solving.

Each workshop is bespoke, tailored to a topic relating to your workplace and explored through disciplines such as ceramics, metalwork, jewellery making, basketry, textiles or glass. After understanding your specific needs, we’ll find a suitable match for your organisation from our nationwide network of skilled makers. Workshops can be held in your own premises or in the maker’s studio.

Makers are good at dealing with challenges and they constantly adapt and innovate, so the maker leading your workshop will start off by sharing their approaches and experiences and then support you to explore solutions to your own challenges while you make beautiful (or at least interesting!) new objects under their expert guidance. For example, if you’re keen to focus on sustainability and recycling, your design challenge might be to create a jewellery collection from drinks cans or make baskets from discarded office packaging. The maker will guide you around materials, fixings, tools and techniques and, at the end of the workshop, you’ll present your ideas, explain the design process and share the resulting creative solutions.Making by hand is known to support wellbeing, and your team will leave the workshop energised from learning a new craft skill and from the focus required to design and make a finished object.

Craft Scotland is the national development organisation for craft in Scotland, supporting makers and promoting craft of all disciplines.

Founded in 2004, we are a dedicated team of nine individuals with expertise in events management, learning and engagement programming, and communications and digital campaigns. We operate across Scotland and put makers at the heart of all we do, championing diverse and high-quality contemporary craft. We also help people learn about, appreciate and buy craft, promoting the contribution of craft to Scotland’s cultural, economic and social wellbeing.

Through our exhibitions and event programmes, and our digital platforms, we connect makers with audiences and curate international showcases of Scottish contemporary craft. Our learning and development programmes support makers at all stages of their careers to develop their business skills and creative practice, to benefit from mentoring and advice, and to take part in networking. Our public engagement programmes connect makers in communities across Scotland, while our advocacy, media and communication campaigns highlight the value and benefit of craft.

Scotland has a proud history of making, and our skilled makers have a well-deserved international reputation. We support makers using traditional and cutting-edge techniques, across a wide range of practices including ceramics, glass, metalwork, textiles, basketry, furniture and jewellery. In turn, the makers’ creativity supports Scotland’s economy and international reputation for innovation and entrepreneurship.