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For quality handmade craft

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The awe inspiring Hottentots Holland mountains that form a backdrop

to the Helderberg basin, are wearing their winter dress to signal

the winter recess for the Country Craft Market

 

Next market will be on Saturday 26 September 2009

But please contact crafters using the information provided in this website

should you be in need of any of their products or services

 

                                  

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  Photos - Approval Day 1 May 2009 

 

Next Market - 26 September 2009

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Next Approval Day Market

Saturday 1 May 2010

alternative date Saturday 15 May 2010

  All about Approval Days 

and the Appointment of New Crafters

Demonstration at the last Country Craft Market

on Saturday 30 May 2009

 

Laurette

 

            Teabag Folding

by Laurette van der Merwe

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                    30 May 2009

 

 

The origins of many arts and crafts are lost in folklore, but almost certainly, most were born as productive pastimes that did not just keep willing hands busy, but also produced items used for both everyday life and pure decoration.

 

Laurette van der Merwe epitomises the spirit of these arts and crafts, having learned and practised many of them. Consequently, within her prolific output one will find many sorts of crafty things, each made according to the essence of these craft forms. And one knows that each item contains more than a healthy investment of both passion and time.

 

She numbers amongst the craft skills she exercises or teaches routinely, crocheting, knitting, sewing, embroidery, scrapbooking, photography, poetry, calligraphy, quilling, marbling, dry embossing, punch art, pin pricking, copper embossing, parchment craft, iris folding and teabag folding.

 

Teabag folding?

Indeed, teabag folding. And for those who want to discover more about this unusual and highly decorative pastime, Laurette will be demonstrating the how-to's at Stall 166 at the next Country Craft Market on 25 April.

 

   For more info on this demonstration and previous demonstrations

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