ARTISANS OF DARTMOOR

By Suzy Bennett

THE HARDBACK BOOK HITS THE SHOPS IN SEPTEMBER 2025, BUT YOU CAN BUY AN ‘EARLY BIRD’ COPY THROUGH OUR CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN, WITH DELIVERY IN JULY

Blacksmiths and basketmakers, plant dyers and potters, woodturners and weavers – Dartmoor National Park in Devon is home to a thriving community of artisans. Through atmospheric photography and compelling interviews, this book invites you behind the workshop walls to meet 16 inspiring craftspeople who are breathing new life into some of Britain’s oldest and rarest trades. An antidote to a world of mass production, the stories in these pages celebrate the local and original, the ethical and sustainable, the handmade and human.

 

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CROWDFUNDING REWARDS

  • A copy of Artisans of Dartmoor hardback book (244 pages, 240cmx210cm, 140gsm uncoated FSC paper, printed locally in Exeter)

Workshops with Dartmoor artisans

  • Make your own wooden bowl on a medieval pole-lathe with Sharif Adams

  • Turn your own pot on a private half-day pottery workshop with Alison West

  • Create your own poster or card on a letterpress printing workshop with Princetown Press

  • Make four glass images using the Victorian wet-plate collodion method with Nicky Thompson

  • Forage and flower arrange on Dartmoor with Joanna Game

Products hand made by Dartmoor artisans

Devon restaurants

Local experiences

  • A spa treatment at the Cary Arms, near Torquay

  • An opportunity to meet Dartmoor's artisans at a drinks party. on June 14th in Chagford

  • A photography lesson with Suzy Bennett

  • Tickets to Suzy Bennett's book talk in Exeter this September

  • A haircut with Dartmoor Hair

Stays at luxury Devon hotels and pubs