{"id":32882,"date":"2024-11-01T23:38:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T22:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32882"},"modified":"2024-11-01T23:38:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T22:38:55","slug":"abingdon-traditional-craft-fair-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32882","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Traditional Craft Fair 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024110120.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Traditional Craft Fair started today (Friday Nov 1st) at the Abbey Buildings in Abingdon, and will run for Saturday and Sunday.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024110129.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis annual event brings together artisans from across the region, showcasing traditional crafts. Alison Holmans from The Chicken Run Studio has been in the same spot at the end of the Long Gallery for the last three or four years.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024110132.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLots of the artisans practise their craft between customers. Chez Beccy designs and makes colourful items for the kitchen. She was in the lower hall.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024110133.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAs was Emma Baldwin&#8217;s elegant stall. Emma was a tutor at Abingdon College and other places.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024110134.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMartin Wackenier of Devine Times Photography was in the Marquee.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024110137.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIn the Undercroft, Elisabeth Bailey was measuring out the clay for her pottery and on Saturday and Sunday will demonstrating pot making.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024110136.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHere are some of her creations with one of the many arched windows of the Undercroft.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024110141.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAlso in the Undercroft was Thirzah Bragg who makes Textile art inspired by British history and folklore, and can be seen here embroidering thin sheets of copper.<\/p>\n<p>This is just a small selection of approximately 67 artisans at the Craft Fair. More details are on the official website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdoncraftfair.org.uk\/\">https:\/\/www.abingdoncraftfair.org.uk\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Traditional Craft Fair started today (Friday Nov 1st) at the Abbey Buildings in Abingdon, and will run for Saturday and Sunday. This annual event brings together artisans from across the region, showcasing traditional crafts. Alison Holmans from The Chicken Run Studio has been in the same spot at the end of the Long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}