Meet the Makers P - Z

It was fourteen years ago when Krystyna Patey, inspired by her own cottage named 'Little Parkminster', embarked on her entrepreneurial journey. Seeking quality home fragrances and bath products at reasonable prices, she decided to take matters into her own hands and create a distinctive range herself.

Every single item they make is still meticulously handcrafted in small batches. Krystyna and her team craft every product by hand, from blending the fragrances to pouring and packaging, always in small batches in their small workshop beside the Helford River in Cornwall.

Scented candles and home fragrance products are crafted solely from natural plant-based materials, including essential oils and soy wax, all sourced sustainably.

As an environmentally conscious brand, they advocate the principles of 'reduce, reuse, and recycle,' and are consistently striving to minimise their environmental impact.

John Morse-Brown came up with the idea of Pigeon after he fell out of love with social media.

He came to realise that most, if not all, of his online interactions were pretty negative. Either he was compulsively checking his posts for ‘likes’, or he was getting annoyed by people showing off and oversharing.

Of course, John loves his friends. But all that frantic activity was not fostering a genuine sense of connection - quite the opposite. It left him feeling hollow and empty. So he took the plunge and closed his social media accounts.

But then a good friend of his moved to the United States. And that meant he'd have to find a new way of keeping in touch. No more hanging out at his place or trips to the pub!

And that got John thinking. As a graphic designer with a mechanical engineering degree, who happens to love origami, this looked like a fun problem to solve... What was needed, he decided, was a way of making letter writing fun, new, beautiful, and easy.

And Pigeon is the result!

PlayPress is about exploring new possibilities and we take care to make our toys inclusive. Our playsets are designed to let children play creatively while helping them develop key motor and cognitive reasoning skills.

We created PlayPress because we wanted to help children create new stories with toys that were affordable and eco-friendly. Our love of creativity and ingenuity is what gets us up every day and as a family-owned business, care and quality really matter to us.

Red Beau was born from a need to find party bag fillers that weren't just a single-use plastic toy destined to clutter up our homes and end up in landfill.
There is an alternative! Red Beau's products are fun, affordable and packaged in compostable materials.
I have grown from a small business selling just party favours in the UK, to designing and creating activity packs that are sent all over the world and for a wide variety of companies and organisations.
Designed and created in the rural North of England, choose from a variety of popular kids themes or custom orders tailored to your brand.

After ten years selling fashion and giftware brands to some of the most exciting and resilient stores on the UK High St, Steven created RUNNING WITH SCISSORS to combine what they have learned that customers consistently love - premium quality and finding the humour in everyday life!

RUNNING WITH SCISSORS cards are the perfect way to celebrate without getting all gushy - expect bold colours, unpretentious design and a good dose of dry humour.

Priscilla, is a pattern designer and founder of Slow Moon, based in London.

Slow Moon creates beautiful bold and colourful products to improve your wellbeing, sharpen your focus and aid deeper sleep. Designed in London, products are eco-friendly and vegan. All textile products are made in the UK from natural GOTS-certified organic fabric. 

We are an independent design studio and sustainable brand started up by life-long best friends and designers, Nic and Roz.

Launched in 2020, our vision focused on transforming the everyday by producing sustainably-led, exclusively designed, high quality UK manufactured products, accessible to everyone.

Our inspirations include pop culture, art history, fashion, mid-century design, nature, empowerment, heritage and modern architecture. We love to infuse our design credentials with colour intensity, pattern plus storytelling into each design collection, applied across paperware, gifts, accessories, and our recently launched homeware and interiors range, Storihome.

We are practising advocates in equality, inclusivity and diversity, we love what we do, and work hard to bring our very best every day.

Founded by husband & wife team Freya & Jakob, our collection of paper goods, products and prints are made in England with great care and attention to ideas, pattern and print processes. Based on the riverside in Leeds, Yorkshire, we work responsibly and sustainably with producers and all products pass through our studio for screenprinting or compiling before heading out to customers.

Paper products and packaging are printed and finished in our home county using mainly 100% recycled materials. Product components such as twine, cork, envelopes and even hooks are sourced from manufacturers in either England or Europe. We have also developed into somewhat a family business. Jakob’s mother, Ulrike Rost, is an artist and we have used elements of her incredible Lino print work, both current and archival, to develop patterns for our designs. We also sell her original Linocut Prints which are printed on the roller press in our workshop.

The Make Arcade are passionate about sewing, crafting and making and the joy that it brings. They create little kits of DIY loveliness with a modern touch, the kits are designed with beginners in mind

All their kits are designed and manufactured in our cosy, colourful studio in Salisbury. They make in small batches and each kit is packed with care by a team fuelled on doughnuts and disco!

We are new toy manufacturer based in Dorset, UK but with over a 50 years of experience in print and cardboard engineering. As a brand Pack a Range are on a mission to produce toys for eco-minded individuals to help make a difference in the protection of our plant. This means we strive to only sell items on our site which are plastic free and manufacture solely plastic free toys, we only use FSC certified materials and aim to be a carbon neutral brand by 2025.

Our own brand products have a mantra of Build. Play. Learn all of our toys have a build element which encourages children to develop their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness and reason. We also endeavour to include a learn element with interesting facts about the toys included on the packaging and inside the package and of course all our toys are extremely fun to play with encourage kids to stretch their imaginations.

Vesta Living Was Founded By Bryony In 2018 In Response To The Increasing Pressure Of Single Use Products On Our Environment.

Vesta produces reusable cotton wipes for the body and the home, with the intention of replacing single use disposable wipes that do not degrade and clog our sewer systems causing millions of pounds worth of damage each year. Not to mention those ingested by sea creatures such as turtles, who mistake wipes that find their way into our oceans for jelly fish. They clog their systems and cause starvation.

Wolf & Moon is a handmade jewellery brand by British designer, Hannah Davis. Our jewellery is inspired by nature, architecture, art and design and we make wearable jewellery, from eye-catching statement pieces to elevated, everyday essentials.

Our jewellery is all lovingly handmade by a small team of makers in our London studio located in the wonderful Florentia Clothing Village, a like-minded community of creative artists and businesses.