William Morris Design Line Open Weekend

This Open Weekend celebrates Blackhorse Lane and Argall Industrial Area as destinations of design, making and manufacturing. This is a rare opportunity to meet the makers, discover the process behind their work and try your hand at making. Discover the often unseen makers and creatives of the area and explore what is designed and made on your doorstep. Open Studios, Open Factories and Open Workshops The processes behind design and making often happen out of sight - in studios, workshops and factories. By opening up these spaces and showing how things are created, made, remade and repaired - we invite others to discover and appreciate the intricacies of design and fabrication. Meet the designers, Meet the makers An opportunity to discover and celebrate the hidden creatives in our neighbourhoods. These creative communities are powered by the industriousness of many hands. By opening up to the public, designers and makers, are creating space for conversations and transparency about their work. Tools of the Trade Behind every object is a specific set of tools, in the skilled hands of designers and makers they bring ideas to life. From hand-tools, to specialised machinery, to digital code, each maker's relationship to their tools is fundamental to their work. The Open Weekend programme includes: • Armstrong Audio will give a short history and tour of their audio equipment repair shop • Bamboo Bicycle Club bamboo building workshops will give a taster of working and designing with bamboo material. • Blackhorse Lane Ateliers tours of their craft jeans factory • Blackhorse Workshop celebrate 10 years of Making it Together with a showcase of past and present users in their workshop spaces, with demos across the weekend • Burnt Faith Brandy House masterclass and tasting focusing on how they produce brandy using the only Charentais pot still in the UK • Buttress & Snatch will show you around their atelier and their upcycling processes • Capsico metal patination specialists open studio • Coffee Roastery tours at Climpson & Sons and Kribi Coffee • Colour of Saying present an exhibition on Ethical Colour exploring their interactive research promoting climate-positive and regenerative colour sources and processes at Switchboard Studio • Furnishing Futures open studio and warehouse tours. Meet this innovative charity who partner with the interiors industry to create healing homes for those escaping domestic abuse. • Grain Open Workshop and Tree to Table tours demonstrating the full process from tree to table for their Kielder range • Indigo Garden and First Principals host a garden tour and demo of processing flax and extracting indigo • Hive Collective and Yonder present Made in London, an exploration of making and manufacturing • the opening of artist INSA's interactive mural at Buxton School • Mother of Pearl and Nicole Chui share upcycling processes in a workshop for Walthamstow FC women’s club’s new kit, in collaboration with Wood Street Walls • Meet the interior designers from Flamingo & Oak for a tour of The Black Horse cocktail bar and pizzeria • Push // Pull and ThreeTwenty open studio and vintage furniture sale • Tours of Nirvana Brewery, Devil's Botany and Neckstamper Brewery • Turning Earth open studio, see the members making their own pieces on the wheel and find out how a pottery studio is managed • thinkFOUND open studio showcasing their socially sustainable furniture and circular economy approach • Artists Barry Sykes, Sandie Sutton and makers Mick Lapsley and Ollie Bailey of madeWORKSHOP discuss the place of making within their artistic practice • Ultra Sound Blinds open showroom • Wax Atelier founder Lola Lely will show you how to transform wax waste into a beautiful beeswax floral centerpiece • Events at William Morris Gallery including talks, a family day and gallery late with Pearl Home Records • Design-led walks with Studio Anna and Alisa Ruzavina