This festive season the Beautiful & Useful Craft Fair is returning to the Garden Museum with a curated collection of Britain’s best designer-makers selling bold, bohemian and thoroughly beautiful handmade ceramics, textiles, art prints, jewellery, and homewares.

Beautiful & Useful offers shoppers the chance to support small businesses, meet the makers and buy one-of-a-kind gifts for friends and family this Christmas. Exhibitors will include The Curious Maker's mechanical toys and velvet toadstool decorations; Jack Wheeler Woodcraft's hand carved, Japanese-inspired bowls, trays and spoons; Richard Pomeroy's porcelain mugs in all the colours of the rainbow; and Jill Pargeter's Arts & Crafts-inspired linen figures, keepsakes and lampshades which combine her love of history, nature and poetic verse.

Makers taking inspiration from plants and nature include Jane Bevan’s objects, vessels and collage from found natural materials; Rachel Dein's exquisite botanical bas-reliefs, Fleur de Cire's wax-dipped paper flowers - a unique art handed down from the origins of Constance Spry’s studio in London; and Maude Made's illustrated tea towels celebrating varieties of wildflowers, tulips, fruit and vegetables.

This boutique curated Christmas shopping experience is set in the beautiful surroundings of the Garden Museum, a medieval church building with a Dan Pearson-designed courtyard garden and light-filled contemporary extension housing the award-winning Garden Café.

The day will also include two craft workshops:

Bauble-making workshop with the Folded Side Project
10.30am-12.30pm, £50 including all materials
Make your own Christmas decorations under the expert guidance of designer Emma Fisher of the Folded Side Project. Using FSC-certified paper, Emma will guide you through the process, teaching you how to fold and make a selection of paper baubles, perfect for decorating your home over the festive season, as well as all year round.

Embossed tin decorations with Clare Youngs
1.30pm-3.30pm, £50 including all materials
Join artist Clare Youngs for a festive workshop learning the fascinating craft of tin embossing. Taking inspiration from folk art designs and patterns, Clare will show you how to use an embossing tool on the foil with templates provided, or from ones that you create yourself. Participants will go home with beautiful decorations to display, hang on the tree or to turn into unique greetings cards.

Entry to the fair is £5 or free for Garden Museum Friends and includes entrance to the museum’s collections and courtyard garden. The award-winning Garden Café will also be open serving seasonal lunch, drinks and freshly-baked treats. Lost Gardens of London, an exhibition revealing the secret history of some of London’s most beguiling forgotten gardens, will also be open as an optional ticket upgrade.