I am on a mission to champion craftsmanship through Artfully Crafted, a platform I have created to spotlight the current generation of master makers in order to inspire the next. Discover the skills and meet the makers behind a broad and diverse range of crafts from silversmithing and woodcarving to weaving and embroidery, with a new video published every Saturday.
This week I am interviewing Eppie Thompson, who is an embroiderer, multimedia artist and founder of @thefabledthread:
www.youtube.com/@thefabledthread
thefabledthread.com/
thefabledthread
Contents of this video:
00:00 start
01:59 introduction & materials
03:52 structure of the business
05:27 listening to one's community
06:16 building people's skill and confidence
08:26 freestyle workshop
09:02 being an educational business
09:48 being from a creative family
11:44 creativity comes from confidence
12:59 drawing
14:21 what makes a compelling piece
16:17 1st visual segment
16:45 starting the business
20:41 embroidery getting more attention
21:35 patient crafts
22:08 launching during lockdown
23:16 building one's own website
23:42 Marc & Rosey
24:31 building up the team
25:42 lessons learnt
28:03 funding & investing into the business
32:30 2nd visual segment
32:45 being purpose-driven & approach to collaborations
37:22 finding the why
43:15 responsibilities as founder and face of the brand
46:16 knowing what to let go of
47:47 doing what you love
49:16 owning one's own assets
51:51 resilience
57:31 five years' time and beyond
Things mentioned in the video:
Marc & Rosey www.stoplookandlisten.studio/
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Music by Lorena Shapiro upper_attic
Stop-motion intro by Georgie Beattie gbeats24
All opinions are my own.
This video is not an instructional guide.
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