The Outside Artisans is a collective of creative craftspeople. We aim to provide an outlet for handmade goods and commissions provided by artisans who would otherwise find markets inaccessible.

The core of The Outside is a small group of people who enjoy working outdoors as much as possible using natural materials gathered or grown locally. Our inspiration comes from nature, botany, living history, experimental archaeology and traditional crafts. We have spent many years gaining experience, honing skills and teaching a wide range of people land based heritage crafts.

We are Soil Association certified Organic and grow and use natural dyes to create a vibrant range of wool and silk products in a rainbow of colours. Anyone who has met us knows that we also dye a fantastic range of British wool socks, produced entirely in the UK by Arbon Socks. Our very loved flock of organic Shetland and Shetland x Gotland  sheep provide much of the fleece we dye and offer for felters, spinners and other woolly crafts. Some of their best fleeces are now being made into unique and beautiful hand felted rugs. The wider collective also works with linen, hemp, clay, leather, metals and a range of artistic media.

We are always open to new projects, please contact us if you have a commission.

We were established in 2012. You can find out here which events we will soon be a part of.