The countdown is on to the Dorset Team Christmas Fair which is taking place on Saturday 1stand Sunday 2ndDecember in the Allendale Centre, Wimborne.
Each week we are going to be meeting a different stallholder who will be selling at the event.
This week we meet Caz Brown of Bark and Banter who sells leather handbags, accessories and dog collars.
Caz has been a creator all of her life. She spent her early days with her grandmother, who was a gown maker, in her workroom making small bags out of scraps of fabric. Later she moved into jewellery design and learnt how to silversmith and make her own glass beads.
Caz says her business and use of leather “started because I couldn't find a suitably grand collar for my Great Dane Ruby.” So she enrolled on a weekend course for traditional hand sewing leather skills and became hooked.
“The smell, the feel, the look of leather, along with its tactile nature is something I have grown to love. It continues to move and change over time with age, and use only enhances its beauty.
Over the last three years the yearn to make bags returned, and I started to design and create my own range of bags that are just that little bit different. I was always taught as a child that "beauty comes form within" and with that in mind my bags are lined with beautiful fabrics and vintage prints ( some preserved from my grandmothers era!) and my aim is that they are as beautiful on the inside as they are on the outside. “
Come and meet Caz and our 60+ other stallholders at the Dorset Team Christmas Fair on both Saturday 1stand Sunday 2ndDecember.
