Get in the festive spirit at our Dorset Christmas Event!
A Christmassy day out for all ages. With local crafters, you can buy all your Christmas gifts, watch live entertainment, plus children can see Santa arrive in a tank and explore our Christmas trail.
Annual Passes and memberships are valid for this event, and all tickets include free returns for a year. See the full programme and find out which high-quality craft stalls are attending.
- In partnership with Dorset Team – Makers and Creatives from across Dorset
- 14-15 November, 10am – 4pm
- Stalls selling high-quality local products
- See Santa arrive in a tank
- Christmas trail for kids
- Festive food and drink from The Tank Museum Restaurant and Café
- Live entertainment
- Get all your Christmas presents from independent crafts, all part of Dorset Team – a community of makers and creatives from across Dorset.
- Over 100 local stalls selling high-quality crafts, art, toys, gifts and more
- From jewellery made of sea glass and handcrafted socks, to unique liqueurs and thriller novels, we guarantee there will be something for everyone on your list
- Plus, The Tank Museum’s Shop will be open all weekend, selling a wide range of models, books, clothing and novelty homeware for military history fans
- See Santa and the elf arrive in an armoured vehicle at 12pm
- Children can meet and talk to Santa as he walks around the site during the day
- Great photo opportunities, and a chance to give Santa your Christmas list
- Children can explore The Tank Museum with our festive “Frank on a Tank” elf trail
- Little ones can also run off steam in our soft play
More details coming soon – please check back nearer the time.
Check out some of the independent businesses that will be there:
One-of-a-kind gifts, bags and homeware using upcycled and vintage textiles – giving beautiful old fabrics a new life.
Knitted, wired nursery & toddler room decor that adds that soft unique touch to any room. Each item can be customised to match your theme and colour and make great gifts for your loved ones.
Bark & Burl produce small furniture and wooden homeware items including chopping boards, coffee tables and much more in between.
Luxury handpacked gift hampers filled with Dorset produce.
Rural Creations, Organic Designs & Natural Sculptures. Beautiful hand made wire tree sculptures, bringing a sense of eternal nature to any home.
Handmade raffia hats, bags and accessories – find out more here.
Children’s pictured book author – Creating fun, engaging and rhyming picture book stories.
We craft small-batch, award-winning artisan fudge, expertly made in exquisite flavours using the finest local ingredients wherever possible. Proud Love Local, Trust Local winners and members of Dorset Food and Drink.
Tracy Pritchard is an artist who creates original paintings and painted homeware inspired by the landscape and coast, as well as endangered wildlife. Her work includes small original paintings, prints and hand painted homeware, all made with care and attention to detail.
I’m Emily, and from my Dorset garden studio, I create wheel-thrown ceramics using stoneware clay. My designs are rustic and homely with joyful forms, and I love creating tactile pieces that nod to the making process through patterns and textures – allowing you to feel a connection to the craft with every use
Jane creates blue & white designs by hand using cyanotype photography combined with a modern twist to make prints, bone china mugs, greetings cards, and 70-piece and 300-piece wooden jigsaws – and all made here in Dorset.
Animal artist, illustrator and curator who paints colourful paintings of all sorts of animals. She also uses her art to make accessories like tote bags, purses and pins, as well as stationary items like stickers, notepads and bookmarks. You can purchase her art as high quality prints framed or unframed.
Annie creates Travel Posters of Dorset and Beyond, inspired by the Retro Railway Posters, but with a modern spin as she specialises in digital art.
At Dots & Blocks we’re passionate about sharing positivity through creativity using wooden printing blocks. We keep our prices low to make creativity more affordable and accessible to all.
At our stall you will find a whole host of individual crafty supplies as well as our fully inclusive Block Printing kits. Suitable for all abilities, age 5 to 105!
Heidi makes traditional hand painted, kiln fired, leaded stained glass.
3 Poppy Designs
Adriena’s Emporium
Alison Nash
allthingsraffia
Angi Corrall Illustrated
Anya Mosaics
Apex Interface Ltd
Artesian Tea Blends
Artwork by Jan
Bakes by Tess
Bambi’s Bakes
Bark & Burl
Barking Bobbins
Bath bomb boutique
Becky Walker Jewellery
Bel’s Bakes
Beside The Sea Jewellery
Beyond Brushes by Annie
Black Cat Artist
Black Ven Distillery Ltd
Buu’s Bay
By Eliza Naden
Cake & Sprinkles Cakeaway
Cards, Crafts and Creations
Carls Silhouettes
Caz Larcombe Ceramics
Ceramics By Emily
Cheyne Ceramics
Chickies Luxury Eggs
Cinnamon Craft Company
Coastal Creations By AMW
Coral & Kelp
Corks with Love
Cotton Glass Creations
Crafty Stamps
Cunning Artificer
Cursed By Kate
Cushionopolygifts
Cutler Aesthetics
Cyano Blue Designs
Dea & Co Studio
Debbie’s Glass
Dinky Pinkie Designs
Dorset Maid
Dorset Wildlife Trust
Dots & Blocks
Downstream Dorset
Drip Drop Bake Stop
Elfin Knits
Elsee Art
Emma Challis children’s author
Exmoor Engraving
Flossie’s Place
Forest Fusion Pyrography and Crafts
Forget me not designs
From The Forest
Gerri’s fabric gems /John’s Quirky wood
Get Felt
Glass by Michelle
Handmade By Lily B
Handmade by Steph
Happy You And Mee
Heidi’s Stained Glass
Hettie’s Crafty Creations
HexNex
House Martin Jewellery
House of Colour
Jaded Jewellery
Jess Day Illustration
Jolanna
Joseph Bear Designs
Jude Shaw Jewellery
JupiterSeaGlass
Jurassic Coast Designs
JustJane Crafts
K C’s Pretty Pleasures
Kinsey Jewellery & Gifts
Knight knits and other bits
Knightwood PhotoArt
Krafty Kows
KT MOO Crafts
Lavender studios
liliefish ltd
Little Keeps Studios
Liz Parry embroidery
Lizzi bee crafts
Loren Dowding Art
Lottie&Geoff
Mac & Betsy
Macramé with Manda
Magikgrotto
Maple Glass
Mark Larcombe – Printmaker
Marshmallow Avenue
Michael Forester Books
Monika Kiss Crochet
Munky & Bee
My life living with Autism
Natural spin yarns
Nick Dale Artist
Nicola Juliet Silver Creations
Orchardshades
PADDOCK21
Paint & Pop
Pegasus Crystals
Pens ‘n’ Pebbles
Petersham Cottage Candles
Phoebe’s Kitchen
Rags to cushions
Redbridge Crafts
Reindeer with Sunglasses
Reinettehdesigns
Relenka Fudge
Rescue and Restore
Salty kisses crafts
Sammy Sews Dorset
Shelly’s artisan silversmithing
Slip Stitch
SOCKIES
solicious yarn & crochet
Stitch and Meadow
Studio B
Studio Tierra
Susan Lowes Designs
Susi Gardner Artist
Swanage baby bouquets
Tamarind Artisan
Tarrant Valley Honey
The Bright Society
The Cosy Chapter Preloved Book Bundles
The Cosy Warren
The Dorset hamper company
The Dorset Soap Shed
The Fairies Wardrobe
The Gaming Circus Ltd
The Resinoire
The Selenite Cove
The Velvet Vine
The Whimsical Forager
The Woodland pigeon
Theli and Threads
Tinted Lily
TomFoolery Woodcrafts
Tracy Pritchard Art
Tropic Skincare with Ellie
Utazo Spirits Ltd
Vibes Resin
Wax N Co
Whispers From The Wild Path
Wild Cyan & Harris
Wilder and Rose
Wonder & Shine
Wounded Healing
Wrapt in Mist
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