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Maw’s Craft Centre is located in the Victorian tile factory of Maw & Co. In the late 19th Century Maw & Co was the largest tile manufacturer in the world, producing over 20 million items a year at the height of the tile boom. The company's five acre site is internationally famous for its decorative wall and floor tiles. Maw’s “lists of persons and establishments supplied” ran to five pages and included the Royal Family, Alexander II of Russia, two maharajas, nine dukes, twelve earls, the railway companies, thirteen cathedrals, thirty-six hospitals, fifty-three public buildings, nineteen schools and colleges, and five warships.
The factory closed in January 1970 and went through a period of dereliction and demolition. The remaining refurbished factory buildings now have a new lease of life as the Maw’s Craft Centre. The Centre comprises of over 20 individual workshops housing a wide variety of art, craft and design specialists, including woodwork, glass, jewellery, illustration, metal work, garden furniture, pottery, puppets, flower arranging, greeting cards, antique restoration, model railways, dolls houses, soft furnishings and textiles. Maw’s is also home to a bridal couture studio, a crafts workshop for special needs students, a picture framing workshop, a maker of wigs for the theatre and opera, a recording studio and the Painting Shop Tea-room.
 Please Note: The businesses are all individual and have their own opening times, please see our website www.mawscraftcentre.co.uk for contact details. For information on art and craft classes and events please click on the relevant links.
Free admission and free parking.
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