About

The Little Brown Dog Workshop sources and commissions beautiful solid wooden shapes for crafters, artists and toymakers.  Our items are natural and tactile - just perfect for your own creative projects. We love natural materials and finding gorgeous, high quality shapes is as important to us as it is to you. 

We're working to source more locally so that we have a fully traceable, ethical supply chain and reduce our product travel miles. At the moment some shapes are made in the UK. Most of our turned shapes are from Europe, small birch figures and drawer handles are made in the UK. Some of our stamp cut (flat shapes) and baubles originate in China.

You can find lots of lovely things in the shop and join in with what's going on in the workshop via Instagram and Facebook. 

We live in a house perched on the edge of a steep, wooded valley in the Staffordshire Moorlands, near the Peak District.

It's an old home which we are still renovating after seventeen years. It's embarrassingly eccentric, with lots of books, the workshop and my husbands office. The studio has stacks of books, jars of ribbons, pots jammed with paintbrushes, boxes full of paints and endless little treasures.  There are wood parts everywhere. I pack, paint, draw and make in the middle of it.

The garden has raised veg and flower beds, with a lot of wild corners and we are surrounded by trees and wildlife. The garden is full of birds, from the tiniest goldcrests to wheeling buzzards and resident tawny owls. Muntjac deer, squirrels, rabbits, foxes and toads share garden with us. I am inspired by all the nature and the child-like feeling that communities of magical creatures exist in the undergrowth.

Come and say hi and join in the journey at the Little Brown Dog on Facebook and Instagram!

x Susan