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Hawthorne
Crafts
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Whether you are a corporate business or private individual, Hawthorne Crafts can specially design and create handmade wooden giftware to suit your specific needs . As well as commissions, we create a small selection of wooden giftware that can be purchased directly from our website.
Our Services
Customer involvement is the key to the continuing success of our business and we keep you up-to-date during key creative stages by sending work-in-progress images via email together with written details and telephone calls where appropriate. Below are just a few of the images we sent to a customer during the creation of their boxes. We find this method of keeping in touch with our customers particularly useful when giftware is being personalised or specially commissioned. For those who are having an item personally created for them, we can also create and send prototypes.
Gift Personalisation is available for all our creations. All of our giftware is available with Certificates of Authenticity that can normally be personalised with around 25 words. Certain light coloured wooden items can be pyrographed (burned) with personal details such as initials, dates, logos, or a special message. Gift Tags can also be specially made and for a gift that requires extra special packaging we can provide a gift wrapping service (for further details please contact us).
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Left to right - Image 1: The prototype mdf box. Image 2: Boxes at glue-up stage. Image 3: Boxes prior to lid/base separation
Image 4: Box created - branded, with clasp, hinges and finish. Image 5: Finished boxes ready for delivery.
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Our Products
Based in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland,
we started our craft business in 2002. Our creations are individually crafted and sold worldwide via our website. When you contact us for the first time with your requirements either directly or via Paypal we will respond promptly to confirm details. Hawthorne Crafts is a family business and both of us (Ian and Kate) work closely together
to ensure you get the giftware you want. While I (Ian) handcraft the giftware and send image updates to you via email, Kate pyrographes and organises packaging and delivery.
Our one-of-a-kind Bespoke boxes have been created with an Art Deco
influence and can be purchased directly from our site in the Gallery Section.
Past Commissions have included a tobacco box for retired Labour MP Tony Benn; presentation boxes for Red Bull; a musical note for actor Dominic Brunt (Paddy, Emmerdale Farm); a Trophy as the prize for the annual Lagan Boat Race; and the Mossley Mill Giftware Collection for Newtownabbey Borough Council's visiting dignitaries including Members of Parliament.
If you have something in particular in mind that is not currently on our website then you might wish to consider contacting us to tailor-make/commission your idea. To learn more about commissioning a gift please click here.
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Our giftware items come with certification and/or gift tags which can be personalised on request. Our creations are original wooden gifts that are naturally charming as
wedding gifts (especially the 5th Wedding Anniversary of wood) or anniversary gifts.
retirement gifts or graduation gifts.
birthday gifts or christening gifts.
corporate gifts.
In fact, they are fantastic wooden gifts for any special occasion, for any business or social event. TV News Presenter Eamon Holmes has one of our Ulster Goblets and Kevin McCloud (Channel 4, Grand Designs) was delighted to receive 3 pairs of
Lord and Lady Royal Goblets as a gift from a local company.
Our Lady Royal Goblets have also featured on
ITV show Christmas Cooks 2006 as part of their Natural Christmas theme
. As well as viewing our giftware on this website, they are currently on display at Newtownabbey Borough Council Headquarters. If you are based in Northern Ireland, we are always happy to visit and show our portfolio and some Irish wooden giftware. If not, then we can still discuss designs by post, phone, or email.
We are also winners of the Newtownabbey Small Business of the Year Award 2004. Winning the award is a great way for us to demonstrate the pride and enjoyment we get from the work we do. It is also a fantastic way to demonstrate the excellence of the service we provide. We are
also registered with the Crafts Council of Ireland. We hope to be exhibiting with them sometime in the future. Please keep an eye on this site for exhibition details.
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