JESSICA LIGHT AT LONDON CRAFT WEEK 26

Jessica is thrilled to be participating in London Craft Week 2026. A week long festival of craft around the U.K's glorious capital city. There will be talks, exhibitions, workshops and demonstrations around all disciplines of craft, both from the U.K. and globally. A not to miss event on the city's creative calendar.

Jessica Light, the last working passementerie weaver and maker left in London’s East End, aka ‘The Tassel Queen of Bethnal Green’, will bring her couture-crafted cult passementerie to East London Cloth’s beautiful Vyner Street showroom for London Craft Week for a celebration of the historic East London Trade of Passementerie, hand-made production and urban craft.

Jessica is part of the East End’s weavers’ line of textile practitioners that date back to the 17th century and her eponymous workshop has been at the forefront of the hand-made passementerie trade since 2008. She is known for design-led, original and unique trims and tassels that bring these 16^th century techniques alive for a contemporary market,

Jessica will be showcasing a new episode of her Wares project entitled ‘The Phoenix and the Carpet’, a selection of finely fashioned, limited edition and one-off passementerie infused home and body wares, inspired by magical, mythical and imaginary cities.

She will also be launching Black Mountain, a new hand-woven and hand-made passementerie collection of trims, tassels, tiebacks and rosettes. An ode to the weaverati, Collingwood, Mariet, Moorman et al, who shaped modern textiles with their innovative designs, material use and technical prowess. This range mixes the textural, jute and linen with the smooth, rayon, in a combined palette of brights and neutrals to create a fresh forward-moving colour story.

During the week you will be able to watch Jessica, a maker of the metropolis, as she partakes in the hand-made production of an actual passementerie order and, in conjunction, she will be opening her Bethnal Green workshop, for the first time ever to the public, to teach a one-off tassel making workshop. There will only be eight places on this workshop so early booking is essential.

A MAKER OF THE METROPOLIS.

A CELEBRATION OF THE HISTORIC EAST LONDON TRADE OF PASSEMENTERIE, HAND-MADE PRODUCTION AND URBAN CRAFT.

East London Cloth

7a Vyner Street,

London E2 9DG.

12-17 May 2026

Tues 10am-6pm

Weds 10am-6pm

Thurs 10am-6pm

Fri 10am-7pm

Sat 10am-6pm

Sun 11am-4pm

Tassel Workshop at Jessica’s Studio

Mon 11^th

2pm-5pm

Booking for workshop is via email only , info@jessicalight.co.uk

London Craft Week