Established over 40 years ago, Coniston Stonecraft work with the stunning Lakeland landscape to create handmade products from locally quarried slate. Their workshop sits at the foot of the Old Man of Coniston, where their craftsmen use traditional skills and processes passed down through generations to produce their luxury Cumbrian slate products.
Slate is an incredibly hard-wearing, durable material, which thankfully also makes beautiful decoration. At Coniston Stonecraft, all their slate pieces are designed to privilege clean lines, showing off each piece of slate’s unique markings.
Coniston Stonecraft’s workshop also uses the ‘becks’ (streams) that run either side of them, Church Beck and Mines Beck, to produce hydro-electric power and to cool their machines, removing any need at all to use oil or fossil fuels. All their slate is sourced from local quarries, never more than a dozen miles away – this supports other local industry, reduces their environmental footprint, and ensures the highest quality slate. Each Coniston Stonecraft piece is therefore a uniquely handcrafted, sustainable product, representing the best of Cumbrian and British workmanship.
