Established in 1984, the Makers Guild in Wales was formed to bring together and promote the best of Welsh talent and has grown and developed into a strong and vigorous organisation with an international reputation for quality and artistic innovation.

The Guild stages national and international exhibitions together with running educational programmes. The aims of the Guild are to introduce the public to works of excellence, to encourage crafts people themselves to develop contacts with others outside their own sphere of activity and to strengthen the expression and standards of professionalism within the Guild and crafts generally in Wales.

Membership of the Guild is by selection, which is extremely rigorous. This means the growth of the Guild is slow but the members believe that standards should not be compromised. There are currently 70 members of the Guild who live and work in Wales