Yvonne Beale’s designs celebrate an art form that has been hidden for half a century. She uses re-crafted stitched primarily used in Irish crochet to create her hand-crocheted jewellery and bags.

“I’ve been knitting and crocheting since I was a child”, she explains. “I’ve reshaped stitches that were used in your granny’s tablecloth or place mats to create pieces that feel fresh and contemporary.”

The designer has a love of the style and elegance of the 1940s and 1950s. She has collected knitting and crochet magazines from those eras to re-establish a hive of stitches that have been lost.

Each highly crafted design is a limited edition. “The crochet necklaces use fresh water pearls and are ideal to dress up a black shift dress while the bow-shaped clutch offers a very modern take on knitting in fashion,” she says. Another bag, a tote with leather handles and silk-lined, uses a stitch that was popular in household items from the 1940s and 1950s. She’s showing two new necklace designs at Showcase.