Craft fair

"Origin" has replaced the Chelsea Craft Fair, moving this annual display of "the best in crafts" from crowded, hot Chelsea Town Hall to the airier, cooler venue of the courtyard of Somerset House. It's handy for City Lit, so I went along after class and found an hour was about enough to see it all - though thinking about it afterwards, it seems a blur!

The felt necklace that looked like high-octane liquorice allsorts was an eye-catcher - and the maker was wearing a slimmer, more scarf-like version -Interesting jewellery made of layers of paper by Leah Miles -Moon jars by Adam Buick -And the usual knitwear, ceramics, jewellery, etc - but a spotlight on basketry, with a hands-on area where you could deconstruct and reconstruct basketry - an interactive project by Shane Waltener.And some niches exhibiting "interventions" - including works by Dail Behennah, who has made anethereal constructions with stretched fishing line, drawing in space; archictural rolled paper by Elizabeth Murton; work by Shuna Rendell and Lois Walpole; and Laura Street's plaited paper-clay constructions invading a domestic space. "Rising sun" by Kazuhito Takadoi consisted of zillions of tied twigs, with a large branch forming a horizon behind which the sun rose.

Outside, that basket (by Laura Ellen Bacon) slumping off the corner of the building, and this walkway by Lee Dalby -