For London Craft Week, weaver Maria Sigma moves her enormous loom from her home studio into The Home of Craftsmanship. While she demonstrates her work in a new environment, we caught up with Sigma about the delicate art of working from home.

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Working in her home studio has also given her so much more time – and the ability to choose her own schedule. ‘I enjoy working whatever hours I want, because I like to work until late,’ she says. And it is not just the flexible hours but the ability to actually use her home daily that she appreciates. ‘I feel that if I am not working from home, I am not enjoying it enough.’ Every day Sigma cooks in her kitchen, something she says is another way of connecting with a more tactile world. ‘We are very distanced from doing anything with our hands, we even have ready-cut vegetables,’ she says. ‘We are distant from how things used to be made by hand, by people. And I think we don’t always notice it.’

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