Grace Horne made her first knives in 1992 as part of an educational project.  She moved to Sheffield in 1994.  She hoped to train as a cutler, but found that apprenticeships were non-existent.  Instead she enrolled for a course in metalwork and jewellery at Sheffield Hallam University, where in 2006 she completed a PhD thesis on Damascus steel and its role in custom knife-making.  Grace found an unusual workshop on Fulwood Road – an old converted public convenience for tram drivers! She follows an avowedly artistic and personal approach (Elias, 2012¹).  Her website states that she rarely takes commissions and is not particularly prolific, due to the time taken on specific projects.   But she tries to ‘alternate the weird and wonderful with the more practical’.

^1. Elias, Abe, ‘Knife Maker Grace Horne’, Knife World (February 2012)