Joseph Popper is probably, so far, the We Made It interviewee operating most squarely within the world of fine art: his work is weighty with concept and highly immersive, and he operates within the world of galleries and commissions. But he very certainly belongs in this section. His stage sets for "speculative scenarios and fictional experiences" are intricately crafted, meticulously constructed, based on the design principles and techniques of the set builders of 20th century cinema. 

The arts will always rely on craft – and that goes a hundredfold when period detail is important. The atmosphere of Sam Wanamaker's recreation of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in Southwark is dependent on, among many other things, the candles that light the productions. Over on the Bruichladdich site, we meet the man who creates those candles by techniques as old as the dramas that play out in the Globe.

Hand knitting has had a bit of a moment recently. Making your very own jumper was suddenly fashionable, but the knitter still had to follow, stitch by stitch, a pattern invented by someone else. And then, in 2013, along came Knyttan. Here was something quite different: the individual now contributed to the design rather than the making and the resulting garment had a professional finish.

The Garudio Studiage collective could scarcely be more archetypal of London's current generation of makers. Their work – more often than not produced for ordinary consumers as jewellery, accessories or home decor, using found objects as subject matter and often as materials – blurs the lines between pop art, documentary, comedy and occasionally political commentary.

Lauren O' Farrell is the founder of the UK’s largest craft community, a pioneer in the world of graffiti knitting, and a published author. She battled with cancer for three years and came out the other side with a new found passion for life, craft and art. Katherine McLaughlin spoke to her about her creative process, her evolution from knitter to street artist, the way in which she has used social media to her advantage, her mini knitted Sarah Lund and her art work for Emma Freud.

Katherine McLaughlin: Why did you start knitting?

Anna Skodbo's route to designing her ethical, environmental and "crosstown" fashion brand Phannatiq has hardly been ordinary. From teaching martial arts, to living on rice and ketchup, to stints playing cello in a Norwegian black metal band, Skodbo has had what you might term a "portfolio career".

She brings that eclectic approach, as well as a deep commitment to a more sustainable and less narrow approach to fashion, and a passion for her home in Walthamstow, eastLondonto Phannatiq – her clothing label.

South Londoner Laszlo Beckett is someone for whom design, manufacture, craft, and indeed art, are fairly arbitrary divisions within the creative process. His furniture combines the hyper-modern - particularly in his signature pixellated decorative panels - with meticulous hand-crafting and satisfyingly proportions that reflect a broad knowledge of classic European, Asian and American design.

Danish-born Lise Marker is the perfect example of someone for whom a heirarchy between art and craft is an anachronisitic irrelevance. With work spanning fashion, film, theatre, fine art, music and more, she is a designer, conceptualist and maker, who constantly recontextualises the familiar and makes it strange. Over on the Bruichladdich site, Joe Muggs finds out more.

A concert grand piano is a compendium of trees. Traditionally, the piano case is made of laminated layers of maple and mahogany. Then you’ve got your pine bracing, beech legs, pine keybed with more beech and maple, a pin-block made of rock maple, beech and a tough African hardwood called boobinga. 

With its team of artists and craftsmen Factum Arte resembles the workshops of old, the rhythmic clatter of hammer and chisel a sound that has rung through city streets for centuries. But alongside the painters and sculptors are software designers and engineers, 3D printers and robots, evidence of 21st-century technologies that, under the directorship of artist Adam Lowe are being brought into the orbit of traditional artisanal skills.