Celebrating Creativity and Connections at the Matus Johannesburg Trade Show: A Colourful Success for Dowel & Co.

2024 marked our debut at the Matus Johannesburg Trade Show. The theme, “A Colour Festival,” was inspired by Matus’ new corporate colours. Active Concepts did an outstanding job designing and constructing our stand. We spent a labour-intensive weekend sanding and painting rebated MDF boards that represented our dowels. On Wednesday, October 2nd, we packed up […]
Dowels are Indispensable in Needlecraft

Wooden knitting and crochet needles are made from dowels, but dowels have many other uses in needlework and dressmaking studios. For instance, pegboards with dowel pins are handy for organizing tools like scissors and rotary cutters. Dowels can be mounted on walls or placed in drawers to hold thread spools and bobbins, keeping them from […]