Urban Makers at Old Spitalfields — Wednesday 12 August
By Urban MakersOur weekly midweek maker market in the covered hall at Old Spitalfields. Free entry, 11am–5pm.
About this event
Where
Old Spitalfields Market
16 Horner Square, Spitalfields, London E1 6EW
Good to know
Free entry
No ticket needed — just turn up. Bring a bag for life.
Step-free access
The whole market is step-free with accessible toilets on site.
Getting here
Please travel by public transport or bike — there is no visitor parking.
Meet the makers
Coptic & Co
Stationery
Coptic binding is the oldest codex structure there is and it lets a book open completely flat, which matters enormously if you are drawing across a spread. I sew every signature onto exposed chain stitches between wooden or board covers, punching the holes by hand with a bodkin. My sketchbooks come in cartridge and mixed media paper, plus a watercolour version with proper cotton rag. Nothing is glued at the spine, so a book of mine will still open flat in thirty years.
Moth & Moon Jewellery
Jewellery
My work is all lunar phases and moth wings, cut from silver sheet and given a satin brush finish. I hand-pierce each shape, file the edges until they are soft enough to wear against skin, and hang them from hoops or fine chain. There is a little enamelling too, in a dusty lilac I mixed myself. I sell mainly earrings, because that is what people reach for, but the moth brooches are the pieces I am proudest of. Everything comes boxed in recycled card.
Peculiar Pies
Food & drink
I make hand-raised pies with a hot water crust, moulded around a wooden dolly rather than baked in a tin, so they stand up on their own and have that thick shattering pastry.
Petal & Pavement
Plants & florals
I sell British-grown cut flowers only, which means no roses in February and a lot of explaining why.
Riverbed Jewellery
Jewellery
I roll-print my silver using dried grasses, feathers and lace collected on walks, running them through the mill under enough pressure to leave a permanent impression.
Sunday Metals
Jewellery
I run a bench in a shared workshop and make in weekly batches, which is where the name comes from. The range is deliberately small: three ring profiles, two hoop sizes and a pendant, all in recycled silver, all available with a stamped word inside. I stamp letter by letter with steel punches, so the spacing is never machine-perfect. It is affordable, sturdy jewellery, the kind you put on and forget about. Repairs are free for the first two years, no questions asked.
Two Left Thumbs
Ceramics
I am entirely self-taught and my pots look it, cheerfully. I hand-build with coils and slabs, so there are wobbly mugs, lopsided planters and jugs with ears for handles, then I paint them with underglaze faces and stripes. It is all earthenware, fired twice, and properly glossy. Most of my customers are buying a gift and want something that makes somebody laugh when they unwrap it. I keep prices deliberately low, because being playful should not mean being precious.
Wildseed Jewellery
Jewellery
Enamel is my material. I sift powdered glass onto copper and silver and fire it in a small kiln, usually four or five layers, and the colour only really arrives at the end. My palette is meadow: poppy red, cornflower, a green that shifts depending on the light. The shapes are simple domed discs and petal drops, so the colour does the talking. Enamel chips if you drop it on tile, and I say so honestly rather than pretending it is indestructible.
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