Urban Makers at Old Spitalfields — Wednesday 16 December
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.
Foundry Fern
Jewellery
I do my own casting, which most makers at my scale send out. A small centrifugal caster, a burnout kiln and a lot of patience. I carve the originals in blue wax, so the models are properly sculptural: chunky fern-frond rings, ridged bands, a pendant like a rolled leaf. All the silver is recycled and the scrap goes straight back into the crucible. If you want a size that is not on the table, I will take the order and post it within a fortnight.
Lost Wax Lane
Jewellery
I carve wax models under a magnifying lamp, which is how I lose whole afternoons. The pieces come out heavy and architectural: signet rings with a chiselled face, wide bands with a carved chevron, cufflinks that look like small buildings. Casting is done at a foundry in Hatton Garden and I do all the filing, sanding and polishing myself, which is the unglamorous majority of the work. Everything is available in silver as standard and in 9ct gold to order.
Offcut Studio
Woodwork
Everything I make comes from the skips of joinery workshops across east London, which means my material is free and completely unpredictable. I glue up offcuts into striped blocks and turn or cut them into bowls, coasters, small shelves and door handles. The stripes make it obvious the wood had a previous life. Nothing is stained. All the colour is the timber itself, oak next to iroko next to painted MDF edges. I usually have about eight species on a table at once.
Pigeon Post Prints
Print & illustration
I draw the birds nobody paints. Pigeons on bollards, gulls raiding a chicken shop bin, parakeets in a plane tree. It starts as ink and brush on paper, then I screen print the drawings by hand in three or four colours on heavy stock. I pull every print myself in a shared studio, so an edition takes a whole weekend. Alongside the prints I sell postcards and a risograph zine of drawings I made on the overground, which is where most of this began.
Signet & Salt
Jewellery
I hand-engrave, which is a stubborn craft to have chosen in 2026.
Sunday Metals
Jewellery
I run a bench in a shared workshop and make in weekly batches, which is where the name comes from.
Woad & Weft
Textiles & accessories
I keep an indigo vat going in my back yard and feed it like a sourdough starter, which is exactly as odd as it sounds. Everything I dye is shibori: bound, folded or stitched before it goes in, then unpicked wet to reveal the pattern. I dye linen napkins, cotton bandanas, silk scarves and a small run of cushion covers. The blue oxidises from green to indigo in front of you as it comes out of the vat, and I bring a small vat to markets to demonstrate.
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