Urban Makers at Old Spitalfields — Wednesday 21 October
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.
Crumb & Cranny
Food & drink
I bake with a sourdough starter I have kept alive for nine years and a stone-milled flour from a farm in Suffolk.
Foundry Fern
Jewellery
I do my own casting, which most makers at my scale send out.
Kiln Formed
Glass
I fuse and slump glass in a kiln rather than blowing it, so my work is flat: dishes, coasters, small wall panels and jewellery.
Koji & Co
Food & drink
I grow koji on barley in an incubator I built from a broken wine fridge, then use it to make miso, shio koji and a fermented chilli paste.
Nightshift Etching
Print & illustration
I drive a night bus four evenings a week and draw everything I see from the cab in a pocket sketchbook at the terminus.
Ore & Origin
Jewellery
Traceability is the reason I started. Every gram of metal I use is recycled and every stone comes from a cutter I can name, mostly British-mined fluorite, Scottish agate and rough diamonds from a certified single source. I make substantial rings and pendants with heavy bezels and a matt finish that suits the stones better than polish. Each piece leaves with a card saying where the material came from. It costs me more and I would rather explain why than hide it.
Quiet Hammer
Jewellery
My whole range is forged from a single gauge of square wire, twisted, tapered and curled into bangles, ear cuffs and open rings that you squeeze to fit. Because it is all one material there is very little waste, and offcuts get soldered into chain links. I work in brass for the affordable end and silver above that. The finish is deliberately dark, brought back with beeswax rather than lacquer, so it keeps ageing after it leaves me.
Slipstone Studio
Ceramics
I make functional tableware for people who cook a lot. Deep pasta bowls, a jug that pours without dribbling, plates sized for the way we actually eat rather than for a photograph. I throw in a grogged stoneware, turn the feet crisply, and glaze in satin white over a coloured slip so a line of pigment shows at every edge. It all goes in the dishwasher and the oven, which matters to me. New shapes live in my kitchen for a month before they join the range.
Stained & Salvaged
Glass
I work in copper foil, the finer technique where each glass piece is wrapped in adhesive copper tape and soldered, so the lines can be much thinner than lead allows.
The Marbled Edge
Stationery
I marble paper on a tray of thickened water, floating paint on the surface and combing it into patterns before laying a sheet on top to lift the image.
Organised by
Moderate refunds. Full refund available until 7 days before the event.
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