Urban Makers at Old Spitalfields — Wednesday 4 November
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
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. The misos sit in buckets under weights for anything from six months to two years, so what I sell now was started long before I knew whether it would work. My six-month barley miso is sweet and light, the two-year is dark and properly savoury. I give people spoons and explain how to use it, since most have only met it in soup.
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.
Petal & Pavement
Plants & florals
I sell British-grown cut flowers only, which means no roses in February and a lot of explaining why. Everything comes from two growers in Kent and Essex plus a plot I share in Hackney, cut the day before and conditioned overnight in buckets. I make hand-tied bunches wrapped in paper with no cellophane, no floral foam anywhere, ever, and jam jar arrangements for people who want something ready to sit on a table. The stock changes every fortnight because that is what the season does.
Pickle Parade
Food & drink
I make the pickles I grew up eating in Poland, plus a few my English wife has talked me into.
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.
Soot & Saffron
Candles & home fragrance
I hand-roll incense the way my aunt taught me, mixing powdered woods, resins and gums with water into a stiff paste, then rolling it onto bamboo sticks and drying them flat for a week.
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.
Wednesday Woodblock
Print & illustration
I print mokuhanga, Japanese water-based woodblock, using cherry plywood, rice paste and a baren rubbed by hand.
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