Urban Makers at Old Spitalfields — Wednesday 9 September
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
Anvil & Ivy
Jewellery
Everything I make starts as flat sheet or round wire and gets hammered into shape on a small stake anvil I inherited. That means the surfaces keep their planishing marks and catch the light unevenly, which is the whole point. I make wide cuffs, forged bangles and drop earrings in recycled sterling and brass. No stones, no plating, nothing that will chip. If a cuff needs resizing years later, bring it back to a market and I will sort it on the spot.
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.
Graphite Yard
Stationery
I make desk things in a small workshop: pencil cases from waxed canvas, turned wooden pen rests, and a leather roll that holds twelve pencils.
Grogged
Ceramics
I use heavily grogged clay, the coarse stuff meant for sculpture, and throw it anyway. It shreds your hands but the finished pots have a wonderful sandpaper edge. My range is planters, kitchen crocks for utensils, and big salad bowls that get passed around a table. Interiors are glazed in glossy cream or deep blue, outsides left raw so they darken with handling. I work in runs of twenty and rarely repeat a glaze beyond a single season.
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.
Marigold Mending
Textiles & accessories
My work is visible mending, done deliberately loud.
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.
Paper Cartographer
Print & illustration
I draw maps by hand of things that are not usually mapped: every lido within the M25, the lost rivers of east London, the route of a walk somebody sends me.
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. Fillings are pork and sage, a spiced mutton, and a mushroom and stout one for the vegetarians which took me a year to get right. Meat comes from a butcher in Kent who tells me the farm. Everything is baked the morning of a market and sold at room temperature with a pot of mustard.
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. Those textured sheets become domed pendants, wrap rings and long earrings. Then I oxidise everything and polish the raised parts back so the pattern reads clearly. Nothing survives the mill twice, so a pattern is only ever used once. I have been trading at London markets since 2019 and most of my customers now come back for the next one.
Slipstone Studio
Ceramics
I make functional tableware for people who cook a lot.
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