Sunday, 21 April 2013

Crafts at the Buttermarket

Yesterday, two ladies from Stitch and Bitch shared a stall in a craft fair in the Buttermarket (they were the ones with the hats and bunting, amongst other things). The lady organising the fair imports goods from Nepal and, I think, Tibet (she was having a conversation with a customer about the Dalai Lama when I passed by). There was also a man selling decorative ironwork, and a jewellery stall - and something I've never seen before.
Chiselbrick salvages old bricks from skips and carves them into interesting shapes for use as doorstops or bookends, or paperweights - even pet tombstones. Some of the bricks are over a hundred years old, and they look quite beautiful chipped into the shapes of hearts or letters or numbers. There's a website at www.chiselbrick.co.uk

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