Deptford Market runs along the length of Deptford High Street, you can pretty much buy anything fruit and vedge’, electronics, thermal underwear, fabrics. There is a great flea market in Douglas Way where I brought an rusty old paraffin lantern bargain price at 2 quid!
The Deptford Project is a new café bistro (February 2008) in a converted 57 seater train carriage designed by Studio Myerscough (with Luke Morgan) the courtyard outside at the weekend also hosts a ‘creative industries’ market. There was one of the girls from Sanctuary of Wilderness, a design studio formed by illustrators Claire Scully and Susie Wright who were at Tate Take Over – London Calling where I provided structural participatory origami. There was also a collection of wooden huts which I had seen originally in the Open City Exhibition in Somerset transformed by locally based designers. I liked them before because you walked into the interior of the house at your head height and viewed the exhibtion infomation on the walls.
I went into a vintage shop called Rag and Bone, I asked the shop assistant where they got the clothes from because they were pretty cheap compared to other vintage shops. Chris Carey’s Collection she said “ just go a have a look, its quite interesting” and gave me directions to get there. What I found under about 4 railway arches just off Deptford High Street, was massive creates of clothes and materials being sorted and repackaged, the staff were having lunch so weren’t keen to talk but the women said I could fill up a bag a buy if I wanted to.
From looking at the website they provide textile recycling banks to organizations, local authorities and charities, this is then sorted in to separate bales such as coats, blankets, mixed colour woolens…their ‘boutique is the Rag and Bone shop in Deptford. You can buy in bulk from the website, prices depend on the content of the bale.
I then cycled down to the CockPit Arts Deptford, designer makers open up their studios for the weekend sister base in, resident receive professional development, one to one business mentoring and public selling when the studios are open. Spaces are also available to hire for events or film and photo shots. As I wondered around I was a bit disappointed a lot of the ‘Open studios’ turned into selling points all the studios had been cleared and set out like stalls. Disciplines mix of ceramics, jewellery, glass, hand-woven textiles, fashion, illustration, and lots of screen printed interior decoration stuff.
Started talking about a bit of everything with Peter True for a good two hours, a guitar maker the only workshop/studio that was what it is, a workshop, wonderful tool chaos! Anyway talked about gaining skills, different practical making skills learning from generations, influence of toys and a make a mend culture to ours now. Peters mum dropped in at one point providing cake!
So while eating a piece of cake on my impromptu plate and cuppa they told me about how one year they had a very lopsided Christmas tree so his dad thinned the fuller side and replaced the branches on the other.
He showed me various guitar making bits, neck and soundboard alignment, support for the bendy ply…about the the Brockley Ukulele Group making a bricolage chocolate box ukulele, and many a list of things to look at when I find the notebook I wrote it all down in! Possibility of working with him need to give him a bell/email as I said I would but haven’t yet! And it would be fun and sure to gain some knowledge!
Bricolage: a construction made of whatever materials are at hand; something created from a variety of available things – chaotic bricolage – origin md 20th centuary – from French bricoler “do odd jobs, repair’
Website links:
The Deptford Project: www.thedeptfordproject.com
The Deptford Project gaffs: www.thedeptfordprojectgaffs.co.uk
Sanctuary of Wildreness: www.sanctuaryofwilderness.co.uk
Chris Careys Collection: www.chriscareyscollections.co.uk
Links from this website: www.londonremade.com
Cockpit Arts (18 – 22 Creekside, SE8 3DZ) : www.cockpitarts.com
Hannah Waldron: www.hannahwaldron.co.uk
Peter True : web.mac.com/peter.true/Site/
flicker set slide show builder: www.db798.com/pictobrowser/index.html
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