The Last Tuesday Society.

The Last Tuesday Society is a shop/gallery filled with weird and wonderful things from across the world.

The curiosity shop holds lectures and parties it is an all round crazy place. To get in you have to ring the bell and you are greeted by a man dressed as though he is a professor in Harry Potter. It is described as a 17th century Wunderkabinett; a collection of objects assembled at a whim on the basis of their aesthetic or historical appeal.

Fabric Shops.

LOOP: 15 Camden Passage - yarns sourced from all over the world.

MERMAID FABRICS: 364 Mare Street

GALLIA TEXTILES: 9 - 15 Helmsley Place

WILLIAM GEE LTD: 520 - 522 Kingsland Rd

PRESTIGE DYERS: 12 Andre Street - one of the best known and most experienced garment dyeing factories in the UK.

WELCREST FABRICS: 6 Well Street.

Art Supplies.

CHROME AND BLACK LTD.
49 Bethnal Green Rd - everything you need for graffiti as well as clothing and art.

CASS ART.
66 - 67 Colebrook Row.

THE MAKE LOUNGE.
49 - 51 Barnsbury Street - contemporary craft workshops with a stylish social twist. You can learn new skills in a short time with some of London's best craft teachers in more than 35 different workshops.

Broadway Market Mews

This street is just off Broadway market, it is filled with artists studios.

THEORIES: Landscape playscapes

DIMITRA GRIVELLIS: Sand blasted porcelain

STUDIO 6 GALLERY: Ceramics by hackney potters

Broadway Market.

Broadway Market is a bustling saturday market just off Mare St and London Fields. Food, art, craft and vintage is what you should expect to find.

OUR PATTERNED HAND is a fabric and haberdashery with workspace and tuition. They sell up and coming textile designers materials. They are funky limited addition prints so not your avergae calico store!!

http://www.patternedhand.co.uk/

ours@patternedhand.co.uk

Onmy first visit to the shop I was talking to the woman who owns the store asking about the fabrics and she introduced me to one of the designers who sold her fabric there. She had studied textiles not that long ago at Brighton.

FABRICATIONS is a collective working with artists from the area. They sell projects and knit things created by the artists and promote their work.

barley@fabrications1.co.uk

http://www.fabrications1.co.uk/

The market stalls are filled with old music, vintage fashion and plenty of yummy around the world foods. Saturdays because of the market make the street incredibly hectic busy with young trendy people who sit around outside the numorous cafes and pubs filling the street with laughter.

Next to the market is London Fields. The canal is at the other end leading away from the market and giving a lovely escape from the hustle and bustle.  

Other shops to check out are:

ARTWORDS BOOKSHOP:

An arts bookstore with books, magazines, dvds and videos on contemporary visual arts. Architecture, art history and theory, fashion, graphics and photography.

L'EAU A LA BOUCHE:

A continental and british fine food store as well as a cafe and deli.

REBEL REBEL:

British flowers sourced from New Covent Garden Market.

STELLA BLUNT:

Packed with quirky furniture pieces.

FILM SHOP:

World cinema, independant film DVD rental and a selection of hollywood films, documentaries and childrens films.

Spitalfields Market.

Old Spitalfields Market is a lively, busy, trinkety market just off Brick Lane and close to Liverpool Street. There are stalls and stalls filled with some peoples junk that becomes other peoples treasure! There are old photographs, vintage tins, plenty of old cameras, retro clothing and jewellery and much much more.  

Within a huge building you can buy most things here for cheap prices and haggaling is something that happens on a regular basis with the stall owners. Its an escape from the high streets where you discover 'hidden gems' from fashion, arts to interiors and property, as you wander through areas steeped in history but recently immersed in creativity and cutting edge style. There something for everyone in Spitalfields!

The market stalls are open on thursday, friday and sunday each day has different stalls. The shops that surround the market are open all week and they sell interiors, fashion, foods, bits and bobs.

Thursday: Antiques and vintage 10 - 4

Friday: Fashion and art 10 - 4

Sunday: All the stalls 9 - 5

Generally shops are open from 11 - 7.

ANDROUET: Old Spitalfields Market

A specialist cheese shop.

THE LOLLIPOP SHOPPE: 10 Lamb Street

A carefully chosen range of crafted furniture and accessories. They represent a select group of major international manufacturers, and offers a range of classic and contemporary pieces by established designers as well as exciting, up-and-coming design talent.

LOMOGRAPHY GALLERY STORE: 117 Commercial Street

This shop stocks all the lomography style cameras and accessories. It also holds exhibitons, events and workshops.