Handmade Colourful Wire Figures
Wire Figures For Sale
This is a picture of one of the stalls I've haven't shown you yet, from my trip to Greenwich Market.
This particular stall had handmade wire figures and animals for sale. As you can see they are very colourful. You need to click on the picture to get the full experience of all the work that goes into them.
They guy making them was doing so, standing by his stall, but I couldn't get a picture of him as there were too many other people in the way.
They were pretty cheap I thought, considering it was London, and considering the work that went into them. They were just £4 each.
In fact, I wondered how he could make a profit by the time he'd paid for a stall and the wire.
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Very interesting @gillianpearce! Sometimes it amazes me just how creative people can get... and with such unexpected materials!
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Yep. He was pretty skillful with the wire @curatorcat and pretty fast too. 😊
Very tiny and hard work. I think need to have a lot of patience and perseverance to create these little shapes :)
Yes. We probably would @madlenfox but the man making them was really fast! 😊
@gillianpearce. I think it is possible with great experience and skill :)
Very creative. Sometime the small stuff sells like crazy because everybody wants to buy SOMETHING and not go home empty handed from a place as cool as Greenwich Market. You never know. Plus some landlords actually work for variety and a certain mix and not just for getting the most rent. But these are things I say that make younger people roll their eyes...
So when you say "younger" people steven-partrick. What sort of age are we talking about here?
This landlord definitely looks for variety. All stalls are vetted and if someone else is already selling what you sell you won't get one. 😊
I'm just saying there aren't many old school retailers left. And part of retail is shopping centers or destinations with an interesting tenant mix. In the US, all the small shopping centers that used to have a baker, a butcher, a pharmacy, a card shop, a gift shop, a coffeeshop, maybe a shoe store, mens clothing store, dress shop, that type of tenant mix are gone. Those store fronts now have dollar stores, massage parlors, check cashing stores, martial arts studios, kiddo tutoring, etc. Landlords are just looking for a paying tenants.
That's probably the same in most urban shopping streets here but there are markets like this one and something specific areas that have a good mix of shops. Although they tend to be one offs rather than grocers, bakers etc.
Mind you, where I leave is an exception. We have many artisan bakeries, a butcher, a micro-brewery, independent clothes shops and even an iron monger. It's not the norm nowadays though.
That does look like quite a bit of work, and pretty high quality, too, especially the motorcycles up on the rack. Cool designs. I don't recognize any of the figurines—typically creators will make things that resemble known characters—but these appear to be his own creations, then? Or am I just not recognizing any? :)
I didn't recognise any of the characters @glenalbrethsen but I wouldn't expect to. 😁
I assumed there were well know though.
I have seen people making trees like this before but never figures. Those are cool
Yep. I think he was pretty talented. 😊
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