Morningside Makers Market

I have been to this market about 3 times now and I love the idea of local crafters being able to sell their wares without necessarily having a shop to do so. However, some of the sellers are well established and also sell elsewhere in town. There are some lovely homeware and gift items such as art prints, lots of jewellery, knitted crafts, clever wooden items and ttweed purses, cafetieres etc.
This market is not well advertised, as like others, I came across it by chance one day. The hall location is good for all weathers and for picking up Morningside foot traffic when the sign is out. However, the downside is that there are so many good home and giftware shops in the Morningside and Bruntsfield area, that they have a lot of competition.

I’d been wanting to check out the Morningside Makers Market for ages, thinking it would be especially good for gifts, etc.
I finally happened to be in Morningside on one of the days it was running, and had a bit of time to kill so checked it out.
As described, it’s a big (ish) room with stalls setup. My memory is a bit hazy but I’d say there were maybe about 15 stalls, selling things that, for the most part, were a bit uninspiring. I remember some cool lampshades, some nice (but pricey) purses, and some pretty cool wood crafy-​ey things.
In fact, I liked the wood crafy-​ey things so much I went and got The Man to show him the timber coat rack I was interested in. He decided that being a timber engineer gave him the skills to make that kind of stuff himself, and away we went with him formulating an idea. To be fair on him, he upcycled a timber off-​cut we had leftover from a shelf and repainted the old coat hooks that were up in the house when we moved in and I’ll be darned if he didn’t make me a timber coat rack very much like the one I was eyeing at the Makers Market.
My point with that story is that there’s some stuff here you can make yourself — and some specialised stuff too… but it’s not a place I would go out of my visit again.

I have to admit I’d never heard of this market before today. We stumbled across it quite by chance one saturday as we were wandering through Morningside looking for somewhere to go for lunch.
On the one hand, it’s always great to see local retailers and designers being supported locally. And although I’m no art conoisseur there was some gorgeous stuff on display — mainly paintings and sketches of Scottish scenery — and I was surprised at how reasonably-​priced some of it was.
However, I did get the impression that in the huge big room of stalls and stands there were only about 3 or 4 different categories of things being sold. If you’re the kind of person who loves browsing stall after stall of almost identical-​looking glass jewellery or silver-​plated chokers with semi-​precious stones on them then you’ll be in heaven here.
Otherwise, you probably won’t need to spend mor than 15 minutes or so here. That said, if you’re in the area on the first saturday of every month then you should pop in for a browse.