Craft & Mercantile - MAY 17th

LIVE MUSIC: Bob & Paul
FOOD: Stone House Grille, Kimberton Whole Foods cafe
DRINK: Hares Hill Brewing and Excursion Ciders
DESSERT: Scrape & Scoop ice cream
MAKERS MARKET: 25+ local artisans! See below

Event Parking & Street Closure in Kimberton Village

We look forward to welcoming you all to the charming Kimberton Village for Craft & Mercantile! Our team has been working diligently to make event parking and navigation as safe and seamless as possible. We appreciate your patience and caution upon arriving in the Village for the event.

Out of an abundance of caution, Kimberton Road will be closed to thru traffic between Prizer Rd & Hares Hill Rd. Event attendees, Kimberton Whole Foods shoppers, restaurant patrons, and residents will be permitted to enter Kimberton Rd through the Hares Hill Rd side. Residents only will be permitted to enter through the Prizer Rd side. Any non-event or non-related business traffic will be rerouted around via either Hares Hill Rd or Coldstream Rd.

Event parking is available in the CR Davis parking lot (next to KWF store & behind the warehouse) and the municipal lot on Prizer Rd. Our parking attendants will be stationed & ready to direct traffic and parking at each of these locations. If these lots are full, traffic will be directed to overflow parking at the KYAL Baseball Fields across from Kimberton Fairgrounds. The event can be easily accessed via a 5-7 minute walk from overflow parking thru Kimberton Park past the amphitheater which backs up to Kimberton Whole Foods parking lot. If you’re unfamiliar with the area, don’t worry! Clearly marked signage will be posted to guide you from your parking lot to the event, and our parking attendants can happily guide you in the right direction. Handicap parking is available in the KWF store parking lot, first come first served.

While we hope there will be parking readily available for all who attend, we do recommend & appreciate carpooling or ride-sharing when possible!

Please note: Kimberton Whole Foods grocery store will be open until 8pm!

While we love your furry friends, dogs are not permitted at this event due to lack of green space for them to play, large crowds of humans (incl. small children), and vehicle traffic expected in parking areas - all of which combined do not offer a welcoming environment for dogs. We appreciate you helping keep our pets safe by leaving them at home.

MEET THE MAKERS: 5/17!

**click on photo below for more information about each maker!

A Natural Girl

Bath & Body/Apothecary

A Natural Girl is a skincare company that formulates body and hair care products made from natural ingredients. We understand that ingredient transparency as well as using products that fulfill its promise is extremely important to our customers. At A Natural Girl, we take pride in formulating products that always keep our customer's needs and wants in mind.

Avant~Garden Pottery

Ceramics/Pottery

Wheel-thrown, stoneware pottery for floral design, ikebana and some kitchen & garden ware items also. Most pieces contain a permanently attached pin frog for unique ways of arranging flowers.

Casey Saccomanno Art

Art

Casey Saccomanno is a Berwyn, PA based bohemian style textile, print, & mural artist specializing in watercolor & fiber art. Casey is often inspired by nature's botanicals & blooms while painting & creating in muted calming color palette. A wide array of original artwork, art prints, greeting cards, ornaments, macrame wall hangings, plant hangers, & custom mural consultations are offered at her markets.

Darling Studios

Pottery

Kel Darling, the potter behind Darling Studios, has been making pottery for more than half her life. Every part of the ceramics process feels exciting to her, existing at the crossroads of beauty and function, drawing from earth, water, and fire. Darling Studios tries to communicate that excitement, featuring hand-thrown pottery that is both useful and elegant. All pieces are made to be used often, and are dishwasher and microwave safe.

Earthencolor

Clothing & Accessories

Earthencolor is a lifestyle inspired by a love of nature and is a way of honoring the slow process through the art of botanically dyeing. Each piece is designed, sewn, and dyed in house in small batches by textile artist chelsea thompson

Erin Hulse Candles

Candles

All candle containers have been thrifted or up-cycled, which means the designs and styles will continually be changing and updated based on what I find! They are hand poured in small batches and are made with all natural oils and soy wax. Being able to give a new life to something that has otherwise been forgotten is an exciting challenge that I love to share with other people. Once your candle is burned out, please feel free to reuse your container for whatever you see fit! That way, we can continue to reuse and recycle.

Fabled Fibers Co

Macrame and Accessories

We are a small shop specializing in handmade decor and accessories.

Grateful Merchant Co.

Candles

Grateful Merchant Co. is an indie designer and maker of home fragrance products inspired by the music of the Grateful Dead. All of their handcrafted goods, like candles & incense, are slow-made in small batches and designed with a purpose - to make you smile. And you can breathe easy knowing everything is created with high quality, eco-friendly ingredients. You don’t have to be a Dead Head to like their products... you just gotta like stuff that smells good!

Hamiltonian Designs

Art, Jewelry

Jessica H. Turner is a mixed media artist specializing in paper illustration and jewelry making. Her current medium of choice is paper, playing with color, texture & depth. Inspired by the paper cutouts of Matisse, she is intrigued by anything that lends itself to getting lost in imagination. Hamiltonian Designs is the name of her jewelry collection where she uses a variety of techniques & styles. She is focused on semi-precious beadwork, wire wrapping, and painted pendants. Each piece is one of a kind, especially the pieces made with acrylic paint skins. Practicing acrylic paint pouring, she collects the leftover paint that drips off the canvas and lets it dry on a tray. When the paint is peeled off, it is called a “skin” and can be applied to metal, wood, or an epoxy and used in jewelry.

Heady Betty’s

Jewelry

Studio Manager for a National Geographic Photographer by day, creative maker, Heady Betty, by night. I've always been an artist, and while working full time for another artist for the last 9 years, it became pretty hard to find time to express myself creatively outside of work.

Right before the pandemic, I took a workshop on resin jewelry making with pressed flowers, and BOOM, Heady Betty's began! Since then my brand has flourished into not only resin jewelry, but also charcuterie boards, moon phase wall hangings, crystal air plant holders, crystal mirrors, and sun catchers. I love everything celestial, holographic, shiny and pretty. Heady Betty wares add a little bit of light to your body, home, and soul.

Honey Rae Soap & Co.

Bath & Body/Apothecary, Candles

We are a woman owned, family oriented company. We strive to make all of our products with natural ingredients from the oils, down to the colorants. We also focus on sourcing as many of our ingredients from our small farm as possible. In many of our companies products you may find dried herbs from the gardens, goat milk from Delilah the Nubian goat, and wax from the farm's bee hives. If we cannot produce our ingredients from the farm, we do our best to support other small businesses or farms. Honey Rae products include our handmade soaps, 100% soy wax candles, nourishing body balms, natural bath bombs, beard care products, and more!

Julie Miller Pottery

Ceramics/Pottery

Julie Miller is a potter from Phoenixville who created handmade stoneware pottery in her home studio. Each piece is thrown on the potters wheel and decorated by hand using a technique called slip trailing where clay is made into a slurry, put into a squeeze bottle and piped onto the surface of each pot.

KC Essentials

Personal Care Items

In 2014, our infant son had an anaphylactic reaction to yogurt, which led to the diagnosis of his many food allergies. I needed to carefully consider what I put into and on his little body. And as I began to carefully read ingredient labels, I discovered that most products contained unnatural elements, some potentially harmful. I decided to scratch-make personal care products for our entire family. I started sharing our son’s story and my quest with other parents and soon realized many people had similar concerns. And so, KC Essentials was born! As the "Queen Bee" of KC Essentials, it is my mission to make wholesome products and make them easily accessible. All of my products are made by hand in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

LoveLeigh Craft Co

Jewelry

My name is Leigh and I am obsessed with making pretty things! I’ve been making jewelry since I was a kid, starting with friendship bracelets and eventually falling in love with leather, cork and wood earrings. My work is lightweight, sustainable and affordable. They are a perfect gift for someone you love (especially yourself)!

Lucky 13 Silver Co

Jewelry

Hi! My name is Gabriella Gizzio and I am a self-taught metalsmith! I make unique handcrafted fine jewelry using sterling silver, gold fill, brass, copper, and stones such as turquoise. I make a variety of products including silver rings, cuff bracelets, pendants, earrings, and hairpins. I also make spoon rings and cuff bracelets using recycled antique flatware. I hand pick each piece of silverware and craft them into beautiful pieces of jewelry that will last a lifetime!

m.e.g.bags

Clothing & Accessories, Fiber & Textiles

M.E. Gutridge is a maker of bags - both practical and pretty. Creator of the Pack-it-out-Pouch, a bag that carries your dogs poo so that you don't have to! Maker of handbags, wristlets, hip-bags, totes, wallets, and dog treat pouches. M.E. (stands for Mary Elizabeth, but she's always been M.E.) chooses her own fabrics based on the season and trends and makes every bag by hand; every stitch. A retired homeschool mom she's found time to grow her business now that her children are grown.

MESC Designs

Jewelry

MESC Designs offers jewelry hand made by Mary E. S. Cox with recycled sterling silver and recycled gold fill. Specializing in rings sizes 3-14, also making earrings, bracelets and necklaces. Mary values flow and versatility in her work. Creating negative spaces, balancing weights and using textures to bring lightness, contrast and compliment to the human form. She creates quality pieces for daily wear that will stand up to the test of time. They are catered to mixing, matching and creating your own look.

Middle Sister Designs

Florals

My name is Liz and I started Middle Sister Designs in 2019. I’m making ear lobes just a little cuter every day with my polymer clay earring designs!

OnlyInTheForest foraged botanical art

Art, Accessories, Jewelry

All of my work uses ethically foraged botanicals and ephemera as their foundation.
Cyanotypes, or sunprints, capture the shadows of plants set in rays of the same sun that have sustained them their whole lives. Resined collages in the form of jewelry and wall hangings evoke the Victorian genre of the diorama, since resin allows, with various layers, a three-dimensionality that can effectively communicate passing time. Many pieces incorporate the same plant in different phases (flowering, going to seed, dying), and insects in different life stages (pupa and adults), and compressed seasons happening all at once.

Peak Knot

Handcrafted home goods

Peak Knot was created by Mindy Zenes. Each unique macrame and crochet item is made with love and inspired by nature.

Phoenixville Honey

Food & Beverage

Phoenixville Honey is a local beekeeper producing raw honey from beehives in the Phoenixville area. Extracted and bottled in small batches, our honey showcases the unique honey produced throughout the season from a variety of floral sources. We also make hand poured beeswax candles, honey dippers, and hand printed tea towels.

Rare Bird Handmade

Jewelry

Rare Bird Handmade is run by artist, Courtney Jacob.She has a background in Interior design and a love of all vintage, colors and pattern.
All jewelry is handmade in small batches from actual vintage tins, trays and canisters. Each piece is sourced from all over- from thrift shops, yard sales, attic clean outs, estate sales, or your granny’s basement! I recreate the tins into lightweight, sustainable modern, jewelry. I make shapes that I like and think most compliments the gorgeous patterns on the tin. I often add modern hand cut brass pieces and vintage and modern beads to compliment the beautiful patterns on the tin. All scraps go into the recycle bin.
This fun boho, lightweight jewelry is a beautiful example of vintage appreciation and re-using and Up-cycling! No two pairs are alike.

Raysun Design

Art, Home Goods, Woodwork

Raysun Design, creating distinctive furnishings for home and office based in thoughtful handmade design. Featuring the work of Mixed Media Artist Robert Edward.

Shelby's Squad

Pet Accessories

Hi I'm Shelby, the creative hands behind Shelby's Squad. Born and raised in Chester County, I developed a love for dogs early on. I turned my passion for sewing and love of dogs into a hobby I know others will enjoy. My collection of handmade adjustable dog collars and leashes has an eclectic mix, and variety of colors and patterns...something for everyone! I use heavy nylon with a ribbon overlay for both fashion and durability. If you don't see what you like, custom orders are always welcome!

Stuff Dave Made

Art, Clothing & Accessories

Dave Yasenchak is a pen and ink illustrator and muralist, specializing in black and white drawings that range from realistic natural renderings to surrealistic dreamscapes. His offerings include original artwork, prints, t-shirts, pins, stickers, patches and more!

Sundry Mornings

Food & Beverage

sun·dry: ˈsəndrē/adjective: sundry
1. of various kinds; several.
"lemon rind and sundry herbs"

Sundry Mornings is a line of delicious culinary treats to help spice up anyones meal. By adding a kick to your every day recipes or extra flare to the dinning room table, they are here to bring variety to your culinary style.
All products are made in small batches using local ingredients when available, dried in house and ground fresh. Along with their blends they offer a collection of local and single sourced herbs and spices, hot sauces and their famous, Bloody the Vampire Slayer, Bloody Mary mix.

The Aroma Alchemists

Bath & Body/Apothecary

The Aroma Alchemists is an aromatherapy-based line of self-care essentials. We only use the highest quality ingredients we can get our hands on. Highest quality means our materials are biodynamic, organic or wild-crafted/harvested, sourced from around the world. Our ingredients are grown from nature, not man-made in a lab. Our essential oils are third-party tested because not all essential oils are created equally. Everything is hand-made by certified aromatherapist, Ashley Marie Marks. Our products range from organic beeswax and coconut oil candles scented with organic essential oils to essential oil diffuser blends, facial steams, hydrosols, nasal inhalers, roll-on blends, and salts + soaks.

The Basement Workshop

Woodwork

The Basement Workshop is at The Strawberry Market! Be sure to stop by our tent and check out our handmade wooden boards and utensils that you could use to display and serve your culinary delights.

Wiley Wood Burning

Woodwork

Wood art inspired by all things nature. Each piece is individually handcrafted so no two pieces are the same. Wiley Wood Burning is excited to share original work and bring the beauty of nature into your home!