Artisan Market | March Patches

Returning to its staple winter venue, Patches – The Special Market will make its way to ‘Is-Suq tal-Belt’, Merchants Street, Valletta with a raft of new artisans and artists of every persuasion on board tomorrow from 10:30 to 18:00. 

Valletta’s indoor market will play host to over 30 creative individuals, who will be plying their homemade wares to a growing number of visitors. The previous edition of Patches was held during Christmas time. Apart from being the first time that the initiative – the brainchild of Denise Scicluna and Jimmy Grima – was held at Is-Suq, it was also provided an ample opportunity for gift-buying.

In fact, Patches has always striven to promote original attempts at handcrafts and other homemade goods: in fact, ‘perishables’ will also be sold – watch out for stalls selling sweets and tea (and you’ll need them if you plan to browse through the entire market).

“With this edition we’ve had plenty of applications. As a result, the stalls will be quite varied. The four or five ‘regulars’ we’ve amassed over the year will be there, but along with a couple of new (and quite original) stalls,” Scicluna said, while pointing out that Patches, launched at the Upper Barrakka on 13 June, 2010 is nearly a year old.

“Our next edition, taking place around April/May, will be a ‘birthday Patches’!” Scicluna said. The venue for this spring edition has yet to be confirmed.

Today, Is-Suq will feature stalls from: Claudia Catania, Yasmine Azzopardi, Ruth Zammit, Ramona Ciantar Mansueto, Soap Cafe, Svetlik Muscat, Bagging Cakes, Sue Mifsud, Tall Yarns and Sweet Temptations, Elizia Vassallo, Nancye Church, Marie Claire Gatt, Barbara Attard Pettet, The Glorious Greens, Rachel Robinson, Jarrard Strickland, Lara Vassallo, Silvana Mallia, Angelique Chircop, Patrizia Caruana Pisani, Wood YOU, Pat Holtom, Denise Scicluna, Lenka Magova, Jackie Roberts, George Grech, Jessica Psaila, Mina & the Cupcakes, Panterina Fine Artisan Jewellery, Peaches and Cream, Claudine Ancilleri, Carmen Spiteri, Lisa Ambrogio, Ritianne Ellul, HI Tea!, Kinemastik, Stagedive, Amanda Gustafsson, Carla Caramagna, Hannah Cassar, Miguel Palomar, Nicola Warrington, and Felix Aquilina.

For more information log on to: http://www.patchesmarket.com/