The Craft Guerrilla is a designer maker lead collective set up to work with independent Artists,Creatives and Designers Makers of quality hand made goods.

The aim of The Craft Guerrilla is to join forces with other creative individuals and set up craft events in vacant or unused venues,associate with "friendly" businesses,provide a community to link and cross promote independent designer makers,sister armies in other cities,share web traffic,and provide realistic information and resources to other designer maker groups as well as individual designer makers. Craft Guerrilla serves both as a resource and a platform to showcase up and coming designer maker talent.

"Our main aim is to work within a creative community, thrive and grow as a collective that benefits each and every one person involved, share our creative know how,our experience and the ethos and value of hand made goods! HAND MADE should be treated as a premium product.It's not mass produced therefore a realistic price should be charged for quality hand manufactured,well designed and beautiful products."

The Craft Guerrilla Army is taking on the world for a better hand made existence! We've had enough of soulless, mass produced tat and so has the average consumer.
The Craft Guerrilla was born out of a shared idealism with regeneration,recycling,sharing of knowledge and the revaluation of the hand made movement at its heart.

 

"We want to show people the true meaning and value of quality hand crafted designer goods through our ethos and principals of cooperation,collaboration and experience gained by working within a creative community. We're aware that by providing fairs and markets that we're adding to the consumer pile but by teaching people to be more self sufficient through our workshops and d.i.y. craft events  we hope it will both educate and show people that their purchases can be mended and made good again through recycling and up-cycling!"

 

The Craft Guerrilla is all for education and that's why we've set up our highly successful D.I.Y. craft nights and mini workshops providing educational workshops for the public. Our "classes for the masses"- one off,short courses at affordable prices are held by professional designer maker tutors!

 

"Our experience and expertise will have any novice hooked on craft. Simple,straightforward,fun and accessible craft disciplines are on offer so any one can MAKE!"

 

The Craft Guerrilla are a peaceful bunch but we're looking to create opportunities,we're ready to take action, take over and D.I.Y. our own future!
For the next Craft Guerrilla event dates... have a look at our events diary page!

 


 

FAQ'S:

What is the East London Craft Guerrilla and The Craft Guerrilla connection? "The East London Craft Guerrilla" is if you will, the child of the main instigator The Craft Guerrilla! As we're based in East London and this is such a big city we thought it would be great if we could leave it open for others to join us in their areas of town.With time and as the group grows we hope to get other Craft Guerrillas set over the whole of London,the country and the world! By joining the army we join forces and increase our chances and opportunity as well as share our experience,web traffic,contacts and know how with each other. Also this spreads the net and increases chances for our army to sell at each others events,network,collaborate and exchange! 


Can I become a member? Membership* is by invitation only but you don't have to be a member to participate in the craft markets or events organized by Craft Guerrilla.
*PROMO ONLY MEMBERSHIP: This membership is open to all London based designer makers upon approval of their work. Basically this membership allows you a direct link with a banner on our 'east London members" page only. A small charge applies.

Why is it important to LINK? By associating with the Craft Guerrilla any publicity we generate will affect you and every other participant directly. By generating plenty of web traffic and through promo you'll get full advantage of all the publicity we create for the group as a whole. We need you to link the CRAFT GUERRILLA web site to your own site so any publicity you generate will come back to us and the collective...if every single participant does the same then we are all generating invaluable publicity and a buzz which helps everyone involved!


What is expected of me if I work with Craft Guerrilla? We ask the designer makers to take it upon themselves to help "get the word out" as it's in all of our interests to get as many shoppers to our events. Posters and flyers will be ready to down load on the Craft Guerrilla web site and all you have to do is print it,upload it on your own website,social network,blog page etc and get it out there! You can make your own but we ask you use all information supplied in the press release. Also we ask that you mention the Craft Guerrilla name as a Link in your own web sites and publicity.

 

Do I pay commission on any sales? NO,definitely not at our craft fairs. You pay for a stall and that's it!

Craft Guerrilla Markets,how much do I pay for a pitch? It's all dependent on the venue rental and how much we can get it for but prices will be kept to a minimum. As we are also makers we're not in this to profit on stall rental fees but to promote and facilitate the sale of hand made goods!

 

 

Can I use set up my own "Craft Guerrilla"? The name "Craft Guerrilla" is trade marked but we hope you like what we do,follow our philosophy and agree with our manifesto so much that you will want to set up your own Craft Guerrilla army in your area... but before you do we would like to know who's out there planning to use our name and following our manifesto...besides it would be rude to just go ahead without asking! There are a few guide lines we'd like to implement and keep to as we need to have a little bit of uniformity within the C. G. Army! Yearly fee for a sister army applies - remember you're only paying for your branch of the army and not for each individual member.


Please feel free to contact us and we'll be happy to answer any questions: craftguerrilla@yahoo.com


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