Around the shop.
Sundries started in 2019 as a Saturday stall on Merebridge market: one trestle table, a box of stoneware seconds, and a strong opinion about tea towels. The stall paid for the van, the van paid for the shop, and in the spring of 2021 we got the keys to 6 Cooper's Yard.
The rule has not changed since the trestle table: we only stock things we use at home ourselves. If a mug chips in a month or a soap goes soft in the dish, it does not come back. That is why the shelves hold six things at a time rather than six hundred.
If we would not give it as a present, it does not go on the shelf.
The shop is run by Frances Hale, with Saturday help from whoever owes her a favour. Most of what we sell is made within a day's drive, by people we can ring when something goes wrong. You will find the same things in the shop as on the site, usually with the kettle on.
Small workshops, mostly within a day's drive. When something is out of stock it is because they are making more, not because an algorithm said so.
Stoneware thrown in a converted mill: our vases, mugs and planters. Asta fires twice a month and we take whatever survives her standards.
A two-loom weaving shed doing our napkins and tea towels in washed linen that gets softer for a decade.
Milk and oat soap in batches of forty bars. It sells out, we wait, it is worth it.
Candles, cards and the odd run of prints made here on the yard, plus whatever a local maker talks us into at the market.
