Welcome! This is a very new shop and I'll be adding lots of other items soon. Look out for more hip bags, hip pouches, bags, hats, aprons, coin pouches, tote bags and shoulder bags. All made from recycled, salvaged or found materials.

I make useful things from materials I've salvaged, recycled or found.

This Barefoot Pedlar adventure started as a way of connecting some of the things that motivate me; keeping things out of landfill, spending time outside, being creative, and walking barefoot.

In April 2017 I took my courage in both hands and used my Pedlar's Certificate (yes! you need a licence - from the police station!) for the first time. My first walkabout was in the coastal townlet of Marazion in West Cornwall, not far from where I live. Since then I've done walkabouts in several Cornish towns and I've made a pedlar's cart out of an old bed and a wheelbarrow.

As well as selling stuff I always enjoy the conversations I have with people. Sometimes the talk is of waste, of the plastic free campaign, of beach litter. Sometimes folk are interested in why I walk barefoot. ( There are lots of reasons - to do with biomechanics, posture, evolution and others - but mostly I do it because it feels good!).

I collect materials from wherever they become available - it's amazing what you can find on the cliffs (trashed tents, abandoned leather jacket among other things. ) And I'm fortunate to have access to the scraps and offcuts produced at the local sail loft where I work part time.

My products are currently mostly made of fabric sewn on the industrial machines at the sail loft, but I also do sock-knitting, netting ( hammocks), crocheting, wood-turning, book-binding, and sea-glass jewellery-making. I'd like to invent a machine that could make some more time!

When I'm not being creative I'm either working as a countryside ranger or trying to engineer another opportunity to enjoy being on the sea in one way or another - dinghy sailing, kitesurfing or kayaking. Or eating.

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