Arts, crafts and such in Stowmarket, Suffolk*

Anything from pukka art galleries to craft shops. Trendy and twee both welcome.

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Arts, crafts and such

• the best craft shop is Expert. OOHHHH IMPRESSIVE!!!
• I'm sure there is an art gallery near the old Co-Op. No craft shops apart from the stuff you will find in the many charity shops that Stowmarket town encompasses (I read a quote on here about 12 pubs to 8000 people? What about the 12 charity shops to 8000 people, oh, and estate agents. I can't believe there are that many houses in the area to warrant such a number of estate agents.
• erm... bookshop, quite good. no galleries. 1 craft shop, sells naff stuff 2 stick on cards. weird.
• Trends is a cool place to get gadgets, wierd and wounderful gifts. A new shop in town is called That Shop which sells strangr nik nakky stuff i like.
• The Museum of East Anglian Life has some good crafts in the shop.
• Serious lack of decent art & craft supplies means a trip to Bury or Ipswich forall but the most basic items. even Needham has a better range.
• Station Hills Peoples Gallery is worth a lokk. If not Q.D. have a passable range of tacky prints. The doctors surgery in Violet Hill also displays ans sells some decent stuff.

• frame shop near the church and theres a little crafts shop down bury street but i think thats it!
• don,t encourage the weird arty types.
• Framing place behind the Co-Op. Hart's Homebrew (?!) & Crafts.
• There is one art shop selling frames and such and one shop that sells things for people who like to knit. Not too my taste, windchimes and dreamcatchers are more my sort of thing.
• There are several arts and craft shops in the nearby villages, ie Haughley but not that many in Stowmnarket itself. Probably the best bet is the Museum of East Anglian life by Asda which sells local craft peices.
• Art, in Stowmarket? It would never catch on.

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