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natalie · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:15 am Post subject: Stalls

What do you need as an exhibitor?
How big a table?
Other stuff?

Anyone who has been before... what was eyecatching and what just got in the way?

n
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jadeandchrissy · Joined: 12 Sep 2006 Posts: 43 Location: Lancashire

the stalls are a three sided animal pen 2.6 metres square so they are quite big, with gates all around you with an opening at the front. they provide tables but you will need your own chair. you will need your own table coverings if you want them. plus any display items.

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Spinning Fishwife · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject:

Speaking as someone who was there both days last year, I would suggest you take every last item you have for sale and that you get yourselves sorted out to take credit cards and plastic if you can. There are a LOT of customers at Woolfest.

I don`t know about tables, obviously, but I do know that there were a few shy, drab, very amateur stalls there that didn`t look very busy compared to the similarly sized but very well set up one next door. There are a lot of potential buyers, sure, but a lot of competition from the hundreds of other sellers there.

The stands are in the sheep pens, and the divisions between them are...well, sheep pen dividers! The back of the stall can be metal barriers too, or brick, I think. All nasty and needs covering up. The floor is concrete, and cold. A lot of stall holders used big baskets at this level but some took this to such extremes you couldn`t get into the booths to browse, which was annoying. Some folk had rugs in their booths, which was nice, and I can imagine their own feet were grateful for it too.

Some of the booths just glowed with colour, and were very appealing to all us treasure hunting buyers. If I was a seller there, I`d be hunting down old velvet curtains in the charity shops, to cover up the walls and tables and provide a cosy welcoming feeling as well as decent backdrops. Though it all depends on the look you want of course...there were some beautiful looking stripped down stalls with very neutral backdrops.

The main toilets are portaloos at one end of the sheepmarket space. Nuff said. Bring babywipes!

I`ll come round and say hello to all of you, of course!

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