The Merchant’s Bazaar
BELOW IS INFORMATION FROM OUR MAY 14-16, 2010 EVENT!
Our Vending Bazaar is an elegant row of hotel rooms located on our first floor, beginning right near the event space and quite close to the main action of the Fair. Spots are currently sold out as of November 10th, 2009. If you’d like to get on the mailing list for next year, please email steamfairvendors@gmail.com for vending application and information.
We are pleased to announce to you, your Merchants!
Steampunkin’ leather, corsets, goggles, glasses, hats, and pirates! You’ve seen Brute Force Leather’s steampunk wares on many famous steampunks, models, and more. These are some of the most recognizable designs in the subculture, available for custom orders to fit just you. Don’t miss your chance to see- and purchase!- these amazing pieces in the flesh!
Ever look at old photographs in your family’s albums, look at what you’re wearing, and realize… you kind of look like you stepped out of you great-grandparents’ time? Here is a fabulous chance to capture that image for yourself and your family! RA Friedman of Tsirkus Fotografika will be on-site offering a chance to have your image captured in a vintage photograph! Images are taken with old-style silver instant film, hot lighting and a camera that dates from the 1940’s (that’s only a slight upgrade from original Graflex large-format SLR of 1910!)
Whether you’re a re-enactor or living historian who is looking for well constructed period clothing Festooned Butterfly is all about being decorated beautifully with delightful and eye catching fabrics. Hand-crafted, custom made quality apparel for all shapes and sizes, children and adult. Of particular note are their delightful corsets and spats. FS also has a selection of dresses, bustles, and old fashioned undergarments! Scandalous!
Alchemy brings ritual needs and other goodies for those of us in the cheap seats. Featuring herbs, oils, crystals, stones, and more. But this merchant is not only for the magical at heart, you know! They have also for your approval selections of fine teas, potpourri, and spice blends that would go well on a home-cooked meal in this time or any other!
Griffon’s Claw Armoury is proud to offer you a variety of swords, knives, along with steampunk friendly pouches, sunglasses, and watches. Their weaponry comes in a variety of styles, including battle ready and practice. This merchant believe that customers shouldn’t have to break the bank to have a really nice collection of medieval items- and we heartily agree.
Mad scientists stolen all your town’s thunderstorms? Irish gypsy put a curse on your automobile? Or maybe you’re trying to dream up the design for your next big outfit but the images just won’t stick! Friend, it sounds like you need some help from Sunshine’ Moonlight! Handcrafted candles, soaps, bath salts, oils, sugar scrubs. So the next time you need a little mystical aid, they’ll leave the light on for you.
Definitely putting the punk in steampunk, Delicious offers all kinds of shnazzy steampunk gear and garb. Mini-skirt style riding skirts and leather revolutionary pants to circuspunk styles, lacy lingerie and garter belts, blazers and bloomers, and long and short spats. These styles are not for the faint of heart!
Trying to save the world, one craft at a time, by creating unique, repurposed handmade goods, Barker’s Herbs & Heirlooms views the world through brass goggles with upcycled lenses to help others see the potential beauty in their trash. You will be able to find a beautiful selection of earrings featuring absinthe bottles, Charlie Chaplin and Jules Verne images, Bettie Page pin-ups and much more!
Grendel’s Den Design Studio is a full service digital studio that provides website design, graphic and print design, logo and branding development, media packaging design, and custom art and illustration. GDDS caters to a wide variety of clients that includes Halloween events, haunted house attractions, film studios, music labels, artists, deejays, and festivals. Specializing in design that draws inspiration from the unique, the imaginative and the fantastique, GDDS strives to present the most creative and innovative work they possibly can to their clients.
Get your custom fangs from Horror Show Jack! Made from dental acrylic, the same material as false teeth so that they won’t erode your gums like plastic fangs can, HSJ’s fangs are realistic-looking, easy to remove and require no adhesive!
19 Moons has limited edition jewelry that incorporates vintage and recycled materials to create wares that are both unique & eco-friendly. Check out those clock movement necklaces adn typewriter key cufflinks! Your source for original Steampunk, Neo-Victorian, Retro & Industrial designs. Stop by and look around for many awesome and unique gift ideas for men and women!
Jennifer Rodgers is an illustrator and colorist living and working in Burlington, NJ. With her love of horror and fantasy, she is enough to draw monsters and create worlds for a living. Not bad work if you can get it! She has in the past worked for Role-Playing Games and Collectible Card Games publishers, comic publishers, bands, restaurants, and composers. Looking for an illustrator or colorist, or maybe just a cool print or two? Come on by her room to check out her illustrations, B&Ws, and especially her Distressed style artwork!
KvO Design has been passionate about design and adornment for over 25 years and specializes in alternative fashion, fantasy couture and unique corsetry. They have dressed people from all walks of life, from the stage to the screen, and have worked with celebrities, bands, TV personalities and everyone in between. Don’t miss their beautiful selection, from elegant lace neck corsets and fingerless lace glovelettes to chunky punky earrings and dazzling dangling necklaces.
Steamedpunk Laboratories is a response to the dread Mass Market. Providers of artifacts, requisites, and visuals for the steam powered universe! You’ll find in their selection amazing cranial protective apparatuses, personal adornments, ocular devices, and other couture classics. These fine artisans have worked with musical favorites The Gypsy Nomads, Abney Park, and The Absinthe Drinkers, and long to work with you as well, bringing Objects of Great Beauty near and far!
Dr. Clockwork’s Home for Electrical and Medical Oddities
Mayfaire Moon Costumes and Corsets
Steampunk Closet/Threads of Time
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In addition to our Merchants, many of our performers and artificers shall be showing off and selling their work as well. Look for our Artificer’s Hovel, starring…
Music!
HUMANWINE
Coyote Run
Voltaire
Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys
The Clockwork Dolls
Platform one
Sepiachord.com
Art in its many forms!
Tom Brown/”Hopeless, Maine”
The Comiku Girls
Adam Smith
Outland Armour
S.S. Icarus
The Brothers McManniss
The SteamSmith
CJ Henderson
Amy Blackthorn
Dogtoon Media
and much more!