Yen Chow Street Fabric Market, Sham Shui Po 深水埗布市場 「棚仔」

Yen Chow Street Fabric Market is not just a great place for buying fabric, it's also a tourist attraction in its own right!  Rolls of fabric stacked up along the alleys, fluorescent lights hanging below flimsy tin roofs, walking inside the market is like being transported into another realm!   

Would it be a wise move to demolish this gem for just a few blocks of residential high-rises?  If it must be done, will there be a relocation plan to help these hawkers and at the same time make their new market an even better attraction similar to the very successful Yuen Po Street Bird Garden project? 


As the market is likely to close down soon for redevelopment, our sketchers hurried to visit this place and recorded the essence of this unique place with their sketching tools.

Alison Hui

Alvin Wong

Ben Luk

Catherine Chan

Chloe Ka Kei Yau

Gary Yeung

Guillaume How-Choong

Helen Chan

Noble Wong

Sandy Hau



Stella So

Fabric Stall in Sham Shui Po 基隆街布舖

It was really quiet on Sundays in this part of Sham Shui Po as most metal ware and fabric shops are closed. I was sitting in front of the only open fabric stall in the street. His colourful rolls of fabric made good subject to sketch! The owner was really interested and came forward to look at my sketch and he was rather pleased that I made him look so young. 

Ki Lung Street

Sham Shui Po

星期日基隆街大部份布舖休息，街道格外寧靜。我坐在唯一開檔嘅布舖前作畫。布舖一卷卷七彩嘅布料同冷清嘅街道相映成趣。布舖老闆好奇，行過來看並高興我張佢畫得好年輕。

Gary's Personal Blog: http://uskhongkong.blogspot.hk

Sketching Sham Shui Po

A sketchcrawl held on the International Women Day (how come there is no International Men Day??) Anyway, we went to sketch in Shamshuipo, an old district in Kowloon side. I came in late, so I picked a relatively easy subject in the morning. A long elevation of a portion of Nam Cheong Street.
 
After a traditional lunch at the nearby DaiPaiDong, I found a narrow angle to sketch the St. Francis Church. I like it's Chinese-Western Style which quite fits the area.

You can read more story from our fellow group director Rob's site.
http://www.sketcherman.com

The last sketch I made was a typical high density building situated on Un Chau Street. Sketching it from a distance required a lot of give and take since there are so many things you can put into the sketch.