Trade with The Mercantile
A Mercantile Evening brings together merchants chosen for the quality of their goods, the care of their presentation, and what they bring to the room. The merchant floor for No. I is settled; if your business belongs at a Mercantile Evening, introduce it below for No. II and the editions after it.
- Date
- Thursday, 3 September 2026
- Hours
- Set up from 2:30pm, doors close to buyers at 9:30pm, pack up by 11:00pm
- Location
- Rowington Village Hall, Warwick CV35 7DB
What we offer a merchant
- A place in the Mercantile Passbook
- Every guest is given a numbered Passbook and every merchant has a page in it: your mark, a description in your own words, and a QR code that takes a reader straight to your website. You may put a discount in it too. Guests collect a stamp at each stall as they go round, so the Passbook brings every one of them to your table, and it goes home with them afterwards. That is a visit you did not have to win, and an offer in their hands when they are deciding what to buy.
- A selected Merchant list
- A deliberate mix of categories, not a hall filled to capacity. Every merchant is chosen with the same care, and chosen with the people coming in mind: what they are likely to want, what they already buy, and what would genuinely tempt them. Your neighbours are considered as carefully as you are.
- A room with a limit on it
- Admission is capped at 300 across the evening, in two admission times, with every stall trading to both. The cap is set so that a stall is properly seen rather than passed in a crowd, and so the room never becomes a scrum.
- An audience that is not browsing on a Saturday
- Every guest books a named admission and chooses a sitting, so the room is people who set the evening aside to come rather than people passing a stall on their way somewhere else.
- Help in and out
- Installation before opening and clearance after close, if you want them. Say so on the form and we will arrange it.
- Support and advice, from people who have done it
- The founders have traded, and know what makes a great evening. Ask about layout, pricing, what to bring, how much stock, what sells at six and what sells at half past eight. We would rather spend an hour with you beforehand than watch a good stall go quiet.
What belongs at a Mercantile Evening
- Goods you have a hand in
- Made, grown, sourced or chosen by you, and something you can talk about across a stall all evening.
- A stall that is dressed
- Presentation makes ninety per cent of a stall’s success. Admission is limited, so every stall is properly seen.
- An evening, not a day
- 17:00 to 21:30 on Thursday, 3 September 2026, across two sittings. Set up from 2:30pm.
- A central location
- Warwickshire, easily reached, with parking for everyone coming.
Introduce your business
There is no form of words to get right. Tell us what you make and what you would bring, and your details go on the list of stalls under consideration for No. II and the editions after it.
A stall needs two people to run it, including yourself — one of them looks after Passbook stamping all evening.
Stall prices are not published here. We set them with you once an introduction is accepted, and no stall is charged for before then.
Completing it also opens the Merchants’ Room to you. Each stall is set out and you choose the one you want, on a first come, first served basis. We will be in touch with your sign-in details once your introduction has been accepted.
The editions to come
The Mercantile is a series, not a single evening. The floor for the first is settled; introductions now go forward to the editions after it.
- No. I
- Thursday, 3 September 2026. Rowington Village Hall, Warwick CV35 7DB. Merchant floor settled.
- No. II
- Open for merchant introductions.
- No. III
- Details to follow.
Anything unclear, write to us.