{"id":12152,"date":"2016-02-04T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=12152"},"modified":"2016-02-04T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:24:28","slug":"three-hidden-independent-shops-in-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/three-hidden-independent-shops-in-cardiff","title":{"rendered":"Three hidden independent shops in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Exploring three unique independent shops worth going in the city center<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12213\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/6.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12213\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12213\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/6.png\" alt=\"Various buttons in display in Claire Grove Shop\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/6.png 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/6-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/6-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12213\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/6.png\" alt=\"Various buttons in display in Claire Grove Shop\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/6.png 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/6-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/6-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Various buttons in display in Claire Grove&#8217;s Shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clairegrove.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Claire Grove Buttons<\/a><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thousands of buttons are\u00a0shown through the display window. A woman wearing glasses, is sewing in front of the counter. It is really easy to ignore the shop\u00a0if you walk quickly across the Castle Arcade Street.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12162\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/12-1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12162\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12162 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/12-1.png\" alt=\"12\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/12-1.png 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/12-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/12-1-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12162 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/12-1.png\" alt=\"12\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/12-1.png 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/12-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/12-1-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Claire Grove, owner of the shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">got restraint in America when I went to a military base to buy some army buttons. They thought I was a spy, because I had been to Russia during the cold war. After they confirmed my identity, I did buy these buttons finally,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d said Claire Grove, owner of the\u00a0button shop. It is one of her\u00a0adventures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1983, the idea of how to perfectly match fabric with buttons and her family\u2019s hundred years background in this field drove Claire to open a shop in Cardiff.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Button is made by everything, \u201cAll natural materials like shell, wood, bone, stone, metal, amber, even camel teeth,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of buttons come from China now. Before that a lot are made in Britain. There\u2019s a factory about 30 miles from here, which is closed down now and all the machines in that factory got sold to China.\u201d But you can also find buttons coming from different countries<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, according to Claire. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBlue pottery from Jaipur, Rajasthan. Mental and leather one comes from Germany,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">F<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rom ladies who sew and do the needlework to tailor, fashion students and even little children, people come to the shop and buy buttons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>People would not\u00a0stop buying buttons because &#8220;the buttons which are made by machines quite often falls off and it is a kind of good news for me&#8221;, Claire said.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping equal amount of all buttons in the shop is important. \u201cAll buttons sell at some points, which would just match customers\u2019 need,\u201d Claire said. \u201cWhen they coming for a red button, they want to see ten different red buttons. So they can select the one they like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Claire can remember all the buttons she sold in the shop, \u201cEach button has a memory. I classify through color, material and type.\u201d In her point of view, each button is a work of art and the customers&#8217; satisfaction is what keeps her moving forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troutmarkbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Troutmark Books<\/a><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Troutmark secondhand bookshop\u00a0lies\u00a0beside Claire\u2019s shop. Jason, the keeper of\u00a0Cardiff Troutmark said it was the second shop set up in 1996 \u00a0by Mr Rogers, owner of Troutmark books, who also owned another bookshop in Newport market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The books in the shop cover a wide range\u00a0of subject.\u00a0\u201cIt plus comics, some records, magazine, poetry, literature etc. So we have a lot of very different customers.\u201d said Jason.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12179\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/19.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12179\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12179 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/19.png\" alt=\"19\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/19.png 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/19-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/19-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12179 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/19.png\" alt=\"19\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/19.png 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/19-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/19-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Inside of the Troutmark Secondhand Book shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe buy books from big collections to single items,\u201d Jason explained. \u201cWe have different categories in the shop and I can remember all the books by publisher, color of spine fonts etc.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jason is quite welcoming and pleased to recommend books to customers\u00a0and help\u00a0them to choose the ideal book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nowadays, Jason is trying\u00a0to find\u00a0an effective system\u00a0to get hold of books <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that are<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">still <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">absent <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in shop\u00a0and he\u00a0hopes\u00a0the system might turn up one day.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.annasflowersshop.com\/miss-patisserie.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miss Patisserie<\/a> <\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miss Patisserie is an independent shop selling hand-made bath and body product located in High Street Arcade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12183\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/13.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12183\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12183 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/13.png\" alt=\"13\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/13.png 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/13-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/13-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12183 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/13.png\" alt=\"13\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/13.png 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/13-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/13-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Miss Patisserie, an independent shop in High Street Arcade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI love being creative and using fantastic ingredients,\u201d said Charlotte Ridgwell, owner of the shop. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is a goal of mine to educate customers about the importance of natural ingredients in skincare.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Used to study\u00a0Graphic design in Kingston University, Charlotte also designed the interior decoration of the shop and tried to make\u00a0products stand out for colors and aromas. \u201cThe popular product selling in our store is \u2018Cupcake\u2019 Bath Bomb.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12184\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/14.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12184\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12184 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/14.png\" alt=\"14\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/14.png 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/14-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/14-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12184 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/14.png\" alt=\"14\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/14.png 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/14-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/02\/14-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Cupcake Bath Bomb is the most popular product in the shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With an\u00a0accurate sense of smell, Charlotte has always appreciated what is around her, \u201cThe senses not only inspire me with work but with my life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Owners follow their belief and interest to establish the shop at first. Although the range and size of the shop would not expand in the future for the moment, we still hope these kinds of independent shops would stay in Cardiff and represent a meaningful spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three sightworthy independent shops locate in Cardiff city centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":12224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-culture","category-global-city","category-politics-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Three hidden independent shops in Cardiff - 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