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Cuenca (Isabel La Católica y Av. de las Américas)
A Cuenca ceramics house at Isabel La Católica 1-102 and Avenida de las Américas producing hand-finished dinnerware in lines such as Organics, Monteturi, Vega and Fiesta, plus a children's Baby Artesa range. The workshop takes personalised custom table-setting commissions and ships nationally across Ecuador.
Best for Handmade Andean-designed dinnerware and custom table settings
Cuenca
Handwoven toquilla-straw hats, made to order by master artisans in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Best for Textiles
Cuenca
Centro de Bordados Cuenca, established in 1989 at Frank Tosi Iniguez in Cuenca, Ecuador, is a cooperative of 60 women artisans from rural communities in southern Ecuador who hand-embroider cards, straw hats, t-shirts and custom artworks using natural fibers. Its products have been sold internationally since 1989.
Best for Hand-embroidered textiles and hats
Cuenca
Colibri Diseno de Objetos, founded 18 years ago by ceramic master and designer Cristina Urgiles, born in Cuenca in 1973, makes enamel-glazed ceramic pieces at Av. Pumapungo 3-60 y Paseo de los Canaris in Cuenca. Its lines include Candelabros, Contempo, Cruz and Magneto, among them ceramic and wooden key holders shaped like owls and dandelions.
Best for Enamel-glazed ceramic design pieces
Tres de Noviembre, Cuenca
Descubre el Estudio/Galería Claudia Fuentes, un espacio multifuncional en Cuenca, Ecuador, que promueve el arte y la colaboración creativa a través de talleres, exposiciones y eventos culturales. Experimenta una rica diversidad artística en un ambiente inspirador.
Best for Gallery
El Centro (Gil Ramírez Dávalos 3-86)
Producers and exporters of paja toquilla hats working from Gil Ramírez Dávalos 3-86, with named blocks such as the Aliso, Estrella and Fresno and a palette of more than twenty dyed colours. The premises pair a working warehouse with a hat museum, and finished pieces ship worldwide.
Best for Buying a finished Cuenca Panama hat with a factory-museum visit
Gil Ramírez Dávalos
Established in Cuenca in 1939, K. Dorfzaun makes hand-finished toquilla-straw hats with artisan weavers and sells them from its Gil Ramírez Dávalos storefront. The company emphasizes long-term work with weaving communities, social responsibility and environmental sustainability.
Best for Export-grade toquilla straw hats with a documented family history
Cuenca
Palier Café Libro is a bookshop devoted to independent Latin American publishers, with a café serving Ecuadorian coffee. The catalogue lists more than 3,000 titles across poetry, fiction, essay, philosophy, art, comics and children's books, and the shop hosts events.
Best for Books
Cuenca
A family leather workshop with more than thirty years behind it, Qiwa Cueros hand-makes wallets, bags, jackets and accessories in Cuenca. It sells from a city shop and a counter at Mall del Río, and takes on custom leather commissions for corporate clients.
Best for Handmade leather bags, wallets and jackets
San Blas, Cuenca
Four-generation Ecuadorian family business tracing its furniture-making and restoration history to 1947. Its Retrochic line, launched in 2015, designs and restores fully handcrafted, hand-carved furniture in Cuenca, blending traditional craft with vibrant contemporary interiors.
Best for Furniture
Cuenca (heritage hat house)
A Panama hat house trading under the Serrano name since 1905, presenting woven men's and women's straw collections through a bilingual Spanish-English catalogue. The 1905 founding date places it among the long-established Ecuadorian families of the toquilla-straw hat trade.
Best for Long-established woven straw hats
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