Heritage House · 1
- Vlisco Helmond / Accra / Abidjan / Online
Since 1846 Vlisco's Helmond mill has printed the wax cloth West Africa made its own — patterns named and renamed in Accra and Abidjan markets, worn for every occasion that matters. The original, still printing. store page → · open in the atlas →
Hidden Gem · 14
- 57 Chocolate Accra, Tema
57 Chocolate is a Ghanaian bean-to-bar maker working from local cocoa. It is known for bars moulded with Adinkra symbols. store page → · open in the atlas → - Aburi Craft Market Aburi, Eastern Region
Aburi Craft Market is Ghana's best-known handicrafts centre, built around woodcarving and other locally made craft. Resident artisans sell their work directly from the market. store page → · open in the atlas → - Bioko Treats Accra
Bioko Treats makes artisanal chocolate and confectionery in Accra from Ghanaian cocoa. Alongside the bars and sweets, it runs a cafe and a gift range. store page → · open in the atlas → - Christie Brown Osu / Online
Christie Brown brings traditional Ghanaian artisanal techniques into contemporary dresses, separates and accessories, built around Aisha Ayensu's eye for color, print and modern silhouette. Founded in 2008 and proudly made in Ghana, the house pairs contemporary silhouettes with locally grounded craft. store page → · open in the atlas → - Elle Lokko Osu / Online
Elle Lokko is Accra's pioneering women's concept store, pairing contemporary African fashion with art, design, beauty and culture from its Osu address. Founded in 2015, it is best understood as a curator of African luxury rather than a single-label maker, with one-off Ghanaian pieces and rotating cultural programming forming much of the pleasure. store page → · open in the atlas → - Free The Youth East Legon, Accra
Free The Youth is a Ghanaian streetwear collective and label rooted in youth culture. Its flagship store sits on Boundary Road in East Legon, Accra. store page → · open in the atlas → - Global Mamas Multiple locations / Online
It is best known for Fair-trade Ghanaian-made clothing, textiles and crafts supporting women artisans across 6 communities. store page → · open in the atlas → - GOBA Kente Accra
GOBA weaves authentic kente cloth in Ghana by hand. The brand carries that cloth into fashion and accessories as well. store page → · open in the atlas → - Golden Editions Accra
Golden Editions is a Ghanaian slow-fashion label built around handwoven straw bags and accessories. Each piece is crafted by local weaving artisans. store page → · open in the atlas → - The LOTTE Accra / Online
The LOTTE gathers luxury African womenswear, menswear, handbags, accessories and beauty under one Accra roof, with a dedicated Made in Ghana edit. Its selection-first identity is the point: an online and physical concept store whose own words promise African brands specially curated for the shopper, with express worldwide shipping. store page → · open in the atlas → - The Shop Accra by Eyetsa Accra / Online
The Shop Accra presents a broad Made-in-Africa retail assortment through its own active web shop, while also linking to a separate marketplace. It is a genuine Accra retailer, but not a single maker; under a strict no-reseller rule it belongs in the exception lane, not the direct-brand canon. store page → · open in the atlas → - Trashy Bags Africa Osu / Online
Social enterprise Trashy Bags was set up in 2008 as a means of recycling and reusing the endless plastic water and yoghurt wrappers deposited on the streets of Accra. It is best known for Recycled plastic accessories and eco-friendly bags made from discarded water sachets. store page → · open in the atlas → - Viva Accra Accra / Online
Viva Accra is a full-scale luxury retailer, placing international names beside African designers across womenswear, menswear, shoes, bags, beauty and home accessories. The site is active and globally localized, but this is curation rather than manufacture, so the value lies in the Accra edit rather than a house signature. store page → · open in the atlas → - Wild Gecko Handicrafts East Legon / Online
It is best known for Ghanaian and West African handicrafts from an emporium employing local artisans. store page → · open in the atlas →
Worth a Detour · 1
- Boakye Family Adinkra Workshop Ntonso, Kwabre East District (near Kumasi)
In Ntonso, the source village for Adinkra symbol-stamping, the Boakye family has hand-carved calabash stamps and pressed bark-dyed cloth across four generations, led into her nineties by matriarch Veronica Abena Tebi. The workshop still teaches the stamping technique on-site to visitors and to younger family members carrying the craft forward. store page → · open in the atlas →
The Register · 8
- Adanwomase Adanwomase, Kwabre East District (near Kumasi)
Adanwomase, a royal weaving town about 27 kilometers northeast of Kumasi, still keeps centuries-old Sesea kente swatches in the Kente Chief's residence. The village's own site catalogs more than a thousand loom patterns and ships handwoven cloth directly to buyers by DHL. store page → · open in the atlas → - Agbozume Kente Weavers Agbozume (Ketu South), Volta Region, Ghana
Agbozume Kente Weavers sells hand-woven Ewe kente from the weaving town of Agbozume, in the same Ketu South district as Denu, taking custom orders for weddings, funerals, and graduations. The weavers' site sells finished cloth online and arranges visits to the loom sheds and the town's kente market. store page → · open in the atlas → - ArtAshanti Kumasi (Bantama)
ArtAshanti assembles beadwork in Kumasi from strings sourced village by village in Koforidua, Krobo, Abompe and Karoo, tracing pieces to individual makers rather than pooling anonymous stock. The Kumasi operation also stocks kente, Adinkra cloth, wood carving and bronze work from the same artisan network through its own online storefront. store page → · open in the atlas → - Kente Kingdom Ashanti weavers (commissioned via Kente Kingdom)
Kente Kingdom commissions scarves and bags from weavers in Ghana, publishing a design library of named strip-loom patterns customers can order as custom weaves rather than buying stock prints. Finished pieces are made up into scarves, stoles and bags and sold through the company's own site. store page → · open in the atlas → - Osei-Duro Osu
Founded in 2011 by Maryanne Mathias and Molly Keogh after a 2009 trip to Ghana, Osei-Duro pioneered West African batik printing on silk and rayon. The label is headquartered and dyed in Accra, with a design studio in Vancouver and distribution out of Colorado. store page → · open in the atlas → - Red Clay Studio Osu
Ceramic studio and gallery — functional pottery and sculptural works by Ghanaian ceramicists. store page → · open in the atlas → - Studio 189 East Legon
Co-founded in 2013 by actress Rosario Dawson and former Bottega Veneta executive Abrima Erwiah, Studio 189 runs a manufacturing facility in Accra, Ghana, working with artisans on hand-batik, natural indigo dyeing and kente weaving. The brand won the CFDA + Lexus Fashion Initiative Award in 2018. store page → · open in the atlas → - The Shop Accra Osu, Accra
The Shop Accra is a Made-in-Ghana concept store in Osu, drawing together homeware, fashion, chocolate, coffee and gifts. Everything on its shelves comes from Ghanaian makers and designers. store page → · open in the atlas →