Plate M-12 · 1,417 stores · 1351–1417 of 1417 · curated ORBIS register
This plate lists 1,417 shops in 130 countries. Paris has the most with 15, followed by Delhi with 14. Among these shops, 84 describe made-to-order work, 21 offer repairs, 151 sell online and 9 work by appointment, going by their own descriptions.
Ask who made the piece: ask whether the maker is in the workshop, or whether the shop sells other makers' work.
Ask how it was made: ask about the materials and the process, and whether a piece can be made to order.
Ask how it will travel: ask for packing or shipping for anything fragile, bulky or heavy.
Use the city plates when they appear below, or open any store for its official door and related ORBIS city and craft links.
Sheridan Wy / United States
Tom Balding has hand-forged bits and spurs in Sheridan, Wyoming since the 1980s, with every piece stamped to mark it as an original. The Riverside Street showroom is open Tuesday through Friday for visitors, while the workshop ships trial bits nationwide to reining and ranch riders.
Best for Metalwork & Silverwork, Bits & Spurs, Western Tack
Cranford Street, Redwood
Tom's Emporium on Cranford Street in Redwood is an independent variety store stocking fabrics, haberdashery, art and craft supplies, party goods, and household hardware. The shop supplies local school productions with costume and prop materials.
Best for Craft supplies, fabric and party goods
Tomsk / Russia
Tomsk Wooden Horse hand-carves and paints its signature souvenir horses, inspired by the city's coat of arms and wooden-lace architecture, with every figure unique. The shop sells through its own online catalogue and ships from its address on Gertsena Street in Tomsk.
Best for Hand-carved, hand-painted souvenir horses inspired by Tomsk's coat of arms and wooden-lace
Tottori / Japan
Tottori Takumi Kogei-ten has sold folk-craft pottery, glass, woodwork and textiles from around Japan since 1932, Japan's first dedicated mingei shop, named by folk-craft movement founder Soetsu Yanagi and standing beside the Tottori Folk Crafts Museum founded by Shoya Yoshida. The shop sells in person on Sakaemachi street and through its own online store.
Best for Folk Craft
Luang Prabang / Laos / Online
The Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre in Luang Prabang pairs a museum of Laos's ethnic cultures with fair-trade handicraft shops that sell directly for more than 600 artisans. Its online store ships handwoven textiles, basketry and heritage silks worldwide, with proceeds supporting the maker communities behind them.
Best for Handicrafts, fair trade, textiles, ethnic crafts
Centro, Trujillo
Trama Perú describes its products as art and tradition made by proud Peruvians, based in Trujillo.
Best for Peruvian art and traditional crafts
Trefriw, Conwy Valley
Trefriw Woollen Mills weaves Welsh tapestry bedspreads, tweeds and travelling rugs from raw wool, powered by a water turbine on the Conwy Valley floor. Visitors can watch the power looms and hand-spinning before browsing knitwear, blankets and sheepskin in the mill shop.
Best for Welsh tapestry bedspreads, tweed and wool blankets
France / Online
Women's outerwear label produced by Lener Cordier, a coat-making family firm based in Hazebrouck, northern France, working in the trade since 1954; designs and manufactures its trenches, coats and parkas in its own workshops.
Best for Cholet-designed trench coats — single-category French outerwear mastery
Trench & Coat is produced by Lener Cordier, a French family firm that has specialized in coats — described on its own site as making 'pieces with sleeves' — since 1954, based in Hazebrouck in the Nord department of northern France. Design, pattern-making and production for the Trench & Coat collections are handled inside Lener Cordier's own workshops rather than through outside contract manufacturers, and the company sources roughly 90% of its materials from long-standing European suppliers. The brand's stated aim is to make well-made coats affordable rather than positioning itself as a luxury house: its own materials describe wanting a coat 'to last through seasons and years, without losing its beauty' at a reasonable price point. The current range covers women's trenches, wool coats and parkas, sold through the brand's own French-language and English-language online stores.
Co. Donegal, Ardara
Triona Design sells Irish tweed jackets, coats and related apparel from Main Street, Ardara, Co. Donegal, describing its work as a modern expression of Irish heritage rooted in generations of craftsmanship.
Best for Irish tweed jackets and coats
Takayama, Gifu
Tsuda Chokoku is run by sixth-generation carvers continuing the ichii ittobori tradition founded in Takayama by Matsuda Sukenaga. The shop carves yew wood without applied color into netsuke, zodiac figures and tea utensils, sold from its Honmachi storefront.
Best for Shop carves yew wood without applied color into netsuke
Tsuda Chokoku carves ichii ittobori, the Takayama technique of shaping Japanese yew (ichii) into figures and objects with a single blade, leaving the wood's natural grain and color as the only finish rather than applying paint or lacquer. The workshop traces its own lineage back to Matsuda Sukenaga, credited as the founder of the technique in Takayama during the Edo period, and describes itself as holding the oldest continuous history among the city's ichii ittobori shops. Today it's run by brothers from the Tsuda family, the sixth generation to carry the name, working from a shop on Takayama's Honmachi street. The range spans small, collectible netsuke through zodiac figures and tea utensils to larger contemporary pieces, all cut from the same undyed yew and priced by size and detail rather than by any applied decoration. The studio has been recognized with craft-competition awards and carries a prefectural traditional-craft designation, but its core claim to distinction stays simpler: six generations working the same wood-shaping tradition from a single Takayama address, without the technique's signature restraint — no color, no lacquer, just the yew itself — ever changing.
Hakone (Odawara)
The Tsuyuki family workshop, in the Hayakawa district of Odawara at the foot of Hakone, produces marquetry tableware, trays and boxes including an original sunflower-field pattern. Its gallery shop displays the drawers, monochrome white-yosegi trays and desk pieces made behind it.
Best for Marquetry tableware and boxes
Thu Dau Mot / Vietnam
Vietnamese eggshell-inlay and gilt lacquer pieces sourced directly from Binh Duong's century-old Tuong Binh Hiep craft village.
Best for Vietnamese eggshell-inlay and gilt lacquer pieces sourced directly from Binh
Tu Bon Lacquer Art Handicraft operates from Tuong Binh Hiep Ward in Thu Dau Mot City, Binh Duong Province, inside the district Vietnam+ describes as having "produced lacquer products over nearly 100 years," with a craft lineage the same outlet traces back "more than 200 years." The company's own site, tubonlacquerware.vn, confirms current operation and cites over 30 years in the trade, placing its founding sometime after the village's cooperative-era peak of the 1980s, when more than 160 members worked under shared workshops.
Its catalog runs through the core Tuong Binh Hiep repertoire: eggshell inlay, spiral shell inlay, gold plating, silver plating and veneer inlaying, worked over wood, plywood, bamboo, fiberglass and ceramic bases. Finished forms include decorative lacquer paintings, jewelry, pen and watch boxes, vases, round and rectangular trays, bowls and dishes, plus custom commissions, the same range that made the village, per Vietnam+, a source of "thousands of designs and models."
A business directory listing (WTC Connect) records export activity into France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan and South Korea. The company's own website is Vietnamese-language with limited English content, so buyers researching in English will lean on secondary listings for context. Nothing verifiable here contradicts a genuine, currently operating manufacturer rooted in one of Vietnam's two recognized lacquer-producing regions, the other being Hanoi's sơn mài scene already represented by Hanoia.
Palembang / Online
Honoured with the Upakarti award, this Palembang house has woven songket since 1990 and now pairs heritage wastra with modern tailoring under its JAMILAHxPRAFITO label. Kebayas, menswear, selendang and gift hampers are sold through the brand's own online store and Shopee.
Best for Songket, wastra fashion, handwoven textiles
Tunxi District, Huangshan, Anhui, China
This Tunxi workshop continues the Hu Kaiwen inkmaking lineage, pressing pine-soot, resin and hide glue into solid ink sticks by hand before carving and gilding them. The factory sits in Huangshan's old Tunxi quarter, one of the last places still producing traditional Hui ink at this scale.
Best for Hand-pressed Hui ink sticks (徽墨)
FarGo Village
Twisted Barrel Ale is a vegan brewery and tap house on Far Gosford Street, brewing hand-crafted beer in small batches from its unit inside FarGo Village. The taproom pours the core range alongside guest kegs and runs a members' Home Brew Club, with bottles and cans sold through the online store.
Best for Small-batch vegan craft beer
Kyzyl / Tuva / Russia
The shop of the Aldan-Maadyr National Museum in Kyzyl carries what Tuva makes — agalmatolite carvings, felt, books on the land of khöömei singing and Scythian gold. Museum retail on the MoMu precedent, at the geographic centre of Asia.
Best for Tuvan craft and books from the Aldan-Maadyr museum
Musanze
Ubushobozi, founded in September 2008 in Musanze, Rwanda by Jeanne Siporin, Alan Siporin and Laura Boyea, is a vocational skills training organization where women and girls make hand-made crafts through sewing, weaving and crocheting. The name Ubushobozi means power or ability, and proceeds support the Musanze community.
Best for Handmade sewn and woven crafts
Japan / Online
Japanese craft label named for the ubusuna — the guardian spirit of one’s birthplace; Pitti-shown clothing rooted in native-place tradition.
Best for Pitti-shown clothing rooted in native-place tradition, named for the ubusuna guardian spirit
Virginia Beach / United States
Ultralite Surfboards has shaped custom surfboards from its Virginia Beach shop since 1982, offering made-to-order boards alongside professional epoxy and polyester repair work through its Pro Glassing service. Customers can order online through the custom-board form or visit the Baillio Drive workshop directly.
Best for Surfboard Shaper
Old Town (Obchodná)
The state folk-art centre established in 1945 runs Bratislava's Regional Craft Centre with a gallery and shop stocking work by registered Slovak masters, from Modra majolica and blue-print textiles to carved wood, corn-husk figures and woven basketry. Its craftsmen's demonstrations and courses keep techniques like fujara flute-making and čičmany embroidery in active practice.
Best for Authentic Slovak folk crafts
Bali, Indonesia (multiple island boutiques)
Founded by Ni Made Jati in the early 1970s, Uluwatu makes Balinese cutwork lace, called krawang, on foot-powered machines in a Tabanan atelier that employs over 500 craftspeople. The range covers women's resort and bridal wear with menswear and home linen. Boutiques stand in Sanur and Ubud as well as Seminyak, with the head office store in Denpasar.
Best for Hand-sewn Balinese krawang lace kebayas and dresses, with table linen
Uluwatu Handmade Balinese Lace grew from the work of Ni Made Jati, who turned her passion for Balinese lace into a business in the early 1970s. Her first years were spent selling from camper vans along the West Coast of America, carrying what she had brought from Bali. The lace, known in English as cutwork and in Balinese as krawang, is still made in the traditional way. Fabric is stretched on bamboo hoops and sewn by hand on foot-powered machines identical to the old Singer models, the thread built up layer upon layer. Empty areas are cut away with small scissors while the needle binds the loose edges, and a single piece can take five or more days. The company now employs over 500 craftspeople in a vertically integrated atelier in Tabanan, Bali, and its designs reach over 150 countries. Collections cover resort and formal wear as well as bridal pieces. Menswear and home linen sit alongside. The head office and store stand on Jl. Bypass Ngurah Rai in Suwung Kangin, Denpasar, and boutiques follow in Sanur and Ubud as well as Seminyak.
Cairns (Bungalow area, Gimuy Walubara Yidinji country)
UMI Arts is a First Nations not-for-profit running a gallery and gift shop that sells visual art, craft and cultural giftware made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists across Far North Queensland. Operating since 2005 under an all-First Nations board, it channels sales into pathways for regional Indigenous artists.
Best for Far North Queensland First Nations art and gifts
Trondheim / Norway
UniQ Garn stocks quality yarns from Filcolana, Gepard, Knitting for Olive, and other Nordic mills at its shop in Trondheim, now relocated to Idungården on Olav Tryggvasons gate, alongside its own hand-dyed UniQ yarn line. Customers can browse the full range in-store or order online with free pickup or shipping over 1,500 kroner.
Best for Textiles & Knitwear, Yarn
Alappuzha, Kerala
This Alappuzha factory spins coir yarn and weaves the mats and matting that carry the traditional Alleppey style. Kerala's backwater region has worked coconut fibre this way for generations, and the workshop keeps to those methods.
Best for Coir yarn, mats and matting
St. Clair-Superior
A creative-reuse store in the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood, Upcycle Parts Shop sells donated materials, from fabric and buttons to hardware and craft supplies, by the bag or the piece. The nonprofit diverts usable goods from landfill and runs community art workshops.
Best for Reclaimed craft and art supplies
Tsu, Mie
Usui Orifu has woven Ise cotton, a soft, breathable fabric first produced in the region during the mid-Edo period, on vintage Toyoda shuttle looms at its Tsu workshop. The mill turns its own bolts into kimono, pouches, and other everyday textiles rather than selling raw cloth alone.
Best for Traditional Ise-momen cotton textiles
Mauritius
Vanill'Art has grown certified organic vanilla across five generations on volcanic terroir in the Hauts de Mont-Blanc, Chamouny area of Mauritius since 2016, hand-pollinating flowers at dawn before sun-curing the pods for months. The estate offers guided plantation tours, a rum workshop and a vanilla-themed lunch, with ambassadors including three Michelin-starred chefs.
Best for Organic vanilla pods and tours
San Miguel de Allende
Velia Sierra Design has produced 100% Italian linen clothing in Mexico since 1982. The family-run house sells women's and men's ready-to-wear and accessories from stores in San Miguel de Allende, Punta de Mita and Guadalajara.
Best for Italian-linen clothing handmade in Mexico
Velia Sierra Design has been working with Italian linen since 1982, when the family business now behind the label began producing clothing under the philosophy 'manos mexicanas, tessuti italiani' — Mexican hands, Italian fabrics. Four decades on, that combination still defines the house: certified Italian linen, pre-washed and finished with natural softeners, cut and sewn entirely in Mexico.
The collections split into womenswear — blouses, trousers, skirts, dresses and tailored jackets — and a smaller menswear line of shirts, jogger trousers and overshirts, alongside linen accessories like woven bags and resin jewelry. Pricing sits in the designer-boutique range, with pieces regularly discounted 30 to 60 percent during seasonal sales.
The brand operates physical stores in three Mexican destinations: a flagship in San Miguel de Allende's Centro Histórico, a shop in the resort town of Punta de Mita, and a location in Guadalajara's Providencia neighborhood. Velia Sierra also uses its retail presence for events — the brand's own site cites pop-up brunches and a styling collaboration tied to public appearances during the 2026 World Cup. For shoppers who want linen with a documented, family-run supply chain rather than an anonymous one, it's a specific, traceable option.
Santa Cruz, California
Co-founded by master artisan Martijn Stiphout, Ventana builds hollow surfboards from reclaimed wood and makes eco-focused surf supplies, with the team living and working in Santa Cruz. The company donates at least 5% of profits to ocean conservation and treats its boards as surfable works of art.
Best for Reclaimed-wood surfboards & eco surf gear
Münster / Germany
Vida Luminosa on Überwasserstraße in Münster sells handmade and designed pieces by creative people from the area.
Best for Handmade and designed pieces from nearby makers
Palma De Mallorca
Blowing glass since 1719, Gordiola crafts lamps, glasses, oil cruets and decorative pieces at its Algaida factory on Mallorca. Visitors shop the handmade work at the factory, the Palma store and Madrid showroom, or through the online catalogue.
Best for Blown glass, glassware, handcraft
Garden City Beach, South Carolina
Open on Atlantic Avenue since 1969, this surfer-owned shop hand-shapes its own Perfection Surfboards alongside a full range of boards, apparel, and paddleboard rentals. Started by Eric Eason and now run by Kelly Richards and Brian Campbell, it also runs surf lessons on the Grand Strand.
Best for Hand-shaped surfboards and beach gear
Salta
VinculARTE Artesanías es una ventana para artesanos de comunidades indígenas y campesinas que acceden al mercado en condiciones de equidad.
Best for Craft
Wajima / Japan
Wajima-nuri Daiou plans, produces, and sells its own lacquerware from a shop on Route 249 in Wajima, open every day of the year from 8:30am to 7pm. The shop also takes custom orders and repairs, drawing on decades of in-house craftsmanship in wood-base carving, undercoating, and gold-and-silver decoration.
Best for Shop also takes custom orders and repairs
Wajima / Japan
Tucked in the countryside outside Wajima city, this small studio is one of the few workshops that carries out every stage of Wajima lacquerware, from undercoating to final polish, under one roof. Master craftsman Rikio Hikimochi and his family sell tea utensils and everyday lacquerware pieces from the studio, alongside repair and custom-order services.
Best for Tea utensils and everyday lacquerware pieces from the studio
Mutitjulu community, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (Yulara, Uluru region), Northern Territory, Australia
Owned by the Mutitjulu community, this not-for-profit art centre sells Aṉangu artwork made with traditional dot-painting techniques. Many of the works depict Uluru Creation stories.
Best for Aṉangu dot paintings and desert-colour artworks with direct community provenance
Reno, Nevada
Wyld Market brings work by local makers into a permanent retail space in the city of Reno. Its range includes handcrafted home goods and original artwork, alongside other products from participating small businesses. Wandering Wyld also runs workshops and events, extending the project beyond the goods available in the shop.
Best for Local-maker goods and artwork in Reno
Wandering Wyld began in 2018 as an experiment in gathering local makers through pop-up markets. Its official story records a first pop-up shop in 2019 and follows the project as it expanded into a permanent Reno retail collective. Wyld Market now brings more than sixty-five local makers into one space at 1640 South Wells Avenue. The assortment includes handcrafted home goods and original artwork, but the business is structured around the people behind those objects rather than around anonymous inventory. Workshops and events give makers a way to share skills, while Wyld Creative adds business support for creative entrepreneurs. The company describes three operating priorities: community over competition, craft over convenience, and purpose over profit. Those principles explain why the project combines retail with teaching and professional support. A shopper encounters finished work, yet the wider programme also exposes the relationships and knowledge required to sustain local production. The result is a marketplace with a documented economic purpose: sales support individual artists and small brands, while the shared venue gives them visibility and collaboration, creating a route from temporary events to longer-term growth.
Xiuyan, Anshan, Liaoning
Based in Anshan's Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, home to famed Xiuyan jade, this enterprise carries on a carving tradition some 2,000 years old. It produces carved jadeware and master pieces.
Best for Authentic Xiuyan jade carvings and jadeware
Tsurajima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
Founded in 1909 in Kurashiki's Tsurajima district, Watanabe Shuzo Honten brews using Bitchu toji craftsmanship handed down through the region's brewing guild. Its Yume Kurashiki and Sasa labels span junmai daiginjo to kimoto-method junmai.
Best for Bitchu-style regional sake
Pinhais, Curitiba metropolitan region
Way Beer brews from Rua Pérola in Pinhais on Curitiba's edge, with a range running from a standard IPA to Antonina, made with the banana candy of the Paraná coast. Beer is sold straight from the factory shop alongside sours and an alcohol-free option.
Best for Craft beer straight from the brewery
Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
A family-run handicraft store and art gallery in Ubud selling Balinese carvings and paintings. Handmade crafts fill out the rooms.
Best for Balinese handicrafts and art
Napranum, Western Cape York, Queensland
Run by the Wei' Num Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts and Crafts Corporation, this Napranum centre supports fine arts and crafts including intaglio printmaking. Its artists come from across Western Cape York—Napranum, Mapoon, Weipa, Aurukun and Pormpuraaw—and sell their work and merchandise direct.
Best for Western Cape York Indigenous prints, fine art and crafts
Grünhainichen
The Grünhainichen manufactory behind the eleven-dot angels and Blossom Kinder figurines, hand-carved and painted since 1915 to designs by Grete Wendt and Grete Kühn. Angels, music boxes and gnomes are still made by hand in the Erzgebirge.
Best for Eleven-dot angel figurines
George Town, Exuma
Wenshua Art Gallery is an independent gallery on Queens Highway in George Town, Exuma, offering a venue for domestic and international audiences to experience and purchase original Bahamian art. It showcases fine artists and crafters from Exuma and across the Bahamas.
Best for Original Bahamian art
Crossbost, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
At her Weaving Shed studio in Crossbost, the maker behind Western Isles Designs weaves Harris Tweed into scarves, bags and clothing, and sets local sea glass, shells and stones into a companion jewellery line. Visitors can watch the warping frame and bobbin winder at work before browsing the attached shop.
Best for Handwoven Harris Tweed goods and Hebridean sea-glass jewellery
Aurukun, Cape York, Queensland
This community-owned Aboriginal art centre in the Wik-Mungkan community of Aurukun is best known for its carved and painted wooden sculptures, from camp dogs to birds and totemic animals. Wik and Kugu artists also produce paintings and weavings here.
Best for Wik and Kugu Aboriginal wood carvings, sculptures and paintings
St. John's / Canada
Wild Things is the gift shop of Wildland Tours, selling a wide selection of work by local artisans.
Best for Work by local artisans and craftspeople
Harrania
Tapestry art centre where artists create free-style woven tapestries using natural dyes on handlooms in a village setting.
Best for Free-style woven tapestries dyed naturally and made on handlooms
Lancashire, UK
Lancashire slow-fashion studio founded by Paula Roworth at the foot of the West Pennine Moors; garments are handmade to order from biodegradable British materials, each taking around 2-3 weeks to complete and finished with a name-embroidered ribbon.
Best for Slow Fashion, Basics
Withnell is a sustainable fashion studio founded by Paula Roworth and named after the Lancashire area where she is based, at the foot of the West Pennine Moors. Every garment is made to order, using heritage British materials chosen to naturally biodegrade, with designs drawing on the colours and shapes of the surrounding Lancashire countryside. The brand runs a fully in-house process - design, fabric and trim sourcing, pattern-making and sample garments are all handled internally - and each made-to-order piece takes roughly two to three weeks to complete. Garments can be washed at low temperatures to reduce energy impact, and each piece includes the wearer's name embroidered on a bespoke ribbon.
Downtown Juneau, Alaska, USA
William Spear has hand-designed enamel pins and zipper pulls from his Seward Street shop in downtown Juneau since the 1980s, with early pieces like a 1987 walrus pin now traded as collectibles. The shop still sells the full catalog of cloisonné-style pins directly from its own site.
Best for Alaska-themed enamel pins and zipper pulls
North Woodstock, New Hampshire / United States
Woodstock Inn Brewery has brewed New Hampshire craft beer since growing from a seven-barrel system to a 30-barrel regional brewhouse, with tours offered on weekends. Its company store sells beer merchandise, drinkware and gift cards both on-site and through its online shop.
Best for New Hampshire craft beer, brewery tours and branded gifts
Yaese, Okinawa / Japan
Workshop Nuriton is a small Okinawa studio working in two adjoining crafts, Ryukyu lacquerware and woodworking, based at Nakaza in Yaese Town, Shimajiri District — a rural district south of Naha, distinct from the Kokusai-dori tourist-shop corridor most Ryukyu lacquerware retail is concentrated in.
Best for A working Ryukyu lacquerware and woodworking studio in rural southern
Workshop Nuriton is a small Okinawa studio working in two adjoining crafts, Ryukyu lacquerware and woodworking, based at Nakaza in Yaese Town, Shimajiri District — a rural district south of Naha, distinct from the Kokusai-dori tourist-shop corridor most Ryukyu lacquerware retail is concentrated in. The workshop's stated aim is to carry forward inherited Ryukyu lacquer technique while producing pieces suited to how people actually live now, rather than reproducing museum-piece forms unchanged.
Its lacquer output covers dishes, bowls, and small accessories finished in the Ryukyu tradition's techniques, while its woodworking side — wooden vessels, spoons, forks, and other functional tableware — is sold alongside the lacquerware as a complementary daily-use line from the same hands. The studio maintains an active public presence through retail partnerships and appearances at organized craft events, including Craft Fair Okinawa, rather than operating a single fixed storefront.
Nuriton is a working studio-scale maker in the southern Okinawa countryside, distinct from the capital's Kokusai-dori shopping district.
Wan'an, Xiuning County, Huangshan, Anhui, China
This Wan'an old town shop has made the wooden luopan compasses used in feng shui and navigation since the Qing dynasty, a craft listed as national-level intangible cultural heritage. Current makers Wu Shuisen and Wu Zhaoguang hand-paint the concentric rings of characters onto each disc after it is turned on a lathe.
Best for Hand-made luopan (feng shui compasses)
Interlaken, Switzerland
Wyss Souvenirs trades from Chalet Diana, a heritage-listed building on Interlaken's Höheweg restored in 2017, stocking antique furniture, wood carvings and regional handicrafts rather than mass-produced trinkets. Its range runs from cuckoo clocks to pocketknives, curated under one roof on the promenade for longer than most of the shops around it have existed.
Best for Swiss wood carvings, cuckoo clocks and regional handicrafts
Takayama, Gifu
Yamada Shunkei-ten, founded in 1971 in Takayama, produces Hida Shunkei lacquerware, a clear-lacquer finish said to originate about 400 years ago under craftsman Takahashi Kishichiemon. It makes trays, bento boxes, chopsticks and tableware in transparent amber lacquer.
Best for Hida Shunkei clear-lacquer trays, bento boxes and tableware
Yamada Shunkei-ten was established in 1971 in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, and is registered today as a limited company led by Yamada Hidetoshi. The shop makes Hida Shunkei, a regional lacquerware whose origin story, recorded by the city of Takayama, dates to the Keicho era roughly four centuries ago, when craftsman Takahashi Kishichiemon fashioned a dish from wood prized for its grain and had it finished by an official lacquerer in a clear lacquer that let the wood show through, a technique subsequently named Shunkei-nuri and presented to the shogunate.
Hida Shunkei received formal recognition as a Japanese traditional craft from the national government in 1975, four years after Yamada Shunkei-ten's own founding and following the 1961 establishment of a regional producers' cooperative. Genuine pieces from the shop carry a sticker certifying hand-applied ('tenuri') work by traditionally trained craftspeople, produced under controlled temperature and humidity during curing.
The shop's range runs from traditional forms, tiered boxes, bento boxes, trays and confection dishes, to contemporary items such as tumblers, wine glasses and accessories, all finished in the same clear amber lacquer that is Hida Shunkei's defining feature, aimed explicitly at making the craft usable in everyday, present-day life rather than purely ceremonial.
Yamaga, Kumamoto
Yamaga toro are paper lanterns built entirely from handmade washi and paste, with no wood, wire or metal, a technique refined over more than 500 years in this castle town north of Kumamoto City. The Yamaga Toro Promotion Society trains the toro-shi who keep the craft alive and sells finished lanterns alongside the adjoining folk museum's historic examples.
Best for Washi paper lanterns, festival souvenirs
Takaoka / Online
Yamaguchi Kyujo has cast bronze orin bells and singing bowls in Takaoka since its founding in the Meiji era, now selling contemporary "Yuurin" interior bells and custom onshingu memorial pieces. The company runs its own showroom and dealer network alongside an online shop at orin.thebase.in.
Best for Bell casting workshop
Bonwire (weaving partners; brand based in Australia)
Yevu commissions its kente panels directly from named master weavers in Bonwire, the Ashanti town regarded as kente's place of origin, then cuts the strip-woven cloth into caps, bucket hats and pullovers. The brand documents its Bonwire weaving partners on its own site rather than presenting the textile as generic African print.
Best for Bonwire kente reworked into contemporary streetwear
Cotonou
Yolele Boutique sells handcrafted African art objects and home decor pieces, all made in Benin. The shop presents itself as a boutique for gifts celebrating Beninese craftsmanship.
Best for Handcrafted African art objects and home decor
Shinkamigoto (Nakadori Island)
A Shinkamigoto noodle workshop making Goto tenobe udon, in which each batch is drawn out by hand in the region's traditional hand-stretching method. The range runs across four labels, Kiyo, Sui, Jun and Umakaccho, sold in 200 to 250 gram bundles through the shop's own store and mail order.
Best for Hand-stretched Goto udon in gift bundles
Black Forest, St. Georgen
Your-Cuckoo-Clock makes handmade cuckoo clocks in St. Georgen in the Black Forest, offering chalet-style, classic carved and modern designs with mechanical, weight-driven movements, certified by the VDS mark confirming original Black Forest manufacture.
Best for Handcrafted black forest cuckoo clocks
4th & Wood, Whitehorse
Yukon Artists @ Work is a non-profit society whose gallery, in the "little blue house" at 4th and Wood in Whitehorse, is run entirely by its member artists. All the art sold there is handcrafted in the Yukon.
Best for Yukon artist-run gallery
Yangzhou / China
YUU Lacquerware is an English-language e-commerce retailer identifying itself as based in Yangzhou, China, one of several Chinese cities, alongside Fuzhou and Beijing, with a documented historic lacquerware tradition.
Best for Yangzhou lacquer jewelry, tea ware and gilt-decorated boxes
YUU Lacquerware is an English-language e-commerce retailer identifying itself as based in Yangzhou, China, one of several Chinese cities, alongside Fuzhou and Beijing, with a documented historic lacquerware tradition. Its own site states "we work closely with local artisans to continue this legacy" and frames its work within what it calls "over 2,000 years of craftsmanship and artistic heritage," a claim about the regional tradition rather than the company's own age; no founding date, workshop address or named artisans appear on the site.
Listed techniques are lacquer application, mother-of-pearl inlay and gold-foil decoration, applied across jewelry (earrings, bracelets, bangles), tea cups and teapots, decorative boxes and vases, including a named "RongHua" collection. Product titles reference materials such as 24K gold accents and opal inlay alongside the base lacquer work.
Commercially, the site reads as a modern retail operation rather than a single named atelier: free shipping above $99 USD, a 7-day dispatch window for non-customized items, and a 15-to-30-day window for custom orders. This is a genuine, currently operating Yangzhou-lacquer retailer with real English-language commerce infrastructure, but, unlike the Pingyao Tuiguang workshop, it does not present itself as one named workshop with a visible master or founding history, and that distinction should stay visible to buyers considering the brand as an example of Yangzhou's lacquer tradition.
Chamonix, France
Freeride and touring ski maker founded 2002 by Stéphane Radiguet, a former ski instructor and shaper for Niedecker. Relocated from Bourg-Saint-Maurice to Chamonix in 2010, opening its ZAGLAB workshop at the foot of the Grands Montets.
Best for Touring skis, lightweight
ZAG was founded in 2002 by Stéphane Radiguet, a snowboarder, ski instructor and former shaper for the snowboard brand Niedecker, who set out to build skis that carried a surfing-like feel through powder while still holding an edge on groomed slopes, borrowing design thinking from snowboard shaping rather than conventional ski construction. The company started in Bourg-Saint-Maurice in the French Alps.
Early models established the brand's reputation for rocker-profile skis: the 2003 Rocker model won an ISPO Brand New award, and the company followed it in 2008 with the first Double Rocker design, extending the upward-curved tip-and-tail profile that has become closely associated with ZAG's freeride skis.
In 2010, ZAG moved its headquarters from Bourg-Saint-Maurice to Chamonix, positioning the company at the base of the Grands Montets massif, terrain the brand has described as one of the toughest available real-world testing grounds for its skis. The move came with the opening of ZAGLAB, an in-house research and development facility. The company continues to describe itself around two linked goals: producing hand-built, high-performance skis, and supporting mountain-environment conservation work through what it calls its ZAGreen program.
Pietermaai, Willemstad
Zanolino connects collectors with artists through art sales, leases and advisory for homes, hotels and workspaces.
Best for Gallery
Kalambaka / Meteora, Greece
Dimitrios Zindros opened this icon workshop in a small room in Meteora in 1974, and it has since grown into one of Greece's most recognized producers of hand-copied Byzantine icons and ecclesiastical items. Its hagiographers still follow the compositional rules and egg-tempera methods of Byzantine iconography while blending in modern production techniques for church and private commissions.
Best for Byzantine icon reproductions and ecclesiastical items
Alsace heritage / Online
Zwilling / Staub focuses on Alsatian cast iron, the cocotte of French country cooking under German steel stewardship.
Best for Alsatian cast-iron cocottes under German steel craftsmanship
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