Plate M-12 · 1,417 stores · 151–300 of 1417 · curated ORBIS register
Agenhor develops watch movements and complications for other houses in Geneva, operating as an atelier rather than a retail shop. Carouge Artisan District offers a different setting, with independent workshops and boutiques alongside galleries in the Geneva neighbourhood. Montreux Christmas Market brings Swiss crafts and Alpine food into a seasonal lakeside market, rather than a year-round retail address.
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.
Khasra No- 253, ETC, Mehrauli-Gurgaon Rd, Sultanpur, New Delhi, Delhi 110030, India / Delhi / India
AD India: founded 1920 in Mirzapur by Oakley, Bowden and Taylor; India's largest handmade-luxury carpet house. YourChennai (18 Oct 2019): first India retail studio opened in Sultanpur, Delhi.
Best for Handmade carpets from a Mirzapur house founded in 1920.
Connaught Place, New Delhi
Aneeth Arora's whimsical label — hand-embroidered garments mixing Indian craft techniques with playful European-inspired designs.
Best for Aneeth Arora's hand-embroidered garments blending Indian craft with playful European-inspired design
Multiple locations, New Delhi
New Delhi label launched in 2008 by designer Aneeth Arora; combines hand embroidery and traditional Indian textile craft with a playful, Western-inflected silhouette.
Best for Handwoven Indian clothing and fine embroidery
Pero, whose name means 'to wear' in Marwari, was launched in 2008 by Aneeth Arora, a graduate of the Indian Institute of Fashion Technology who went on to study at India's National Institute of Design. Arora spent extensive time with craftspeople learning dyeing, weaving and embroidery techniques, and every Pero garment reportedly passes through the hands of at least half a dozen artisans before completion. The label combines these traditional Indian textile crafts with a Western-leaning design sensibility across women's, men's and children's lines, and has since expanded into home decor. Pero is stocked in roughly 20 countries and has shown at Pitti Uomo and Pitti Bimbo in Florence.
PRINTEMPS
Fair-trade accessories brand founded in 2005 by Siem Haffmans after meeting Delhi designer Anita Ahuja, who pioneered pressing waste plastic bags into sheets; Ragbag pays India-based ragpickers and fabricators to turn saris, tea sacks and plastic waste into totes.
Best for Fair-trade totes upcycled from recycled saris and cement sacks
Ragbag was founded in 2005 by industrial designer Siem Haffmans, after a trip to Delhi for a conference on sustainable design where he met Anita Ahuja, who had developed a process for pressing collected plastic waste bags into usable sheet material. Ragbag's products are made across different regions of India from upcycled materials: a Delhi Collection from plastic and canvas waste, a Tamil Nadu Collection from used tea sacks, and a Calcutta Collection from recycled cotton and saris. Raw materials are gathered by ragpickers, who along with fabricators are paid a fair price for their work, following the ten principles of the World Fair Trade Organization, with production partners belonging to Fair Trade Forum India.
Delhi / India / Online
The 'couturier of romance' since 1990 — peacock-embroidered capes, Mughal-inspired artistry, and poetic Indian menswear and womenswear.
Best for Mughal-inspired Indian couture
356/357, 2nd Floor, Sultanpur, MG Road, New Delhi 110030, India / New Delhi / India
Sarita Handa began a New Delhi linen/fabric venture in 1992 and opened the first Delhi retail store in 2004; Wikipedia same founding year.
Best for Linen and fabrics from a Delhi venture founded in 1992.
129-130, Meharchand Market, New Delhi 110003, India / New Delhi / India
Founded 1992 by David Housego and Mandeep N. Housego, working with artisans and master weavers; FashionNetwork: first standalone store opened in Meharchand Market in 2012.
Best for Textiles made with artisans and master weavers since 1992.
Sundar Nagar, New Delhi
Indian handicrafts retailer founded in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1906 out of the Swadeshi movement; its flagship on Sir P.M. Road reportedly hosted prime ministers Nehru and Indira Gandhi. Sells crafts sourced nationwide - blue pottery, Ajrakh textiles, Kalamkari, pashmina, brass and marble work.
Best for Curated textiles, home decor, and souvenirs from across India
The Bombay Store dates to 1906 and grew out of India's Swadeshi movement, the campaign for economic self-reliance during the freedom struggle; the brand's own materials credit figures including Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Jamsetji Tata with backing its founding. Its original flagship on Sir P.M. Road in Mumbai reportedly hosted former prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. The store's proposition has stayed consistent for over a century: handicrafts sourced from across India, including Jaipur blue pottery, Kutch Ajrakh textiles, Andhra Kalamkari painting, Agra marble inlay work, Kashmiri pashmina and traditional brass and metal pieces.
348 D, Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road, near Sultanpur Metro Station, New Delhi 110030, India / New Delhi / India
Sheel Chandra founded The Carpet Cellar in New Delhi in 1975 (collection catalog); Architectural Digest India treats the house as a specialist in hand-knotted antiques and recreations.
Best for Hand-knotted antique carpets and recreations from a Delhi house founded in 1975.
10, Regal Building, Sansad Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110001, India / New Delhi / India
Business Standard (2019) calls it probably Delhi's first lifestyle boutique, founded 1969 in the Regal Building; The Delhi Walla (2026-06-26) confirms the shop still survives there.
Best for A Delhi lifestyle boutique founded in 1969 in the Regal Building.
19, Santushti Shopping Complex, Race Course Road, New Delhi 110003, India / Delhi / India
LiveMint (26 Jul 2014, Shefalee Vasudev): Neeru Kumar interviewed at Tulsi, Santushti; three decades of handloom innovation. Shopkhoj: NID-era designer retailing tussar, Odisha ikat and Bengal khadi muslin under Tulsi & Neeru Kumar.
Best for Tussar, Odisha ikat and Bengal khadi muslin from designer Neeru Kumar.
530 E. 19th Ave., Denver, CO 80203
Sweet Action's Uptown scoop shop occupies the former Frozen Matter location at 530 E. 19th Ave. Its dairy and vegan flavors are made by hand in small batches.
Best for Hand-crafted dairy and vegan ice cream in Uptown Denver
Alserkal Avenue
Dubai community space combining upcycled café, repair workshops, fair-trade shop and cultural venue. Dog-friendly with locally-sourced, organic menu and salvaged materials.
Best for Upcycled and repaired design objects with their own stories
KAVE describes itself as 'a space of patience, of soul, of love made visible'—a multifaceted social enterprise on Dubai's Alserkal Avenue combining sustainable practices with community engagement. The space operates an upcycled café serving organic, locally-sourced meals while encouraging customers to bring reusable cups. Approximately 95% of the wood used in construction came from salvaged sources. Beyond dining, KAVE runs repair services, hosts workshops and educational activations, operates a fair-trade retail shop, and maintains a monthly 'Market of Misfits' celebrating vintage items. The venue is dog-friendly and available for event hosting. KAVE tracks environmental impact metrics including water reuse and waste reduction, positioning itself as both environmentally and socially conscious. The organization blends commerce with activism, serving as a cultural anchor for Dubai's growing sustainability-focused community.
72 Benburb Street, Smithfield, Dublin 7 / Online
In a Smithfield studio on Benburb Street, founder Jamie Lewis hand-felts wool into animals and small woollen objects, blending the fleece in view of anyone who walks in. Dublin craft at its most literal — one pair of hands, one flock.
Best for Founder-made wool-felted animals
Dublin / Ireland
Peterson's origins run back to 1865, when German immigrant brothers Friedrich and Heinrich Kapp opened a pipe-making shop, Kapp Brothers, on Grafton Street in Dublin, working in meerschaum and briar root.
Best for Irish System pipes and briar pipe craftsmanship from the world's
Peterson's origins run back to 1865, when German immigrant brothers Friedrich and Heinrich Kapp opened a pipe-making shop, Kapp Brothers, on Grafton Street in Dublin, working in meerschaum and briar root. Charles Peterson later brought the brothers a pipe design of his own and proposed a partnership; the firm was renamed Kapp & Peterson and went on to patent, in 1890, the reservoir-and-bore "System" pipe design that still carries the Peterson name. The company is described by pipe-trade sources as the oldest continuously operating briar pipe factory in the world, and today Peterson trades from a retail shop at 48-49 Nassau Street, Dublin 2.
The Nassau Street premises sells Peterson's own pipe lines, including the System, Aran, Sherlock Holmes and Donegal Rocky ranges, together with pipe accessories. Peterson's own site states that its silversmiths, who fit the sterling-silver bands used on many of the firm's pipes, train in-house through an apprenticeship the company describes as lasting four to eight years, and that the wider production tradition is passed down within the workshop across generations of pipe-makers.
Peterson's System design introduced a moisture-wicking reservoir and graduated internal bore intended to keep the smoke channel drier, an engineering approach that distinguished it from standard briar pipes of the period and that the company continues to manufacture using the same underlying patent principle.
Dublin
This is Knit sells yarn, needles, patterns and knitting accessories, with workshops supporting learners and experienced makers. Fibre, weight and project guidance make the Dublin shop more useful than a general craft aisle.
Best for Craft shop.
Dubrovnik / Croatia
Medusa is a small gallery and shop in Dubrovnik for Croatian work of every kind.
Best for Croatian art, craft and cosmetics
Old Town / Online
Hand-painted ceramics, hand-poured candles and small-batch decorative pieces made through its Dubrovnik studio.
Best for Hand-painted ceramics (serving boards, decorative plates), hand-poured candles, textiles and small accessories
Dumaguete City
Artist Aiko Kitane runs Aikonic Creations, a Dumaguete studio producing handmade resin epoxy pieces including coasters, jewelry, and home and painter's organizers finished with ocean, celestial, and floral motifs. The studio takes custom orders for personalized keepsakes and souvenirs alongside its ready-made range.
Best for Custom resin keepsakes, jewelry, and souvenirs
Dundee / United Kingdom
The shop at Dundee Contemporary Arts carries design and jewellery, along with craft from nearby makers.
Best for Design, jewellery and craft
Durban
Earth Africa is a Durban wholesale supplier of Zulu beadwork and telephone-wire baskets, sourcing from craft projects across KwaZulu-Natal and further into Zimbabwe, Zambia and Kenya. The range runs from beaded jewellery, bangles and lanyards to Madiba shirts and woven planters, sold in bulk rather than as single retail pieces.
Best for Wholesale Zulu beadwork and curios
Glenwood, Durban
The KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts runs a not-for-profit gallery at 166 Bulwer Road in Glenwood, with three exhibition spaces, a cafe and a craft shop. Its shop and online store carry work by regional artists and makers alongside a changing programme of contemporary exhibitions and workshops.
Best for Contemporary art and local craft
Hillcrest, Durban
A social enterprise of the Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust founded in 2002, Woza Moya buys and resells work from more than 400 crafters each month, most from the surrounding Valley of 1000 Hills. Its Hillcrest shop and gallery carries Zulu beadwork, telephone-wire bowls, wood carvings and crochet, with proceeds returned to the makers as their main source of income.
Best for Zulu beadwork and fair-trade craft
10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh
Working tapestry studio and gallery — watch master weavers at work, see world-class textile art exhibitions, and shop for tapestries.
Best for Textile studio.
Edinburgh
William E Scott and Son manufactures sporrans, including dress, semi-dress, day and junior varieties, along with waist belts, buckles, kilt pins and skean-dhus, all made by craftsmen in Edinburgh.
Best for Handmade sporrans and highland accessories
124 Street, Edmonton
The Bearclaw Gallery in Edmonton features painting, sculpture and craft by established and up-and-coming First Nations and Metis artists.
Best for Indigenous painting sculpture and craft
Elora
A stained and modern art-glass studio and shop where panels, suncatchers and custom commissions are cut and soldered on site. The Elora storefront also runs glass workshops and carries work from featured guest artists.
Best for Stained and art glass, custom commissions
123 Metcalfe Street, Elora
A Metcalfe Street shop specializing in hand-crafted modern lampshades made in-house, surrounded by European textiles, craft kits, art papers and stationery. The maximalist selection leans toward needlecraft, papercraft and home decor.
Best for Handmade lampshades and craft supplies
Berkeley Road, Entebbe
This Entebbe gallery on Berkeley Road shows and sells paintings by a collective of Ugandan artists working in styles drawn from African culture and landscape. Canvases range from figurative scenes to abstract work, sold directly from the gallery walls.
Best for Original Ugandan paintings and contemporary African art
Katabi, Entebbe
Ewaffe Cultural Village hosts hands-on Buganda cooking and barkcloth-making workshops at sites near Kampala and Entebbe. It was named a 2024 World Tourism Day Cultural Experience Award winner.
Best for Ewaffe Cultural Village hosts hands-on Buganda cooking and barkcloth-making workshops at sites
Ewaffe Cultural Village runs its main site in Naggalama, in Uganda's Mukono District about an hour from Kampala, with a second branch in Katabi, roughly fifteen minutes from Entebbe airport. Visitors take part in Buganda kingdom traditions rather than watching them from a distance: cooking demonstrations center on luwombo, a dish of meat steamed inside banana leaves, alongside fishing, dance, storytelling rooted in Buganda heritage, and hands-on barkcloth-making workshops, where the fibrous inner bark of the mutuba tree is beaten into the fabric once used for royal and ceremonial dress. Local artisans working at both locations produce the bark cloth, woven baskets, jewelry, and traditional instruments sold on-site, alongside coffee sourced from smallholder farmers. The village was named a World Tourism Day 2024 Cultural Experience Award winner. Pricing is structured for both international and local visitors: the full village experience runs $55 for international adults and $35 for children five to twelve, while the shorter Entebbe-branch sessions cost $25 for international guests, with separate rates listed in Ugandan shillings for residents. Between the two sites, Ewaffe functions as both a working craft market and a hands-on introduction to Buganda cultural practice.
Krämerbrücke, Erfurt
Erfurter Blau hand-dyes silk, wool, linen and cotton fabrics with woad, and sells scarves, cloth, watercolours and pastels from its Krämerbrücke workshop. Marlu Müller-Ortloff and Gregor Sauer took over from Rosanna Minelli at the end of 2025.
Best for Woad-dyed silk and linen, scarves and artist pigments on Erfurt's Krämerbrücke
Rosanna Minelli ran the woad-dyeing workshop Erfurter Blau from the Krämerbrücke, Erfurt's historic merchant bridge. Erfurt's medieval prosperity was built substantially on woad — the plant that yields natural blue dye — which was cultivated across the Thuringian Basin from roughly the 9th through the 19th century; the city's old town still carries visible traces of that legacy.
Under Minelli, the workshop sourced woad leaves from Rose Saatzucht Erfurt's Demeter-certified organic cultivation at the city's edge, extracted the dye, and hand-dyed silk and wool scarves and cotton home textiles in the resulting blue. She collaborated with regional artisans and international designers, and ran dyeing workshops both in Erfurt and further afield in the Harz region, teaching the woad process and natural-material coloring directly.
The workshop continued under Marlu Müller-Ortloff and Gregor Sauer, who took over from Minelli at the end of 2025. Its own team page identifies Minelli as founder and the two successors as owners. The current shop sells woad-dyed scarves and cloth, watercolours and pastels at Krämerbrücke 2, Erfurt. Its contact page invites visitors; it advises calling ahead when travelling from outside Erfurt because dyeing work can cause additional closures.
Erfurt
Loopkeramik is an Erfurt studio producing wheel-thrown and hand-built tableware in muted glazes for everyday use. Mugs, bowls and vases are made in small runs and sold directly from the atelier.
Best for Wheel-thrown mugs, bowls, and vases in muted glazes from an Erfurt studio
Historic Downtown Eureka Springs
Green Man’s Craft works in historic Eureka Springs, Arkansas, using locally reclaimed Ozark wood for handcrafted cutting boards, bread boxes, serving boards and rolling pins. The shop offers custom-design inquiries and lifetime servicing for its boards, and includes food-safe beeswax-and-mineral-oil conditioner with cutting-board orders to support long use and repair.
Best for Sustainable handmade kitchen and keepsake woodwork
Downtown Eureka Springs
This Main Street gallery across from Basin Spring Park represents more than 45 area artists, makers, and authors, from painters to carvers of Arkansas pet rocks. Owner and curator Janie Davis rotates original paintings, sculpture, and small-run craft through the ground-floor space at 6 South Main Street.
Best for Original art and craft by working Eureka Springs artists
Downtown Eureka Springs
The mother-and-daughter team of Sylvia and Blakeley Wilson paints contemporary American folk scenes shown at their gallery at 23 Spring Street. Work ranges from original paintings to giclee prints and note cards, and has been exhibited at Crystal Bridges and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Best for Contemporary American folk art paintings and prints
Exeter / United Kingdom
Leaf Street is a shop on Magdalen Road in Exeter selling artisan jewellery and pre-loved clothing alongside home decor.
Best for Artisan jewellery and pre-loved clothing
Exeter / United Kingdom
Quay Presents is a gift and craft shop in a cellar at Kings Wharf on Exeter's Quay.
Best for Gifts and crafts
Crediton, near Exeter
A family-run, independent craft cider maker working from a cider mill in Crediton, pressing fresh juice from locally sourced Devon apples. Its flagship Devon Red leads a range spanning session, traditional, flavoured and alcohol-free ciders, with the 2026 harvest marking its 25th year.
Best for Devon craft cider and the flagship Devon Red
Talaa Sghira, Fez
Haick Concept Souk is a hand-made clothing brand based in the Old Medina of Fez, describing its pieces on Instagram as high-end, handmade garments inspired by Moroccan heritage. Its account features menswear and womenswear collections.
Best for Handmade heritage inspired clothing
Fez
An artisan-owned cooperative retailing work directly from Moroccan makers. The opened store page is specifically for its Fez location.
Best for Work sold directly from Moroccan makers at this artisan-owned Fez cooperative
Via Della Vigna Nuova, Florence / Online
Cameo Italiano's Florence boutique — at Piazza de' Rucellai 11R, opening onto Via della Vigna Nuova — sells shell cameos hand-carved by artisans in Torre del Greco, near Naples, the town that has carved Mediterranean shell and coral cameos for over two centuries.
Best for Hand-carved cameos.
Shell-cameo carving in Italy centers overwhelmingly on Torre del Greco, a town on the Bay of Naples that built its reputation on coral and shell craftsmanship through trade routes bringing raw material from Africa and Central America. The technique, largely dormant during the Middle Ages, was revived in the area around 1800, and Torre del Greco's standing grew enough that in 1876 the town founded a dedicated School of Engraving on Coral and Artistic Industrial Design, formalizing training in a craft that had previously passed informally from master to apprentice. Torre del Greco is still described as the only place where shell cameos have been carved continuously for more than two centuries, and its workshops remain the source for most cameo jewelry sold as genuinely Italian-made. Cameo Italiano's pieces are carved by artisans working within this Torre del Greco tradition — using layered shell, commonly sardonyx or helmet shell, prized for the color contrast between an outer and inner layer, cut and engraved by hand to raise the portrait or scene typical of a cameo. The company sells through a small network of boutiques rather than department-store counters: two locations in Rome (Via del Babuino and Via Francesco Crispi) and one in Florence, at Piazza de' Rucellai, a small square that opens directly onto Via della Vigna Nuova in the city's historic center.
Florence / Italy
Founded in 2012, Campucc10 is a Florence cultural association and gallery bringing sculpture, ceramics, graphics, illustration, goldsmithing and design together in the Oltrarno.
Best for Sculpture, ceramics, illustration and goldsmithing by working artists
Florence / Online
Florentine marbled paper ateliers — hand-decorated carta marmorizzata by the city's last masters.
Best for Marbled paper, journals, and desk gifts.
Oltrarno (near Pitti Palace) / Online
Florentine pietre-dure mosaics, decorative panels and custom works made by the family workshop.
Best for Handcrafted mosaics — pietre dure (semi-precious stone) mosaics using traditional Florentine technique; museum
Florence / Online
WindTre stores sell mobile plans, SIMs, broadband and connected devices, with staff handling activation and account questions. This is a telecom service counter with products, not a specialist fashion or craft shop.
Best for Local SIM deals.
6-10 Reisen-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka 812-0039, Japan / Fukuoka / Japan
The souvenir wing reopened 26 April 2025 as hakatakara, selling Hakata traditional crafts; facility address 6-10 Reisen-machi.
Best for Hakata traditional crafts from the hakatakara souvenir wing.
Umi Town, Kasuya-gun, Fukuoka
Mori Hakataori has woven Hakata-ori since 1896, working from Umi Town on the edge of Fukuoka to produce obi and pile-woven silk goods. Its Oriaguri direct shop and factory tour sit at the main mill.
Best for Hakata-ori obi and silk goods
1-10-46 Sakurazaka, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810-0024, Japan / Fukuoka / Japan
The Sakurazaka gallery Kaigeido opened to exhibit and sell the Hakata ningyo of Nakamura Shinkyō and Nakamura Hiromine, a multi-generation Hakata doll house founded 1917.
Best for Hakata dolls from a multi-generation house founded in 1917.
Shime Town, Kasuya-gun, Fukuoka
Shibata Tamaki is the 18th-generation maker of Hakata magemono in Shime Town near Fukuoka Airport, bending cedar and cypress and binding it with cherry bark, no metal. The craft became a Fukuoka Intangible Cultural Property in March 2025, with her named its holder.
Best for Craft became a Fukuoka Intangible Cultural Property in March 2025
Hakata magemono — curved woodwork bent from thin boards of cedar or cypress and bound with strips of cherry bark, without a single metal fastener — has been made in Fukuoka for more than 400 years, and the Shibata family workshop carries an unbroken line through that history. Shibata Tamaki, born Mariko in 1961 in Hakata's Bashio district, took up the craft seriously after finishing junior college in 1981, working alongside her father, the 17th-generation Shibata Tamaki. After his death in 1996 she renamed the workshop Hakata Magemono Tamaki and moved it to Shime Town, near Fukuoka Airport; she formally took the name and title of 18th generation in 2007. In March 2025, Hakata magemono was designated a Fukuoka Prefecture Intangible Cultural Property, with Shibata Tamaki recognized as the holder of the technique.
Her workshop turns the wood into bento boxes, rice tubs, flower vases, dippers, offering stands and tea-ceremony implements, alongside custom commissions, and she has shown individually in Tokyo and Kyoto while keeping the craft grounded in daily use rather than display alone. She also demonstrates the technique in public every Thursday at the Hakata Machiya Furusato-kan folk museum, one of the few regular chances to watch the bending and binding done by hand.
Maidashi, Higashi Ward, Fukuoka
Shibata Toku Shoten has shaped Hakata magemono for close to 300 years in Maide near Hakozaki Shrine, sealing scored cedar and cypress with cherry bark. Founder Shibata Tokugoroji was designated a Fukuoka City Intangible Cultural Property holder for the technique.
Best for Close to 300 years in Maide near Hakozaki Shrine
Shibata Toku Shoten has worked the bentwood craft of Hakata magemono for close to three centuries from the same neighborhood, Maide, just outside Hakozaki Hachimangu Shrine in Fukuoka's Higashi Ward. The technique bends thin boards of cedar or cypress after scoring them, then closes the seam with a binding of cherry bark rather than any metal fastener, producing containers prized for their lightness and faint wood fragrance. The craft has long been tied to the neighboring shrine, traditionally supplying offering vessels for Hakozaki Hachimangu.
The workshop's founder, Shibata Tokugoroji, was designated a holder of Fukuoka City's Intangible Cultural Property for the technique, a recognition that anchors the shop's standing within Hakata's magemono tradition alongside a handful of other family workshops carrying the same craft forward. Its current range runs from meshibitsu rice tubs and tiered jubako boxes to tea-ceremony utensils and small lidded confectionery containers, made to the same cut-bend-and-bind method the shop has used since its founding. Visitors can see pieces made and sold from the Maide shop itself, in the same gate-town setting the workshop has occupied throughout its history, a short walk from the shrine whose offerings first gave the craft its purpose in this part of the city.
812-1 Oaza Koishiwara, Toho-mura, Asakura-gun, Fukuoka, Japan / Toho Village (Koishiwara) / Japan
Hassen-gama is a Takatori-yaki kiln in the Enshū seven-kiln tea-ware lineage, with a public gallery at Koishiwara 812-1 open 9:00–17:00, closed Wednesday.
Best for Takatori-yaki tea ware from the Enshū seven-kiln lineage.
Gaborone
Trading since 1970, Botswanacraft is Gaborone's largest handcraft centre, sourcing coiled palm-leaf baskets from rural weavers and San community crafts directly from their makers. The complex pairs the retail hall and online basket shop with a courtyard restaurant and event space.
Best for Botswana baskets and San crafts from named weaver communities
Gaziantep
Gaziantep atelier working in mother-of-pearl inlay and copper since 1966, producing inlaid backgammon and chess sets, boxes, mirrors, and hamam bowls. It offers custom pieces and sells its inlay and copper work through its own online shop.
Best for Mother-of-pearl inlay and copper
Gaziantep
Founded in 2017 by Julide Konukoğlu to revive Gaziantep's centuries-old kutnu weaving, working silk warps with cotton wefts into clothing, homeware, and accessories. It employs around a hundred local weavers and trainees and sells internationally from Gaziantep.
Best for Handwoven kutnu silk textiles
Geneva
Founded in 1996, Agenhor is an independent Geneva atelier that develops and builds movements and complications for houses including Hermès, Van Cleef & Arpels and H. Moser & Cie. It holds dozens of patents, among them the AgenGraphe chronograph and the AgenPit regulator, and works as a workshop rather than a retail shop.
Best for Movement and complication design (atelier, not retail)
Carouge, Geneva
Geneva's bohemian quarter with Sardinian-influenced architecture. Artisan workshops, independent boutiques, galleries, and cafés. The Place du Marché hosts a lively Saturday market.
Best for Artisan workshops, independent boutiques, galleries, and cafés
Montreux, Lake Geneva
One of Europe's most beautiful Christmas markets along Lake Geneva. Swiss crafts, fondue, mulled wine, and Alpine specialties. The lakeside setting with mountain views is magical.
Best for Swiss crafts, fondue and lakeside Christmas stalls
145, Victoria Street, George Town / Online
The Warung sells named local-designer goods, from the Ben Journal leather journal to Lahym coasters, at its George Town, Penang shop. It also runs craft workshops like cyanotype and brush lettering sessions.
Best for Local-designer goods like the Ben Journal leather journal and NyoCup
The Warung operates from 145 Lebuh Victoria in George Town, Penang, open daily except Wednesday from 10:30am to 7pm. Its stock leans on named local-designer lines rather than generic gift-shop goods: the Ben Journal, an A6 leather journal book; the NyoCup; and the Lahym range of square coasters and name-card holders, each crediting a specific maker rather than an anonymous supplier. Beyond retail, the shop runs hands-on programming — past events include a Cyanotype Workshop and a Brush Lettering Workshop — and has used its platform for features like an International Women's Day tribute to the makers it stocks. That combination of a fixed George Town heritage-shophouse address, named local-designer product lines, and its own workshop programming is what distinguishes The Warung from a typical souvenir or lifestyle shop: the goods on its shelves are traceable to specific small makers, and the shop itself functions as a venue for craft learning, not just a point of sale. For a visitor to Penang's heritage district, it offers a stop where the coffee blends, journals, and skincare on the shelf connect back to named local designers and artists rather than wholesale stock.
Ghent & Antwerp
Ghent and Antwerp studios cutting made-to-measure suits and wedding tailoring — fittings measured in patience, two-piece suits from about €990, and official tailor to the Royal Belgian Football Association.
Best for Wedding suits and relaxed made-to-measure tailoring.
<p>Atelier ACÀN is Belgian tailoring at conversational volume — a made-to-measure house with its flagship on Kortrijksepoortstraat in Ghent and a second atelier in Antwerp, cutting suits for men who want craft without ceremony. The style is deliberately contemporary: Scandinavian minimalism with what the house calls French nonchalance — sharp shoulders, calm colors, fits that are never tight and never loose, as happy over a T-shirt as a tie.</p><p>The process is classically bespoke in structure: consultation, cloth selection from Italian and British mills — Loro Piana and Zegna sit at the top of the book — precise measurement, then fittings until the suit disappears onto the body. Wedding suits are the house's signature commission, built months ahead around fabric, cut and the day itself; business tailoring runs alongside.</p><p>ACÀN represents the register of the atlas below the great maisons: the young regional atelier doing honest bespoke work at accessible prices, where the customer is measured over coffee rather than intimidated over marble. Ghent's tailoring address, in a country whose fashion schools taught the world — the craft practiced plainly, by appointment or by walking in.</p>
Ghent / Belgium
Atelier ExC is a Ghent haute couture house making custom-fitted dresses for galas, weddings and other formal occasions, with ready-to-wear pieces and couture commissions fitted by appointment at its Sint-Amandsberg studio. Custom pieces carry a minimum three-month lead time, and the atelier was recently featured in De Tijd's Sabato fashion special.
Best for Custom-fitted gala and wedding couture at Ghent's Sint-Amandsberg studio
Majorna
Dye for Indigo is Johan Åberg's natural indigo dyeing studio in Majorna, Gothenburg, opened in 2015 after nearly 20 years in fashion. He takes dyeing commissions for designers and brands and teaches shibori and sashiko workshops in traditional resist and mending techniques.
Best for Natural indigo dyeing commissions and shibori/sashiko workshops
Johan Åberg grew up in Dalsjöfors near Borås, a Swedish region built on textile manufacturing, and worked summers as a teenager at Almedahls, a textile company founded in the 1800s. He spent nearly two decades afterward in the fashion trade before growing disillusioned with poor quality and working conditions, leaving to open the vintage shop Göteborg Vintage in Gothenburg in 2013.
The turn toward indigo came in the summer of 2015, when Åberg took a natural-dyeing course at Capellagården, a craft school on the Swedish island of Öland. He has said simply, "I wanted to learn everything about indigo." He began shifting his vintage business toward dyeing, gradually converting it into what became Dyeforindigo, a studio in the Majorna district of Gothenburg devoted to plant-based indigo and Japanese resist and mending techniques.
Today the studio takes commissioned dyeing work for designers and brands and runs open workshops in shibori resist-dyeing and sashiko mending, alongside lectures and collaborations with institutions including HDK-Valand, Chalmers University of Technology and the Borås Textile Fashion Center. Åberg has described the work as "my reaction to the consumer society," positioning hand-dyeing and mending as a deliberate alternative to disposable fashion.
Alcaicería
Small craft shop inside Granada's Alcaicería, the rebuilt Nasrid-era silk market by the cathedral, still trading in handicrafts since a mid-19th-century reconstruction; stocks decorative lamps and coloured-glass lanterns alongside other Granada craft ware.
Best for Lamps and decorative craft at a small Alcaicería shop
El Zoco Nazarí trades inside the Alcaicería, Granada's historic silk market, a warren of narrow lanes that once housed the city's Nasrid-era silk trade before the original quarter burned and was rebuilt in the 19th century. Today the Alcaicería's stalls sell mainly handicrafts rather than silk — Fajalauza pottery, taracea (wood marquetry inlay), and the coloured-glass lanterns and lamps for which several of its shops, including El Zoco Nazarí, are known. Business directories list El Zoco Nazarí as a craft and gift shop within this district, trading in decorative lamps and home-craft items alongside the general run of Granada souvenir ware sold along the Alcaicería's lanes. Independent press coverage of this specific shop is thin; most available sourcing is directory listings and general descriptions of the Alcaicería rather than dedicated profiles of the business itself.
Bubión, La Alpujarra, Granada
At this Bubion workshop, traditional Alpujarran jarapas—rag rugs woven from recycled fabric—come off the hand looms alongside curtains, cushions, bags and tapestries. Visitors can take weaving courses on site or order through the online shop.
Best for Handwoven Alpujarran jarapas and textiles
Granada, Andalusia
Luz Arabe sells Andalusi lamps and lanterns handmade by Granada workshops, from pierced-metal ceiling fixtures to coloured-glass wall and table lamps. The Granada-based shop ships its brass and stained-glass lighting from an online catalogue.
Best for Andalusi brass and stained-glass lamps
Centro
Granada gift shop carrying handmade Granadino ceramics, traditional crafts, and artisanal souvenirs from local makers in the Centro district.
Best for Granadino crafts and ceramics
Regalos La Tertulia is a gift shop located in Granada's Centro district, specializing in Granadino crafts and ceramics. The shop features handcrafted pieces from local artisans, drawing on Granada's rich tradition of ceramics work, particularly the well-known Fajalauza ceramics with their distinctive Nasrid-influenced designs in blue and green tones. The shop serves as a local marketplace for traditional Granada crafts, offering visitors access to authentic souvenirs and artisanal products made by Granada craftspeople. The store has maintained an active community presence, with a Facebook page indicating ongoing operations and engagement with the local Granada community.
Granada, Andalusia
The Beas Bimbela family has cut taracea inlay in Granada since 1948, now into a fourth generation working from a workshop on Calle Santa Rosalia. They assemble marquetry board games, jewellery boxes and wedding keepsakes from tessellated wood, bone and metal.
Best for Handmade marquetry board games and boxes
Granada, Andalusia
Founded in 1962, this Granada workshop hand-cuts geometric marquetry from woods, bone and metal to build chess boards, jewellery boxes and trays in the Nasrid tradition. Each finished piece is numbered and dated by the craftsman and shipped from the workshop's online catalogue.
Best for Inlaid taracea boxes and chess boards
Granada, Nicaragua
Founded by Don Silvio Reyes in 1991, Dona Elba rolls premium cigars by hand near the Xalteva church in Granada, using Rosado, Habano, Sumatra and Connecticut wrappers. The shop floor doubles as a daily rolling demonstration open to visitors.
Best for Hand-rolled Nicaraguan cigars
Granada, Nicaragua
Mombacho rolls its cigars entirely by hand at Casa Favilli, a restored colonial mansion in central Granada, taking its name from the volcano where the company was founded in 2006. A tasting lounge and guided factory tours accompany the rolling gallery.
Best for Boutique hand-rolled cigars and tours
Granada, Nicaragua
A block from Granada's Parque Central, The Garden Cafe pairs specialty coffee with a community library and a shop curating goods from Nicaraguan artisans, artists and designers. It's affiliated with NM Granada and open daily 7am-9pm.
Best for Block from Granada's Parque Central
A block east of Granada's Parque Central on Calle La Libertad, The Garden Cafe pairs a full-day food menu — breakfast through dinner — with two things a standard cafe wouldn't carry: a curated shop of goods by Nicaraguan artisans, artists and designers, and a community library the site calls "nuestra biblioteca." The specialty coffee service sits inside that broader concept rather than as the sole draw, alongside dessert and beverage menus and a stated focus on honest ingredients. The building itself is used deliberately to showcase Granada's historic architecture, and the cafe is affiliated with NM Granada, a related restaurant in the same city. Open daily from 7am to 9pm, it functions as much as a gathering point — library, shop, and dining room combined — as a coffee stop, with the artisan shop giving visitors a way to buy directly from local makers rather than tourist-market goods.
Granada, Nicaragua
Tio Antonio is a Granada social enterprise where deaf and disabled artisans hand-weave hammocks and macrame, sold online and shipped to more than thirty countries. The same project runs Cafe de las Sonrisas, a restaurant staffed by deaf employees.
Best for Handwoven hammocks from a social enterprise
Grindelwald, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
An independent snowboard and ski-touring specialist running since 2001 from two Dorfstrasse locations in Grindelwald. It sells splitboards, touring and trail-running gear, and technical clothing, with rental, demo testing, and a service workshop.
Best for Snowboard and ski-touring gear
Grindelwald, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
A souvenir shop and kiosk on Dorfstrasse beside the Sunstar Hotel, selling gifts sourced from regional artisans and small suppliers alongside everyday kiosk items. Its stock leans toward Grindelwald-specific pieces rather than standard tourist fare.
Best for Regional artisan souvenirs
Tlaquepaque, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Sergio Bustamante built his name in Tlaquepaque on papier-mache and bronze figures of moons, suns and fantastical animals, and his gallery still casts those designs as sculpture and sterling-silver jewelry. Pieces run from small silver rings to six-figure bronzes, sold through the workshop's own catalog with worldwide shipping.
Best for Fantastical bronze and papier-mache art
Guatemala City, Online
The Ixchel Museum guards the textile art of the Maya, and its tienda sells the real thing — huipiles and weavings sourced ethically from named communities, with the museum's scholarship behind every piece.
Best for Maya textiles from the museum of the art form
Panbazar, Guwahati
This Panbazar shop works in Assam's three signature silks, golden muga, warm eri, and ivory paat, cut into mekhela sador sets and sarees. Family-run and pitched largely at bridal buyers, it sells directly as manufacturer and supplier of handwoven Assamese cloth.
Best for Handwoven muga, eri and paat silk mekhela sador and sarees
Sarthebari, Assam (online, ~90 km from Guwahati)
Kahibati sells Sarthebari's kansa bell metal and pital brass, xorai, bota, plates, and puja lamps, sourced directly from the craft village's artisans. The online store handles wedding combo sets alongside everyday utensils in the traditional alloy.
Best for Sarthebari bell-metal xorai and brass utensils
Odalbakra, Guwahati
This Guwahati e-commerce shop gathers cane and bamboo furniture, wicker, water hyacinth ware, and sital pati mats made by Northeast Indian artisans. Stock ranges from woven seating to smaller home decor pieces.
Best for Cane and bamboo furniture and home decor
Hagi, Yamaguchi
Toukazan, the kiln of potters Matsuo Sofu and Yuko, makes Hagi-yaki cups, bowls, plates, and dinner sets across a range of traditional glazes. The workshop pairs hand-throwing with contemporary forms and sells both in its shop and online.
Best for Hagi-yaki dinnerware sets
Half Moon Bay, California
Next to La Nebbia Winery on San Mateo Road, this glassblowing studio runs hands-on classes where visitors shape, blow and color their own pieces. Seasonal projects include hand-blown holiday ornaments and pumpkins.
Best for Glassblowing classes and handmade pieces
Schanzenviertel / Online
All My Friends - Kreativkaufhaus in Hamburg — Handmade and fair trade items from small businesses including fashion, accessories and unique gifts in Schanzenviertel.
Best for Handmade and fair trade items from small businesses including fashion
Hamburg-Schnelsen
This Hamburg maker builds ship-in-bottle displays in its own workshop and stocks maritime clothing, flags and city souvenirs. It sells from a shop at Meddenwarf in Schnelsen and online, with pickup available.
Best for Ship-in-bottle and maritime gifts
Hamburg
A workshop shop creating and selling clothing, accessories, and fragrance with political themes.
Best for Hamburg-made clothing and small-batch accessories
Sternschanze
Schanzenhöfe is a Courtyard shopping in the Schanze with independent boutiques, design shops, and artisan goods.
Best for Independent boutiques, design shops, and artisan goods in the Schanze courtyards
Karolinenviertel, Hamburg
Founded in 2000 by designer Regine Steenbock in Hamburg's Karolinenviertel; garments are handmade in-house, and Steenbock has paired the label with art and photography projects such as 'Chinese Weave.'
Best for Handmade women's clothing by Hamburg designer Regine Steenbock
SIUM is a small women's fashion label founded in 2000 by designer Regine Steenbock, based in Hamburg's Karolinenviertel, a district known for independent studios and small-batch retail rather than chain stores. Steenbock designs and produces her pieces largely in-house rather than through mass manufacturing, positioning the label around handmade construction and unconventional silhouettes rather than seasonal trend-following. Beyond garments, Steenbock has extended the SIUM name into collaborative art and publishing projects, including 'Chinese Weave,' a book credited to her, and 'BEM-TE-VIE,' a joint project with artists Roxane Borujerdi and Jochen Lempert that blends textile work with photography. The label maintains a webshop and a blog, 'Lands Outside,' through which Steenbock documents projects and cultural references that inform the clothing. SIUM has remained a single-designer operation rather than expanding into a larger label or retail chain, which keeps production volumes small and ties the collections closely to Steenbock's own ongoing art and photography work rather than a conventional seasonal fashion calendar.
Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Founded in 1875, Wangxingji built its name on black-paper folding fans coated in persimmon lacquer and on scented sandalwood fans, a range that now covers more than ten thousand designs across nineteen categories. National and provincial intangible-heritage masters still cut, mount and hand-paint the fans at the Hangzhou workshop, which pairs its retail hall with a small fan museum.
Best for Hand-painted folding fans and sandalwood fans
Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Established in 1975, Wensli turns Hangzhou mulberry silk into scarves, ties and framed silk artworks using a double-sided printing process it developed in-house, and it supplied ceremonial gifts for the G20 summit and the Asian Games. Its research center releases thousands of new patterns each year, sold alongside a silk culture museum that follows the fibre from cocoon to jacquard loom.
Best for Printed silk scarves and silk gifts
Gushan islet, West Lake, Hangzhou
Founded in 1904 on Gushan islet, the Xiling Seal Society is an institution devoted to seal engraving and stone-carved calligraphy, and its shop supplies hand-cut name seals, cinnabar seal paste, brushes and ink. Each object is checked by the society's craftsmen, continuing a scholarly tradition that has gathered seal artists for more than a century.
Best for Hand-carved name seals and seal paste
Tây Hồ
Spanish artists Diego Cortizas and Laura Fontan founded Chula in Hanoi in 2004, blending Spanish and Vietnamese design; garments are cut, sewn, painted and embroidered in-house, and about 75% of the artisan team has a physical disability.
Best for Colorful, artist-led garments made with local Hanoi teams
Chula Fashion was founded in Hanoi in 2004 by Diego Cortizas and Laura Fontan, who had arrived in Vietnam some years earlier and were drawn into fashion design by the country's fabrics and craft traditions. The brand takes its name from a Spanish word connoting something distinctive, and its design language merges Spanish and Vietnamese influences. Production is kept in-house at every stage - designing, cutting, sewing, painting, stamping and embroidering - carried out by a team of skilled artisans, roughly three-quarters of whom have a physical disability, a detail the brand frames as core to its social mission. Cortizas, previously a photographer, painter and musician engaged with Hanoi's art scene, has also used the boutique as a venue for exhibitions and musical performances.
Văn Miếu
A fair-trade social enterprise selling craft made by Vietnamese artisan groups. Established 1996.
Best for Vietnamese fair-trade textiles, baskets and lacquerware
Old Quarter, Hanoi
A lacquerware boutique producing modern home accessories and jewelry through traditional Vietnamese lacquer techniques. Vietnam Tourism says even small pieces require at least 100 days to make.
Best for Modern lacquer home accessories and jewelry, each piece taking at least 100 days to make.
Văn Miếu
Opened in December 2000 facing Hanoi's Temple of Literature, Indigo Store is a fair-trade shop employing around 120 producers, including disabled artisans and members of seven ethnic minority groups. It sells handmade indigo textiles and offers free custom tailoring plus indigo-dyeing classes.
Best for Fair-trade ethnic-minority textiles and custom tailoring near Hanoi's Temple of Literature
Indigo Store opened in December 2000 directly opposite Hanoi's Temple of Literature, positioning itself from the outset as an organic and fair-trade outlet rather than a standard tourist souvenir shop. The store employs roughly 120 producers, deliberately including disabled workers and artisans from more than seven different ethnic minority communities across Vietnam.
Its stated purpose is preserving and promoting the traditional costume culture and handicraft techniques of those communities, translated into clothing — shirts, skirts, pants and jackets — plus scarves, bags, jewelry and home textiles like bedspreads, made from natural materials including linen, cotton and hemp. Custom tailoring is offered at no extra charge and is frequently completed quickly, a detail repeatedly noted by visitors.
The shop also runs an indigo-dyeing class on-site, giving visitors a hands-on introduction to the traditional Vietnamese indigo-dyeing process rather than only a retail experience.
Tây Hồ, Hanoi
A Hanoi slow-fashion studio using natural dyes and traditional textile processes. Established 2012.
Best for Vietnamese natural dyes, handwoven cloth and studio-made clothing
Kilomet109 is a Hanoi slow-fashion studio founded in 2012 by designer, artist, and eco-entrepreneur Thao Vu, recognized as one of the figures who helped establish Hanoi's contemporary fashion scene. The label's garments are produced by hand in Vu's Tây Hồ studio using naturally sourced, eco-friendly dyes — including traditional indigo dyeing — alongside hand-spinning, hand-weaving, and hand-stitching carried out in direct collaboration with local artisans rather than industrial manufacturing. Design details such as flexible panels, detachable elements, and convertible hoods allow single pieces to be styled multiple ways, an approach Vu has framed as central to the brand's philosophy: 'the value of our pieces is about more than their design,' she has said, describing garments as carriers of 'the culture of the people who make them and the environmental issues that are so vital to our future.' The label has been featured in Harper's Bazaar and profiled by Channel News Asia's CNA Luxury as part of a story on artisan collaboration and environmental commitment in Vietnamese fashion, shown a runway collection titled Phiêu with ELLE Vietnam, exhibited at the London Design Biennale after debuting the work in Hanoi, and been the subject of a THE KINDCRAFT interview alongside an art installation titled SUI. The brand's flagship operates from 64 Quảng An in Hanoi's Tây Hồ (West Lake) district.
Hanoi / Hang Gai
Four generations of mother-to-daughter hand embroidery on Hanoi's silk street since 1969 — begun with wartime handkerchiefs stitched with love words for soldiers, now a 1,000 m² design house at 61 Hang Gai whose double-sided silk needlework is gifted to visiting royalty.
Best for Double-sided Vietnamese silk embroidery from the source.
Old Quarter
The shop specialises in hand-painted reproductions of Vietnamese propaganda posters, printed and painted in Hanoi on rice paper across war, peace and Ho Chi Minh themes. Expert copyists recreate the bold two-colour graphics of the wartime originals rather than selling fragile antiques.
Best for Hand-painted propaganda poster reproductions
Hoàn Kiếm
Vui Studio presents contemporary Vietnamese objects, printed matter and small design-led goods in a studio-shop setting. Its social feed is the clearest current source for releases, workshops and visiting information.
Best for Objects and print showcasing contemporary Vietnamese creativity
Tây Hồ
A social enterprise preserving Vietnamese handmade dó paper through contemporary products.
Best for Vietnamese handmade dó paper turned into contemporary products
Havana
Old Havana bar and boutique hybrid on Calle Aguiar, serving tapas and cocktails alongside a fashion workshop for designer Loypa Yzaguirre. Small in-house fashion parades showcase her bold, colorful womenswear.
Best for In-house fashion parades showcasing designer Loypa Yzaguirre's bold, color-forward womenswear
Color Café operates as two businesses under one roof on Calle Aguiar in Old Havana: a tapas bar at the front, and Loypa Yzaguirre's fashion workshop and boutique at the back. The bar's menu mixes French, Spanish, and Cuban small plates, including quiches, Serrano ham toast, and ceviche toast, alongside a cocktail list built on classics and house creations, including a rum-ginger-tonic 'marilou' and a melon-mint 'rosa plizzz.'
The fashion side runs small, informal parades through the bar space itself, with models wearing Yzaguirre's designs, described as bold and summery in color, moving through the same room where customers are drinking and eating. So far the boutique has stocked womenswear only, though the business has signaled interest in expanding into menswear if demand continues.
On weekends, the bar brings in guest DJs, adding a nightlife layer on top of its tapas-and-fashion-show format. The combination — bar, boutique, and runway sharing one space — makes Color Café function less like a conventional shop and more like a small, recurring fashion event with food and drink built around it.
Helsinki / Finland
CraftCorner houses Taito Shop Helsinki and Taito Galleria, with craft classes and activities at the same address.
Lasipalatsi, Central Helsinki
Textile designer Johanna Gullichsen weaves geometric double-weave cottons used for bags, cushions and upholstery. Her retail store sits in the Lasipalatsi building on Mannerheimintie, with a studio and showroom on Korkeavuorenkatu.
Best for Woven geometric textiles and bags
Central Helsinki
Lokal is a gallery and shop opened by photographer Katja Hagelstam in 2012, showing rotating exhibitions of Finnish craft and design. It sells ceramics, glass, textiles and furniture by independent makers alongside its own Lokal Kollektion.
Best for Finnish craft, ceramics and small-maker design
Helsinki / Finland
Craft and design shop selling work made in Finland by Finnish artists and designers.
Helsinki / Finland
Design shop presenting objects and artisan work connected with Finland, Japan, Mexico and other places. Not all stock is described as Finnish-made.
Yrjönkatu 12, 00120 Helsinki, Finland / Helsinki / Finland
Clothing-fabric specialist founded 1988, natural-fibre silks, wools, linens and cottons; Sew DIY independently visited the Yrjönkatu 12 boutique.
Best for Natural-fibre silks, wools, linens and cottons for garment making.
Hart Street, Henley-on-Thames
Asquiths opened in 1984 as one of the first dedicated teddy bear shops and now trades from a Grade II listed building on Hart Street. It sells collectible bears from makers including Steiff, Merrythought and Charlie Bears, and offers bear repairs and workshops.
Best for Collectible teddy bears and repairs
Sapoutie 2, Heraklion / Online
Irida Family Workshop in Heraklion, Crete makes reproductions of ancient Greek objects. It supplies stores throughout Greece and abroad with pieces it describes as exact museum copies that have received awards for quality and fidelity. The range runs from bronze armour and helmets to Minoan statues and busts in ceramic or alabaster, with geometric vases and chess sets in wooden boxes. It also builds designs a customer suggests, and shows its work each year at exhibitions in Athens and Heraklion.
Best for Own-design ceramic, bronze and museum-inspired decorative objects produced through the family workshop
Kumano, Hiroshima
Chikuhodo hand-assembles cosmetic, medical and painting brushes in Kumano, working with fibers such as Kazan squirrel, silver fox and Japanese mink. Alongside its own retail series the company runs an OEM operation, and each brush is finished by hand in Japan.
Best for Luxury handmade cosmetic brushes
Kumano, Hiroshima
Founded in Kumano in 1974, Hakuhodo makes roughly 500,000 brushes a month entirely in its own Hiroshima Prefecture workshops, spanning makeup, calligraphy, nihonga and watercolor lines. The firm's craft earned the first Japan Monodzukuri Grand Award Prime Minister's Prize in 2005, as recorded in Hakuhodo's company history, and its brushes are built around undyed, uncut hair tips rather than trimmed bristles.
Best for Handmade makeup and calligraphy brushes
Kumano, Hiroshima
Established in Kumano Town in July 1990, Koyudo produces around 3,500 calligraphy brushes, 200 painting brushes and 300 makeup brushes, including its animal-shaped and fluffy fan brushes. The company runs a headquarters and makeup-brush workshop-shop in Hiroshima plus a Tokyo branch, and sells directly through its own online store.
Best for Kumano calligraphy and makeup brushes
Hita
Motono Hakimono Kogyo is a family workshop producing Hita geta, part of one of Japan's three major geta-making traditions, from the cedar of the surrounding forests. The maker shapes and finishes the wooden soles in-house before fitting them with fabric thongs.
Best for Traditional Hita geta clogs
District 1
Vietnamese couture house from designer Cong Tri, offering both ready-to-wear pieces and a made-to-order atelier service. The label presents seasonal runway collections, including its current Spring-Summer 2026 line.
Best for Cong Tri ready-to-wear and made-to-order fashion
District 1 / Online
Ladan is a maker in Ho Chi Minh City known for handmade handbags using traditional Vietnamese Dan Lat weaving method, bridging generations with candy-coloured pocketbooks, clutches and totes.
Best for Handmade handbags using traditional Vietnamese Dan Lat weaving method
71B Dong Khoi, District 1 / Online
Ninh Khương is a maker in Ho Chi Minh City known for hand-embroidered baby clothes and home linens by the 'King of Embroidery' — classic Vietnamese needlework.
Best for Hand-embroidered baby clothes, home linens and Vietnamese needlework
District 1
Deaf-staffed teahouse and adjoining craft shop in Hoi An's Old Town, part of the Reaching Out Vietnam social enterprise founded in 2000; sells Hue-style handcrafted tableware, ceramics and homewares made by deaf and disabled artisans.
Best for Handmade crafts made by silent artisans
Reaching Out Teahouse is run as part of Reaching Out Vietnam, a social enterprise founded in 2000 in Hoi An to provide employment for local deaf and disabled residents under fair-trade principles - fair wages and safe working conditions for artisans and staff. All servers at the teahouse are speech- and hearing-impaired; communication with customers runs through gentle hand gestures, circle-marked menus, and small wooden signaling blocks rather than spoken orders. The teahouse itself occupies a restored old house in central Hoi An and serves tea, coffee, fruit juices and biscuits. Behind and alongside it, Reaching Out operates a retail and workshop space selling tableware handcrafted in the style of Hue's former imperial court, along with ceramics, homewares and jewelry made by the same artisan community. The enterprise has been covered by regional press as a model for disability employment tied to Vietnam's tourism economy.
District 1
Ho Chi Minh City atelier founded 2011 by artist-designer Thuy Nguyen, who trained at Hanoi's Vietnam University of Fine Art and holds a PhD from Kyiv's fine-art academy; reworks brocade and silk techniques into contemporary fashion.
Best for Art-led fashion from this independent Vietnamese designer
Thuy Design House was founded in 2011 by Thuy Nguyen, a Vietnamese artist and fashion designer educated at the Vietnam University of Fine Art in Hanoi, who went on to earn a doctorate in fine art from the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in Kyiv, Ukraine. The label's guiding idea is translating traditional Vietnamese textile handicraft - brocade weaving and silk work among them - into contemporary garment design, rather than treating those techniques as purely decorative or archival.
Nguyen's work extends beyond the clothing line itself. She produced and directed the film "The Tailor," which uses the ao dai, Vietnam's traditional dress, as a lens for exploring Vietnamese cultural identity and its collision with modern life. She also founded The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in Ho Chi Minh City, a space dedicated to contemporary Vietnamese art, which operates alongside her fashion practice rather than as a side project. Thuy Design House's collections have been shown at Vietnam International Fashion Week and worn by figures in Vietnamese entertainment and media, part of a broader push - shared with other Vietnamese designers of her generation - to position Vietnamese craft techniques within international, rather than purely folkloric or tourist-facing, fashion contexts.
Hoi An, Quang Nam
Hoi An Lanterns Online ships handmade silk lanterns directly from workshops in the city, offering jacquard and printed-silk versions in the crane, lotus, and koi motifs long associated with the town's lantern trade. The catalog spans plain color lanterns for everyday use to UV-reactive neon designs made for events.
Best for Handmade silk lanterns shipped internationally
Tra Que Vegetable Village, Hoi An
Little Daisy Hoi An teaches hand embroidery, sewing, and crochet from a workshop in Tra Que Vegetable Village just outside the old town, and sells the linen clothing and embroidered pieces its staff and students make there. The setting away from the tourist core keeps it closer to a working studio than a souvenir counter.
Best for Hand-embroidered linen clothing and embroidery classes
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island
Creative hub in a historic site — a former police married quarters converted into a center for design, art, and creativity, with shops, studios, exhibitions, and workshops.
Best for The design shops, the creative studios, and the historic conversion.
Kaka'ako, Honolulu
KoAloha builds ukuleles in a Kaka'ako workshop recognizable for its crown-shaped headstock, a design started by the Okami family in the 1990s. The company keeps production hands-on enough to offer regular factory tours of the Honolulu shop floor.
Best for Handcrafted ukuleles with factory tours
Liliha, Honolulu
Poakalani & Co teaches needle-turn applique and echo quilting at weekly classes in Honolulu's Liliha neighborhood, continuing a design tradition explored with the late quilter John Serrao. The studio also sells original patterns and takes commissions for custom Hawaiian quilts.
Best for Hawaiian quilting classes and custom quilts
Hualien City
Named for founder Zeng Shui-gang, this Hualien mochi maker traces its hand-pounded recipe to 1948 and belongs to the city’s long Zeng-family mochi tradition. It specializes in freshly made Taiwanese mochi and related sweets, and should remain distinguished from several similarly named Zeng-family shops in Hualien rather than being collapsed into them.
Best for Family-recipe mochi dating to 1948
Hualien City, near Hualien Railway Station
Founders Zeng Tai-chang and his wife left the motorcycle-repair trade to open this mochi shop near Hualien's train station, building it into a distinct local brand known for bamboo-tube-steamed "御竹糕" alongside standard peanut and sesame mochi. Pieces are sold at a flat per-item price rather than only in bundled gift boxes, a point local food blogs highlight as unusual for the souvenir strip.
Best for Bamboo-tube mochi and classic flavors near the train station
525 Warren Street, Hudson, NY
Andrew and Olivier have hand-dyed scarves, throws and table linens at their Clinton Corners studio since 2010, selling the finished pieces along with jewelry and home fragrance from their Warren Street boutique. The shop marked fifteen years in business in 2025, still producing every dyed piece in-house rather than outsourcing.
Best for Hand-dyed scarves and home textiles
Hill Fort Road and other showrooms, Hyderabad
Kalanjali has spent decades gathering Indian handloom sarees, hand-carved furniture, and regional handicrafts under one roof across five showrooms in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The stock leans toward South Indian weaves and artefacts sourced from craft clusters rather than mass manufacturers.
Best for Handloom sarees and regional handicrafts
Ibiza, Spain
Designer Tony Bonet has shown collections at Ibiza's Adlib fashion parade for years and sells pieces directly through his own Tony Bonet Ibiza label rather than through resellers. His work keeps to Adlib's founding rules of natural fabrics and handcraft while updating the silhouettes each season.
Best for Contemporary Adlib fashion from a working Ibiza designer
Incheon, South Korea (Ganghwa Island, Songhae-myeon)
This family workshop on Ganghwa Island has hand-cut and woven wanggol rush grass into hwamunseok floor mats since 1981, a craft the government has recognized with a 6th-industry certification linking its own cultivation, weaving and education programs. Beyond traditional patterned mats with butterfly and phoenix motifs, the shop weaves the same rush fiber into coasters, table runners and cushions.
Best for Hand-woven rush mats and traditional wanggol crafts
Innsbruck Altstadt, Austria
Bonifaz Strobl carves nativity figures and Alpine woodwork by hand from his small shop on Seilergasse in Innsbruck's old town, and runs a knife-sharpening counter from the same premises. Each figure is worked individually rather than cast from a mold, in the same Krippen-carving tradition practiced across Tyrol.
Best for Hand-carved nativity figures and Alpine woodwork
Innsbruck / Austria
Ski and snowboard workshop offering custom builds and hands-on building courses. Arrange workshop participation directly; this is not presented as a general walk-in sports shop.
Innsbruck, Austria
Tiroler Heimatwerk began in 1934 as a cooperative of 82 knitters and 38 craftspeople, and still trades from Meranerstrasse in Innsbruck as one of the few places where hand-knitted socks, dirndls and Tracht are made rather than imported. The shop commissions work directly from Tyrolean makers rather than a factory line, keeping regional textile skills in use.
Best for Hand-knitted Tracht and regional Tyrolean handicrafts
Islamabad
This is the retail arm of the Behbud Association of Pakistan, a women-run non-profit inaugurated in 1967 that trains home-based women in hand embroidery and needlework across eleven traditional crafts. Its Islamabad outlet at F-6 Markaz sells the resulting ghararas, gowns and pouches, with proceeds funding the association's schools and healthcare programs.
Best for Hand-embroidered ghararas, gowns and accessories
Islamabad
Founded in 2015 by Samia Ali, this brand translates the hand-painted motifs and captioned folk humor of Pakistani truck art onto wall plates, cushions, trays and fridge magnets. Every piece is produced with artisans across the country who hand-paint or hand-craft each design rather than mass-print it.
Best for Truck-art-inspired home decor and gifts
Islamabad
Founded in 2004, this Islamabad-based non-profit trains women artisans from South Punjab and North Sindh in chunri, ralli and block-printing embroidery and sells the resulting kurtas, cushions and homeware under its Virsa and Phulkari lines. It also initiated Islamabad's Craft Village project, a dedicated site set aside to showcase regional artisan work.
Best for Chunri, ralli and phulkari embroidery homeware and apparel
Islamabad, Pakistan
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Arts And Craft Gallery is listed in Islamabad for craft / arts gallery.
Best for Craft / arts gallery
Arasta Bazaar, Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey
Jennifer's Hamam sells handwoven Turkish towels and peştemal made on traditional shuttle looms, a technique its founder set out to preserve by working directly with a small circle of master weavers. The shop sits at No. 125 in the Arasta Bazaar behind the Blue Mosque, with a larger three-floor showroom nearby in Sultanahmet.
Best for Handwoven towels and peştemal
C-Scheme
Shop contemporary styles by Anita Dongre. Timeless styles crafted for the modern woman featuring modern details, nature-inspired motifs & heirloom crafts.
Best for Anita Dongre's nature-inspired motifs and heirloom-craft womenswear
C-Scheme
Anita Dongre's Jaipur presence offers the designer's womenswear, occasionwear and accessories, including collections rooted in Indian craft and contemporary festive dressing.
Best for Anita Dongre occasionwear, dresses, lehengas and accessories
Amber
Ethical elephant sanctuary and tourism experience near Amer (Amber), on the outskirts of Jaipur, Rajasthan, offering supervised elephant walking, feeding and bathing without rides.
Best for Artisan crafts alongside an ethical elephant experience
Elefantastic is an elephant sanctuary and tourism operation located in Amer, near Jaipur, Rajasthan, founded in the early-to-mid 2010s by a founder with a family mahout background. Elephants at the site, some rescued from circuses or other prior use, are cared for without rides or forced performance; visitor activities focus on walking with, hand-feeding and observing the elephants' natural behavior, plus overnight camping stays. The operation is registered with India's Animal Welfare Board and Central Zoo Authority and has received press coverage from the BBC, the Guardian and National Geographic.
Jaipur
Geroo takes its name from gerua, the pink hue of Jaipur's old city, and builds its collections around hand embroidery, hand weaving, hand block printing, and hand painting drawn from Rajasthani artisan techniques. The label sets these heritage processes into clean-lined, contemporary silhouettes rather than strictly traditional garment forms.
Best for Hand block-printed and embroidered fashion
Jawaharlal Nehru Marg
This souvenir shop sits inside Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur's government-run arts centre designed by architect Charles Correa. The nine-block building follows an astrological plan and also houses a museum, theatres and library.
Best for Souvenirs and craft pieces from the museum shop inside Charles Correa's astrology-themed
Jaipur
Founded by Archana Choudhary, Pomcha is a registered Jaipur MSME building its clothing line around the colors and heritage of Rajasthan, pairing quality fabrics with embroidery and traditional Indian craft techniques. Its collections include Rajasthan-specific pieces such as leheriya sarees, carrying the region's tie-dye textile vocabulary into contemporary womenswear.
Best for Rajasthani-inspired womenswear and leheriya sarees
Cilandak, South Jakarta
Founded on 5 September 2012 by Laela and other Betawi families, Batik Betawi Terogong revived the Terogong area of Cilandak Barat, South Jakarta, as a kampung batik. The sanggar produces batik tulis (hand-drawn) and batik cap (stamped) in Jakarta-specific Betawi motifs and runs workshops for visitors.
Best for Betawi batik cloth and workshop visits
Batik Betawi Terogong was founded on 5 September 2012, when Laela and a group of Betawi families set out to keep the culture of the indigenous Jakarta community alive inside an increasingly cosmopolitan city. They chose Terogong, a kampung within Cilandak Barat in South Jakarta still home to a Betawi-majority population, and worked to re-establish it as a dedicated batik village rather than start the craft elsewhere from scratch.
The sanggar teaches and produces both hand-drawn batik tulis and stamped batik cap, developing motifs meant to read as distinctly Jakartan rather than borrowing from the better-known batik centers of Java's north coast. Its stated goals, per its own site, are to preserve batik-making as living heritage, originate Betawi-specific motifs, and give local artisans an economic stake in the craft's survival.
The workshop has drawn official recognition, including visits from Jakarta's deputy governor and the mayor of South Jakarta, coverage on Net TV, and participation in Indonesia's national Batik Day observances. It positions itself explicitly as a tourism destination as well as a workshop, inviting visitors to see and try both batik techniques on site.
Jakarta
Iwan Tirta Private Collection carries forward the house of Iwan Tirta (1935–2010), the Yale-trained lawyer turned designer who launched his label in 1973 after studying under royal batik makers of the Surakarta palace. His batik shirts were worn by heads of state at the 1994 APEC summit.
Best for Continuing batik maestro Iwan Tirta's royal-court-inspired Javanese batik legacy
Iwan Tirta, born Nusjirwan Tirtaamidjaja in Blora, Central Java, in 1935, trained first as a lawyer — earning a law degree from Yale in 1965 and later teaching at the University of Indonesia — before turning to batik preservation in the 1970s. He launched his own label in 1973, having researched and trained directly under royal batik makers connected to the Surakarta palace.
Tirta is credited with leading batik's design revival through the 1970s and 1980s, elevating a traditional craft into internationally recognized fashion. His work reached its highest public profile in 1994, when he designed the batik shirts worn by attending heads of state at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit held in Indonesia; his clients over the years included Nelson Mandela and Ronald Reagan.
Tirta died in 2010, and the Iwan Tirta Private Collection in Jakarta continues under his name, carrying his royal-court-derived motifs and design philosophy forward as a going concern rather than a museum-only archive.
M Bloc Space, South Jakarta
Matalokal is a homegrown design shop celebrating Indonesian craft and brands.
Best for Indonesian craft and homegrown design brands.
Bethlehem (traditional source for Jerusalem-area olive wood crafts)
Bethlehem Star carves nativity sets, crosses, and rosaries from local olive wood, continuing a trade that traces to the 14th-century Franciscan-run carving school that formalized the craft for Christian pilgrims. Pieces are rough-shaped by machine and then finished entirely by hand in the workshop.
Best for Olive-wood nativity sets and religious carvings
Cardo, Jewish Quarter, Old City, Jerusalem, Israel / Jerusalem / Israel
After 1967 Elyada established the Blue and White Art Gallery on the Roman Cardo; the gallery is now run by his son Udi Merioz.
Best for Art from a Roman Cardo gallery now run by Udi Merioz.
6 Yoel Moshe Solomon Street, Jerusalem 9463306, Israel / Jerusalem / Israel
Founded 1964 by Bezalel-trained Malka Gabrieli, who hand-loomed in an Old Jaffa basement studio; Jerusalem shop now sells hand-woven silk/wool/cotton tallit sets (house Our Story; ACHI vendor listing prints 6 Yoel Moshe Solomon Street).
Best for Hand-woven silk, wool and cotton tallit sets from a Jerusalem shop.
Hebron Road 12, Jerusalem 9354206, Israel / Jerusalem / Israel
1982 project turning the former St John eye-hospital building into studios where Judaica artists, ceramicists and jewellers work, exhibit and sell; house site says applied-arts centre since 1970, ~35 workshop artists now (Jerusalem Foundation; house About).
Best for Judaica, ceramics and jewellery made and sold in resident studios.
38 Shivtei Israel Street (corner Ha-Nevi'im), Musrara, Jerusalem 9510561, Israel / Jerusalem / Israel
The public can visit the Print Workshop at 38 Shivtei Israel St and purchase existing artworks in its collection.
Best for Prints and artworks from a public workshop at 38 Shivtei Israel Street.
Old City, Jerusalem
Nadav Art makes contemporary Judaica, including menorahs, mezuzah cases and other ritual objects in modern forms. Material, dimensions and religious use provide the meaningful basis for choosing among decorative pieces.
Best for Sleek modern menorahs and mezuzah cases in contemporary Judaica design
Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Bhandari Store deals in Rajputi poshak, odhna and handloom fabric, the layered courtly clothing still worn for Rajasthani weddings, sold by the meter or as finished garments. It ships wholesale and retail out of Jodhpur, filling a niche that purely tourist-facing boutiques rarely stock.
Best for Rajputi poshak and traditional Rajasthani textiles
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