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Craft & Ateliers — Page 3

Plate M-12 · 1,417 stores · 301–450 of 1417 · curated ORBIS register

Ueba Esou makes and sells natural pigments for Japanese painting, continuing a Kyoto business established in 1751. Koel works with handloom weaving and block printing in Pakistan, making clothing alongside home textiles such as ajrak chaddars. Le Costantine (Tessitura) uses wooden looms near Lecce for handwoven rugs and scarves, with finishing also completed by hand.

What makes great craft & ateliers?

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.

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Use the city plates when they appear below, or open any store for its official door and related ORBIS city and craft links.

Jodhpur Park, Kolkata

This Jodhpur Park shop curates crafts, food, books, and textiles sourced from artisans across all 23 districts of West Bengal, covering terracotta and clay work, jute, kantha embroidery, brassware, and Bengali-language books. It positions itself as a single stop for regional Bengal craft rather than a manufacturer of any one item.

Best for Terracotta, jute, and kantha crafts from across Bengal

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Jodhpur Park / Kolkata / IndiaORBIS register

Johannesburg, South Africa

Nicola Smith throws and glazes Kilnhouse's tableware in Johannesburg, working three signature ranges — Spilled Milk, Lines in Sand and Speckle — defined by contrasting raw and glazed clay surfaces. Mugs, carafes and platters are hand-finished individually, with custom and sculptural commissions taken alongside the standing collections.

Best for Handmade glazed stoneware tableware

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Johannesburg / South AfricaORBIS register

Amami Island Style

Hidden Gem

Amami Oshima, Kagoshima

An independent Amami Oshima store curating island-made goods. Its shelves hold authentic Oshima Tsumugi silk, kokuto brown-sugar shochu, kimono accessories and local crafts.

Best for Curated Amami Oshima crafts and shochu

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Amami Oshima / Kagoshima / JapanORBIS register

Kirishima, Kagoshima

Deshimaru is a Kirishima-based cut glass studio founded by artisan Tsutomu Deshimaru to continue Satsuma kiriko, the layered cut-glass technique that traces to the Shimazu-era workshops of the 1850s and was revived in 1985. The studio trains apprentices in the gradation cutting that gives each piece its signature sparkle and sells finished glassware directly from its own site.

Best for Gradient-cut glassware and custom Satsuma kiriko pieces

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kirishima / Kagoshima / JapanORBIS register

Kagoshima City

Shimadzu Satsuma Kiriko revives the faceted, color-graded cut glass first developed for the Shimazu clan in the 1850s, a technique that had lain dormant for roughly a century before the company restored it. Operated under Shimadzu Kogyo, its artisans hand-cut each sake cup, tumbler, and vase in the gradient style unique to Satsuma kiriko.

Best for Color-graded cut glass sake cups and tumblers

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kagoshima City / JapanORBIS register

Wadazuka / Kamakura Station area, Kamakura

Inoue Kamaboko hand-forms fish paste into kamaboko, hanpen and koban-age using whole fish selected for the Kamakura trade, a craft the shop calls the daiginjo of fish. It sells directly from its own storefronts near Kamakura Station rather than through department-store counters.

Best for Fresh kamaboko fish cake

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kamakura / JapanORBIS register

Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan

Founded in 1900 and rooted in ham-making techniques introduced to Kamakura by British trader William Curtis in 1874, this house still cures loin ham, boneless ham, sausage and canned specialties by hand. It has supplied hotels and Olympic events in Tokyo and Sapporo while keeping its original Kamakura workshop running.

Best for Traditional cured ham and sausage

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kamakura / JapanORBIS register

Kampala, Uganda

Godfrey Ssegujja, a Kampala-born painter trained at Kyambogo University, stretches lubugo barkcloth over primed canvas and builds layered acrylic paintings that keep the material's beaten-bark texture visible beneath the pigment. His work threads the UNESCO-recognized Buganda craft into contemporary fine art addressing everyday Ugandan life, and he also runs free art workshops for children around the city.

Best for Barkcloth fine art

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⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kampala / UgandaORBIS register

Owaricho, Kanazawa

Katani sells gold-leaf-decorated craft objects and materials from its Kanazawa workshop. Hands-on sessions let visitors apply leaf themselves, turning the stop into both a purchase and a technique demonstration.

Best for Kanazawa gold-leaf craft goods and hands-on gold-leaf workshops.

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Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Gold Leaf Sakuda has manufactured and applied gold and silver leaf in Kanazawa since 1919, evolving from a leaf wholesaler into a maker of gilded folding screens and craft goods. Near the Higashi Chaya district, the company runs a factory tour, a small gold-leaf museum, and hands-on gilding workshops alongside its retail shop.

Best for Gold leaf workshops and gilded folding screens

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kanazawa / JapanORBIS register

Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Founded in 1975 by Kuniko Asano, recognized as Japan's first female metal-leaf manufacturer, Hakuichi grew into an eleven-store Kanazawa company built around a city that produces over 98 percent of the country's gold leaf. Its flagship Hakukokan complex sells gold-leafed lacquerware, cosmetics, and confections, and includes a renovated Higashi Chaya teahouse known for gold-leaf-topped soft serve.

Best for Gold leaf souvenirs and gilded lacquerware

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kanazawa / JapanORBIS register

Higashi Chaya District, Kanazawa

Hakuichi’s Higashiyama store sells gold-leaf tableware, accessories, cosmetics and decorative crafts. The range demonstrates how Kanazawa leaf moves from traditional ornament into practical gifts and contemporary surfaces.

Best for Kanazawa gold-leaf tableware, accessories, and cosmetics.

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Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Hakuza produces gold leaf using the centuries-old entsuke technique, a method recognized as an intangible cultural asset, and supplies leaf used in restoring national treasures and temples. From its Kanazawa storefronts, including one in the historic Higashi Chaya district, the company sells gold-leafed tableware, interior objects, cosmetics, and edible leaf for everyday use and formal gifts.

Best for Gold leaf crafts and gifts

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kanazawa / JapanORBIS register

Saiwaimachi, Kanazawa

A gold-leaf manufacturer with a showroom selling leaf-decorated goods and a workshop for applying gold leaf to take-home objects. The company was established in Kanazawa in 1898.

Best for Gold-leaf decorated goods and hands-on gold-leaf application workshops since 1898 in Kanazawa

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Kaga-nui embroidery IMAI

Heritage House

Kanazawa

Kaga embroidery workshop in Kanazawa founded in 1912 by Sutaro Imai; now run by his great-granddaughter Sachiko Yokoyama, a nationally recognized traditional craftsperson, producing hand-stitched silk, gold and silver thread work.

Best for Kaga embroidery craftsmanship since 1912

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Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Kaga Yuzen Kaikan is Kanazawa's dedicated center for Kaga Yuzen, the hand-painted silk-dyeing technique developed for kimono under the Kaga domain, with exhibit rooms showing newly produced pieces alongside the dyeing tools and materials behind them. Its ground floor sells finished Kaga Yuzen textiles and smaller accessories, while a basement studio runs hands-on dyeing workshops.

Best for Kaga Yuzen silk textiles and dyeing workshops

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kanazawa / JapanORBIS register

Nosaku Lacquer Ware

Heritage House

Hirosaka, Kanazawa

Founded in 1780 in Kanazawa's Musashigatsutsuji district, Nosaku has sold Kaga maki-e lacquerware alongside Wajima and Yamanaka lacquer pieces across eight generations. It also runs hands-on maki-e gold-inlay workshops for visitors at its Kanazawa shops.

Best for Kaga maki-e lacquerware and hands-on maki-e workshops

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kanazawa / JapanORBIS register

Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Based in Kanazawa's Nomachi district, Tsuda Mizuhiki works in Kaga mizuhiki, the local style of decorative paper-cord tying used for noshi wrapping and celebratory gifts, and extends the craft into three-dimensional cord sculptures depicting seasonal motifs. The studio also makes mizuhiki jewelry and DIY kits, one of which earned a Kanazawa Brand Excellent New Product distinction, and offers hands-on cord-tying workshops.

Best for Mizuhiki cord gifts and accessories

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kanazawa / JapanORBIS register

Karachi, Pakistan

Urban Truck Art was started by co-founders Maaz and Qurratulain to carry Pakistani truck painting onto handcrafted goods for buyers outside the country. Each piece is made by hand rather than printed, translating the floral panels and lettering styles seen on the country's cargo trucks onto smaller decor and accessory items.

Best for Handcrafted truck-art decor and accessories

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Karachi / PakistanORBIS register

Thamel, Kathmandu

On Dabali Marg in Thamel, Healing Singing Bowls works with master artisan Santa Ratna Shakya to hand-hammer seven-metal bowls, gongs, and tingshas using techniques passed down through Newari metalworking families. The family-run workshop shapes each bowl by striking it hundreds of times rather than casting it in a mold.

Best for Hand-hammered seven-metal singing bowls

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kathmandu / NepalORBIS register

Kathmandu

Himalayan Hemp sources its fiber from remote western districts such as Darchula, Bajura, and Rolpa, where farmers have grown and hand-spun hemp at elevations up to 3,500 meters for centuries. Every textile is made by hand in Nepal, keeping the weaving within the highland communities that cultivate the plant.

Best for Handwoven Himalayan hemp textiles

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · NepalORBIS register

Kathmandu / Nepal

Lovely Incense was founded by Dipendra Dangol roughly twenty-five years ago in Thamel, Kathmandu's tourist quarter, where he began selling a limited range of traditional Tibetan incense to visitors.

Best for Handmade Nepalese and Tibetan-style incense from a Thamel-founded house with its own factory

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⚒ Craft & Ateliers · NepalORBIS register

Kathmandu Valley

Termatree's statues are cast and consecrated in the Kathmandu Valley by artisans from the Vajracharya and Shakya castes, the Newari lineages historically responsible for the valley's sacred bronze and copper work. Each finished piece undergoes a consecration ritual before it leaves the workshop.

Best for Hand-cast consecrated Buddhist statues

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kathmandu Valley / NepalORBIS register

Boudhanath, Kathmandu

Tsering Art School has trained thangka painters in the Karma Gadri lineage since 1996, when Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche founded it in Boudhanath under the Dilgo Khyentse Fellowship. Students complete a six-year course before their finished scrolls are sold to support Shechen Monastery's cultural preservation work.

Best for Hand-painted Karma Gadri thangka scrolls

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Boudhanath / Kathmandu / NepalORBIS register

Kaysersberg

Verrerie d'Art de Kaysersberg has hand-blown glass in its vineyard-side workshop since 2002, shaping tableware, lighting and decorative pieces over an open flame. Visitors can watch the glassblowers work molten glass at the bench, in what the studio calls its air-and-fire demonstrations.

Best for Hand-blown glass tableware and lighting

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kaysersberg / Alsace / FranceORBIS register

Kemah, Texas

Skallywag on Sixth Street calls itself Kemah's first craft-beer pub. The SCENE Magazine's 2019 anniversary piece dated the tap wall to 2013; the kitchen still sends out scratch burgers, wings and tacos beside a rotating board of local beer.

Best for Pub and grill

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Kiel, Germany

Friedrich Schulz founded this sail loft in 1897; the firm has since sewn racing and cruising sails for clients from Prince Heinrich of Prussia to the four-masted bark now sailing as the Sea Cloud. Today's Schultz-Segel GmbH still builds spinnakers, gennakers, rigging, and canvas covers from its Kiel loft using computer-plotted patterns.

Best for Custom sails and rigging, maritime heritage

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kiel / GermanyORBIS register

Kigali CBD

Azizi Life sells fair-trade baskets, jewellery, textiles and home décor made through Rwandan women’s cooperatives. Maker and cooperative information helps shoppers connect individual products with the communities behind them.

Best for Fair-trade baskets, jewellery, and textiles made by Rwandan women's cooperatives

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Kacyiru, Kigali, Rwanda

Six painter brothers, led by twins Innocent Nkurunziza and Emmanuel Nkuranga, opened this artist-run gallery and studio complex in 2012 to give Kigali's contemporary artists a place to work and show. Up to ten resident artists produce paintings, sculpture, and craft on-site, sold through the center's gallery alongside its café and performance space.

Best for Contemporary Rwandan painting and sculpture

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kigali / RwandaORBIS register

High Street, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland

Brothers Johnny and Paddy McGuire opened Bricín on Killarney's High Street in 1991, pairing an Irish restaurant with a ground-floor craft shop. The shop stocks traditional and contemporary Irish crafts made by local Kerry craftspeople as well as makers from further afield around the country.

Best for Irish crafts and traditional Kerry cooking

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Killarney / County Kerry / IrelandORBIS register

Ballygunge, Kolkata

Rumi and Bappaditya Biswas opened Byloom in 2011 to work directly with weaving clusters producing jamdani, double-cloth, and fine muslin cotton, adapting handloom techniques for everyday wear rather than only formal saris. The Kolkata store and its weaver partners also turn out kurtas, dupattas, scarves, and handwoven home textiles.

Best for Jamdani and muslin sarees woven with contemporary designs

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Ballygunge / Kolkata / IndiaORBIS register

Kolkata / India / Online

Pioneering Indian designer since the 1960s — block-printed heirlooms, eco-dyes from Rajasthan, and bridge between ancient motifs and fusion wear.

Best for Heritage block-printed Indian fashion

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Handmade in IndiaORBIS register

Tantuja

Hidden Gem

Multiple locations across Kolkata / Online

Product pages identify fibre, warp and weft details for individual saris and fabrics, helping buyers compare construction. The catalogue also warns that small irregularities are characteristic of handloom production rather than defects.

Best for West Bengal handloom textiles from state cooperatives

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · IndiaORBIS register

Ballygunge, Kolkata

Operating since 1993, Weavers Studio produces hand-woven silks and other natural-fiber fabrics with custom embroidery for designers and saree buyers alike. The Ballygunge atelier also runs a textile research and archive arm alongside its retail operation.

Best for Hand-woven silk fabric and embroidered sarees

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Ballygunge / Kolkata / IndiaORBIS register

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Batik Boutique traces to 2009, when founder Amy Blair partnered with Ana, a single mother, to turn wax-resist batik cloth into wearable gifts, later formalizing as a Kuala Lumpur social enterprise by 2013-14. The label now works with more than 400 artisans from marginalized communities across Malaysia, providing fair wages and skills training in batik.

Best for Fair-trade batik apparel and corporate gifts made with Malaysian artisans

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kuala Lumpur / MalaysiaORBIS register

Jalan Conlay

Kuala Lumpur Craft Complex houses three Karyaneka shops selling songket, batik and metal-craft souvenirs, plus a craft museum and workshop village. Malaysia's Kraftangan handicraft agency runs the complex on Jalan Conlay.

Best for Kuala Lumpur Craft Complex houses three Karyaneka shops selling songket

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Kuala Lumpur

An independent fashion and lifestyle atelier emphasizing handmade and small-run goods. Established 2007.

Best for Handmade, small-run fashion and lifestyle goods since 2007

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Kuala Lumpur

A KL-based appointment atelier and online shop for gender-fluid high fashion. Founded in 2015 and shortlisted for the LVMH Prize in 2016.

Best for Gender-fluid high fashion by appointment, shortlisted for the 2016 LVMH Prize

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Batik artist Emilia Tan runs myBatik as a working studio and gallery in Kuala Lumpur, teaching hand-painted, wax-resist batik to corporate groups, schools, and tour visitors. The studio also runs outreach programs bringing batik painting to refugees, children with HIV or dyslexia, and Down Syndrome artists.

Best for Hand-painted batik workshops with community outreach programs

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kuala Lumpur / MalaysiaORBIS register

Jalan Geroda 2/1, Larkin, Johor Bahru (also Kuala Lumpur and Shah Alam)

Songket Dunia sells songket and Malay formalwear through its own online shop and outlets. The catalogue is organised by garment rather than by designer, running through sampin songket, kurung songket, kain songket, kurta. Baju Melayu is split between the Teluk Belanga and Cekak Musang collars, with separate nikah and bride ranges for weddings. Handmade premium songket sits alongside ready-to-wear pieces, and orders ship to Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Indonesia.

Best for Songket formalwear and wedding attire

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · MalaysiaORBIS register

Kuwait City, Kuwait

Sadu House has operated inside a 1936 courtyard residence since 1980, preserving the geometric loom-weaving of Kuwait's Bedouin communities through workshops, a research library, and a small retail shop. Purchases there support weavers directly, since the textiles sold are made with the same techniques the house exists to document.

Best for Handwoven Sadu textiles and Bedouin weaving heritage goods

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kuwait City / KuwaitORBIS register

Aizenkobo

Heritage House

Kyoto / Japan

Aizenkobo is a Kyoto indigo-dyeing workshop and shop set a few blocks from the Nishijin weaving district in Nakagyo Ward, near Nijo Castle.

Best for Naturally fermented indigo textiles from a third-generation Kyoto dye house near Nishijin

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · JapanORBIS register

Higashiyama, Kyoto

Hangesho sells Kyoto fans -- including summer, decorative, dance and hinoki-cypress fans -- and offers a fan-throwing game experience described as a refined pastime continuing from the Edo period, plus a fan-painting experience where customers decorate a fan surface for craftsmen to finish. It is located near Miyagawa-cho in Kyoto's Higashiyama district.

Best for Kyoto fans and fan painting experience

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HOSOO

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Karasuma district, Kyōto

HOSOO is a Kyoto textile house with roots in Nishijin weaving dating to 1688 and a contemporary interiors range. Its flagship shop offers textiles for furniture and curtains, alongside a gallery devoted to textile exhibitions. The building also has a lounge, while the separate members-only kimono salon is not part of ordinary public shop access.

Best for Nishijin textiles for furniture, curtains and interiors

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Nishijin textiles woven in Kyoto / JapanORBIS register

Ohara, Kyoto / Japan

Kobo Ainoyakata is a traditional indigo dyeing workshop and shop in Ohara, a rural district of Kyoto's Sakyo Ward roughly thirty minutes from the city center.

Best for Ash-lye-fermented Awa indigo textiles and hands-on dyeing sessions in rural Ohara, Kyoto

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · JapanORBIS register

Kyoto / Online

Founded from a 1947 Kyo Zogan damascene workshop by Shintaro Oda, this Higashiyama complex opened as a duty-free crafts center in 1967, gathering Kyoto artisans under one roof selling kimono, woodblock prints, pottery, lacquerware and more.

Best for Kyoto crafts including damascene, kimono, woodblock prints and lacquerware

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · JapanORBIS register

Kyoto / Online

The permanent exhibition explains all 74 categories of Kyoto traditional craft through objects, panels, video and touchscreens. Demonstrations by local artisans accompany the displays, and price-tagged examples can be purchased.

Best for Dozens of handicrafts on display — ceramic roof tiles, ornamental hairpins, paper lanterns

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · JapanORBIS register

Kyoto / Online

Run by the Yoshioka Jin Shoten shibori workshop, which has produced shibori on the site since 1940, the Kyoto Shibori Museum opened in 2001 as Japan's only museum devoted specifically to shibori resist-dyeing. It pairs rotating exhibitions with a retail shop and hands-on dyeing classes.

Best for Japan's only shibori-specialist museum, with a shop and hands-on dyeing classes

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · JapanORBIS register

Kyoto

Maisendo sells folding fans, including handmade custom-order fans that its craftspeople finish one by one, and describes its heritage as spanning around 1,200 years of Kyoto fan-making tradition.

Best for Handmade custom kyoto fans

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Kyoto / Online

Run by the Yamamoto family, who have dyed kimono in Kyoto for over 50 years, this studio opened its hands-on Dyeing Studio in 1999 — reportedly the only place in Japan letting visitors complete the entire roketsu wax-resist dyeing process.

Best for Reportedly the only place in Japan letting visitors complete the entire roketsu

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · JapanORBIS register

Shoyeido

Heritage House

Karaku Incense Co., Kyoto, Japan

Shoyeido has made incense in Kyoto since 1705, spanning twelve generations of the same family business. Its incense is still handcrafted there using traditional recipes and aged raw materials, including aged agarwood and sandalwood in the Xiang-do Master's line.

Best for Twelve generations since 1705 — aged agarwood, sandalwood, and the Xiang-do Master's line.

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Handcrafted in Kyoto using traditional recipes and aged raw materialsORBIS register

Tatsumura Textile

Heritage House

Nishijin, Kyoto, Japan

Tatsumura Textile has woven brocade in Nishijin since 1894, when founder Heizo Tatsumura began reconstructing textile patterns held in the Shosoin imperial repository. The house went on to weave ceremonial cloth for imperial enthronements and collaborated with Christian Dior, work still referenced in its current jacquard collections.

Best for Art brocade and Shosoin-pattern jacquard textiles

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kyoto / JapanORBIS register

Ueba Esou

Heritage House

Kyoto / Japan

Ueba Esou has made and sold natural pigments for Japanese-style painting from the same corner of Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward since 1751.

Best for Centuries-old gofun and iwa-enogu mineral pigments for traditional Japanese painting

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · JapanORBIS register

Lagos, Nigeria

This Lagos ready-to-wear label builds its collections around adire, sourcing the resist-dyed cloth directly from artisans in Osogbo who still hand-tie and indigo-dye it using techniques passed down through generations. Dresses, matching sets and trousers are cut from that fabric rather than printed imitations.

Best for Adire ready-to-wear dresses and sets

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Lagos / NigeriaORBIS register

Lagos, Nigeria

Ilekedi hand-strings waistbeads and matching anklets and bracelets in Lagos, reviving the Yoruba tradition of ilẹ̀kẹ̀ ìdí, once used to mark a girl's growth or a woman's marital status. The beads are sized to shift with the body, a property the brand markets as a natural way to track changes over time.

Best for Handcrafted Yoruba waistbeads

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Lagos / NigeriaORBIS register

Koel

Lahore store, with roots across Pakistan

Koel was founded in 1977 to revive hand-loom weaving and block-printing in Pakistan, dyeing its silks and cottons with natural extracts from leaves, flowers, roots, and bark rather than synthetic pigments. Alongside apparel, the label makes block-printed home textiles such as ajrak chaddars and hand-spun towels, sold through its Lahore store among others.

Best for Natural-dyed block-print textiles

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · PakistanORBIS register

Melpignano, near Lecce, Puglia, Italy

The weaving workshop at the Le Costantine estate near Lecce works four-shaft wooden looms to produce tapestries, rugs, blankets and cashmere, linen and silk scarves by hand, a craft the foundation revived originally to support local women's independence. Every piece gets its finishing done by hand rather than machine.

Best for Hand-loomed Salento textiles and scarves

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Melpignano / Lecce provinceORBIS register

Cursi, near Lecce, Puglia, Italy

Marrocco built its name quarrying and carving pietra leccese, the soft golden limestone behind Lecce's baroque facades, under founder Salvatore Marrocco, remembered locally as the "re" of the Salento quarries after his death. The firm still cuts and sculpts the stone into architectural elements and decorative pieces from Cursi, a few kilometers outside Lecce.

Best for Carved and quarried pietra leccese stonework

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Cursi / Lecce provinceORBIS register

León, Guanajuato, Mexico

Luis Torres Muñoz and his two sons opened a six-person boot workshop in León in the 1970s, formally launching production in April 1978 and beginning to export to the United States by 1986. Caborca now runs four León factories turning out roughly 8,000 pairs of cowboy boots a week through a construction process the company documents as more than 200 individual steps.

Best for Traditionally constructed cowboy boots at scale

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · León / GuanajuatoORBIS register

Roubaix / Lille area / Online

Made-in-France clothing label founded in Roubaix in 2013 by textile engineer Christele Merter, originally incubated within the Happychic group before becoming fully independent in 2019; works with more than 30 French garment workshops.

Best for Happychic's made-in-France Roubaix textile revival

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Lima

Allpa was started by Lima sociologists Nelly Cánepa and María del Carmen de la Fuente after years spent traveling Peru's regions and working directly with artisan cooperatives on pottery, textiles and home decor. As a member of the World Fair Trade Organization, the company ties its product design to fair pay and long-term capacity-building with the makers behind each piece.

Best for Fair-trade pottery and textiles

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Lima / PeruORBIS register

Fábrica Sant'Anna

Heritage House

Chiado

Founded in 1741 on Rua do Alecrim, Fábrica Sant'Anna is a working Lisbon tile workshop, where painters still trace each azulejo freehand rather than by machine transfer. The workshop produces both museum-grade reproductions of 18th-century patterns and custom commissions, made on the same premises where the craft began nearly three centuries ago.

Best for Hand-painted tile panels

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Lisbon / PortugalORBIS register

Graça, Lisbon

Lisbon Tile Painting teaches hand-painted azulejo tile making using mineral pigments and real brushes in the majolica method, with pieces kiln-fired overnight and ready for pickup the next day, without thermal-transfer printing or machine methods. The studio is at Rua da Senhora do Monte 38C in Graça, Lisbon, with sessions daily at 10:30 and 15:00.

Best for Hand-painted azulejo tile workshop

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Lisbon

Tile Flies runs 90-minute azulejo tile-painting workshops for up to six people at a time, including brushes, a blank tile, a soft drink and a pastel de nata, with the finished tile taken home the same day. Founder Jaqueline started the workshop after teaching on Madeira Island, before moving it to Rua da Bempostinha 22 near Lisbon's Anjos metro station.

Best for Same day azulejo tile painting

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Idrija (day trip from Ljubljana)

Founded in 1876, the Idrija Lace School keeps the bobbin-lace tradition of this mining town alive, training around 500 students a year and selling framed lace pieces through its own shop. The 'Quick Silver' line borrows patterns from Idrija's mercury-mining history, translating them into lace panels priced for serious collectors.

Best for Framed bobbin lace and lace-making courses

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Idrija / SloveniaORBIS register

Albam

Hidden Gem

London, UK

London clothing brand — dry-waxed Fisherman cagoules and honest craft basics since the 2000s.

Best for British-made polos; Quality essentials, transparent; Fisherman, Coastal

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · England / UK / PortugalORBIS register

London / Jermyn Street / Online

Bespoke and ready-to-wear shirts from 66 Jermyn Street since 1999, made to traditional English shirt-making techniques in Swiss and West Indian Sea Island cottons, with the atelier at Bearland House in Gloucester.

Best for Hand-cut English luxury shirts.

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Made in Gloucester / EnglandORBIS register

Mackintosh

Heritage House

Scotland, UK

The Scottish inventor of the rubberised raincoat, 1823 — handmade bonded-cotton coats from the Cumbernauld factory, now a quiet-luxury fashion staple.

Best for The original raincoat, still handmade in Scotland.

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Scotland / Handmade in Scotland / Cumbria and Europe / ItalyORBIS register

Lucknow / India / Online

Ada Designer Chikan Studio is a Lucknow house of hand-embroidered Lucknowi chikankari, offering kurtis, sarees, suits, menswear and home linens. Its online store ships worldwide from Lucknow and the brand also operates physical Ada stores.

Best for Chikankari, hand embroidery, textiles, apparel

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Lucknow / India / Online

Rohia by Chhangamal offers hand-embroidered Lucknowi chikankari sarees, kurtis and suits crafted by Lucknow artisans. Its online store sells with online ordering in multiple currencies and worldwide shipping, and lists physical store locations.

Best for Chikankari, hand embroidery, sarees, apparel

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Lucknow

The Chikan Label sources hand-embroidered chikankari from artisan clusters in Chowk and Aminabad in Lucknow, a craft protected by a Geographical Indication tag and practiced by around 2.5 lakh artisans using more than 32 distinct hand stitches including flat, embossed and open-work jali techniques. Its products, described as 100% hand-embroidered, include kurtas, kurta sets, sarees and palazzo sets.

Best for Hand-embroidered chikankari with jali stitches

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Upper Town, Luxembourg City

Lët'z Refashion at 8-10 Rue Genistre in Luxembourg sells second-hand clothing and designer pieces made from upcycled materials. It also runs sewing courses and workshops covering block printing, textile painting, visible mending and patch making.

Best for Upcycled and second-hand fashion

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Ábbatte

Hidden Gem

Madrid / Online

Natural-fibre textiles designed and woven through the restored Santa María de la Sierra abbey workshop.

Best for Natural-fibre textiles designed and woven through the restored Santa María de la

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Calle Mayor 10, 28013 Madrid / Madrid / Spain

El Riojano is a Madrid pastry shop at Calle Mayor 10, with a history dating to 1855. Its range includes cakes and confectionery, with an online shop for ordering from the bakery.

Best for Cakes and confectionery

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Maty

Calle del Maestro Victoria 2, 28013 Madrid / Madrid / Spain

Maty supplies dancewear and costumes from its shop on Calle del Maestro Victoria in Madrid. The range covers ballet footwear and flamenco clothing, alongside stage makeup and accessories for dressing up.

Best for Ballet footwear and flamenco clothing

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Manchester / United Kingdom

A family art and craft shop trading since the 1880s, its 37 Lever Street store and website carry over 30,000 products from watercolours and sketchbooks to David Shrigley mugs. Vintage photobooths and craft kits round out a stock spanning traditional handicrafts and design-led homeware.

Best for Art supplies, craft materials, homeware, gifts, photobooths

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Manchester / United Kingdom / Online

Marble Beers is an independent Manchester brewery whose beers are sold directly through its own online shop. The site accepts direct online orders behind a standard age-verification gate, giving customers a direct route to the brewery's beers without making the checkout platform part of the description.

Best for Brewery, craft beer, cask ale, online shop

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Makati

Makati makerspace and craft-workshop studio at Unit 302, Pamana-Languages Building, 926 Arnaiz Avenue. Runs beginner-to-advanced group and private classes in sewing, felting, embroidery, printmaking and woodcraft.

Best for Filipino maker studio, craft shop, and workshop platform

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Escolta, Manila

Maker-led retail in Manila's First United Building (Andrés Luna de San Pedro, 1928), grown from artist pop-up markets after the owners opened vacant rooms to creatives.

Best for Maker-led retail and community space in historic Escolta

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Manila / Philippines / Online

Maison Inabel carries handwoven Inabel cloth from Ilocano ancestral looms, sold by the yard in binakol, pinilian, kantarines and kundiman patterns as well as finished boleros, skirts, barongs and table linens. Founded in 2023, its online shop prices fabric per yard and lets shoppers order fabric and finished pieces directly for delivery.

Best for Inabel weaving, handwoven textiles, Ilocano fabric

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Intramuros, Manila

A Filipino crafts showroom-gallery in Intramuros, Manila, established in 1966, dealing in handcrafted textiles, ceramics, antiques, folk art, and historical artifacts as part of a family-run export and retail business.

Best for Philippine craft and ethnographic objects in a long-running Intramuros gallery-shop

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Marrakech / Morocco

Located inside the Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech, the boutique sells handmade goods crafted by Moroccan artisans using techniques shaped by Amazigh culture and Islamic art. Its product line pays homage to Yves Saint Laurent, echoing colors and motifs — like flowers and serpents — that he favored.

Best for Moroccan-craft, handmade, homewares, fashion

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Marrakech / Morocco

Maison du Caftan Marrakech is a couture house descending from a business founded by Haj Abdellah Ben Brahim in 1981, making handmade caftans, takshitas, djellabas and menswear. Its online shop takes orders with secure CMI Morocco card payment and its boutique is at 65 Rue Sidi el Yamani, Marrakesh.

Best for Fashion, Caftans, Moroccan Couture

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Norya Ayron

Hidden Gem

Medina / Online

Marrakech fashion house producing limited-edition kaftans, kimonos, dresses and contemporary Moroccan garments through its Medina atelier. The range also includes sabra-silk scarves and cushions.

Best for Stylish mix of traditional and modern textile designs — handira wedding blankets

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Marseille / Provence / Online

Atelier Bartavelle is described as a Provence label for dresses, blouses and jackets with a responsible Mediterranean wardrobe focus.

Best for Poetic Provence dresses, blouses, and jackets with a responsible Mediterranean ethos

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Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone

Santons Arlatenco is an Arles santonnier hand-crafting Provencal santons, the painted clay nativity figures of the region. Each is made in the local Arlesienne tradition.

Best for Handmade Provencal santons

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Marseille / Online

Marseille santon workshop founded by Marcel Carbonel in 1935 in the Saint-Victor quarter, where it still operates; hand-molds and hand-paints Provencal clay nativity figures and holds France's Living Heritage Business label since 2007.

Best for Hand-painted santons and nativity scenes.

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Matera / Italy

BG Arte is a workshop of tufa (calcarenite) stone carvers in Matera, making lamps, rose-window airers, sculptures, nativity scenes and souvenirs from blocks of the local stone. It sells through its online shop and from premises in Matera, including Piazza Vittorio Veneto 37.

Best for Stone Carving, Tufa Craft, Sculpture

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Matera / Sasso Caveoso / Online

The Daddiego family workshop in the Sassi — papier-mâché nativity scenes shown from the Vatican to Verona, cucù, and bread stamps.

Best for Matera cucù, bread stamps, and presepi.

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Matsuyama / Japan

Art Labo Kasuri (Mingei Iyo-kasuri Kaikan) in Matsuyama keeps alive the indigo ikat technique devised around 1802 by weaver Kanaya Kana. Visitors can watch weaving demonstrations, try a natural indigo dyeing experience, and shop aizome handkerchiefs, bags and Ehime specialty treats.

Best for Iyo-kasuri indigo ikat weaving demonstrations and dyeing experiences

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Mbabane / Online

Baobab Batik is a Malkerns, Eswatini workshop founded in 1991 by Dutch artisan Els Hooft, who learned wax-resist batik in Benin and Tanzania before bringing it to Eswatini. More than 15 women artisans hand-dye cushion covers, aprons, children's leggings and homeware, sold online worldwide.

Best for Batik homeware, cushions and children's textiles

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Mbabane / Online

Ngwenya Glass blows eco-friendly glassware entirely from recycled glass at its Motshane workshop, from wine glasses and decanters to its signature African animals. Pieces are sold at the factory shop and through a full online store shipping worldwide.

Best for Glassblowing, glassware, recycled-glass

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ESS Laboratory

Hidden Gem

Fitzroy (114 Gertrude Street) / Online

Melbourne fashion label producing understated, long-life clothing from natural fibres through an open atelier and repair-led practice.

Best for Natural-fibre clothing designed for long wear and repair

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Melbourne / Australia

The Koorie Heritage Trust's ShopKHT sells Aboriginal cultural objects such as boomerangs, coolamons, and message sticks alongside craft, apparel, books, and homewares made by First Peoples' makers. It operates both online and from the Trust's free-entry home at Federation Square in Melbourne, open daily from 10am to 5pm.

Best for Aboriginal-art, craft, cultural-objects, books

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Melbourne, Australia

Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne's historic open-air market, where traders in the Meat & Fish Hall and under the open-air sheds sell fresh food, specialty goods and locally made craft. First-party door live with trader directory and posted trading hours (Tue/Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun).

Best for Fresh food, specialty goods and locally made craft

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Las Heras, Mendoza

Colbo makes handmade red stoneware tableware in Mendoza, including plates, bowls and cups, with pieces held by MoMA and shipping across the country. Customers can assemble their own set of plates and bowls in their preferred quantities, sizes and colors.

Best for Handmade red stoneware tableware

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Centro, Mendoza

Founded by Milton Monsalvo, this Mendoza-based design platform combines an architecture studio with a small gallery. It develops objects and collections in collaboration with local workshops and related trades, and the space also functions as a showroom.

Best for Collaborative design objects and collections

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San Ángel, Mexico City

Saturday art market — every Saturday, the Plaza San Jacinto fills with painters, sculptors, and artisans selling their work. The most outdoor art market in Mexico City.

Best for The original artwork, the San Ángel setting, and the Saturday tradition.

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Miami / United States

In the heart of Little Havana, Casa Habano rolls premium cigars by Cuban-trained hands from an exclusive tobacco blend. The Calle Ocho shop sells fresh cigars, humidors and accessories in person and online, and hosts factory tours.

Best for Hand-rolled cigars by Cuban-trained rollers, humidors, and factory tours on Calle Ocho

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Miami / United States

Reviving a historic American brand, Cremo hand-rolls premium cigars with Cuban master rollers at its Little Havana factory. Its Calle Ocho store and online shop sell cigars, bundles and a monthly membership club.

Best for Reviving a historic American brand

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Miami / United States

This Miami cigar shop and manufacturer stocks one of the country's larger selections, from its own house cigars to major premium brands. Buyers can shop the extensive online store or visit the main store to watch cigars being rolled.

Best for Cigars, Tobacco, Accessories

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Miami / United States

Forged on Calle Ocho since 1995, El Titan de Bronze is a boutique Little Havana factory hand-rolling premium cigars and producing lines for noted brands. Cigars, samplers and gift sets sell through the online shop and at the factory store.

Best for Hand-rolled cigars from the Little Havana factory on Calle Ocho since 1995

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Folkloore

Hidden Gem

Milan / Online

Independent Milan retailer and collaborative label co-creating fashion and accessories with artisan communities in multiple countries.

Best for Global artisanal shop co-creating locally handmade products in 20+ communities worldwide

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Milan / Online

Milan outerwear house founded in 1911; in 1935 it introduced the Valstarino, a goat-suede blouson adapted from the American A-1 flight jacket, which won royal warrants from the House of Savoy in 1939 and the Duke of Ancona in 1942 and is still handmade in Italy.

Best for The Valstarino.

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Milan & Valenza / Online

Milanese jewelry maison founded 1984 in Valenza by sculptor Carlo Ciarli and Angela Camurati; sculptural pieces are still handcrafted in Valenza. Acquired by Richemont in 2024.

Best for Sculptural gold volumes.

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Monaco

Monte Carlo Beer, founded in 2019 by Antho and Will, sells a premium lager crafted in France under a Monaco-rooted brand, plus branded apparel and accessories and limited-edition beers. The company partnered with Molson Coors in 2025.

Best for Monaco-branded lager and merch

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Monaco

Monte Carlo Vermouth makes Bianco and Rosso vermouths with citrus, floral and rose notes, using a Moscato d'Asti DOCG base from Piedmont blended with Côte d'Azur botanicals from Grasse distillers and hand-picked rose petals from the principality's rose garden. It is crafted in Monaco.

Best for Artisanal monaco vermouth

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Unión, Montevideo

Matebom has made mates and bombillas in the same family workshop in Uruguay since 1973. It uses natural calabash gourds from the north of the country. An Italian immigrant who arrived in Uruguay at fourteen started the house after taking to mate.

Best for Mate

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1356 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H3G 1J1 / Montreal / Canada

Founded 1906 as the Canadian Guild of Crafts / Canadian Handicrafts Guild; Like a Local Guide treats buying handmade jewellery, sculpture, textiles and ceramics as the point of the visit.

Best for Handmade jewellery, sculpture, textiles and ceramics.

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Morella / Spain

At this Morella workshop the Garcia family weaves the town's traditional mantas to order, letting customers pick the pattern and colours for blankets, scarves, bags and mantonets. The made-to-measure pieces are sold from two shops on Juan Giner and Blasco de Alagon in the old town.

Best for Textiles, handwoven blankets, mantas, scarves

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Moscow, russia / online & in Store / Russia

Bella Potemkina runs a Moscow workshop making limited hand-worked eveningwear. The founder danced ballet for over eleven years, and the collections draw on the rehearsal room and on historical dress. Jacquard, velvet, tulle, lace, pearl embroidery carry the work, cut into bustier dresses and corseted silhouettes. Boutiques trade in the Riviera centre on Avtozavodskaya and in Afimall City.

Best for Hand-worked Russian eveningwear in jacquard, velvet and pearl embroidery.

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3, Himalaya House, 79 Palton Road, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Area, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001, India / Mumbai / India

The official specialist states that it was established in 1950 and sells artists' materials.

Best for Specialist art materials and local creative goods.

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1, Reay House, BEST Marg, Colaba, Mumbai 400001 / Mumbai / India

The Telegraph (2018-12-15) records that Sanjay Garg started Raw Mango in 2008 after working with Chanderi handloom.

Best for Chanderi handloom from a house founded by Sanjay Garg in 2008.

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Mystic Knotwork

Worth a Detour

Mystic Connecticut / United States

Mystic Knotwork is a decorative knot shop, hand-tying sailor-knot bracelets, woven coasters, nautical wedding decor and home goods from American cotton since 1957. The family works from a 180-year-old building on Cottrell Street and a second shop in Olde Mistick Village, and sells online too.

Best for Handmade, nautical, knotwork, bracelets

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Fukusaya

Heritage House

Nagasaki / Japan

Fukusaya has baked its hand-mixed Nagasaki castella since 1624, keeping the crunchy layer of zarame sugar at the bottom of every cake. Alongside the flagship sponge, its Nagasaki head office and shops sell Hollander cake, handmade monaka wafers and seasonal Fukusaya Cube gift boxes.

Best for Hollander cake, handmade monaka wafers and seasonal Fukusaya Cube gift boxes

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