Plate M-12 · 1,417 stores · 451–600 of 1417 · curated ORBIS register
This plate lists 1,417 shops in 130 countries. Paris has the most with 15, followed by Delhi with 14. Among these shops, 84 describe made-to-order work, 21 offer repairs, 151 sell online and 9 work by appointment, going by their own descriptions.
Ask who made the piece: ask whether the maker is in the workshop, or whether the shop sells other makers' work.
Ask how it was made: ask about the materials and the process, and whether a piece can be made to order.
Ask how it will travel: ask for packing or shipping for anything fragile, bulky or heavy.
Use the city plates when they appear below, or open any store for its official door and related ORBIS city and craft links.
Heizo-machi, Gotō City (Fukue Island), Nagasaki
Imamura Tsubaki Seiyusho has pressed camellia oil on Fukue Island since 1933 using the tamashime first-press method, tending roughly four thousand trees for its seed. The family sells culinary and cosmetic camellia oil, shampoo and pressed-seed cake from its Heizo-machi workshop.
Best for First-press culinary and cosmetic camellia oil
Hirado, Nagasaki
Kogetsudo Roho makes Casdous, the sugar-crusted, yolk-dipped castella of old Hirado, along with Portugal senbei and castella, all handmade without additives. Based at the Hirado Products Hall on Iwanoue-cho, the shop has presented its sweets to the imperial household across the Showa and Heisei reigns.
Best for Casdous and castella
Nagasaki / Japan
Near Glover Garden, Rurian keeps Nagasaki's 400-year vidro glassblowing tradition alive, mixing its own raw materials and shaping each piece by hand. Visitors can buy finished work through the shop and online store or book blowing, stained-glass and kaleidoscope workshops at the Matsugae-machi studio.
Best for Glass, Nagasaki vidro, blown glass, stained glass
Arimatsu/Narumi, Nagoya / Japan
Konsei is a shibori tie-dye workshop in the Narumi district of Nagoya's Midori Ward, part of the Arimatsu-Narumi shibori tradition that has centered on this stretch of the old Tokaido road since the early Edo period.
Best for Hands-on Arimatsu-Narumi shibori and full-length Sekka Shibori
Konsei is a shibori tie-dye workshop in the Narumi district of Nagoya's Midori Ward, part of the Arimatsu-Narumi shibori tradition that has centered on this stretch of the old Tokaido road since the early Edo period. The workshop's core offering is Sekka Shibori, a snow-flower resist pattern applied to a full bolt of yukata fabric — roughly 13 meters — dyed and finished on site rather than sold as a pre-made bolt.
Alongside individual sessions, Konsei runs group tie-dye workshops for ten or more participants spanning a range of ages, and a denim-kimono option that applies Arimatsu-Narumi shibori technique to a denim garment rather than the traditional cotton yukata cloth — a contemporary variant of the resist-dye craft itself, not a garment brand in its own right. Visitors include families, couples, international travelers, and students working on festival yukata or school projects.
The workshop states it wants "everyone to feel the warmth of the handwork" of Arimatsu and Narumi shibori, and frames its offerings as expanding access to a craft technique. The workshop publishes its current offerings and mission but not a documented founding date, so the entry makes no historical claim beyond the wider Arimatsu-Narumi tradition.
Nagoya / Japan
Shibori Hisada has sold Arimatsu shibori tie-dye since 1913, when it branched off an older house on the old Tokaido road; the wider Arimatsu shibori tradition dates back some 400 years. Now run by a fourth generation from two stores in Nagoya, it makes yukata, kimono, clothing and accessories in resist-dye patterns.
Best for Arimatsu shibori tie-dye kimono, yukata and accessories
Arimatsu, the Nagoya district where the shop stands, was established in 1608 after Tokugawa Ieyasu made his ninth son Yoshinao daimyo of Owari; tie-dyed indigo hand towels made there soon after are considered the origin of Arimatsu shibori, a craft that expanded over four centuries into more than 100 distinct resist-dyeing techniques.
The Hisada shop's own lineage runs through an older house, Hashimotoya, said to have been founded on the old Tokaido road during the Genroku era (1688-1704). In 1913, the tenth-generation head of Hashimotoya branched off to found an independent shop under the name Hisada, becoming its first-generation owner as Hisada Kinnojo. A second-generation owner, Hisada Haruyoshi, took over at age fifteen in 1928 after his predecessor's death, and a fourth generation, Hisada Koichiro, became company president in 1990.
The shop today operates a main store and a station-front store, both in the Arimatsu neighborhood of Nagoya's Midori Ward, selling furisode and other kimono, yukata, Western clothing, accessories and interior textiles dyed in Arimatsu shibori patterns, along with custom orders and gift packaging.
Nagoya / Japan
Established in 1912, Suehirodo upholds the Nagoya folding-fan tradition, handcrafting ceremonial, dance, ladies' and gentlemen's sensu through each divided step of the craft. Fans are sold at its Nishi-ku shop, through a Rakuten online store and made to order as corporate gifts, with fan-making workshops on offer.
Best for Sensu, folding fans, Nagoya sensu, craft
Tsuboya, Naha
GARB DOMINGO selects Okinawan and Japanese pottery, lacquerware, bingata textiles and glass in Naha. Maker-led presentation helps shoppers distinguish regional techniques and choose contemporary craft with clear authorship.
Best for Pottery, lacquerware, bingata textiles, and glass by Okinawan and Japanese artists.
Naha
Kakuman traces to the prewar Kadena Lacquerware Shop and is called Okinawa's oldest Ryukyu lacquerware shop, with over 120 years of history. It sells lacquered tableware, boxes and incense containers, plus a lacquer jewelry line, Nui Mun, from its Shuri workshop.
Best for Ryukyu lacquerware tableware, boxes and Nui Mun lacquer jewelry
Kakuman's lineage runs back to the Kadena Lacquerware Shop, established in Naha's Wakasa-cho before the Second World War; after the war the business was reorganized and continued under the Kakuman name. On that basis the shop markets itself, and is described in independent local coverage, as the oldest continuously operating Ryukyu lacquerware retailer in Naha, with a history now put at over 120 years.
The current shop sits in Naha's Shuri Yamakawa-cho district and sells everyday and decorative Ryukyu lacquerware: chopsticks, soup bowls, sake cups and plates for the table, plus lacquered boxes, mirrors, incense containers and serving trays for the home. It has also developed a lacquer accessories line, Nui Mun, applying the same urushi techniques to jewelry rather than tableware.
Kakuman highlights Okinawa's warm, humid climate as well suited to curing lacquer, a condition tied to techniques it says were passed down from the Ryukyu Kingdom era. Alongside retail, the shop runs a cafe on site, offers workshop experiences and factory tours, and produces corporate gifts and memorial pieces.
Naha
A five-story fabric and craft-supply store in Naha's Shurisueyoshicho district, Okinawa, stocking fabric, yarn, beads, ribbon and sewing notions across multiple floors; a fixture for local quilters, sewers and knitters.
Best for Okinawan craft and lifestyle goods representing local makers
Rainbow House is a multi-story fabric and craft-supply store in the Shurisueyoshicho area of Naha, Okinawa, housed in a distinctive building set back from Route 82. Rather than a boutique selling finished handmade goods, it functions as a supply store for makers: floors are organized by material, with fabric taking up the larger footprint and additional levels devoted to sewing notions, yarn, beading supplies, ribbon, and paint. It draws a steady following among local and visiting quilters, knitters, and sewers. The shop runs a storewide sale in the fourth week of each month, Thursday through Sunday, and accepts cash only.
Ukishima-dori, Naha
A local clothing and goods shop selling T-shirts and accessories created with Okinawan illustrators, dyers, potters, metalworkers, and other artists.
Best for T-shirts and accessories created with Okinawan illustrators, dyers, potters, and metalworkers
Shuri, Naha
A dyeing studio and shop selling bingata and coral-dyed accessories and kimono, with artisans working on site. Its coral-dyeing process is the studio's own technique, and the first-floor shop sells items made with bingata and coral-dyed designs.
Best for Bingata and coral-dyed kimono and accessories made with the studio's own coral-dyeing
Village Market, First Floor Old Wing, Nairobi
Kalabash Selections individually selects thousands of perfectly crafted pieces of culture that represent community and purpose. Its pieces are handcrafted in Africa and individually selected through an exploratory history of culture.
Best for Handcrafted african cultural pieces
Kibera, Nairobi
Lookslike Avido makes handcrafted African streetwear from Kibera, Kenya, inspired by the streets. Part of each sale funds jobs, skills and opportunities for Kenyan youth through the Avido Foundation.
Best for Handcrafted african streetwear
Lavington / James Gichuru Road, Nairobi
The Nairobi Art Centre provides visual art, craft and design education to learners and educators of differing abilities, located on Sri Aurobindo Avenue off Riverside Drive. Its programs and classes aim to unlock creativity regardless of age or skill level.
Best for Visual art craft and design education
Lower Kabete / Farasi Lane, off Ngecha Road, Nairobi
Provisions describes itself as based in Nairobi with a passion for natural and useful finds. It says its products are sourced from quality Kenyan artisans.
Best for Kenyan artisan finds
Gigiri Crafts Center, Gigiri Lane, Nairobi
The Artisanal Gallery describes itself as a proud curator of unique artisanal innovations from across Africa. It says it celebrates lifestyle, fashion and accessories.
Best for Artisanal african lifestyle goods
Nakatsu, Kita-ku, Osaka
Kamoi Kakoshi has made adhesive tape in Okayama since 1923, starting with flypaper and moving to industrial masking tape. The mt line began when three women asked the factory for masking tape in colour. The first run used twenty traditional Japanese colours, and the catalogue has since passed a thousand designs on washi paper. The mt lab. shop in Osaka sits at Nakatsu in Kita ward.
Best for Original mt washi masking tape in a thousand colours and patterns.
Kamoi Kakoshi was founded in Okayama in 1923 and began by making flypaper. The company moved into industrial and painting masking tapes and ran for decades as a factory devoted to them. The mt line started with a book. Three women who had fallen for masking tape made a small volume of it, and their request for colourful tapes led the factory to develop mt. The first run used twenty traditional Japanese colours. Later tapes took up the wamon patterns, among them hemp leaf, twisted plum, hanabishi, kumikikkou. The catalogue has since passed a thousand separate designs. The paper is washi, thin enough to tear by hand and strong enough not to split, with an adhesive that lifts without residue. Printing is the other half of the work. The factory has taken on flocking, screen printing, foil stamping, pearl inks, fluorescent inks, double-sided printing, and has added wax paper, perforation, blackboard finishes. Collaborations run to illustrators, painters, picture-book makers, and to the textile house mina perhonen. The tapes and the exhibitions built from them have collected a Good Design Award, D and AD pencils and a Cannes Lions gold. The mt lab. shop in Osaka stands at Nakatsu in Kita ward. The factory tour at Kurashiki draws about fourteen thousand visitors each year.
Nantucket
G.L. Brown Nantucket Baskets operated on Old South Wharf for 50 years before the Brown Basket Gallery closed; Jerry (Gerald L. Brown) now continues the craft from his Madaket workshop by appointment. He makes his signature Nantucket lightship baskets and takes orders for new work and repairs.
Best for Nantucket lightship baskets by appointment
Naples — Galleria Umberto I / Online
A Torre del Greco coral house, founded 1855 — six generations of Neapolitan coral, cameos and mother-of-pearl worked since the Bourbon court; the atelier and small museum share the Galleria Umberto salon.
Best for Neapolitan red coral and cameos worked by hand.
San Gregorio Armeno, Naples
Marco and Antonella D'Auria founded their San Gregorio Armeno workshop in 2011, with Marco creating nativity figures and Antonella dressing them according to the Neapolitan 1700s canon. The shop also makes corni portafortuna (lucky horn charms) and Pulcinella masks and statues.
Best for Neapolitan nativity figures and pulcinella masks
Somma Vesuviana / Naples / Online
Fiorenzo Auricchio's workshop on Vesuvius' slope — 25 hand operations per shirt, the summit of Neapolitan shirtmaking; any collar, including one-piece, cut bespoke.
Best for The most hand-sewn shirt in Naples.
Naples / Online
Patrizio Cappelli's seven-fold ties — the connoisseur's Neapolitan cravatte, hand-rolled off Via Cavallerizza.
Best for Hand-rolled seven-fold ties.
Via Chiaia, Naples / Online
Naples textile house founded 1956 by Livio De Simone (b. 1920), whose hand-painted, water-dyed prints made him a fixture of 1960s-70s Capri fashion and a fabric collaborator of Emilio Pucci; now run by his daughter Benedetta.
Best for Hand-painted resort prints.
Livio De Simone was born in Naples in 1920 and left a career as a lawyer to pursue design, establishing his own factory in 1956. He showed collections at Palazzo Pitti in Florence and dressed film figures including Audrey Hepburn and Elsa Martinelli, becoming closely associated with Capri's high society through the 1960s and 70s. He also designed fabrics for, and partnered with, Emilio Pucci in staging fashion shows during the 1950s. His signature technique -- hand-painting fabric freehand with water-based dyes -- produced particularly vivid, brilliant color and remains the distinctive trait the brand is still known for. After his death, the company passed first to his wife Graziella, who had led the brand's commercial side, and then to their daughter Benedetta. The house continues to operate out of Naples, working from a showroom and separate registered-office and production addresses.
Naples / Online
Neapolitan tie house founded in 1948 by Mario Ulturale in a home workshop producing semi-finished ties; his son Vincenzo (b.1957) opened the first full made-to-measure workshop in 1985. Known for handmade seven-fold ties and a superstition-referencing cornetto charm sewn into the tail; now also in Rome and Milan.
Best for Lucky-charm seven-fold ties.
Ulturale's history begins just after the Second World War, when Mario Ulturale set up a small tailoring operation inside his own home in Naples in 1948, producing semi-finished ties for other workshops rather than finished retail products. His son Vincenzo, born in 1957, grew up inside that trade and eventually took the business further, opening the company's first proper workshop in 1985 — the point at which Ulturale began assembling complete, made-to-measure ties under its own name rather than supplying components to others.
The house's best-known product is its seven-fold tie: a Neapolitan construction method in which a single piece of silk is folded — three folds on one side, four on the other — without any interlining, a technique prized for drape and hand-finishing skill rather than for using extra material. Ulturale is also associated with a small superstition-referencing detail, a cornetto (horn charm), historically sewn into the tail of some of its ties, and with novelty pieces like its '00 Tiè' model.
Originally a single Naples workshop and boutique, Ulturale has since added retail locations in Rome and Milan, while keeping its ties handmade rather than machine-assembled.
Nara / Japan
A Nara sumi ink workshop of about 150 years, Kinkoen makes soot and oil ink sticks and offers a hands-on 'gripped sumi' making experience at its Sanjo-cho workshop. Its ink sticks are sold in person and shipped overseas through an online store.
Best for Hand-made soot and oil sumi ink sticks
Nara / Japan / Online
This Nara doll workshop carves traditional Nara ittobori figures, including hina and May dolls, Noh-themed pieces and zodiac animals. The hand-carved pieces are sold through the studio's online store.
Best for Wood carving, Nara dolls, ittobori
Chelsea, Manhattan
A food hall and shopping destination in a former Nabisco factory — the birthplace of the Oreo, now home to vendors, restaurants, and the Food Network studios.
Best for Food hall browsing, artisan vendors, and the historic factory setting.
Nice / Online
Nice oil merchant since 1822 — olive oils, vinegars, and the stoneware jars of the old town. Workshops moved to the Nice region in 1978; the Nice Flower Market shop opened in 2003 (official timeline). Founding shop was Paris Marais, 1822.
Best for Nice olive oils and flavored vinegars.
Nice / Online
The official boutique of the City of Nice — 75 local makers and farmers, 1,000 products of pure Niçois savoir-faire in one place.
Best for Niçois artisan goods, local pantry, and city-exclusive editions.
Nouméa
Hue Cocotte is a gift shop and a workshop atelier.
Best for Fashion
Nouméa
At its Rue Martial Danton workshop and showroom in Nouméa, Laser Art Pacific engraves and sculpts wood, glass, plexiglass and pearl into trophies, custom pieces and Caledonian art objects. It sells its own and local artisans' creations through an online boutique and a second shop at Anse Vata.
Best for Laser engraving, Caledonian craft, trophies, wood art, custom gifts
Oaxaca
Taller Jacobo y María Ángeles hand-carves copal wood into alebrijes, tonas and nahuales in the Zapotec spiritual tradition, founded in 1994 in San Martín Tilcajete. The workshop has expanded into fine jewelry and ceramics, and runs its own reforestation program to sustain the wood it depends on.
Best for Copal-wood alebrijes, tonas, nahuales, jewelry and ceramics
Valles Centrales, Oaxaca
Mal de Amor operates an artisanal mezcal palenque in Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, founded in 2010, offering guided distillery tours, tastings and a barrel experience called the Barritour. The site also includes an Oaxacan restaurant, cocktail bar and space for private events for up to 400 guests.
Best for Mezcal palenque tours and tastings
Puerto Escondido / Mexico
Ody Ordaz hand-shapes surfboards at his own factory and shop in Zicatela, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, selling in-stock boards and custom orders that can be arranged remotely. The shop keeps seasonal, appointment-based hours and ships online.
Best for Made-to-order surfboards shaped in Zicatela
Odyboards is a working surfboard factory and shop in the Zicatela district of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca - one of Mexico's best-known point breaks - where shaper Ody Ordaz makes boards by hand rather than running a machine-shaped production line. The business operates as both retail counter and workshop under one roof, selling in-stock boards directly off the shelf alongside custom orders that customers can arrange remotely from anywhere before they arrive in Oaxaca, a useful option for surfers planning a trip around picking up a board built to their own specifications. The shop keeps seasonal, appointment-based hours in person, reflecting Puerto Escondido's own surf season rather than a standard year-round retail schedule, and supplements walk-in sales with an online store for customers who can't make it to Zicatela directly. The site runs in both English and Spanish, signaling a clientele that leans heavily on international surf travelers passing through this stretch of the Oaxacan coast as much as on local riders. For visitors already making the trip to surf Zicatela's break, Odyboards offers a direct line to the person actually shaping the boards, rather than a shop reselling factory-made stock from elsewhere.
San Martín Tilcajete, Oaxaca / Online
In San Martín Tilcajete, Jacobo and María Ángeles lead a workshop of dozens of carvers and painters making intricately carved alebrijes and tonas from copal wood, painted with Zapotec-inspired iconography. Visitors can tour the taller, meet the makers and buy work directly.
Best for Master alebrijes and tonas from Tilcajete
Oberammergau / Germany
Carving sacred art in Oberammergau since 1556 and now in its fourteenth generation, the Albl family creates hand-worked crucifixes, saints, altars and nativity sets commissioned by churches worldwide. Alongside bespoke commissions from its Am Weinberg studio, ALBL sells smaller carved works such as its Divine Mercy Christ through an online shop.
Best for Woodcarving, sacred art, crucifixes, nativity, Holzbildhauerei
Oberammergau / Germany
Housed in one of Oberammergau's most photographed painted buildings, this third-generation shop stocks a full range of local and regional woodcarvings from religious to modern, plus original Black Forest cuckoo clocks and regional souvenirs. The family welcomes visitors in person and advises across its sizeable in-store selection.
Best for Woodcarving, souvenirs, cuckoo clocks, Oberammergau craft, gifts
Oberammergau / Germany
Woodcarver and polychromer Michael Pfaffenzeller runs this Oberammergau store, second-generation makers known for clad crib figures like those in the Wieskirche and for reproductions of Erasmus Grasser's Morris dancers. The Josef-Mayr-Gasse shop welcomes visitors to browse carved figures and painted work, and also offers guided tours and carving workshops.
Best for Woodcarving, polychromy, Morris dancers, nativity, Oberammergau craft
Oberammergau / Germany
For over forty years the Toni Baur workshop has carved wooden figures in Oberammergau, from apostles, Madonnas and crucifixes to climbers, musicians and unusual high-relief works based on Gustav Klimt. The Dorfstraße store is open Monday to Saturday and pieces can also be ordered through its online shop and separate nativity-scene webshop.
Best for Woodcarving, religious figures, nativity, Klimt reliefs, Oberammergau craft
Obernai / France
In the heart of Obernai, Galerie Goralsky runs year-round permanent and temporary contemporary-art exhibitions alongside artist workshops. A selection of gallery works, including pieces by Sergey Akopov, is offered for sale through its online boutique as well as on the walls at Rue du Général Gouraud.
Best for Art gallery, contemporary art, paintings, fine art, Alsace
Obuse / Japan
Founded in 1755, the Masuichi-Ichimura sake brewery in the small town of Obuse crafts junmai sake using selected rice and old wooden-vat methods, its platinum-leaf sign marking the timber storefront. Bottles sell through the online shop and at the brewery's direct store, where the 'teppa' counter offers tastings and a chat with the toji.
Best for Sake brewery, junmai sake, kioke brewing, Nagano, Obuse
Orvieto / Italy
ShopArt is an Orvieto craft shop offering ceramics, frescoes, canvases and painted panels made by increasingly rare local master artisans. It sells these handmade Umbrian pieces to visitors in the historic center, with purchases arranged directly through the shop.
Best for Ceramics, frescoes, art reproductions, handicrafts, paintings
Osaka / Japan
Gyokushodo has made incense in Osaka since 1804 (Bunka 1), a run of more than 220 years centered in the city's Higashinari ward.
Best for Everyday-to-altar-grade incense from a 220-year Osaka maker
Gyokushodo has made incense in Osaka since 1804 (Bunka 1), a run of more than 220 years centered in the city's Higashinari ward. Through that span the house's stated focus has stayed narrow: refining blending technique and quality across a full range of grades, from everyday sticks to Buddhist altar and gift incense, rather than diversifying into unrelated product lines.
The more recent turn in its history is retail-facing: Gyokushodo opened its first flagship store, Ichikō Ichie ('one incense, one encounter'), moving a business that had operated mainly as a maker and wholesaler into direct contact with customers and, per the company's own account, toward international as well as domestic buyers.
For a house whose name rarely reaches incense drinkers outside Japan the way Kyoto's grander names do, Gyokushodo's two-century run as a working Osaka incense maker — and its recent step into its own storefront — makes it a working counterpart to the more famous temple-incense houses, built on volume and range rather than a single signature blend.
1-29-34 Kita, Minoh City, Osaka
Award-winning Japanese craft brewery — their W-IPA won World's Best Imperial IPA in 2013, as recorded by World Beer Awards. The taproom serves fresh pours and the adjacent shop sells bottles and merch.
Best for W-IBA, fresh taproom pours and bottled Minoh beer
Osaka / Japan
At 10-5 Senri Expo Park in Suita, the museum shop curates mingei folk crafts such as Tamba and Onta pottery, hand-loomed Tamba cloth, Inshu washi paper, and household goods designed by Sori Yanagi. It also stocks the museum's own publications and catalogs, including works tied to founder Muneyoshi Yanagi's writings.
Best for Ceramics, textiles, folk crafts, glassware
Rådhusgaten 24, 0151 Oslo, Norway / Oslo / Norway
Founded in 1991 by the Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts as an exhibition-and-sales venue for contemporary ceramics, textiles, metal, jewellery and glass.
Best for Contemporary Norwegian ceramics, textiles, metal, jewellery and glass.
Ouarzazate / Morocco
Twelve women from Ouarzazate's Isfoutalil district founded this cooperative in 2013, weaving baskets and textiles and making jewelry and embroidery under Morocco's national craft label. Their showroom on the Route de Marrakech is open on weekday afternoons, and they also take custom and made-to-order commissions.
Best for Basketry, weaving, jewelry, embroidery, Amazigh crafts
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Handmade coffa bags woven from dwarf-palm fiber in a family workshop in Palermo, Sicily, decorated with painted ceramics, pompoms and fringe in the traditional style of Sicilian farm and market totes; each bag takes about two days to make.
Best for Bags, Sicilian craft
Sicily Bag makes coffa - traditional Sicilian hand-woven totes - in a family workshop based in Palermo. Coffa bags originated as utilitarian carriers used by Sicilian farmers and cart-drivers, woven from dwarf-palm or reed fiber into a sturdy dome-shaped basket. Sicily Bag's pieces are woven by hand using select cuts of Sicilian dwarf palm and finished with painted ceramic medallions, pompoms, ribbons and fringe. Each bag reportedly takes about two days of hand work, consistent with a family-run atelier.
Casco Viejo, Panama City
Reprosa casts Panama's pre-Columbian huacas — frogs, eagles, shamans — in silver and gold using the ancient lost-wax way, from workshops you can tour. The isthmus, wearable.
Best for Panama’s treasures cast in silver and gold
Paramaribo
This Maagdenstraat shop gathers Suriname's handmade craft under one roof, from Maroon tembe woodwork and Indigenous maluana discs to serving trays and flag-printed totes. Prices are marked in Surinamese dollars and everything can be carried out in person or ordered through the online store.
Best for Crafts, souvenirs, Maroon woodwork, handmade
Paris / Online
French eco-responsible fashion label founded 2017, workshop-boutique based near Bordeaux; garments made to order and manufactured in French ateliers using linen and recycled fibers.
Best for Made-to-order, responsibly made French fashion with clean silhouettes
Aatise is a French fashion label describing itself as a pioneer of "Slow Fashion," founded in 2017 with an emphasis on responsible, sustainable production over standard retail volume. Its own materials describe an eco-conscious approach built on eco-design, zero waste, limited series and made-to-order manufacturing, produced domestically in France. The company operates a combined workshop-boutique - coworking space, garment production and showroom together - currently based in Villenave d'Ornon, just outside Bordeaux, having relocated there from a central Bordeaux address in January 2023. Its clothing is manufactured across several French workshops, including locations in Pau, Bordeaux, Castres and the Paris region, with dresses and shirts made in Bordeaux specifically. Aatise favors natural and recycled materials - linen (France being a major producer of the fiber), Ecovero viscose and Tencel among them - and offers a customization service letting customers personalize garments. The brand sells both men's and women's ready-to-wear as well as made-to-order pieces through its own e-shop.
Saint-Germain / Bonaparte
Paris decor house founded 2012 by heritage restorers Vincent Farelly, Jean-Baptiste Martin and Julie Stordiau, reviving hand block-printed 18th-century 'papier dominote'. Flagship boutique at 2 Rue Bonaparte in Saint-Germain-des-Pres; roughly 50 stockists across 13 countries.
Best for Domino papers, wallpapers, and hand-crafted decorative objects
Antoinette Poisson was founded in Paris in 2012 by three heritage conservators - Vincent Farelly, Jean-Baptiste Martin and Julie Stordiau - who set out to revive dominoterie, an 18th-century technique for producing decorative 'domino' papers by engraving a design into a printing block, then applying color by hand or stencil. The papers were historically used to line books, boxes, and small rooms or alcoves; Antoinette Poisson's contemporary work extends the same period patterns into wallpaper, fabric by the meter, stationery, lampshades, boxes, cushions, candles and table linens, all manufactured in France. The brand takes its name from Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, the Marquise de Pompadour. Historically based in Paris, the house recently opened a new flagship at 2 Rue Bonaparte in the Saint-Germain-des-Pres quarter, and now distributes through roughly 50 points of sale across 13 countries.
Paris / Online
Paris menswear accessories house founded in 2011 by Alexandre Chapellier. Bow ties, ties, and scarves made in France (workshops in Fontaine-Raoul, Loir-et-Cher); formerly stocked at Colette, Neiman Marcus, and Isetan Shinjuku.
Best for French-made ties, scarves, and bow ties with character
Cinabre Paris is a men's accessories brand founded in 2011 by Alexandre Chapellier, who opened the first boutique that year in Paris's 10th arrondissement, at 20 rue d'Hauteville. The house began with 'couture' bow ties made from luxury-house fabric offcuts before expanding into boutonnieres, ties, scarves, and leather goods; production is handled in-house at ateliers in Fontaine-Raoul, in the Loir-et-Cher department. Early commercial success came largely from foreign buyers, particularly American clients, and the brand was carried by Paris concept store Colette, the Neiman Marcus chain in the US, Isetan Shinjuku in Tokyo, and Le Bon Marche in Paris. GQ magazine nicknamed Chapellier the 'neck dresser of Paris.'
Paris, France
De Bonne Facture focuses on Déborah Neuberg’s traceable France, grandad jackets from named workshops, provenance as luxury.
Best for Timeless Essentials
Paris / Online
Boutique appointments run for about 45 minutes and let clients compare eighteen-carat gold, platinum and stones with an adviser. Pieces are then produced to order in the house’s French jewellery workshops.
Best for Colorful engagement rings and personalized fine jewelry.
Paris / Online
Paris hand-embroidered brooch and badge house founded in 2009 by designers Marie Macon and Anne-Laure Lesquoy, whose military-insignia-inspired pieces are produced by needleworkers in Pakistan and embroidery workshops in Portugal. First boutique opened near Canal Saint-Martin in 2017.
Best for Embroidered brooches and patches with playful French wit.
Macon & Lesquoy was founded in 2009 by Marie Macon and Anne-Laure Lesquoy, who met studying at Paris's Ecole Nationale Superieure de Creation Industrielle. Their hand-embroidered brooches and badges draw their visual language from military and royal decorations - precise, dense stitching rendered as wearable pins rather than insignia. Marie designs the motifs and Anne-Laure develops them into finished pieces, working with needleworkers in Pakistan and mechanical embroidery workshops in Portugal to produce the collections. The pair have also built collections around places they've traveled together, including Russia, Japan, Rwanda and India. After several years as a wholesale and online-only label, Macon & Lesquoy opened its first physical boutique in 2017, in the Canal Saint-Martin neighborhood of Paris - an area the brand's own material describes as having kept its village character despite gentrification.
Paris / Online
French handmade fashion label for limited-run blouses, dresses, skirts, and romantic responsible pieces.
Best for Limited-run handmade blouses, dresses, and skirts made responsibly in France.
Maison Cléo is a Paris-born womenswear label founded in 2017 by Marie Dewet, who left a role at resale platform Vestiaire Collective to build a brand around local, small-batch production rather than seasonal mass output. The house makes blouses, dresses, skirts and other pieces described by the brand itself as romantic and responsibly produced, positioning itself against the fast-fashion cycle through limited runs made in France. Maison Cléo sells primarily direct through its own website and, per the brand's own reporting, through the Circular Clothing Paris marketplace, and has shown as part of the Paris Fashion Week calendar. In September 2024 the brand publicly teased -- via its own channels and covered independently by French trade press -- the opening of a first atelier-boutique, describing the presentation of its collections "window side" and promising an opening "very soon"; as of the most recent check, no address or firm opening date had been announced, and the brand continues to operate as an online-only house. The atelier-boutique concept, uniting workshop and storefront in one space, would mark Maison Cléo's first step from pure e-commerce into a physical presence, extending its local-production ethos into a space customers can visit rather than only browse online.
Paris / Online
Paris tie house founded by Francois-Regis Laporte, trained in pattern cutting at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. Ties, bow ties, ascots and pocket squares are hand-cut and sewn from Lyon silk in its own Paris workshop, sold from its boutique at 42 rue de Verneuil.
Best for Ties, scarves, and collars — polished French finishing accessories.
Maison F was founded by Francois-Regis Laporte, who trained in pattern cutting at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and worked earlier as an assistant at Jacques Fath and press manager at Bruuns Bazaar. Laporte describes Maison F as the only remaining dedicated tie-maker operating in Paris. The house's ties, bow ties and accessories are cut and hand-sewn from silk sourced in Lyon, with roughly 20 minutes of handwork per tie; the workshop employs around fifty seamstresses. Maison F's Paris boutique is located at 42 rue de Verneuil, in the Carre Rive Gauche district.
Paris / Online
Maison Matisse is a Paris home-design house founded in 2019 by the family of painter Henri Matisse, with his great-grandson Jean-Matthieu Matisse among its founders, built to translate the artist's paintings into functional objects rather than reproduce them as prints.
Best for Home objects inspired by Henri Matisse's art, via contemporary craft collaborations.
Maison Matisse is a Paris home-design house founded in 2019 by the family of painter Henri Matisse, with his great-grandson Jean-Matthieu Matisse among its founders, built to translate the artist's paintings into functional objects rather than reproduce them as prints. Its first two collections, "La Musique" and "Intérieur aux aubergines," were each developed from a specific Matisse canvas, reworking their color palettes and motifs into furniture, tableware, textiles and décor through collaborations with contemporary craftspeople. In March 2022 the house opened its first permanent boutique at 38 rue du Bac, in Paris's 7th arrondissement on the Left Bank, near the Rue du Bac metro station -- a space designed like a furnished apartment rather than a conventional shop, so pieces could be seen in a lived-in setting. The founders have described customer response to the boutique as strongly positive in the period after opening. The house has since added a second Paris address, an events space at 8 Rue des Francs Bourgeois in the Marais, used for exhibitions and presentations tied to Paris Design Week and Maison&Objet. Maison Matisse offers click-and-collect from its rue du Bac boutique alongside its e-commerce operation, positioning the brand as both a design label and a physical destination for admirers of Matisse's visual language.
BHV Marais / Rue de Rivoli
Italian lighting house founded 1950 in Lucca, Tuscany by designer Elio Martinelli. Produces Gae Aulenti's 1965 Pipistrello lamp, originally made for Olivetti's Paris showroom; still manufactured in Lucca under his daughter Emiliana.
Best for The 1965 bat-wing Pipistrello lamp, an icon of Italian lighting modernism.
Martinelli Luce was founded in 1950 in Lucca, Tuscany, when designer Elio Martinelli turned a cellar in the city's old centre into what he called his 'Laboratory.' The company built its early identity on injection-moulded plastic and methacrylate lighting, designed primarily by Martinelli and by architect Gae Aulenti. Its defining piece is the Pipistrello, designed by Aulenti in 1965 for the Olivetti showroom in Paris and produced by Martinelli Luce ever since; the lamp's name comes from its shade, four curved opaline methacrylate panels shaped to evoke outstretched wings. Martinelli Luce remains an independent, family-run company, today led by Emiliana Martinelli, Elio's daughter, with production still concentrated in Lucca.
Paris / Online
Made in Montrouge, France since 1885, Papier d'Arménie's paper strips are soaked in alcohol-dissolved benzoin resin and burned rather than lit, a format created after founder Auguste Ponsot saw Armenians burn benzoin to freshen their homes.
Best for Original benzoin-soaked incense papers, made in the same Montrouge workshop since 1885
Papier d'Arménie has burned the same way since 1885: a strip of paper soaked in benzoin resin dissolved in alcohol, torn off, folded into a fan, and lit to smoulder rather than flame. The company traces its start to the chemist Auguste Ponsot, who saw Armenians burning benzoin to freshen their homes and, working with the pharmacist Henri Rivier, adapted the practice into a paper carnet a French household could use without a censer or coal. Production has stayed in Montrouge, just outside Paris, for more than a century, and the business has stayed in family hands — Mireille Schvartz, great-granddaughter of a co-founder, has run it since 1991. The line has grown past the original Tradition formula to include Rose and an Arménie blend, but the format hasn't changed: booklets of perforated paper strips, no burner or reed required. By 2023 the workshop was turning out some 3.5 million booklets a year, with about 15 percent exported, still recognizable as the same product generations of French households have kept in a kitchen drawer for the smell alone. It reads less as a fragrance house than a single fixed ritual, unchanged since a nineteenth-century encounter with an Armenian household custom.
PRINTEMPS
Paris shaving-brush maker founded in 1808 by Jacques-Louis and Marie-Hélène Plisson, who both came from brush- and fan-making families and later supplied Napoleon; still family-run, it combines horn, ivory and exotic-wood handles with badger and synthetic bristle work.
Best for Badger-hair shaving brushes and the barbière ritual since 1808
Plisson was founded in Paris in 1808 by Jacques-Louis and Marie-Hélène Plisson, a couple who both came from established families in the brush-making and fan-making trades — crafts built on the same underlying skills of fitting fine bristles or materials into a shaped handle. Their manufacture combined two distinct artisan disciplines: tabletterie, the shaping and finishing of noble materials such as horn, ivory and exotic woods into small objects, and brosserie, the selection and precise placement of bristle fibers into a functional brush head. That combination positioned Plisson well when the modern shaving brush began to take off as a household grooming tool in the nineteenth century, and the house built a reputation that reached Napoleon's court — the Plissons made the emperor a beard brush designed for travel, and the brand adopted an eagle as its emblem for years afterward in reference to that association. Plisson has remained under family ownership through its history, continuing to combine both original disciplines rather than specializing narrowly in one: its range spans razors, shaving brushes in both natural badger-hair and synthetic-fiber versions, shaving cosmetics, hairbrushes, and grooming tools for beards and mustaches. The brand sells both through its own outlets and through counters inside larger retailers, including a presence within the Paris department store Printemps, keeping the more than two-century-old maker within reach of a mainstream retail audience rather than confined to a single flagship address.
Paris / Online
Rougier & Plé on boulevard des Filles du Calvaire is a Paris shop for art materials and creative projects. Its departments cover drawing and painting alongside paper and other craft supplies. The Marais store's façade incorporates a work by Daniel Buren, adding an artist's intervention to the practical business of choosing materials.
Best for Drawing, painting and craft supplies in the Marais
Rougier & Plé's boulevard des Filles du Calvaire shop is a practical stop for art materials in the Marais. Drawing and painting supplies form part of a broader selection that includes paper and materials for creative hobbies. The store occupies several levels, giving someone working across different media a reason to look beyond a single shelf of paints or pens.
The façade carries a work by Daniel Buren. That intervention connects the building to contemporary art while the business inside remains focused on the materials used to make things. It is possible to approach the shop with either a specific project in mind or an interest in comparing tools and surfaces before deciding what to try.
The company traces its beginnings to 1854, when its trade included tools and supplies for leatherwork. Its present range is much broader. For a useful visit, decide whether the priority is drawing, painting or another craft, then compare the appropriate materials. Treat the assortment as a retailer's selection from different makers, not as evidence that every product was manufactured in France.
Paris
Rue de Passy is an upscale shopping street in the elegant 16th arrondissement.
Best for Shopping along Rue de Passy
GALERIES LAFAYETTE
Gucci Westman’s clean luxury makeup — skin-first sticks of backstage credibility. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Best for Gucci Westman's skin-first clean luxury makeup sticks, stocked at Galeries Lafayette
Pavia / Italy
Timbrificio Zetti on Via Calatafimi in Pavia is a workshop producing stamps and engraved plaques to order.
Best for Stamps and engraved plaques
Litchfield Beach / Pawleys Island, SC
Owner Mary Beth Pope opened this market in 2010, growing a roadside produce stand into a general store and artisan collective that sells local vegetables, grass-fed meat, and take-away casseroles alongside handmade linens, fused-glass ornaments, and sweetgrass baskets. It functions as a showcase for regional farmers and craftspeople rather than a souvenir shop.
Best for Local produce, sweetgrass baskets, and handmade goods
Litchfield Beach / Pawleys Island, SC
The company traces its rope hammock to 1889, when riverboat captain Joshua John Ward wove a cooler, more comfortable alternative to canvas cots on Pawleys Island, and it still bills itself on "130 Years of Quality." Hammocks are hand-knotted from cotton or DuraCord rope on oak spreader bars, with pillows, stands, and porch swings made in the same Lowcountry workshops.
Best for Hand-knotted rope hammocks and porch swings
Penang / Malaysia
Established in 1973 as Penang's first batik factory, Craft Batik still operates from Teluk Bahang producing hand-drawn and block-printed batik using traditional wax-resist dyeing. It sells scarves, sarongs, patchwork kits and hand-drawn paintings, including works by the late resident artist Tan Thean Song.
Best for Batik, hand-drawn textiles, wax-resist dyeing, scarves
Craft Batik was established in 1973 in Teluk Bahang on Penang island, making it the first batik factory on the island. It has continued producing batik by traditional resist-dye methods -- covering sections of cloth with a dye-resistant substance before coloring -- at a time when most batik fabric is machine-decorated, positioning itself around handmade production by its own artists.
The workshop's best-known associated artist is the late Tan Thean Song (1946-2017), who trained at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore and won prizes for batik works including second prize at the 1969 Salon Malaysia for "Flying Kite" (now held by Malaysia's National Art Gallery) and first prize in the 1964 Malayan Young Artists competition. He served as the pioneer Chief Resident Artist and Master Trainer at the Arts Village in Teluk Bahang, mentoring other artists' styles, and in 1987 organized a six-month batik exhibition at Penang's Rasa Sayang Hotel.
Craft Batik's current catalogue includes silk and rayon scarves and pareo, block-printed and hand-drawn tablecloths, dresses, DIY patchwork sets, and a dedicated line of hand-drawn paintings attributed to Tan Thean Song, sold alongside the workshop's own production.
Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh's only commercial contemporary art gallery, at No. 7Eo Samdach Sothearos Boulevard, dedicated to Cambodian contemporary art. It also runs a photo studio, participatory painting events and workshops.
Best for Contemporary cambodian art exhibitions
Baiona, Pontevedra
Anaco’s counter focuses on handmade Galician pastries, cakes and tarts prepared for everyday treats and celebrations. Its central Baiona location makes it a practical stop for takeaway sweets rather than a full restaurant.
Best for Handmade Galician cakes and pastries
Baiona, Pontevedra
An independent Baiona boutique blending clothing with local artisan pieces. It brings fashion and Galician craft under one roof.
Best for Fashion and Galician craft pieces
Baiona, Pontevedra
A Baiona maker of original souvenirs and design pieces themed on the town. Each is created as an exclusive, Baiona-specific keepsake.
Best for Original Baiona-themed souvenirs and gifts
Pontevedra / Spain
Cincelaser laser-engraves wooden bookmarks, pens, glassware and keepsakes to order from its workshop at Calle Manuel Quiroga 3 in Pontevedra, where customers can also browse a physical selection of ready-made pieces. The shop ships personalized gifts online across Spain, with pickup and pay-in-store options for locals.
Best for Gifts, Personalized Laser Engraving
Port Moresby / Online
Bilum & Bilas is a Papua New Guinean social enterprise creating handwoven jewellery and bilum bags using traditional weaving techniques passed down through generations of women. The Shopify-powered shop ships internationally and channels proceeds into fair wages and cultural preservation for its artisan collective.
Best for Handwoven bilum bags and jewelry supporting Papua New Guinean artisans
1233 SW 10th Avenue, Portland, OR 97205, United States / Portland / United States
Portland's paean to the clean, functional aesthetic, stocked by owners Craig Olson and Sean Igo with Japanese, European and local maker objects. Emily Henderson's Shop Small Portland guide independently names Canoe as a long-favourite high-end gifts/home/kitchen door.
Best for Japanese, European and local maker objects for home and kitchen.
Portland / United States
Crafty Wonderland is a Portland institution with two retail shops, on SW 10th Avenue downtown and NE Alberta Street, showcasing handmade goods from more than 200 local makers. It also runs twice-yearly craft markets at the Oregon Convention Center and sells its curated selection online.
Best for Crafts, Gifts
Oregon, USA
Portland boot authority since 1932 — the Mountain Light, Gore-Tex pioneer and USA-made recraftable icons.
Best for Mountain Light, hiking boots
Portland / Oregon / Online
Portland textile brand — Japanese vintage fabrics, American craftsmanship, and scarves, ties, and accessories with a cross-Pacific story.
Best for Japanese fabric American craft
Portland, United States
Craft ice-cream maker known for inventive flavors, selling scoops, pints and ice-cream cakes from its own shops; founded in Portland.
Best for Inventive ice-cream flavors, scoops and pints
Porto / Portugal
Escovaria de Belomonte has handcrafted luxury personal and household brushes from its Rua de Belomonte atelier and shop in Porto since 1948, recognisable by its century-old advertising plaque. A second store opened in 2022 in the WOW cultural quarter of Vila Nova de Gaia, and pieces are also sold online.
Best for Handcrafted personal and household brushes since 1948
Staré Město, Prague
BackYard combines a design showroom with jewellery workshops at U Obecního dvora in Prague. Its shared space brings together clothing and accessories with home objects by contemporary designers. The designers take turns serving customers and can explain how a piece was made and how to care for it.
Best for Designer-led shopping for jewellery, clothing and home objects
BackYard's showroom at U Obecního dvora 2 combines a place to buy design with spaces where work is made and discussed. Jewellery workshops sit within the shared premises, which also host collection presentations and conversations with designers. The people behind the collections take turns looking after the shop, so a visit can include questions about making and materials as well as choosing an object.
The selection extends from clothing to jewellery and leather accessories. Its jewellery makers work with materials including silver and gold, but also brass and porcelain. For the home, the assortment includes cups and bowls. Vases and other porcelain pieces offer another way into the designers' work.
BackYard also accepts enquiries for wedding clothing and rings. These are separate from simply choosing an item from the showroom, and shoppers should discuss their needs with the relevant designer. The shop publishes a staff rota online, useful for anyone hoping to speak to a particular participant rather than leaving that meeting to chance.
Prague / Czechia
Balkanova's brick-and-mortar shop sits between the National Theatre and Charles Bridge at Karoliny Svetle 321/23 in Prague's Old Town, selling handwoven wool blankets, kilim rugs, and Bulgarian rose cosmetics sourced from Balkan artisans. The brand also runs a full online store shipping across Europe and beyond.
Best for Wool textiles, handwoven rugs, Balkan crafts
Pucón / Chile
Manos de Pucón in Pucón makes utilitarian and decorative objects from native wood.
Best for Handmade wooden decorative objects
Petit-Champlain, Quebec City
Atelier La Pomme is a clothing boutique in Quebec with garments exclusively made in Quebec.
Best for Clothing made in quebec
Quebec City / Canada
Best known for handcrafted fur boots, mittens, and winter coats made in Canada, Bilodeau Canada runs a retail location at 2450 Boulevard Laurier in Quebec City's Place Sainte-Foy alongside its Normandin headquarters and workshop tours. Purchases can be made in-store or online, with in-house financing available for larger buys.
Best for Fur & Winter Outerwear
Québec City / Online
Quebec clothing line founded by designer Nathalie Jourdain in spring 2010, working from a workshop on Île d'Orléans. Pieces are offered custom-made to measurements, at no extra cost, in sizes XS to XXL.
Best for Quebec clothing line founded by designer Nathalie Jourdain in spring 2010
Coeur de Loup began in the spring of 2010, when designer Nathalie Jourdain launched the label from her workshop on Île d'Orléans, the island community just outside Quebec City. Jourdain describes the move as a way to reconnect with manual, hands-on work after stepping away from a more conventional career path, and the brand has stayed close to that artisanal framing since.
The line is sold exclusively through its own online boutique rather than third-party retailers, and Jourdain builds body diversity into the business model directly: every piece is offered in sizes XS through XXL as standard, and customers can also order fully custom-made pieces built to their own measurements at no additional charge. Current collections lean toward swimwear — tops, bottoms, and one-pieces in a range of cuts — alongside seasonal ready-to-wear and accessories.
Jourdain positions the brand around making dressing feel unintimidating regardless of body type or age, a philosophy she ties directly to the custom-fit option rather than treating it as a premium add-on.
Saint-Tite, Saint-Tite, Quebec
Rheaume Canoes was founded in the early 1980s by cabinet maker Alain Rheaume and has built canoes for more than 40 years from its factory in Saint-Tite, Quebec. The line has grown to more than 20 cedar and composite canoe models, plus display canoes and canoe bookcases, with lacing, caning and steam-bent parts handcrafted on site.
Best for Handcrafted cedar canoes
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Behbud Association of Pakistan is listed in Rawalpindi for clothes / craft boutique.
Best for Clothes / craft boutique
Regensburg / Germany
Donaustern in Regensburg sells handmade gifts and clothing items with a dachshund theme.
Best for Dachshund-themed gifts and clothing
Riga / Online
It is best known for High-quality handmade products inspired by Latvia's ethnographic heritage — traditional jewellery, woven blankets, scarves, knitwear, linen textiles, ceramics, wooden items, herbal products; authentic souvenirs reflecting local craftsmanship and culture.
Best for High-quality handmade products inspired by Latvia's ethnographic heritage — traditional jewellery, woven blank
Rome / Via Condotti / Online
Opened in 1946 at 61A Via Condotti by Guglielmo Battistoni, a former Academy of Fine Arts student turned shirtmaker, this Rome atelier became an artists' gathering place from the 1950s — works by Picasso, Modigliani, Guttuso and Cocteau still hang on its walls — and dressed Marlon Brando and Andy Warhol.
Best for Roman dress shirts and tailoring.
Battistoni was founded in 1946 by Guglielmo Battistoni at 61A Via Condotti in Rome, in a courtyard just off the street. Battistoni had studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and came to shirtmaking, by his own account, out of both necessity and vocation rather than family trade. He became known for modernizing the men's shirt collar, cutting the points slightly longer and wider than the classical standard of the time. From the 1950s the atelier's courtyard location became a gathering point for artists and writers passing through Rome, and works by Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Renato Guttuso, Roberto Matta and Jean Cocteau still hang on its walls today, left by clients and friends of the house. The client list that built the brand's reputation for discreet luxury included Marlon Brando, Clark Gable, Gianni Agnelli, the Duke of Windsor, Charlie Chaplin, Marc Chagall, John Cassavetes and Andy Warhol. Guglielmo's son, Gianni Battistoni, later led the house; Gianni Battistoni died in 2024, marking a generational close covered in the Italian fashion trade press.
Rome / Online
Roman atelier-boutique of illustrated bags, objets, and impeccable taste — a paper-and-canvas universe.
Best for Grand Tour totes and illustrated objets.
Via del Politeama 4, Trastevere, Rome
A former auto parts shop turned cocktail bar, Freni e Frizioni ('Brakes and Clutches') is Trastevere's most popular aperitivo spot.
Best for Former auto shop turned cocktail bar — generous aperitivo buffet
Italy
This Via Roma storefront sells ceramic sea-turtle bracelets, hand-painted fish figurines and natural sea sponges pulled from the island's own sponge-diving tradition, alongside Lampedusa-branded t-shirts and nautical accessories. It runs a street counter and an online shop side by side, both stocked from the same local-craft inventory.
Best for Ceramic turtle bracelets, natural sea sponges and marine souvenirs
Konigil
A working paper mill reviving handmade Samarkand paper.
Best for Handmade Samarkand paper from a working paper mill
117 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94108, United States / San Francisco / United States
Martin and Lucy Spector opened the Union Square fabric house in 1952 (Geary Street); family-run destination that relocated to 117 Post Street in 2017.
Best for Fabrics from a family-run Union Square house founded in 1952.
Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Boulevard, Building D, San Francisco, CA 94123, United States / San Francisco / United States
First San Francisco Flax shop opened in 1938 at 437 Kearny Street; the Fort Mason shop opened November 2015 and became the remaining SF door after the Market Street flagship left for Oakland.
Best for A Fort Mason shop descended from a San Francisco store opened in 1938.
1556 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117, United States / San Francisco / United States
Third-generation Haight shop; Mendel and Sarah Herscowitz established it in 1968 after opening down the block in 1952.
Best for A third-generation Haight shop established by the Herscowitz family in 1968.
1698 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94115, United States / San Francisco / United States
Masayasu Ashizawa opened the Japantown hardware house in 1925; still at 1698 Post Street under grandson Philip, stocking Japanese chisels, pull saws, ikebana tools and housewares.
Best for Japanese chisels, pull saws, ikebana tools and housewares.
Barrio Italia, Santiago
Artesanía, Regalos Corporativos, Utensilios, Joyas, Decoración, Souvenirs hechos en cobre, regalos con identidad.
Best for Craft
Kita 7-jo Nishi 19-chome-1, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0007 / Sapporo / Japan
Shop-plus-workshop opened 2016; father Takuji Kawaguchi founded woodcarving wholesaler Takusho in 1986; son Naoto carves on site.
Best for On-site woodcarving from a shop-workshop opened in 2016.
1406 1st Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101 / Seattle / United States
Snoqualmie Tribe acquired the brand; first tribe to own a Native lifestyle company. Seattle Times: Louie Gong founded 2008; Pike Place shop opened 2016.
Best for A Native lifestyle company owned by the Snoqualmie Tribe.
Seattle (Fremont taproom, Ballard-West Woodland brewery)
Independent since its 2009 founding, Fremont Brewing pours small-batch and seasonal beers at a Fremont taproom and beer garden. Its brewery sits in Ballard's West Woodland.
Best for Craft beer, taproom and beer garden, seasonal releases
Seiffen
A Seiffen manufactory in the Erzgebirge turning nutcrackers, incense smokers, pyramids and wobble figures from wood by hand for more than ninety years. Pieces are lathe-turned and finished with paint, felt and fabric, and sold from two shops in the maker's home village.
Best for Erzgebirge nutcrackers and smokers
Seiffen
A Seiffen family workshop making Erzgebirge nutcrackers up to 120 cm tall, along with smokers, music boxes and Christmas pyramids marked made in Germany. Re-established in 1990, it welcomes visitors to a demonstration workshop, showroom and the Raststüb'l café.
Best for Large nutcrackers and pyramids
Seiffen
A Seiffen cooperative founded in 1958, producing nutcrackers, Räuchermännchen, candle arches and turned Christmas pyramids in the Erzgebirge folk tradition. Its showroom workshop sells pieces made on site alongside work from other regional artisans.
Best for Erzgebirge folk wood art
Sendai / Japan
Since 1947, Kanezaki has turned Sendai's signature sasa-kamaboko fish cakes using additive-free surimi, running five directly-owned shops across Miyagi plus a dedicated sasakama museum-store at its Wakabayashi-ku headquarters. Visitors can watch craftsmen at work and order online or by mail through the company's own shop.
Best for Fish cake, Kamaboko, Sendai souvenir
Sendai / Japan
Kokeshi no Shimanuki has sold kokeshi dolls and Tohoku folk crafts from its shop on Sendai's Ichibancho arcade since it was founded in the Meiji era, and visitors can try hand-painting their own kokeshi in the store. Its online shop carries kokeshi cans, lacquerware and Sendai glass alongside the physical storefront near Sendai Station.
Best for Kokeshi dolls / crafts
Sendai / Japan
Sake brewer Saura has crafted Urakasumi in the port town of Shiogama for three centuries, most famous for developing the widely used Association No. 12 yeast strain. The company runs its own "Urakasumi Sake Gallery" storefront alongside a dedicated online shop for its junmai ginjo and seasonal releases.
Best for Junmai ginjo and seasonal sake from a historic brewery
Bukchon, Jongno, Seoul
Workshop and shop for traditional Korean crafts in Bukchon. Hands-on classes in pottery, knot-making, paper crafts, and hanji. Take home a piece you made yourself.
Best for Hands-on classes in pottery, knot-making, paper crafts, and hanji
The center is a Seoul public-hanok craft facility at 24-5 Bukchon-ro 12-gil, where visitors can try traditional making rather than only browse finished souvenirs. Current programs include activities such as handkerchief dyeing, hanji accessories and decorative knot work, with offerings rotating by program and season. Its value is practical participation inside Bukchon’s hanok district: visitors handle materials, follow a guided craft process and leave with something made during the session rather than treating the center as another conventional retail stop.
Seoul / South Korea / Online
Hyein Seo is a Seoul-based fashion label whose clothing draws on streetwear while exploring more restrained cuts and handmade pieces. Its first physical shop also brought the label's atelier into the same setting, as described in an interview with its designers. The online collection and stockist list offer another way to explore the label before choosing where to shop.
Best for Seoul fashion with streetwear roots and experimental cuts
HYEIN SEO's Seoul flagship is listed by the label at 15-3 Dosan-daero 25-gil in Gangnam-gu. The address matters because the brand also maintains an international stockist network; the Seoul entry is its own flagship rather than one of those wholesale accounts. The official information page names STATELESS as the operator of the HYEIN SEO online business. Its contact channels distinguish general enquiries from customer service and route wholesale or press requests separately. The label's archive supplies a useful view of its design programme, running from FW14 through the SS26 Windward season. Named chapters include FW18 Waste Land and FW20 Transformation, followed later by FW22 Nausicaä, FW23 Horizon and FW25 Midnight Riders. The retail categories cover outerwear and shirts, with a separate place for hoodies plus tops. Dresses sit beside skirts and trousers. Swimwear and bags complete the clothing offer, with accessories in their own category. This long collection record supports reading HYEIN SEO as a Seoul fashion house with a continuing seasonal practice. The flagship is listed separately from BOON THE SHOP, the other Seoul stockist on the official page.
Itaewon, Yongsan, Seoul
Seoul's craft beer capital — dozens of microbreweries and bottle shops along Itaewon's hills. Korean craft brewers experiment with local ingredients like yuzu, omija, and Korean hops.
Best for Seoul's craft beer capital — dozens of microbreweries and bottle shops along
Seoul / South Korea
Korea Craft Gallery has anchored Insadong's craft district since opening its shop there in 2005, specializing in mother-of-pearl lacquerware, hanji paper crafts, and traditional fans made by its own workshop. The company runs a full online store alongside its physical Insadong location.
Best for Traditional craft general store, Mother-of-pearl lacquerware, Fans
Seoul / South Korea
Saegimsori hand-carves personalized dojang seals from its Insadong storefront, offering everything from baby's-first-seal keepsakes to gold-embossed corporate stamps carved to order. The shop maintains both its physical Insadong location and an online store for custom orders shipped nationwide.
Best for Hand-carved seal, Dojang, Stamp
Insadong, Jongno, Seoul
The Store from Tong-In has sold Korean antiques and craft at 32 Insadong-gil in Seoul since 1924. Its 1973 building by Kim Seok-jae is a designated Seoul Future Heritage site. The design echoes a long-necked Gaya and Silla earthenware vessel and keeps the upper floors nearly windowless to protect antique works. Ceramics and lacquerware fill the floors alongside metalwork and hanji paper. Minhwa painting is sold too, and the Tong-In Gallery shares the building.
Best for Korean celadon, lacquerware, metalwork and textiles since 1924
The Store from Tong-In has traded in Insadong since 1924. The present building went up in 1973 to a design by the architect Kim Seok-jae. He was a disciple of Kim Chung-up, one of the founders of modern Korean architecture. Its form takes after the janggyeongho, the long-necked earthenware vessel of the Gaya and Silla periods. It has very few windows above the third floor so that daylight is kept away from the antique works inside. Seoul has designated the building a Future Heritage site. The shop describes its atmosphere as solemn and classical, in keeping with the role of Insadong as the cultural centre of the city. The store is a complex space in which antiquities and modern art coexist with contemporary craft. Its antique floors cover ceramics and old furniture as well as paintings. The craft side ranges across ceramic and metal work. Textiles hang beside lacquerware inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Hanji paper and woodcraft have their own sections, as does minhwa folk painting. The Tong-In Gallery shows contemporary work in the same building. It sells online as well as from the Insadong building, and enquiries about individual pieces go through the inquiry form of the store. It remains one of the older addresses on a street now lined with galleries and craft shops, and the building itself is part of what visitors come to see.
Seville / Spain
Artesanía Téxtil has hand-embroidered Manila shawls, mantillas, and flamenco accessories in Seville since 1951, selling both machine- and hand-embroidered pieces from its shop near the cathedral. The full online store ships its silk shawls and bridal mantillas worldwide.
Best for Mantones de Manila, Embroidered shawls
Seville / Spain
Founded by master artisans Juan and José Vela Hernández in the 1980s, Castañuelas del Sur hand-crafts fully customizable castanets from its Seville workshop, earning Andalusia's official artisan seal. Customers can browse and buy directly through its online shop, from beginner sets to professional fiberglass pairs.
Best for Customizable hand-crafted castanets bearing Andalusia's official artisan seal
Seville / Spain
Castañuelas Filigrana has hand-carved castanets in Seville's La Macarena district since 1955, now led by third-generation artisan Lucía Álvarez. The workshop sells its professional and beginner castanets through a full online shop and welcomes visitors to its workshop by appointment.
Best for Hand-carved castanets from a third-generation La Macarena workshop since 1955
Seville / Spain
Now in its fourth generation, this Triana family workshop has hand-painted reproductions of 15th-to-18th-century Sevillian tiles since 1952. The studio sells directly from its shop and lists additional locations under "Nuestras tiendas."
Best for Fourth-generation hand-painted reproductions of 15th-to-18th-century Sevillian tiles since 1952
Casco antiguo, seville / Spain
Juan Foronda has handcrafted flamenco accessories from Calle Sierpes in Seville since 1923, specializing in hand- and machine-embroidered mantones (Manila shawls), mantillas, fans and bridal hair pieces. The family workshop, Foronda y Balbuena, ships its embroidered pieces worldwide through its online shop.
Best for Flamenco accessories, mantones, mantillas, hand embroidery
Seville / Spain
Lina Sevilla has made flamenco dresses and mantones since 1960, recently opening a renovated shop-workshop on Calle Álvarez Quintero in the heart of Seville. The label runs a full online store alongside in-person styling appointments for brides and feria-goers.
Best for Flamenco fashion, Embroidery
Casco antiguo, seville / Spain
Lista Sastrería is a Seville tailoring house with more than 20 years of experience in classic menswear, ceremony suits and chaqué/smoking rental, run from its workshop on Calle Doña María Coronel. The team offers personalized fittings by appointment and closes for its annual August holiday, as noted on its own site.
Best for Bespoke tailoring, ceremony suits, formalwear rental
El viso del alcor, seville / Spain
Mercedes de Alba is an artisanal dressmaking atelier in El Viso del Alcor, Seville, where every garment is handmade to order for weddings, communions and ceremony wear across collections like Invitada and Cristianar. The brand sells through its atelier by appointment, an online shop and points of sale across Spain.
Best for Bridal & ceremony wear, handmade dressmaking
Seville / Spain
Orobordado hand-embroiders gold-thread religious garments and bridal pieces from its workshop in Brenes, just north of Seville, using techniques rooted in Andalusian Semana Santa tradition. Pieces are made to order and sold directly through the workshop.
Best for Gold embroidery, Religious textiles
Shimoda / Japan
Ogiso Shoten has cured dried fish (himono) in the port town of Shimoda since it was founded in 1900, with craftsmen still hand-splitting and drying mackerel, horse mackerel, and other local catch each morning. The shop ships its himono nationwide through its online store and keeps a full retail location for visitors.
Best for Food - Dried Seafood, Himono, Fish Products
Narakawa, Shiojiri (Kiso lacquer district), Nagano, Japan
Officially Michi-no-Eki Kiso Narakawa / Kiso Kurashi-no-Kogeikan, this roadside station sits in Kiso-Hirasawa, Shiojiri, a working Kiso lacquerware town. It sells pieces from local lacquer makers, runs a lacquer-display area and workshops, and ships via an online shop.
Best for Curated Kiso lacquerware from multiple local makers
The facility's full name, Michi-no-Eki Kiso Narakawa / Kiso Kurashi-no-Kogeikan, reflects a merger of two functions: a roadside-station rest stop (michi-no-eki) and a dedicated lacquerware showcase building. It stands in Kiso-Hirasawa, part of Shiojiri City, one of the towns most associated with Kiso lacquerware production and a stop on the historic Nakasendo trade route, where the craft developed in part as a souvenir trade for travelers during the Edo period.
Inside, the center groups traditional-craft sales corners together with a dedicated lacquer-coating display area explaining the finishing process, drawing on work from multiple local lacquer workshops rather than a single maker. A adjoining market area, Narakawa Ichiba, sells regional agricultural products, wine and sake alongside the lacquerware.
The center also runs reservation-based lacquerware experience workshops, an on-site restaurant and cafe, and an online shop for remote orders, and notes that Kiso lacquerware still sees genuine daily use locally, including in area school cafeterias.
Shiojiri / Japan
Motoyama Shikkiten produces Kiso lacquerware in Shiojiri's Kiso-Hirasawa district, working the craft from raw material through final coating for tableware, furniture, and commercial fixtures such as soba-restaurant tools. The shop operates an attached Urushi Craft Museum and takes custom orders plus lacquerware repair and restoration.
Best for Kiso lacquerware tableware and furniture with an on-site urushi museum
Kiso region (Shiojiri, Narakawa), Nagano, Japan
Based in Shiojiri, Nagano, Nakamura Shikki Sangyo sells Kiso lacquerware alongside imported lacquer pieces, folk-craft furniture, textiles and ceramics. It also runs related retail lines, including the contemporary lacquerware brand WABI×SABI.
Best for Kiso lacquerware, gift tableware and folk-craft homewares
Kiso-Hirasawa, Shiojiri, Nagano, Japan
Nishino Urushi Kobo is the workshop of lacquerer Nishino Takaaki, who trained under the late Sugishita Shigeru, was certified a Kiso lacquerware Traditional Craftsman in 2013, and opened independently in Kiso-Hirasawa in 2019. He hand-finishes chopsticks and small wares in sumi-jiro and shunkei-nuri lacquer techniques.
Best for Hand-lacquered chopsticks by a certified Kiso Traditional Craftsman
Nishino Urushi Kobo is a one-person lacquer workshop on the main street of Kiso-Hirasawa, the Nagano lacquer-trade town recognized by Japan's economy ministry as a traditional-craft production area. It belongs to Nishino Takaaki, an upper-lacquerer (nurishi) who entered the trade in 1988.
Nishino studied in the maki-e department of the Kiso Lacquer Art School under the late Sugishita Shigeru, then apprenticed at established Kiso lacquerware shops before setting up on his own. He was certified a Traditional Craftsman of Kiso lacquerware in 2013 and, in 2016, received the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award at the National Traditional Crafts Public Exhibition — one of the field's higher public honors. He founded Nishino Urushi Kobo under his own name in Kiso-Hirasawa in 2019.
The workshop's core output is hand-lacquered chopsticks and small wares finished in Kiso sumi-jiro, nuribunke ro-iro, and shunkei-nuri techniques, sold through regional outlets including the Kiso no Kurashi Craft Museum, shops in the Narai-juku post town, and department-store lacquerware corners. Nishino has also taken on corporate collaborations applying the same hand-lacquering to everyday objects such as bento boxes and gear-shift knobs, framing the work as pairing traditional technique with newer applications rather than reproducing set forms alone.
Shodoshima / Japan
Shodoshima Miki Seimen hand-stretches somen noodles using the island's traditional techniques, selling them online and at pop-up stalls across Shikoku as well as through island retailers. The maker also stocks udon and fu-men alongside its signature somen.
Best for Food & Drink, Somen Noodles, Handmade
Singapore / Singapore
Audio Atelier operates two showrooms at The Adelphi, 1 Coleman Street, Singapore — its main showroom at Unit 01-10, opened in October 2025, and a dedicated Gold Note boutique at Unit 03-38.
Best for An appointment-friendly Singapore boutique built around exclusive analogue-focused brands like
Audio Atelier operates two showrooms at The Adelphi, 1 Coleman Street, Singapore — its main showroom at Unit 01-10, opened in October 2025, and a dedicated Gold Note boutique at Unit 03-38. Singapore's own business registry (UEN) shows the company established in 2019, giving a verifiable founding year rather than an unhedged marketing claim.
The shop's own description frames it as "a specialist audio boutique representing brands that have been carefully curated," emphasizing artisanal, hand-built equipment over mass production. It carries more than a dozen brands exclusively in Singapore, including Ypsilon Electronics, Kaiser Acoustics, Lyra, Brinkmann Audio, Gold Note, Thrax Audio, and Loricraft Audio, plus Vicoustic acoustic treatment and Caig Deoxit contact cleaner as ancillary lines — a roster built around cartridges, tonearms, and amplification for serious analogue playback rather than lifestyle electronics.
Demo culture here is deliberately informal: the site invites customers to "come by for a coffee, enjoy some music and have a chat," and to bring their own material to audition in the showroom. The business also runs a pre-owned/trade-in section and a Carousell storefront covering Singapore and Malaysia, with appointments available outside its Monday-to-Saturday, 11am-7pm hours via separate Singapore and Malaysia contact numbers, and it publishes its own product reviews rather than relying solely on manufacturer copy.
Singapore / Online
Little Nyonya Batik is a Singapore business selling hand-drawn and stamp-batik Peranakan sarongs, kebaya and Baba shirts alongside Nyonya accessories, porcelain and home decor. It markets itself as one of Singapore's leading online sources for Peranakan fashion, with each handmade piece varying slightly from the next.
Best for Peranakan batik, sarong kebaya, hand-drawn textiles, Nyonya fashion
251 South Bridge Road, Singapore 058800 / Singapore / Singapore
2 finite named city door row(s) represented; 1 cleared exact-door GEO.
Best for Regional craft with a named maker.
Chinatown
Gallery-shop on Pagoda Street specializing in handcrafted Peranakan tiles using Italian technology and traditional screening techniques since 2009.
Best for Salvaged and reproduction Peranakan tiles
Aster By Kyra's Peranakan Tiles Gallery, established in 2009, operates from 37 Pagoda Street in Singapore's Chinatown. The gallery produces handcrafted Peranakan tiles combining advanced Italian tile-manufacturing technology with traditional handmade screening techniques. Production uses a distinctive thrice-fired method that creates metallic and chromatic effects. All tiles meet ISO 13006 Standard quality requirements. The company operates as a subsidiary of PT Aster Decorindo Abadi, an Indonesian manufacturing firm. Services include local delivery in the Donostialdea area and international shipping.
200 Victoria Street, #L1-KIO-06 Bugis Junction, Singapore 188021 / Singapore / Singapore
Scent by SIX is a Singapore fragrance brand offering perfumes alongside products for scenting the home. Its collection includes reed diffusers and pillow mists, and its Singapore shops include a Bugis Junction location.
Best for Perfumes and home fragrance
391 Orchard Road, #03-09B Takashimaya Shopping Centre, Singapore 238872 / Singapore / Singapore
State Property's boutique on the third floor of Takashimaya Shopping Centre carries fine jewellery and bridal collections. Its bridal selection includes engagement rings and wedding bands, while the wider collection also extends to earrings.
Best for Fine jewellery and bridal jewellery
Singapore / Online
Singapore atelier known for its signature one-piece collar — cited by Gentleman's Gazette as the reference for the style; verify production origin per order.
Best for The signature high-roll one-piece collar.
66 Tsar Simeon Street, 1000 Sofia / Bulgaria
A printmaking studio offering workshops and a selection of art prints.
Srinagar / India
Kwesports manufactures and sells premium Kashmir willow cricket bats from its workshop in Srinagar, offering hard and soft tennis bats, custom bat-making, and knocking/engraving services. The shop sells online with a replacement warranty and also serves walk-in customers at its Srinagar location.
Best for Sporting Goods
Water Street, St John's
Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, based in St. John's, describes itself on Facebook as a membership-based organization.
Best for Membership based craft organization
St. John's / Canada
The Craft Council shop on Water Street presents traditional and contemporary fine craft made in Newfoundland.
Best for Newfoundland fine craft and local food
Stellenbosch
Established in 2003 by Ina-Marie in Stellenbosch's historical centre, the store sells handpicked art and craft including work by recognised artists Strijdom van der Merwe, Vernon Swart, Vicki Thomas and Margo de Kock alongside pieces by local artisans.
Best for Handmade art and craft objects
Hornsgatan, Södermalm / Online
It is best known for Traditional Swedish crafts — ceramics, glass, textiles, jewellery by member artisans; one of Sweden's oldest craft associations; high-quality handmade items on Hornsgatan.
Best for Traditional Swedish crafts — ceramics, glass, textiles, jewellery by member artisans
Hamngatan 18-20, Stockholm
NK Stockholm combines fashion and beauty departments with home goods and food at its Hamngatan store. The business began in 1902, and the Stockholm building designed by Ferdinand Boberg opened in 1915. Its departments offer a broad shopping visit rather than a single workshop or a Swedish-made-only assortment.
Best for Department-store fashion, beauty and home shopping
NK's Stockholm department store stands on Hamngatan, in a building designed by architect Ferdinand Boberg. The store opened there in 1915, following the company's formation through the merger of two retail businesses in 1902. Josef Sachs was central to the development of the company and its department-store ambitions.
The Stockholm shop now brings women's and men's fashion together with children's ranges and beauty departments. Jewellery and goods for the home extend the shopping beyond clothing, while food supplies another reason for visiting. That mix makes the store useful for several unrelated purchases during one stop in central Stockholm.
It helps to choose the relevant department before treating the building as a general sightseeing destination. Someone shopping for clothing can use the same visit to look at beauty products or a household gift. The architectural history concerns the Stockholm premises, rather than every branch carrying the NK name. Equally, its Swedish retail identity does not establish Swedish manufacture for the varied products sold within the store.
Stockholm / Sweden / Online
Swedish menswear — carefully crafted from high-quality fabrics, classic pieces elevated with experimental touches. Quietly respected worldwide.
Best for Quiet Swedish luxury menswear
Suzhou / China / Online
Su Embroidery Studio has produced hand-embroidered silk paintings in Suzhou, China, since 2004, using the centuries-old Su embroidery technique to create collectible artworks and custom portrait commissions. The studio sells its pieces online and has shipped work to collectors in more than 60 countries.
Best for Silk embroidery studio
Sydney, Australia
Sydney work-boot maker founded 1989 by the Cloros family, whose bootmaking trade traces to Greek immigrant brothers who began selling handmade boots at Surry Hills markets in the 1920s. Known for the classic Australian elastic-sided, pull-on work boot, still made in Sydney.
Best for Ugg work boots, Australian
Redback Boots was founded in 1989 by the Cloros family in Sydney, though the family's bootmaking roots go back further: brothers Stanley, Bill, and John Cloros left Greece for Australia in the early 1920s, bringing boot- and shoemaking skills, and began fashioning boots sold at Surry Hills markets in inner Sydney. Redback's core product is the Australian work boot: a leather boot with elastic-sided gussets and pull tabs, allowing quick on/off with a snug, laced-boot-like fit. The company still manufactures in Sydney at a time when many competitors have moved production overseas, and its boots are used by tradespeople, farmers, and military personnel in Australia and internationally.
Jardim América, São Paulo
Brazilian fashion label creating conscious, artisanal and timeless collections with vibrant, joyful prints.
Best for Fashion
Taiping, Taichung / Taiwan
Taiping Blue is an indigo-dyeing workshop and craft brand in the Toubiankeng Hakka community of Taichung's Taiping District, run by the Watersource Cultural and Educational Foundation.
Best for Hand-grown, lime-processed indigo dyeing in twelve gradient shades
Taiping Blue is an indigo-dyeing workshop and craft brand in the Toubiankeng Hakka community of Taichung's Taiping District, run by the Watersource Cultural and Educational Foundation. The foundation's chairman, Yeh Chin-yu, had worked on post-earthquake community reconstruction following Taiwan's 1999 earthquake and used that effort to revive a Hakka indigo-dyeing tradition that had largely disappeared with the spread of chemical dye; the Taiping Blue brand itself was formally established in 2011 after the foundation brought on designers Chiang Chieh-yu and Chan Ya-wen, craft specialist Tang Wen-chun, and Asia University professor Lin Ching-mei.
The workshop grows its own indigo and processes the harvested leaves with lime into a dye paste — a labor-intensive conversion the workshop describes as yielding just one kilogram of dye material from ten kilograms of leaf. Finished pieces go through sixteen separate dippings to build stable, saturated color, and the workshop maintains a twelve-shade gradient scale across that dipping process rather than dyeing toward a single fixed blue.
Taiping Blue's products — placemats, tablecloths, pillows, lamps and other home goods — have reached recognition beyond the Toubiankeng workshop itself: an Indigo Deco clock using its twelve-shade gradient won the 2018 Golden Pin Design Award, and its work was shown at Maison & Objet in Paris in 2017. The workshop does not appear to operate an independent website; this profile draws on Taiwan's Hakka Affairs Council description of the workshop, corroborated by its own Facebook and Pinkoi storefronts.
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