Plate M-12 · 1,417 stores · 601–750 of 1417 · curated ORBIS register
Atelier Soleil forms and paints faience by hand in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, selling seasonal tableware designs through its workshop and online. Atelier tësss weaves Mandjak cloth in Saint-Louis, also taking custom commissions for clothing and homeware under Maï Diop's direction. Atelier Verre Lapopie combines a working glass studio with an adjoining gallery in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, where its handmade pieces are sold.
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.
No. 248, Sec. 1, Dihua St., Datong Dist., Taipei City 103, Taiwan / Taipei / Taiwan
Founded 2008 in Dadaocheng as a Taiwan-original print-fabric house; Dihua 248 is the brand’s only official flagship (inblooom.com; Dear b&b).
Best for Original Taiwanese printed fabrics from a Dihua Street flagship.
Old City, Tashkent
Workshop and shop for traditional Uzbek embroidered skullcaps (doppa) in silk, velvet and cotton with regional patterns from different cities.
Best for Traditional embroidered doppa skullcaps in silk, velvet, and cotton with regional patterns
Mirobod, Tashkent
A gallery-store selling Central Asian textiles, ceramics, jewelry, clothing, accessories, and home goods made by regional craftspeople. The shop represents work by more than 260 makers from across Central Asia.
Best for Central Asian textiles, ceramics, and jewelry from more than 260 regional makers
Sakichmon Street
J.Kim Objects is the Tashkent creative lab of J.Kim, blending experimental forms with Uzbek craft traditions and selling small objects and accessories from its Saqichmon Street space.
Best for J.Kim objects, accessories and Uzbek-craft-inflected design
Suzuk-Ota
Tashkent embroidery studio founded 2006 by Madina Kasimbaeva, a suzani master reviving the Tashkent school's yurma and bosma needle techniques; her work is held in the British Museum's permanent collection. By appointment.
Best for Suzani embroidery traditions taught and sold at this Tashkent studio and school
Madina Kasimbaeva, born in Tashkent in 1981, learned embroidery from her grandmother as a child and founded the Suzani by Kasimbaeva studio in 2006. She is recognized as the primary living reviver of the Tashkent school of suzani embroidery, using techniques including 'yurma' crochet-needle embroidery and 'bosma' stitching. In 2016 she won Uzbekistan's Best Craftsperson prize, and she is the only Uzbek designer whose work sits in the British Museum's permanent collection. Over roughly 25 years she has trained around 500 students. The studio produces suzani textiles, garments, accessories and home-decor pieces, working by appointment.
Albarracín, Teruel, Aragón
A long-standing craft house in the medieval town of Albarracín, Jarreta sells Aragonese ceramics, wrought-iron forja, woodwork and local delicatessen products. It also keeps a small Museo de Forja, a working nod to the forge trade behind the ironwork on its shelves.
Best for Aragonese ceramics, ironwork and local delicatessen
Thanjavur / India / Online
Chola Impressions sells hand-painted Tanjore artworks crafted by artisans in Thanjavur, featuring genuine gold foil and richly detailed deity portraits ranging from roughly ₹5,000 to over ₹100,000. The full catalog, spanning traditional gods and goddesses to decorative art plates, ships through the brand's online store.
Best for Tanjore Painting, Gold Foil Art
Thanjavur / India
In the bronze-casting town of Swamimalai, Vetri Arts & Crafts hand-casts custom Hindu deity sculptures in bronze and brass using traditional lost-wax methods, with pieces like a seated Lakshmi or Hanuman priced from roughly ₹11,000 to ₹60,000. Orders are placed directly through the studio on Mudukku Street and shipped internationally after each sculpture receives a traditional blessing.
Best for Bronze Casting, Lost-Wax, Hindu Sculpture
Thessaloniki / Greece
Sardela Mou is a shop on Kallikrateias in the Neapoli district of Thessaloniki that sells handmade goods.
Best for Handmade goods
Tokyo, Japan
Blue Blue Japan is the indigo-focused label of Seilin & Co., founded in 1996 alongside its Daikanyama flagship store Okura, which opened three years earlier. Garments are hand-dyed with fermented sukumo indigo and finished with sashiko stitching and boro patchwork, made entirely in Japan.
Best for Pure indigo-dyed sashiko and boro-inspired Japanese clothing
Blue Blue Japan traces to 1996, when Seilin & Co. built the label around three commitments: handcraft, indigo dyeing, and clothing meant to feel warm and worn-in. The brand's spiritual home, OKURA, actually predates it by three years — the Daikanyama shop opened in 1993, built by staff from reclaimed driftwood and scrap metal, and still anchors the label's identity today.
The dyeing itself follows the traditional sukumo process: indigo leaves are grown, harvested, dried and fermented before being reduced into dye and applied by hand. Unlike synthetic indigo, sukumo-dyed fabric changes as it's worn — impurities fall away with use, and the color is said to deepen into a richer blue over time, a slow transformation the brand treats as part of the garment's design rather than a flaw to prevent.
Sashiko stitching and boro patchwork, both born from Japanese traditions of mending and reinforcing cloth out of necessity, appear throughout the line — on coats, shirts and denim — alongside the brand's core indigo dyeing. The result is a made-in-Japan collection built explicitly around artisan technique rather than seasonal trend.
Tokyo / Online
Tokyo skate brand — Japanese craftsmanship meets skate culture. Premium decks, apparel, and accessories with a distinctly Tokyo aesthetic.
Best for Japanese skate culture and premium streetwear
Ginza, Tokyo
Kimono house with hand-painted and embroidered formal wear. Exclusive designs by master craftspeople using centuries-old techniques. The second floor features a gallery of textile art.
Best for Kimono house with hand-painted and embroidered formal wear
Tokyo / Online
Kojima’s gonzo genius — Century Denim, ring bandanas and the freewheeling Hirata family imagination.
Best for Boro patchwork and indigo-dyed Americana
Tokyo
Eclectic Japanese brand known for boro patchwork, bohemian denim, and free-spirited clothing that blends global folk traditions with Japanese craft.
Best for Boro patchwork, bohemian denim, and folk-meets-Japanese-craft clothing
Aoyama, Tokyo
The enigmatic French house's Tokyo flagship with its signature deconstructed aesthetic. Known for artisanal collections, Tabi boots, and numbered product lines.
Best for The enigmatic French house's Tokyo flagship with its signature deconstructed aes
Aoyama, Tokyo
Contemporary craft shop reviving traditional Japanese techniques for modern life. Nara fukin (cotton cloths), hand towels, and household items that improve with use. Simple, functional beauty.
Best for Contemporary craft shop reviving traditional Japanese techniques for modern life
Kōbe & Tokyo, Japan
Japan's largest incense manufacturer, with a history dating to 1575 when the Kōjū family began serving the Imperial Court.
Best for Japan's largest incense manufacturer
Omotesando, Tokyo
Landmark souvenir shop on Omotesando selling traditional Japanese crafts since 1951. Kimono, ceramics, lacquerware, folding fans, and woodblock prints.
Best for Traditional Japanese crafts on Omotesando since 1951
Tokyo
Kyoto-based textile brand applying traditional Japanese patterns to modern clothing and accessories. Split-toe shoes, patterned garments, and fabric goods. The bold, graphic prints are instantly recognizable.
Best for Split-toe shoes and graphic-print garments applying traditional Japanese patterns
Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo
Community art space and gallery showcasing emerging Tokyo artists. Regular openings, workshops, and talks. The attached shop sells prints, zines, and artist-made goods.
Best for Community art space and gallery showcasing emerging Tokyo artists
Asakusa, Tokyo
Retail and entertainment complex at the base of the Tokyo Skytree. Over 300 shops including character goods, Japanese crafts, and specialty food.
Best for Retail and entertainment complex at the base of the Tokyo Skytree
Tokyo / Japan
Tsujiya Honten has fitted geta, zori and setta sandals to customers' feet in Asakusa since 1912, with resident craftsmen hand-lacing the thong (hanao) to each sole in about ten to fifteen minutes. Displaced from its longtime Denboin-dori shop by a rebuild, it is currently operating a temporary storefront in nearby Hanakawado.
Best for Geta, zori, and setta sandals hand-laced to fit in about ten minutes
Ossington, Toronto
Lost & Found describes itself as a menswear store with a focus on quality and craftsmanship.
Best for Menswear quality and craftsmanship
Toulouse / France
In her Minimes workshop in Toulouse, Annette Hardouin dyes scarves, jewelry, and textiles in the historic blue of Isatis tinctoria, the pastel plant that once made Toulouse rich. AHPY also opens its doors for hands-on pastel dyeing workshops, sending visitors home with a hand-dyed scarf square.
Best for Textiles, Pastel Dye, Scarves, Jewelry
Toulouse / France
Toulouse's Chateigne le Shop selects ethical, artisanal and bohemian goods from small workshops.
Best for Ethical artisan goods
Tunis
Opened February 23, 2019 in Tunis, L'Artisanerie is a boutique-workshop pairing contemporary design with Tunisian artisanal know-how, launched through a SHANTI-association project, with Oxfam support, to strengthen small artisan networks.
Best for Contemporary Tunisian craft and design
L'Artisanerie opened its doors on February 23, 2019, on Rue du Niger in Tunis, as a boutique-workshop built around a community of Tunisian artisans, designers and social entrepreneurs. The project grew out of work by the SHANTI association and its partners, with support from Oxfam, aimed at strengthening small networks of craftspeople and improving their position in the value chain that runs from workshop to retail.
The space works on two tracks: a showroom selling finished pieces that blend contemporary design with traditional Tunisian techniques, and a workshop offering co-creation and customization for bespoke objects, letting customers work directly with the makers rather than simply buying off a shelf. That structure reflects the shop's mission — it exists as much to give artisans a viable platform and fair footing as to sell craft objects to visitors.
For anyone interested in Tunisian design beyond the tourist-market souvenir stalls, L'Artisanerie is a considered starting point: a single address gathering makers who might otherwise be scattered across ateliers around the city, with the added chance to see or shape a piece being made rather than just buy the finished result.
Central turin / Italy
MaFelicita is a handmade womenswear label run from a small workshop on Via delle Orfane in Turin, where its designer cuts and sews limited-edition pieces from leftover deadstock fabric sourced from Italian mills. Its 'Cucito per Te' service lets customers choose their own fabric for a custom-sewn garment, and the atelier is open by appointment.
Best for Handmade womenswear, made-to-order dresses
Central turin / Italy
Maison Guida is Marika Guida's genderless clothing atelier in Turin's Piazza Vittorio Veneto, handmaking trench coats, fisherman's trousers and knitwear from named Biella wool and Italian linen since 2005. The brand sells online and through the atelier, and offers a repair service to keep its garments in wear for years.
Best for Handmade artisan clothing, genderless fashion
Valencia / Spain
Andori is a shop on Carrer de la Corretgeria in Valencia that has made one-off pieces by hand since 1982.
Best for Handmade one-off pieces
Valencia / Spain
Cuit designs and makes one-off artisan pieces, and its shop is on Calle Cuba in Valencia.
Best for Handmade one-off pieces
Valencia / Spain
Abanicos José Blay has manufactured fans in Aldaya, Valencia for more than 70 years, continuing the town's tradition of artisanal fan-making with models in plastic, birch, oak, maple, and beech. The company sells its fans and custom-printed designs directly through its own online shop from its workshop on Avenida Concordia.
Best for Models in plastic, birch, oak, maple, and beech
Valencia
Mica makes women’s accessories by hand, including rings, earrings, bracelets and pendants.
Best for Craft
Valencia
Parreño Guitars adjusts, repairs and restores electric, acoustic and classical guitars, basses, timples and banjos, and builds custom classical, flamenco and electric guitars using Spanish methods. The workshop in Valencia operates by appointment only, from 5pm to 8pm.
Best for Valencia custom guitar building
Valletta / Online
Valletta Glass hand-blows glass ornaments, tableware, and gift pieces in Malta, using techniques passed down through generations of local artisans. The full collection, from drinking glasses to sculptural animals, is sold through the brand's own online shop with worldwide shipping and custom design commissions.
Best for Glass Art, Handblown Glass
1663 Duranleau Street, Net Loft, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC V6H 3S3 / Vancouver / Canada
Maiwa started in 1986 as Kwon's one-woman natural-dye practice and Granville Island shop; house now also runs a textile school and foundation supporting Indian artisans.
Best for Natural dyes, textiles and artisan support from a Granville Island shop.
Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver sportswear label since 2007—handmade-in-Canada midweight fleece hoodies with premium ribs and relief-sided construction.
Best for Premium fleece, loopback
Reigning Champ, founded in 2007 by Craig Atkinson, is a Vancouver-based label specializing in elevated sportswear and closet basics. The brand is known for clean, simple silhouettes brought forth in soft French terry with comfortable flatlock seams. All designs are handmade in Canada with 100% cotton construction, premium rib cuffs and hems, and relief ribbing on the sides for mobility and durability. Men's hoodies start at $130, with options in heavyweight fleece and merino wool. The brand operates physical stores in Vancouver including locations at 2119 West 4th Avenue and 1148 Robson Street.
1531 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9 / Vancouver / Canada
Established 1986 by weaver-designer Diana Sanderson on Granville Island; weft is still thrown by hand on floor and dobby looms that can hold 30+ yards of hand-dyed silk.
Best for Hand-dyed silk woven on floor and dobby looms.
1440 Old Bridge Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC V6H 3S6 / Vancouver / Canada
Founded 1984 by David New-Small and Nora Sterling as New-Small and Sterling; Boha Glass: first independent studio-glass facility in BC; now run by Benjamin Kikkert after New-Small retired 2016.
Best for Studio glass from a workshop founded in 1984 and now run by Benjamin Kikkert.
Varanasi
HMR Handlooms, a master-weaver enterprise established in 1930 rooted in the weaving lanes of Banaras, works hand in hand with skilled artisan families to hand-weave 100% pure silk Banarasi sarees on traditional looms, with weaving taking 15 days to 6 months depending on design. It is Silk Mark Certified and Handloom Assured, with its main store at MS Plaza, Rathyatra Crossing, Varanasi.
Best for Hand-woven pure silk Banarasi sarees
Varanasi / Online
HolyWeaves weaves luxury Banarasi sarees, shawls, and fabrics by hand in its Varanasi atelier, a Silk Mark-certified operation recognized for five decades of handloom craftsmanship. Customers can browse the full catalog online with global shipping or visit the working looms in person near the Kashi Vishwanath Temple.
Best for Hand-woven Banarasi sarees, shawls and fabrics
Venice
Arzanàrt hand-makes Venetian marbled paper in its Venice workshop, floating oil paints on water and combing them into veined patterns, a technique first used in Venice in 1600. The studio's work is credited to Federico for marbled paper and Isabella for paper creations.
Best for Hand-marbled venetian paper
Murano / Venice / Online
Murano glass dynasty since 1295 — handcrafted blown-glass chandeliers and lighting by master artisans using traditional techniques.
Best for Murano chandeliers and heritage glass.
Barovier & Toso, founded in 1295, is one of the world's oldest family businesses and a master of lighting design. The company is a producer of Venetian glass and chandeliers based in Murano, Italy, well known for its exquisite Murano glassware handcrafted using traditional techniques passed down through generations of glassmakers. The Barovier dynasty began in 1295 when Jacobello Barovier, mentioned in historical documents as a master glassblower, began pinching, cutting, blowing, and twisting molten mixtures of sand and minerals into works of art. The creations of Barovier & Toso are one-of-a-kind works in Venetian mouth-blown crystal, handcrafted by master artisans in Murano who serve as custodians of an age-old tradition passed down across generations. Specialties include crystalline glass, mother-of-pearl glass, and gold-free cornelian red glass. The company offers a product line called 'Venezia 1295,' a chandelier collection referencing the foundational year of the Barovier family. The brand continues to produce luxury lighting and decorative glass objects using traditional techniques, maintaining the highest standards of Venetian glassmaking.
Venice / Online
Ca' Macana has made papier-mache carnival masks in Venice since 1984 from its workshop at Dorsoduro 3215. Each mask is formed by hand from a gesso mould and finished with fabrics and feathers, or with gold or silver leaf. Classic bauta and moretta forms follow paintings by Pietro Longhi and Francesco Guardi. Its masks appeared in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, and the workshop runs mask-making courses.
Best for True Venetian carnival masks.
Ca' Macana has made papier-mache masks in Venice since 1984, working from a workshop at Dorsoduro 3215. Every mask is formed by hand from a gesso mould, so each one carries the hand of the artisan who made it. The decoration draws on fabrics and feathers, Swarovski crystals and gold or silver leaf. Classic Venetian forms such as the bauta and the moretta are reproduced from paintings by Pietro Longhi and Francesco Guardi. Drawings by Giovanni Grevembroch supply further models. The workshop holds a full set of Commedia dell'Arte characters from the harlequin to the colombina. Contemporary designs are made with the same techniques. The masks have appeared in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and in Fifty Shades of Grey. They have also dressed productions at the Vienna Opera and fashion photography for Vogue Japan. Alongside the shop the workshop teaches. Decoration courses and a mask-making course are open to visitors, along with family workshops. Mini-lectures cover the history of the bauta and the plague doctor mask, and workshop visits are arranged for tour groups and company outings. The site also publishes a guide to buying masks in Venice. It warns that industrial imitations have crowded out authentic pieces since the 1980s and explains how to tell a handmade Venetian mask from a copy.
Burano / Venice / Online
Family lace and linen house in a 1700s building on Piazza Galuppi, Burano, where four generations have worked Burano lace. A family museum upstairs keeps 18th century wedding garments and antique lace. Beyond lace it makes bespoke home linen for residences and hotels, and it also furnishes yachts and private jets. Three boutiques: the Burano flagship and workshop, one inside the Belmond Hotel Cipriani in Venice and one in Los Angeles.
Best for Burano lace and bespoke bed and table linen made on the island
Emilia Burano is a family lace and linen house on Piazza Galuppi on the island of Burano, in the Venice lagoon. The boutique and workshop occupy a traditional Burano building from the 1700s, which the house calls the Factory of Emilia. For four generations the family has worked with Burano lace, and the master crafters inside the store pass their lace making methods from mother to daughter. One flight up, a family museum holds 18th century wedding garments and antique pieces of lace that trace the family history. The house remains a family owned business and no longer confines its work to lace alone. It also produces bespoke home linen for private residences and hotels, and it also furnishes the interiors of yachts and private jets. Its stated philosophy rests on quality and handmade work under the banner of Made in Italy. Emilia Burano lists three boutiques, with the flagship store and workshop on Burano, a second inside the Belmond Hotel Cipriani in Venice and a third in Los Angeles. The wider range covers bed and table linen together with bath robes and towels, then cashmere throws and silk lingerie, and handkerchiefs for gifts. Worldwide shipping is offered from the Burano workshop through the online store.
Venice / Italy
Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua still weaves its prized soprarizzo velvet by hand on eighteenth-century looms once owned by the silk guild of the Venetian Republic, alongside damasks, brocatelles, and lampas fabrics for haute couture and historic restoration projects. The family-run showroom and shop on Santa Croce welcomes visitors by appointment to see the looms in action.
Best for Hand-woven soprarizzo velvet, damasks, and lampas on 18th-century Venetian guild looms
Währing, Vienna
A glassblowing studio and gallery selling hand-blown vessels, sculptures, ornaments, and limited-edition glassware. Robert Comploj established the Vienna studio in 2017.
Best for Hand-blown glass vessels and limited-edition glassware by Robert Comploj
Kirchengasse 38, Neubau, Vienna
Viennese artisan candy manufactory making hand-pulled bonbons, lollipops and Wiener Karamell at demonstration workshops on Führichgasse and Herrengasse in Vienna's Innere Stadt, plus a Salzburg location -- not the Neubau district.
Best for Hand-pulled bonbons, lollipops and Wiener Karamell
Die Zuckerlwerkstatt is a Viennese confectionery business specialising in traditional, handmade Austrian candy craft -- bonbons, lollipops and other sweets pulled and shaped using techniques the company describes as an otherwise near-extinct trade. It operates as a 'Schaumanufaktur' model, meaning its shops double as visible demonstration workshops where visitors can watch confectioners work. Its documented Vienna locations are on Führichgasse 3 (a 260-square-metre space between the Albertina museum and Neuer Markt, with two publicly viewable production lines) and on Herrengasse 6-8, its original demonstration workshop opened in 2013 and renovated in November 2025, which today produces Wiener Karamell on site; both addresses are in the Innere Stadt (1st district). The company also operates a shop and manufactory in Salzburg's old town, at Wiener-Philharmoniker-Gasse 3, inside the historic Palais Kuenburg-Langenhof. Products include classic Austrian bonbons, lollipops, and the caramel-based Wiener Karamell line, sold both at the demonstration shops and, per the brand's own site, through additional retail points across Vienna and Salzburg.
Old Town, Vilnius
Local House sells Lithuanian-made goods from local producers, farmers, designers and craftsmen, including organic food products, handmade traditional items and gifts. The shop is located at Pilies street in Vilnius and lets customers meet the makers behind the products.
Best for Lithuanian food, crafts and gifts from local makers
ul. Hoża 40, 00-516 Warsaw, Poland / Warsaw / Poland
Created June 1976 as DESA paper-works salon; on Hoża since 1981; after 1989 privatisation run by Nina Rozwadowska and Andrzej Stroka as Poland's first gallery with a fixed print/poster profile.
Best for Polish prints and posters from a gallery devoted to works on paper.
Warsaw / Poland
Conservation-grade book and paper binding, plus custom folders and boxes, from a Warsaw workshop staffed by an Academy of Fine Arts-trained conservator.
Best for Conservation-grade book and paper binding, plus custom folders and boxes
Introligatornia Rozmus works from ul. Joteyki 20 in Warsaw, and its own site states its core trade plainly: folders and boxes, and binding of books and notebooks, alongside conservation work on paper and leather objects. That conservation side is backed by a named credential rather than left as an unverifiable craft claim — the workshop states its conservator holds a diploma from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and works with certified conservation materials, which places the workshop's restoration work on a different footing from a purely decorative bindery.
The workshop describes its own origin loosely rather than with a founding date: it says it "arose from love of paper and passion for creation," a self-description quoted directly here rather than expanded into an invented history.
Alongside commissioned binding and conservation work, Rozmus runs bookbinding workshops at the Warsaw Uprising Museum and hosts weekend classes for both schools and adult learners, a public-education role layered on top of, not instead of, its commissioned bindery work. Rozmus is a small, currently operating and credentialed bindery rather than a large production house. Its value lies in the combination of commissioned binding, conservation and public teaching.
Old Town, Warsaw
Love Poland Design is a souvenir and design shop selling Polish-made crafts, prints, textiles, and small home objects. At Old Town, Warsaw, the range centers on polish illustration, Warsaw gifts and locally made textiles.
Best for Polish illustration, Warsaw gifts and locally made textiles
Love Poland Design is a family-run brand selling gifts, apparel, and homewares built around Polish culture, from its shop on Freta Street in Warsaw's historic New Town, immediately north of the Old Town and not far from the house on the same street where Marie Skłodowska-Curie was born, now a museum. The company's own stated aim is to move Polish souvenirs past the standard fridge magnet, presenting the country's history and symbols "with a wink" — humorously, but with attention to cultural and historical context — through in-house, hand-drawn illustration. Its catalogue runs to more than 100 original sock designs alongside magnets, pins, postcards, notebooks, planners, scarves, tote bags, apparel, ceramic mugs, kitchen accessories, and children's items, all manufactured in Poland. Beyond retail, the brand takes on wholesale and custom commissions for hotels, foundations, cultural institutions, and local government bodies, and markets itself under the tagline "For You. From Poland." The Freta Street storefront also serves as a collection point for online orders and keeps regular weekday hours. Warsaw's official tourism authority has cited the brand as an example of the city's independent, design-led alternative to generic souvenirs.
Webster, Texas
Charles Nguyen's Nobi Public House on NASA Parkway puts Vietnamese spring rolls, vermicelli and banh mi next to a wall of more than forty craft taps.
Best for Vietnamese-American pub
Yame (Hirokawa), Fukuoka / Japan
Aimoriyama is a Kurume Kasuri workshop in Hirokawa, Yame County, Fukuoka Prefecture, tracing its founding to Ansei 5 — 1858, in the closing years of the Edo period — and currently led by Torao Moriyama.
Best for Hand-bound, sukumo-dyed Kurume Kasuri ikat cotton from an 1858 Fukuoka weaving workshop
Aimoriyama is a Kurume Kasuri workshop in Hirokawa, Yame County, Fukuoka Prefecture, tracing its founding to Ansei 5 — 1858, in the closing years of the Edo period — and currently led by Torao Moriyama. Kurume Kasuri is an ikat-patterned cotton weaving tradition, and Aimoriyama presents itself as one of the few remaining workshops that still carries out the full process by hand, from thread-binding through dyeing to weaving, rather than outsourcing any stage.
The workshop dyes with natural sukumo fermented using sake, hardwood-ash lye, and shell ash rather than synthetic dye, and uses organic cotton throughout. Before dyeing, threads are hand-bound with hemp bark to create the resist pattern that becomes the finished ikat design once woven; the bound threads are then dipped and beaten through a cycle repeated, by the workshop's own account, thirty to forty times to build the pattern's color.
Aimoriyama offers factory tours by reservation as well as hands-on weaving and dyeing workshops, and sells finished Kurume Kasuri cloth and made-up goods drawn directly from its own looms and dye vats. Its self-description as a keeper of the complete traditional process — rather than a single stage of it — is the workshop's own characterization, consistent with the process detail it publishes, and distinguishes it from the many Kurume Kasuri sellers who weave or dye but not both.
Zermatt / Switzerland
The Swiss Artisans is a shop on Bahnhofstrasse in Zermatt that presents itself as a place for Swiss craftsmanship.
Best for Swiss craftsmanship
Niederdorf / Switzerland
andersT's Niederdorf branch sits in Zurich's old town, offering handmade phone and tablet cases plus fashionable accessories and gadgets. Shoppers buy in the boutique on Munstergasse or through the online store, which ships across Switzerland and the EU.
Best for Accessories boutique, phone cases, gadgets
Azaruja, Evora
Founded in 2000 in Azaruja, east of Evora, Corticarte handles the full cork chain from harvest to finished object at its Alentejo workshop. The maker turns the bark into everyday and design items, drawing on generations of local cork know-how.
Best for Alentejo cork objects from a hands-on workshop
Kamloops, BC, Canada
4 Generations Creations is a Secwepemc-woman-owned, 100% Indigenous-owned shop in Kamloops supplying beading materials, hides, ribbon-skirt kits, and trade cloth for makers, alongside finished art and apparel from Indigenous artists across Turtle Island. The business also curates goods from other Indigenous-owned enterprises, stocking them next to its own craft supplies and books.
Best for Authentic Indigenous art and craft supplies
Blackness
71 Brewing began in 2016 as Dundee's first working brewery in over fifty years, occupying a former ironworks in the Blackness district. It brews crisp lagers and small-batch beers, including a Fruition range of fruit-forward hazy sours, and runs a beer garden and taproom on site.
Best for Craft lager and small-batch beer with a taproom
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
9 Mile Legacy brews beers and ciders at a neighbourhood craft brewery in Saskatoon. Its rotating lineup includes seasonal and foraged-ingredient brews.
Best for Neighbourhood craft beer and cider
Byron Bay, NSW
A Mano handshapes surfboards in Byron Bay, working each foam blank by hand rather than by computer-controlled machine, as the Spanish name a mano signals. The studio makes longboards, mid-lengths and shortboards to order and sells finished boards direct.
Best for Hand-shaped longboards, mid-lengths, and shortboards made to order in Byron Bay
Smith Street Mall
A 100% Indigenous-owned not-for-profit social enterprise on Smith Street Mall selling paintings, weavings and carvings alongside bush foods, teas, skincare and homewares from Northern Territory makers. Purchases fund employment and cultural programs for Indigenous artists and communities.
Best for Authentic Aboriginal art, craft and bush foods
Mostar / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Led by artist Denis Drljevic in Mostar's Old Town, AbrakaBakra hand-raises copper reliefs, lamps and jewellery from recycled metal, old coins and local stone. The workshop sells its pieces on site and online, and invites visitors to hammer out their own bracelet in an hour-long class.
Best for Metalwork, copper art, jewelry, handicrafts
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA
A Croatan Highway storefront built around the work of regional artists, selling glass art, upcycled woodwork, resin pieces, and hand-painted ornaments made by Outer Banks makers. The shop also runs its own resin-art classes for visitors who want to bring a piece home from the workbench rather than the shelf.
Best for Local artist-made glass, wood, and resin work
Aburi, Eastern Region
Ghana's handicrafts centre at Aburi, built around woodcarving and other locally made craft. The artisans who live there sell their work themselves.
Best for Ghanaian woodcarving and handmade crafts
Cienfuegos
La inauguración del Salón Provincial de Artesanías «Lo Bello de lo Útil» aconteció en Cienfuegos, el pasado viernes, y destacó la participación de 50 artesanos como invitados, con una trayectoria loable.
Best for Craft
Assisi
This academy preserves and teaches Punto Assisi and Madama Caterina embroidery, the counted-thread needlework that takes its name from the town.
Best for Traditional Assisi embroidery, needlework courses and heritage textile craft
Av. José Bento Ribeiro Dantas 116, Travessa dos Arcos, Armação dos Búzios, RJ
An independent Búzios beach-fashion label with artisanal manufacture, working just off Rua das Pedras. It sells unisex resortwear including kimonos, blouses, palazzo pants and dresses.
Best for Artisanal Búzios beach and resortwear
Provincetown Ma / United States
Adam Peck Gallery at 142 Commercial Street in Provincetown sells the artist's original paintings and note cards, with purchases and inquiries handled directly through the gallery's contact form or by phone. The gallery is also represented by Dozen Studio Gallery for collectors seeking additional pieces.
Best for Art, Painting, Gallery
Adanwomase, Kwabre East District (near Kumasi)
Adanwomase, a royal weaving town about 27 kilometers northeast of Kumasi, still keeps centuries-old Sesea kente swatches in the Kente Chief's residence. The village's own site catalogs more than a thousand loom patterns and ships handwoven cloth directly to buyers by DHL.
Best for Handwoven kente cloth by the yard or made-to-order stoles
V&A Waterfront
Africa Nova curates contemporary African craft and art, from Zulu telephone-wire baskets and beadwork to ceramics, textiles and paintings by named makers. Long run as an independent gallery, it sells collectible pieces that trace the continent's craft traditions into modern design.
Best for Contemporary African craft
Agbozume (Ketu South), Volta Region, Ghana
Agbozume Kente Weavers sells hand-woven Ewe kente from the weaving town of Agbozume, in the same Ketu South district as Denu, taking custom orders for weddings, funerals, and graduations. The weavers' site sells finished cloth online and arranges visits to the loom sheds and the town's kente market.
Best for Hand-woven Ewe kente cloth and custom commissions
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Ahmedabad Trunk is a textile and handcrafted goods store associated with The House of MG. It offers ethnic collections, home textiles and books celebrating Gujarati craft.
Best for Curated Gujarati textiles, ethnic wear, craft objects
Larressore / Basque Country / Online
The Ainciart family has hand-made the makhila — the honored Basque walking stick with hidden steel tip — in Larressore since before 1780; each is engraved with its owner's name and motto.
Best for Custom-engraved makhilas and lifetime Basque heirlooms.
<p>In Larressore, a Basque village in the hills behind Bayonne, the Ainciart Bergara family has made the makhila since around 1780 — seven generations in the same workshop, practicing a craft with no industrial equivalent anywhere. The makhila is the Basque walking stick: a shaft of medlar wood, a woven leather grip, engraved metal fittings, and, concealed beneath the pommel, a steel point. It is cane, companion, and weapon of last resort — traditionally offered as the highest Basque token of honor.</p><p>The timescale is the astonishment. The medlar is scored while still growing on the hillside, so the living wood scars into ornament; it is cut years later, straightened over fire, and dried for up to a decade before the workshop touches it. Every stick is made for its owner — measured to height, engraved with name and motto. Presidents and popes have received them; shepherds commissioned them first.</p><p>Nothing about the process has been accelerated, because nothing can be: the tree sets the schedule. Ainciart Bergara is what the atlas means by a world-singular address — not a brand with a heritage department, but a family still doing the thing itself, in the village where it began.</p>
Barmer, Rajasthan
Ajrakh Barmer produces hand block-printed, naturally dyed textiles rooted in the region's Ajrakh tradition, working across screen-printing and appliqué. Its range spans sarees, apparel, bags and home decor.
Best for Hand block-printed Ajrakh sarees, dupattas and home textiles
Barmer, Rajasthan
This Barmer workshop and manufacturer-exporter block-prints Ajrakh by hand using natural vegetable dyes. It makes sarees, scarves, dress material, cushion covers, bedsheets and sarongs.
Best for Original natural-dye Ajrakh block-printed fabrics and made-ups
Changamwe, Mombasa
Akamba Handicraft Industry Cooperative Society, off Port-Reitz Road in Changamwe, Mombasa, is a Kenyan manufacturer and exporter of fine wood carvings including animal sculptures, masks, ornaments and human figures. Wood is the primary material used across its carving catalog.
Best for Wood carvings and animal sculptures
Lake Akan Onsen, Kushiro, Hokkaido
Akanko Ainu Kotan is Hokkaido's largest Ainu settlement, a village of craftspeople whose shops sell traditional Ainu woodcarvings, embroidery and folk crafts. The community sits alongside the Ikor theatre at Lake Akan.
Best for Traditional Ainu woodcarving and folk crafts
Boulevard de la Victoire, Lomé
Aklala Batik trains vulnerable young women and girls in batik dyeing and sewing from its training center in Kpalimé, Togo, founded by Chantal Donvidé in 2008. It sells hand-dyed batik cloth, garments and accessories through its Kpalimé workshop and a boutique opened in Lomé in 2017.
Best for Handmade batik textiles and vocational training for women
Chantal Donvidé was born in Agomé-Kpalimé, Togo, the eldest of seven children in a family already rooted in craft: her father founded the Kpalimé Artisanal Center and her mother worked as a seamstress. Donvidé trained and worked as a seamstress herself until 1999, when a health crisis left her unable to work her sewing machine for months.
With financing from the Hanns Seidel Foundation, she trained in batik dyeing and used roughly 20,000 CFA francs left over from a former apprentice's training fees to start what became Aklala Batik, formally established in Kpalimé. Women there stamp and paint wax patterns onto white cotton, then dip the cloth in dye baths before it is cut and sewn into pagnes, bags, clothing and accessories.
The venture grew from a single workshop into a training center for disadvantaged young women and girls, later opening a second boutique in Lomé on Boulevard de la Victoire in 2017. The nonprofit NEST provided additional financing and business training as the operation expanded, and Aklala Batik now describes itself as having trained roughly 1,000 young women at its center over nearly two decades of work.
Volterra / Italy
alab'Arte is the last active alabaster-carving workshop in Volterra, where artisans Roberto Chiti and Giorgio Finazzo hand-sculpt one-of-a-kind pieces from genuine alabaster rather than imitation materials. Finished sculptures and lighting are sold from their shop on Via Don Minzoni, a short walk from the Via Orti di Sant'Agostino workshop.
Best for Stone Carving
Parte Vieja
Alboka Artesanía is a handicraft shop on San Sebastián’s Plaza de la Constitución specializing in Basque-made traditional craft, including wood, iron, textile and festival figures. Maite Jauregui has run the business since 1987, building the range around locally rooted artisan work rather than generic souvenirs.
Best for Basque wood, iron, and textile craft since 1987
Al Ghadeer
AlGhadeer is an Emirati crafts social enterprise reviving traditional handwork, from Sadu weaving to Talli braiding and khoos palm-frond craft. Every piece is handmade by local Emirati artisan women.
Best for Authentic Emirati handmade crafts, homeware and gifts
Mascarenhas, Dili
Run by the Alola Foundation on Avenida Bispo de Medeiros, this Dili shop sells tais textiles, shawls, bags, cushion covers and homewares woven by women's cooperatives across Timor-Leste. Sales fund foundation programmes supporting the weavers and their families.
Best for Handwoven tais textiles
Aosta Valley / Online
100% Made in Valle d'Aosta marketplace — genepy, alpine craft, and one-off pieces from valley artisans.
Best for Genepy and hand-made valley craft.
Matale / Sri Lanka
The Aluwihare Heritage Centre carries forward the batik studio built by Ena de Silva, one of Sri Lanka's best-documented batik artists.
Best for Batik and embroidery continuing Ena de Silva's design legacy
The Aluwihare Heritage Centre carries forward the batik studio built by Ena de Silva, one of Sri Lanka's best-documented batik artists. Wikipedia's own record of her career traces the line directly: de Silva founded a design firm in Colombo in 1960 with Laki Senanayake, Reggie Siriwardena and her son, established the Matale Heritage Centre in 1964 to produce batik, and in 1982 moved the operation into her father's ancestral home in Aluwihare, converting it into a heritage center that also taught carpentry, needlework and brass-founding alongside batik.
After de Silva's death in 2015, the workshop was renamed the Aluwihare Heritage Centre in honor of her and her family's home village, and per the Hong Kong M+ museum's own maker profile — which holds 23 of the center's textile objects in its collection and lists the center as "established 2017" and "active Matale" — the organization continues to operate from that same site. Sri Lanka’s Sunday Times has described artisans at the centre continuing to work from de Silva’s design archive, selecting patterns for ongoing batik and embroidery production. Because that article is not currently available for direct inspection, the museum record—not the press account—remains the firmer basis for the entry.
The centre’s own storefront is currently unreachable, so current retail access and day-to-day visitor arrangements should be confirmed before travelling. What can be stated confidently is narrower: this is a named Matale heritage-craft organisation with a museum-documented collection and a direct line to Ena de Silva’s historically significant batik studio. Treat it as a research-led heritage stop, not a guaranteed walk-in shop.
Amalfi / Online
Amalfi's paper mill since the 1300s — handmade bambagina paper from the coast that supplied popes.
Best for Handmade Amalfi wedding paper.
Gdańsk (maker / e-commerce)
Amber Heart handcrafts Baltic amber in 925 silver, with gilded options, across themed collections built around butterflies, bees and animal motifs. Crosses, brooches and rosaries round out the catalogue.
Best for Handmade themed amber pieces
Długie Pobrzeże 31, Old Town waterfront
Founded in 1980, it sells amber-and-silver pieces that owner Zbigniew Strzelczyk hand-designs and crafts in the workshop behind it, having worked amber since 1973. Every item is one of a kind.
Best for One-of-a-kind pieces from a veteran master
Gdańsk (ul. Taborowa 10)
A small artisan workshop with more than thirty years of family tradition, AmberGlow sets certified natural Baltic amber, both polished and raw, in 925 silver with gemstone accents. Rings, necklaces, earrings and rosaries come with certificates of authenticity.
Best for Certified natural amber with gemstone accents
Shaligram Arcade, Bopal Ambli Road, Ahmedabad
Amounee is a Bopal-based handloom and handicraft house that sources sarees, shawls, and artwear directly from rural Indian weavers and artisans. Its store sits at 1224 Shaligram Arcade on Bopal Ambli Road, pairing the shop with an online catalogue organized by craft.
Best for Authentic Indian handloom and handicraft
Main Street, Dingle
Run by the West Kerry Craft Guild, this small Main Street gallery sells work made by member artists of the Dingle peninsula, from ceramics and textiles to prints and glass. Each piece on the shelves is produced locally by a guild member.
Best for West Kerry crafts
Centro Histórico, Santa Marta
EN Español (ES) Live Go Visit Santa Marta Local entrepreneurs Location Contact Experiences EN Español (ES) ¿Need help? [email protected] (+57) 310 - 872 03 84 Ancestral Boutique Artesanías SAS is a company dedicated to selling accessories and artisanal items originating from Colombian Caribbean culture, emblematic of the country.
Best for Craft
Andromeda Gardens, Bathsheba
The Andromeda Gardens gift shop carries locally made artisan crafts alongside the gallery lounge.
Best for Craft
Ravenna (near Basilica di San Vitale)
Annafietta makes mosaics using the Byzantine musive technique, with glass-paste tesserae hand-cut one by one. Since 2000 the workshop, on Via Argentario near the Basilica di San Vitale, has also sold materials for do-it-yourself projects.
Best for Hand-cut Byzantine glass mosaics and DIY mosaic materials
Black Forest, Gutenbach
Anton Schneider Uhrenmanufaktur, established in 1848 in Gutenbach in the Black Forest, describes itself as the oldest still-active manufacturer of cuckoo clocks, hand-carving and assembling clocks from domestic wood with mechanical movements. Its clocks carry the VdS-Siegel authenticity certificate for original Black Forest cuckoo clocks.
Best for Handcrafted black forest cuckoo clocks
Yamanakako / Japan
Antov is a reservation-only craft workshop near Lake Yamanaka where visitors can try glassmaking, pottery and silver accessory making, with an on-site ANTOV Shop selling finished pieces. The studio, close to Mount Fuji, welcomes everyone from young children to seniors and accommodates group bookings.
Best for Craft Experiences
Apt (84400), Provence
Apt has made candied fruit since medieval times, and Aptunion carries that craft on an industrial scale. The house produces fruits confits, dried infused fruits and fruit nuggets.
Best for Fruits confits (candied fruit) — the emblematic craft of Apt
Dhaka
Founded in 1990 by researcher and social activist Ruby Ghuznavi, Aranya is a WFTO-member fair-trade organization running a 36-worker natural-dye workshop in Dhaka. It sources from over 3,000 Bangladeshi weavers and craftspeople, reviving techniques including Jamdani and Nakshi Katha.
Best for Fair-trade natural-dye workshop supporting over 3,000 Bangladeshi artisans, since 1990
Aranya was founded in 1990 by researcher and social activist Ruby Ghuznavi, built around reviving natural dye techniques and traditional Bangladeshi crafts that were losing ground to industrial production. It has since grown into a well-established fair trade organization and a member of the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO).
The organization runs a Dhaka workshop employing around 36 workers dedicated to dyeing, printing, washing and drying fabric by hand, with roughly 70 people in total working specifically on natural dye production and research there. Beyond its own workshop, Aranya sources from a network of more than 3,000 weavers, embroiderers, jewellers, printers and craftspeople working from their homes and small community workshops across Bangladesh.
Its stated mission combines craft revival — including techniques like Jamdani weaving and Nakshi Katha embroidery — with fair wages, transparent audits and sustainable employment for rural artisans, aiming to preserve Bengal's textile heritage while connecting its producers to mainstream markets.
Montrose, Houston, Texas
Archway Gallery has been owned and run by its own member artists since 1976, currently around three dozen Houston-area painters, printmakers and sculptors who staff and curate the space themselves. It's one of Houston's longest-running artist cooperatives, holding regular exhibitions and figure-drawing sessions alongside sales.
Best for Houston artist-cooperative original art
Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile
Arcial shapes decorative pieces from seashells at its workshop on Salvador Allende in Iquique, working largely to custom order for local buyers. The small operation sources shells along the Tarapacá coast and positions its handwork against mass-produced décor.
Best for Shell handicrafts
Kelsey Boulevard, Churchill, Manitoba
Founded in the 1980s by Penny and Keith Rawlings on the Hudson Bay shore, this workshop-store sews native-made mukluks, moose-hide slippers, mitts and gauntlets and stocks furs alongside First Nations artwork gathered from across Canada. Its development loan was structured around Churchill's short tourist season, a measure of how completely the shop runs on the town's polar-bear and beluga calendar.
Best for Handmade mukluks, mitts and curated First Nations art
Richmond, Virginia
This Scott's Addition brewery pairs its craft beers with a well-loved taproom and beer garden. It has become a fixture of the neighborhood's brewing scene.
Best for Craft beer in Scott's Addition
Caye Caulker
The studio of Caye Caulker artist Aria Kat (Debbie Cooper), whose colorful Caribbean and Belizean paintings are sold as originals and prints. The site also shows work by fellow Belizean artists including Nelson Young, Walter Castillo and Jorge Landero.
Best for Belizean and Caribbean paintings and prints
Kamppi Shopping Centre, 4th floor / Online
Arkivé pairs garment-care products and services with a curated second-hand clothing selection. It also offers authentication for selected luxury items, giving buyers an additional check when considering pre-owned pieces.
Best for Wardrobe-care essentials — garment maintenance products, shoe brushes, care sets for suede/leather
Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Established in 2004, Arnesta Batik produces hand-drawn and stamped batik on Primisima cotton and cotton-viscose blends, focused specifically on East Kalimantan's regional motifs. It sells men's and women's batik shirts, attire and fabric to local and export markets.
Best for East Kalimantan batik clothing and accessories, hand-drawn and stamped since 2004
Arosa
Traditional Swiss craft shop in the mountain resort of Arosa. Hand-carved wooden items, textiles, and regional food products. The Weisshorn views make the shopping experience unforgettable.
Best for Hand-carved wooden items, textiles, and regional food products
47 N. Lobban Ave, Buffalo
Blacksmith David Osmundsen has forged hot steel since the 1970s and opened this Big Horn Mountains smithing school in 2004, teaching nineteenth-century techniques in small groups. His anvil turns out hand-forged frontier knives, tomahawks and ironwork fitted with local hardwood and antler.
Best for Hand-forged frontier knives and blacksmithing classes
Mostar / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Art Studio Pandur has been hand-working copper in Mostar since 1965, turning out reliefs, plates and souvenirs to a centuries-old Bosnian tradition. Visitors can watch the craft demonstrated live year-round and buy finished pieces in the shop or through its online store.
Best for Metalwork, copper art, souvenirs, handicrafts
Kumasi (Bantama)
ArtAshanti assembles beadwork in Kumasi from strings sourced village by village in Koforidua, Krobo, Abompe and Karoo, tracing pieces to individual makers rather than pooling anonymous stock. The Kumasi operation also stocks kente, Adinkra cloth, wood carving and bronze work from the same artisan network through its own online storefront.
Best for Traceable Ashanti beadwork alongside kente, carving and Adinkra cloth
Galindo Mall / Zenteno Anaya, Cochabamba
Arte Bolivia sells Bolivian handicrafts, including clothing with artisanal designs and decorative items.
Best for Bolivian handicrafts and artisanal clothing
Tartu / Estonia
Arte Kunst & Hobi in Tartu specialises in art and craft supplies.
Best for Art and craft supplies
Moab / United States
Arteesian on East Center Street in Moab makes small-batch designs with artisan brands it shares intentions with.
Best for Apparel and prints by local artists
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Artes de México has long sold traditional Mexican handicrafts in San Miguel de Allende, including tinware, pewter and papier-mâché. The store's range reflects craft techniques passed down through generations of Mexican makers.
Best for Traditional Mexican tinware and handicrafts
Raquira, Boyaca
Artesanias Canaan sells crafts made by the artisans of Raquira, spanning ceramics, wood, textiles, natural fibres, glass and accessories. It runs both a physical storefront in Raquira and an online shop with a browsable catalogue.
Best for Authentic Raquira ceramics and mixed artisan crafts
Centro Comercial Municipal, Quetzaltenango
Artesanías Inter Occidente presents pieces handmade in Quetzaltenango by local artisans. The collection connects ancestral techniques with contemporary design through Guatemalan materials, stories, colors and identity, from its shop inside the city’s Centro Comercial Municipal.
Best for Craft
Impasse Toutouri, Kourou
Commandez sur notre site et payez vos souvenirs et produit artianaux moins chère que dans les boutiques en ville.
Best for Craft
Street 13 (opposite the Post Office) / Online
It is best known for Elegant locally-made Cambodian art and crafts — wood and stone carvings, traditional silver-plated copper leaf objects, lacquerware, hand-made silk clothing; social enterprise training young Cambodians in traditional crafts.
Best for Cambodian carvings, lacquerware, silk and silver-plated craft
Whitehorse
Arts Underground, operated by the Yukon Art Society from the Hougen Centre in Whitehorse, has two exhibition spaces that showcase emerging and established Yukon artists with an opening reception on the first Friday of every month. The society has more than 180 members and hosts over 50 events and 30 workshops a year.
Best for Yukon art and workshops
Fes (Ben Jalik artisanal zone)
A Fes tile producer in the Ben Jalik artisanal zone with more than forty years' experience, making zellige, limestone tiles, mosaic panels, terracotta and hand-painted pieces. It sources clay from the Fez region and runs the full production process in house.
Best for Zellige, limestone and mosaic panels
Aruba — local artists
Aruba Handmade is a local maker collective selling handmade island art and decor, from painted keepsakes to home goods, through its own shop. The work comes from resident artists rather than mass-produced imports.
Best for Handmade island art and decor; Locally crafted keepsakes; Supporting Aruban artists
Oranjestad
ARUVA is a local fashion brand that creates unique designs inspired by Aruba’s heritage. Sustainability is a core value throughout their production process, as well as philanthropy to local foundations who share their mission.
Best for Design
Udaipur / India
Ashoka Arts sells Rajasthani handicrafts near Gangaur Ghat in Udaipur, from Pichwai paintings and miniature art to carved wood, marble, and brass pieces made by local artisans. The shop also runs hands-on miniature-painting and henna classes for visitors passing through the old city.
Best for Handicrafts, Paintings, Textiles
Centro, Bariloche
The Asociación Civil de Artesanos de Bariloche is a civil association of artisans in San Carlos de Bariloche. It was founded in 1985.
Best for Bariloche artisans association
Santiago Atitlan, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Asociacion Cojolya was founded in 1996 by Candis Krummel and Antonio Ramirez Sosof in the aftermath of Guatemala's civil war, when weavers in Santiago Atitlan faced devalued prices for handmade cloth. The association trains and pays Tz'utujil women directly for backstrap-loom weaving, connecting their textiles to buyers abroad through fair-trade principles.
Best for Backstrap-loom weaving direct from Tz'utujil artisans
Hapatoni, Tahuata / Marquesas
Hapatoni on Tahuata is the Marquesas' village of sculptors, and this association is its collective hand — rosewood, bone and stone carved along the royal paved road by the sea. Their own site, kept simply, is the door; the village itself is the atelier.
Best for Marquesan carving from the village of sculptors
Hapatoni, Tahuata
In Hapatoni village on Tahuata, the Mahajatauheipani association brings together carvers working bone and rosewood, a craft the archipelago rates among its finest. It is led by president Firmin Timau and secretary Ginestha Ihopu.
Best for Marquesan bone and rosewood carving and engraving
Caracas
Atelier Caracas --> "> ︎ Mark ︎ ATELIER CARACAS IS A DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE, LOOKING WITHIN AND OUTSIDE OF ITS HOME, VENEZUELA. OVER THE YEARS, ATELIER CARACAS HAS DEVELOPED A BOLD PORTFOLIO OF CREATIVE PROJECTS THAT WANDER THROUGH THE REALMS OF FINE ARTS, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN.
Best for Design houses
Aix-en-Provence, Provence
The studio where Paul Cézanne painted his final works — preserved exactly as he left it, with his still-life objects, his smock, and the light of Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Best for Cézanne's studio, Mont Sainte-Victoire views, and artistic pilgrimage.
Santa Teresa
Working atelier and gallery showcasing local Santa Teresa artists and hosting workshops.
Best for Local Santa Teresa artist showcases and hands-on workshops
Grenoble / France
Atelier Kaolin on rue Saint-Laurent in Grenoble goes on making unique objects to furnish the everyday.
Best for Unique objects for everyday use
Boa Vista, Porto Alegre
Boa Vista atelier in Porto Alegre led by designer Juliana Pereira, offering versatile, elegant and timeless clothing, alterations and personalised service.
Best for Fashion
Península, Punta del Este
Atelier Point Punta is a gallery at the corner of La Salina and El Foque on the Punta del Este peninsula in Uruguay. It is dedicated mainly to abstract and contemporary art.
Best for Gallery
Moustiers Sainte Marie / France
Founded in 1995 by Franck Scherer and Geraldine Dorche, Atelier Soleil is a faience workshop in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, hand-throwing and hand-painting plates, platters, vases and tableware. Each seasonal design is made and decorated in Provence and sold through the atelier's online boutique.
Best for Hand-thrown, hand-painted Moustiers-Sainte-Marie faience — plates, platters, vases, and seasonal tableware
Los Chorros, Caracas
SOUCY designs are rooted in a heritage of effortless glamour, understanding from of a woman’s innate beauty, strength and sophistication.
Best for Fashion
Colmar (Chemin Mittlerer Erlen Weg)
Potter Alain Kern shapes stoneware by hand in small series using local clays, firing mugs, bowls and vases at 1280C in gas-reduction and electric kilns at his greenhouse studio in Colmar. He also teaches throwing courses, takes custom commissions and rents kiln space to other potters.
Best for Alain Kern's hand-thrown stoneware mugs, bowls, and vases fired at 1280°C
Historic centre, Saint-Louis
In historic Saint-Louis, Maï Diop directs this atelier and gallery weaving Mandjak pagnes — strip-woven cloth stitched into large wraps — in cotton, silk, rayon and metallic thread. It also takes custom Mandjak commissions for haute couture, homeware and accessories.
Best for Mandjak woven Senegalese textiles / pagnes
Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, Lot
In the hilltop village of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, one of France's officially most beautiful villages, this glass artisan works and exhibits from her own studio. Each hand-made glass piece is for sale in the adjoining gallery.
Best for Hand-made art glass
Dominicanessenstraat, Oranjestad
Ateliers '89 is an art academy and gallery in Oranjestad offering workshops, a year program and artist residencies alongside exhibition space. It is open by appointment Monday to Friday from 2 to 6 pm.
Best for Art workshops and exhibitions
Leves (about 2 km from Chartres Cathedral)
Founded in 1946 by Gabriel Loire and now run by his sons and grandsons, this workshop two kilometres from the cathedral designs and restores stained glass using lead, dalle-de-verre, fusing and enamelling. Its windows reach across five continents, with about ten artisans working religious, civic and private commissions.
Best for Stained glass creation and restoration
San Jorge la Laguna, Santiago Atitlan, and neighboring villages, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Atitlan Arts channels handmade keychains and beadwork made by women's beading co-ops in San Jorge la Laguna, Santiago Atitlan, and neighboring lakeside villages, alongside locally taught art classes. Proceeds fund scholarships, tutoring, and medical support for students and families around the lake rather than a conventional profit margin.
Best for Beadwork and craft made by lakeside co-ops
Langkawi, Kedah, Malaysia
Atma Alam has produced hand-painted batik since 1987, founded by painter Aza Osman and batik artist Roshadah 'Sada' Yusof in Padang Matsirat, Langkawi. Resident artists still work wax-resist techniques onto canvas paintings, sarongs, and dresses in the village complex the couple built from a single shack.
Best for Hand-painted batik art from Langkawi's original artist village since 1987
Atma Alam Batik Art Village was founded in 1987 by Aza Osman, an oil painter who had spent roughly 15 years studying and working in Italy, and his wife Roshadah Yusof, known as Sada, a batik artist and designer. Aza had already run a commercial gallery, Gallery 6, in Kuala Lumpur from 1981 before the couple relocated to Langkawi to establish the village.
The site sits in Padang Matsirat, close to Langkawi International Airport, and is described by regional tourism sources as the island's original batik art village. What began as a single shack grew over subsequent decades into a larger complex housing a gallery, a working batik studio, showrooms, a boutique, and a sunken garden with a water feature.
Resident artists continue to produce both block-printed and exclusively hand-painted batik on-site, working wax-resist techniques onto canvas paintings, dress fabric, and sarongs, which are sold directly through the village's own gallery and boutique rather than through outside retailers.
Male / Maldives
A souvenir shop on Male's Chandhanee Magu, Atoll Craft sells hand-printed tees, sarongs, carved dhonis, shell crafts, and other Maldivian keepsakes at retail and wholesale. Shoppers visit the Moorithi Building store or enquire by email.
Best for Hand-printed tees, sarongs, carved dhonis and Maldivian keepsakes
Austria
Austrian ski maker founded in 1955 by wheelwright Alois Rohrmoser; skis and Hawx boots are still developed and built in Altenmarkt im Pongau, near his original workshop, and raced on the World Cup circuit.
Best for Ski equipment
Atomic traces to 1955, when Alois Rohrmoser, a trained wheelwright from the Austrian Alps, began hand-carving race skis in his own workshop, turning out around 40 pairs a year. Production scaled quickly: about 2,000 pairs by 1957 and 5,000 by 1960. In 1968, Olga Pall won Olympic downhill gold at Grenoble on Atomic skis, an early marker of the brand's racing credibility. In 1971 the company built a second, larger factory in Altenmarkt im Pongau, in Austria's Pongau Valley, and that plant remains the center of Atomic's ski production today, a few kilometers from Rohrmoser's original workshop. By 1989 Atomic had become a one-stop supplier of skis, bindings, boots and poles. The 1990s brought financial strain, and in 1994 the Finnish sporting-goods group Amer Sports (which also owns Salomon, Arc'teryx and Wilson) acquired Atomic; insolvency proceedings that followed were resolved by 2006. Today Atomic makes roughly 400,000 pairs of skis a year, alongside boots, bindings, helmets, poles, goggles and apparel, still manufactured in the Alps. The brand has remained a fixture on the Alpine Ski World Cup circuit - it was the top-winning brand of the 2022/23 season, with 31 race victories and 6 discipline globes - and has equipped skiers including Mikaela Shiffrin and Hermann Maier.
Le Mans / France
Au Cœur des Artistes on rue Gambetta in Le Mans shows one-off pieces made by working artisans.
Best for One-off pieces by local artisans
Sorrento / Italy
Augusto e Luca work inlaid wood on Via Fuoro in Sorrento, where each piece is made only once.
Best for Inlaid-wood boxes and boards
Fitzroy (210 Gertrude Street) / Online
Visitors can buy prints at accessible entry prices, seek collector advice or discuss commissions and portfolios. The workshop also supports artists with etching, lithography, relief and monoprinting facilities behind its public gallery role.
Best for Original fine art prints from Australian artists — limited edition prints
Torres Del Paine / Chile
Autoctonitos is a wood-craft shop and workshop in Puerto Natales selling handmade wooden pieces alongside made-to-order commissions and craft workshops. The shop keeps regular weekday hours, 10am to 7pm Monday through Friday, and takes orders by phone or WhatsApp.
Best for Handmade wooden pieces and made-to-order commissions from a Puerto Natales craft workshop
Tokushima / Japan
Awa Yuzen Kojo has dyed textiles in Tokushima's traditional indigo since 1907, developing its own aizome techniques alongside its founding yuzen dyeing craft. The workshop's onsite Aizome Kogeikan shop sells finished indigo goods daily and runs reservation-only dyeing workshops for visitors.
Best for Traditional Tokushima indigo aizome and yuzen-dyed textiles, plus reservation-only dyeing workshops
Calvo / historic center, Sucre
Awaj Warmi sells one-of-a-kind alpaca textile fashion pieces made by hand by artisans, with designs by Carmen Camacho. It also offers custom-made ("a tu medida") pieces.
Best for Handmade alpaca fashion pieces
Rue Jaber Ibn Hayen, Bahr Lazreg
B7L9 Art Centre is a project of the Kamel Lazaar Foundation, hosting exhibitions, artist residencies, a library, concerts, workshops and public programs. The Foundation itself is based at Les Berges du Lac 2 in Tunis.
Best for Contemporary art exhibitions and residencies
Main Street
Painter Linda Epstein works and exhibits from this Main Street studio-gallery named for the island's famous wild herds. Visitors browse her original paintings and can often watch new work take shape on the easel.
Best for Original paintings, working artist studio
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