Plate M-12 · 1,417 stores · 751–900 of 1417 · curated ORBIS register
What makes great craft & ateliers?
This plate lists 1,417 shops in 130 countries. Paris has the most with 15, followed by Delhi with 14. Among these shops, 84 describe made-to-order work, 21 offer repairs, 151 sell online and 9 work by appointment, going by their own descriptions.
Ask who made the piece: ask whether the maker is in the workshop, or whether the shop sells other makers' work.
Ask how it was made: ask about the materials and the process, and whether a piece can be made to order.
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Founded in 1930 by U Pho Guang under the name Saya Gaung, whose lacquer caskets are held in the British Museum, Bagan House is now run by fourth-generation owner Ma Maw in New Bagan. Artisans hand-etch yun-de lacquerware using the needle technique Pan Yun.
Best for Hand-etched yun-de lacquerware from a fourth-generation family workshop
Bagan House's own history page dates the business to 1930, when it was founded by U Pho Guang under the name Saya Gaung during the British colonial period. Lacquer caskets bearing that original Saya Gaung name have survived into museum and private collections, including the British Museum, giving the workshop's early output a documented trail independent of its own marketing.
Ownership has passed down four generations: from U Pho Guang to his daughter Daw Wei, who sold lacquerware traveling to the Shan states; then to U Tint Aung, who worked as a production manager at a government lacquerware institute and studied at the Wajima Lacquerware School in Japan between 1969 and 1971; and finally to the current owner, Ma Maw, in New Bagan.
The workshop produces yun-de, Burmese lacquerware made from the sap of the Melanorrhoea usitata tree, decorating pieces using Pan Yun, a needle-etching technique applied by hand. A single well-made piece can take three to six months to complete, reflecting Bagan's broader standing as one of Myanmar's two main lacquerware production centers alongside the craft's roots reaching back centuries in the region.
Located a five-minute drive from downtown Nassau on East Shirley Street in a replica of a traditional Bahamian home, Bahama Art and Handicraft is filled with collectibles, handicrafts, and artwork large and small. More than store, Bahama Art and Handicraft is a treasure chest with unique pieces that tell the story of the islands of the Bahamas.
Bahama Art & Handicrafts in Nassau — Mixed media artworks from local artists using sea glass, local woods and fish scales — curated by mother-daughter duo Lou and Luciana.
Best for Mixed media artworks from local artists using sea glass, local woods
Bakeriet i Lom hand-bakes both sourdough and non-sourdough loaves daily from its shop on Sognefjellsveien, alongside its own cinnamon rolls. It also runs a Neapolitan-style pizza counter and ships granola, coffee and baked goods across Norway by post.
Best for Handmade Norwegian sourdough and cinnamon rolls
A textile manufacturer in Balotra, a Rajasthani town long known for traditional hand-block printing and dyeing. Its output covers printed cotton fabrics, sarees and dress material.
Best for Balotra printed cotton fabrics, sarees and traditional dress material
Baltic Sea Glass is a hand-blowing glass studio on Bornholm's coast producing brightly coloured vases, bowls and drinking glasses. The work is made at the furnace on site and sold from the adjoining gallery.
This quarter-century-old atelier sets Baltic amber in silver and noble metals across pendants, necklaces, bracelets and tie clips. It also carves amber figurines of the Gdańsk lion, the city's heraldic beast.
Best for Amber-and-silver classics and the amber Gdańsk-lion
The gallery's Instagram bio describes it as a space for artistic and human exchange where visitors encounter African art. It hosts exhibitions, an atelier workshop series and Apero Art events, and takes part in the Segou'Art festival.
The account's bio describes it as artisanat du Mali (Malian handicrafts) sold here and there, and its posts show snoods, batik-print clothing, dresses and jackets. It appears regularly at markets in southwestern France, including Vieux-Boucau, Capbreton and Biarritz.
Founded by Trappist monks in Banja Luka in 1873, Banjalučka Pivara brews the Nektar range from its historic brewery and remains one of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s longest-running beer producers. In 2026 it became part of Finland’s Olvi Group while retaining its local brewery identity and brands.
Best for Local craft and lager beer, brewery heritage, Nektar Pivo
Vintage letterpress shop run by sisters Emily and Betsy Sokolosky, hand-setting type and carving images for posters, stationery, and wedding invitations since 2016. Each piece is printed and hand-inked individually, including a long-running poster series for public radio's Mountain Stage.
Batik Plentong was established in Yogyakarta in 1950 by Oleh Djaelani and has stayed a family business through its second generation, with Hadi Suwito — now in his 80s — running operations after more than six decades with the company.
Best for Hand-drawn tulis and hand-stamped cap batik made and naturally dyed
Batik Plentong was established in Yogyakarta in 1950 by Oleh Djaelani and has stayed a family business through its second generation, with Hadi Suwito — now in his 80s — running operations after more than six decades with the company. A workshop opened in the early 2000s as a response to the regional economic crisis, diversifying the business into a production site that visitors can enter to watch the process directly, alongside its ongoing wholesale and made-to-order output.
The house runs both of batik's classic hand techniques side by side under one roof. Women artisans work tulis — hand-drawing wax patterns onto cloth with a canting, the small spouted copper tool that traces intricate motifs freehand — while male craftspeople work cap, stamping wax designs with carved copper blocks for more repeatable patterning. After waxing, cloth goes through repeated dye cycles using natural colorants, and the wax is then removed — by boiling water for cotton, by gasoline for silk — in a full process that can take up to two months per piece depending on size and complexity. The current team numbers around a dozen craftspeople spanning genders and generations, including second-generation batik maker Ibu Muryanti.
Suwito's own framing of the craft's value is direct: hand-drawn custom pattern work, he has said, "can never be produced by machines," and pricing reflects that gap — finished pieces range from roughly Rp500,000 into the tens of millions of rupiah depending on complexity, well above mass-produced batik-print alternatives. The workshop's continued operation as both a working atelier and a place where the tulis-and-cap process is visible to visitors makes it a rare direct window into hand batik production rather than the printed-batik goods that dominate most retail.
Beachside Crafts & Souvenirs sells handcrafted coastal pieces for the home. The shop is at the Forbes Hill Cultural Center on Little Exuma in the Bahamas.
A family-owned Speyside distillery near Forres making handcrafted single malt with a distinctive touch of smoke, from its 10-year-old to older age statements. The whiskies are sold through its online shop and the distillery hosts tours, tastings and a visitor centre.
Best for Smoky Speyside single malt from 10-year to older age statements
Bequia Threadworks runs a Port Elizabeth boutique selling ethically handmade women's and men's fashion, children's clothing, and accessories from designer-makers across Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The nonprofit-linked production centre behind the shop also trains local seamstresses, with pieces also stocked at a handful of other island retailers.
Beresta Baikala cuts and stitches birchbark gathered near Lake Baikal into boxes, tableware, and decorative pieces by hand rather than machine-pressing it. The workshop, registered to founder Marina Dobrynina, sells directly to individual customers and to wholesale buyers across the Irkutsk region.
Best for Handcrafted birchbark boxes and tableware
Bergland has carved wooden nativity figures, saints and crucifixes in Val Gardena since Walther and Reiner Kasslatter founded the family workshop in 1981, continuing the valley's woodcarving tradition. Every piece in its online shop is designed in-house and produced exclusively by Val Gardena craftsmen at the company's Roncadizza workshop.
Best for Hand-carved wooden nativity figures, saints
Biagio Barile Store sells handcrafted Sorrento inlaid woodwork -- boxes, trays, mirrors, and music boxes -- made by a small family workshop practicing the craft since 1920. The online shop ships internationally and also offers reseller partnerships.
Best for Handcrafted Sorrento inlaid woodwork -- boxes, trays, mirrors
Makes Bidriware, a metal handicraft from Bidar with pure silver wire hand-inlaid into a zinc and copper alloy base, then blackened with soil from the 14th-century Bidar Fort ruins for its patina. GI-13 certified and trading since 1975.
One of Europe's highest breweries, working since 2000 from a former alpine dairy beside the church in Davos Monstein. Its Huusbier and specialty brews use local barley malt, Swiss hops, and mountain spring water, with tours and a shop on site.
A custom boat builder at Martins River near Mahone Bay, this shop crafts sailboats, dinghies, and power cruisers in wood-epoxy and fibreglass composite. It builds to order, assembles Dudley Dix kits, and sells finished boats and components.
Best for Boatbuilding, wooden boats, custom yachts, kits
A creamery making handcrafted small-batch ice cream from local, seasonal ingredients, including its own waffle cones and ice cream sandwiches. The flagship scoop shop sits in Avondale, with further locations around the metro.
An organic craft brewery and farm on the shore of the Bras d'Or Lake near Baddeck. It brews certified-organic beer, with an on-site taproom and hop farm.
Reading, Pennsylvania khakis since 1990—American-made twill trousers cut and sewn stateside with Amish craftsmanship and heritage construction standards.
Best for American-made khakis, Navy
Bills Khakis was founded in 1990 in Reading, Pennsylvania by Bill Thomas, who began by selling 250 pairs of khakis from his car, driven by conviction that quality American-made khakis had become nearly impossible to find. The company remains headquartered in Reading and manufactures every product domestically, with denim specifically crafted in Los Angeles and assembly operations in facilities including Amish-run workshops. The brand's philosophy anchors on uncompromised standards in materials and construction, offering multiple fits (Relaxed, Classic, Straight) across lines such as Original Twill, Vintage Twill, and Island Twill, with both pleated and flat-front options. The label has earned industry recognition for its authenticity: Men's Journal named their offering the "Best Authentic Twill Khaki Pants," while GQ recognized the pleated version as the best in category. Bills Khakis stands apart in contemporary menswear through its commitment to domestic manufacturing as a core business principle rather than a marketing claim, grounding the product in American craft and supply-chain transparency.
Bison Beer is an independent craft-beer bottle shop and bar that began on East Street in The Lanes and now includes a Hove bar, kitchen and bottleshop. It stocks hundreds of cans and bottles from small breweries and brews beer under its own name.
This family workshop makes bed and table linen in washed linen, percale, flannel, satin and cotton, all produced within the Gérardmer textile belt certified Vosges Terre Textile. Its direct-from-maker shop lets buyers order duvet covers and sheeting without the usual retail markup.
Art Gallery Blanco Grané sells the seascapes, landscapes and small-format paintings of Tossa de Mar-based artist Antoni Blanco Grané directly from his gallery on Carrer Nou in the town centre. Buyers purchase straight from the artist, who also runs a private art foundation from the same space.
Best for Art Gallery Blanco Grané sells the seascapes
On Great George Street, Blank Canvas stocks fine-art and craft materials for island painters, students and hobbyists, from paints and canvases to specialty papers and tools. The locally owned shop functions as a working supply room for Charlottetown's creative community.
Best for Paints canvases and specialty papers for Charlottetown's painters and hobbyists
Henri and Denise Lambert bought an 18th-century tannery in Lectoure, in France's Gers department, and were struck by the blue paint on its shutters — a color traced back to pastel, the woad plant (Isatis tinctoria) once grown across the region as a dye crop before synthetic indigo displaced it.
Best for France's working pastel/woad dye house, linens, paints
Henri and Denise Lambert bought an 18th-century tannery in Lectoure, in France's Gers department, and were struck by the blue paint on its shutters — a color traced back to pastel, the woad plant (Isatis tinctoria) once grown across the region as a dye crop before synthetic indigo displaced it. Starting in 1994, Henri spent more than two years working with chemists at the University of Toulouse to reconstruct the historical fermentation, extraction, and dyeing process, and built an industrial unit on the property able to process up to 20 tons of pastel leaves a day.
The company still dyes on-site with the vegetable pigment it extracts from its own pastel harvest, without synthetic additives, and sells across several categories carrying that dye: linen scarves, shawls and clothing, bath linens, cushion covers and kitchen textiles, fine-art paints and pigments, and cosmetics made with pastel seed oil.
Bleu de Lectoure runs its production and retail from an atelier-boutique at 15 Avenue de la Gare in Lectoure, open to visitors who want to see the dye process directly, and also holds a full-day pastel-dyeing course at Château Loubens, east of Toulouse. More than three decades on, it remains one of the working woad/pastel dye houses reviving a crop and a color that had nearly disappeared from French textile production.
This Tonala workshop has spent more than two decades hand-blowing glassware on Avenida Tonaltecas, turning out tumblers, pitchers, tequila servers and lamps in the town's recycled-glass tradition. Orders ship from its own online store to restaurants, hotels and home buyers.
A registered charity gallery and shop inside the Bluecoat arts centre, it represents around 250 British craftspeople working in ceramics, jewellery, textiles and glass. The centre pairs a retail shop with rotating exhibitions and maker talks, channelling proceeds back into supporting craft practice rather than shareholder profit.
Best for Contemporary British craft, ceramics and jewellery
British niche perfume house manufactured in the UK, named for the Celtic warrior queen and built around a recurring Celtic love-knot motif; uses handcrafted bottles and states it avoids over-harvested naturals such as wild oud and Mysore sandalwood.
Best for Armored statement scents.
Boadicea the Victorious is a British perfume house, manufactured in the United Kingdom, that takes its name and identity from the Celtic queen who led a revolt against Roman occupation in Britain in the first century AD. The brand's own materials describe a mission to build a distinctly British strand of niche perfumery, built around themes of strength and heritage. Its perfumes are made using what the company describes as time-honored perfumery techniques alongside modern production technology, presented in handcrafted bottles, and the brand states it avoids sourcing scarce raw materials such as wild oud and Mysore sandalwood to limit pressure on those supplies. A Celtic love-knot motif recurs across its packaging and branding as a visual link to the Boadicea name.
In Ntonso, the source village for Adinkra symbol-stamping, the Boakye family has hand-carved calabash stamps and pressed bark-dyed cloth across four generations, led into her nineties by matriarch Veronica Abena Tebi. The workshop still teaches the stamping technique on-site to visitors and to younger family members carrying the craft forward.
Best for Hand-stamped Adinkra cloth and live stamping demonstrations
A Moustiers faience maker recognised as an Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant, BONDIL sells its hand-painted earthenware from a boutique on Place Pomey and takes orders online and by phone. Guided visits to its workshop on Rue Frederic Mistral show the pieces being thrown and decorated before they reach the shop.
Best for Hand-painted Moustiers faience, workshop visits on Rue Frederic Mistral
Montegranaro shoemaker founded in 2004 by third-generation cobbler Franco Gazzani and his cousin Lewis Cutillo; nine artisans hand-stitch roughly 3,800 pairs a year using an awl and waxed thread.
Best for Small-batch hand-colored lace-ups.
Bontoni's roots trace to the late 1940s, when Guido Gazzani began hand-stitching shoes for other local makers out of a small basement workshop in Montegranaro, in Italy's Marche region. His sons Bruno and Manfredo continued the trade by hand through the following decades. The Bontoni brand itself was founded in 2004 by Franco Gazzani - Guido's grandson - together with his distant cousin Lewis Cutillo, with the workshop set up in what had been the family's garage. Today the atelier employs nine artisans who produce about 3,800 pairs a year, using saddle stitching sewn by hand with an awl, two needles, and waxed thread; some models carry double or triple stitching for added durability.
Boothbay Craft Brewery makes its Thirsty Botanist line of ales on site, pouring flagship and seasonal beers at a taphouse just outside the harbor village. The property combines the brewery, taphouse, and an RV park.
Best for Thirsty Botanist ales brewed on site, plus a taphouse and RV park
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It is best known for Works by over 100 professional Québec artisans belonging to the Conseil des métiers d'art du Québec; one of the most concentrated collections of Quebec craft in Canada.
Best for Québec artisan jewellery, furniture, sculpture and craft
Bras Art works Ouro Preto's local soapstone into pots, fondue sets, water filters, and decorative pieces, selling direct from its Praca Tiradentes workshop and a full online store. Orders ship across Brazil, with wholesale pricing for the trade.
Best for Soapstone cookware, soapstone decor, artisan crafts
Hosiery house founded in 1970 by Mario Bresciani, headquartered in Spirano near Bergamo (not Brescia itself, despite the name); made socks for other luxury labels before launching its own hand-linked line in 1980, now run by his sons Massimiliano and Fabio.
Best for Artisan socks, heritage knitting
Calzificio M. Bresciani was founded in 1970 by Mario Bresciani, who drew on his experience in Italy's hosiery trade to open his own workshop rather than continuing to work for other manufacturers. The company is based in Spirano, in the province of Bergamo — despite the Bresciani name, which comes from the founder's surname rather than the city of Brescia. For its first decade the company mainly produced for other, larger fashion houses; it did not launch socks under its own Bresciani name until 1980. All Bresciani socks are hand-linked — finished by hand at the toe seam rather than machine-closed, a slower process associated with higher-end hosiery — and made from materials including Egyptian cotton, Australian merino wool, French linen, Himalayan cashmere and Andean vicuña. Mario Bresciani's sons, Massimiliano and Fabio, joined the business in the 1990s and expanded its distribution into menswear retailers internationally; the company modernized its branding and opened its own online shop in 2021.
Brighton Gin has distilled small-batch gin beside the seaside since 2014, using organic wheat spirit and botanicals including milk thistle and orange peel. The independent distillery bottles its Seaside Strength and Pavilion Strength editions and runs tours and tastings at its seafront home.
Brostræde IS has scooped ice cream from its narrow lane off Stengade for roughly a century, and still bakes its waffle cones in-house to a family recipe. The kiosk sells organic soft serve, sorbet and ice cream, passing to new owners in 2020 after three generations of the Engelbrecht Nielsen family.
Aruba's national brewery has brewed the Balashi lager in Santa Cruz since 1998, alongside Chill, the Magic Mango pale ale and Malta. Its beer garden welcomes visitors to the brewery.
Best for Aruban national lager, craft beer, beer garden visit
Burel Factory works with dense Portuguese burel wool to make blankets, bags, capes and interior pieces. The felted cloth gives even simple shapes a substantial texture and natural weather resistance.
Best for Wool blankets, bags, and capes made from traditional Portuguese burel cloth
A High Street shop selling wooden objects handmade in Britain, from turned bowls, boards and boxes to kitchenware, clocks and jewellery, sourced from many independent craftspeople. The stock leans on native hardwoods such as oak, ash and cherry, worked by hand rather than mass-produced.
Burley Oak Brewing Company is a brewery and taproom in Berlin, Maryland, founded by Bryan Brushmiller after he began homebrewing in 2009. Its beers include pilsner, porter and IPA alongside fruited sours inspired by Berliner Weisse. A separate cocktail-bar offer and events programme complement the taproom, while food availability should be checked against current information.
Best for Maryland craft beer and fruited sours at a brewery taproom
Burley Oak Brewing Company is in Berlin, Maryland, not the German capital. Founder Bryan Brushmiller began homebrewing in 2009, and the brewery's five-year anniversary in 2016 marked its growth from that early project into a taproom business. The location on Old Ocean City Boulevard places it on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
The beer range includes styles such as pilsner, porter and IPA alongside fruited sours inspired by Berliner Weisse. That last name describes a beer tradition, not the brewery's location. Its own story also describes an expansion into canned cocktails and small-batch vodka, which should be considered separately from the beer selection.
Visitors can choose the taproom or look at the distinct cocktail-bar offer. Outdoor seating and an events programme add other reasons to visit, but they do not establish that a particular performance or food service will be running every day. The business currently labels its food information as pending, so plan the stop around the drinks unless the latest menu confirms otherwise.
Featured beers include Bilsner (pilsner, 4.20% ABV), Bunker C (porter, 5.9% ABV), Aboriginal Gangster (IPA, 6.6% ABV), and triple dry hopped double IPA (8.5% ABV).
Caithness Glass makes handcrafted paperweights and artglass, including the millefiori Fingal's Cave collection, described on its site as handcrafted in the heart of Scotland and Made in Scotland.
Owner-operated since 2016, this island shop stocks Island Made, New Brunswick and Maritime-made goods alongside Canadian-made gifts, with inventory that shifts by season. It shares its building with the Scoop Shack ice cream counter and hosts the island's Dooryard Market.
On rue Juiverie in Chambery's old town, Capsule 32 sells clothing, jewelry, pottery, illustrations and decorative objects made in small runs by craftspeople from Savoie and across France. The owners also take commissions for bespoke pieces.
Best for Savoie and French makers' clothing, jewelry and ceramics
Founded in 1975 at St Kitts' Romney Manor, Caribelle Batik hand-dyes fabric, apparel and gifts using traditional Indonesian batik methods on sea island cotton. About 36 local staff produce pieces on-site, and the company marked its 50th anniversary in 2025.
Best for Hand-dyed sea-island cotton batik from Romney Manor
Caribelle Batik was established in 1975 on the grounds of Romney Manor, a St Kitts estate adjacent to Wingfield Estate, and built its reputation using traditional Indonesian batik methods applied to sea island cotton — a fabric prized for its fineness and durability. Over five decades it grew into what is widely described as the Caribbean's most sought-after batik textile producer.
Production happens on-site: roughly 36 local employees hand-dye fabric, apparel, wall hangings and accessories, and visitors can watch artisans demonstrate the resist-dyeing technique in person. A "Back of House Tour" lets guests work directly with dyes and take home a piece they helped make, extending the retail visit into a hands-on craft experience.
In 2025, Caribelle Batik marked its 50th anniversary, timed alongside the 400th anniversary of Romney Manor itself — a dual milestone the company has used to highlight both its own history and the site's much longer one.
Carmel Art Studio is the working gallery of artist Lisa Bryan, who paints local village scenes and hand-illustrated maps and guides of Carmel-by-the-Sea. Visitors can buy her prints and commission portraits directly from the studio.
Discover the Carriacou Museum, where history and culture come alive. Located in Hillsborough, the museum showcases artifacts and exhibits celebrating Carriacou’s Indigenous, African, and colonial heritage. Explore the island’s rich traditions, from boat-building to vibrant festivals, and learn about its unique story. Visit us to experience Carriacou’s past and present in one inspiring space.
Amalfi's last surviving historic paper mill, run by the Amatruda family for centuries, still makes cotton-rag paper the traditional way. Its output runs from wedding stationery to fine-art paper.
Brazilian art and craft chain founded in 1979 by brothers Paulo and Angelo Guaraldo, who opened the first store in Sao Paulo's Mooca district. Now runs five physical stores plus wholesale and online divisions, stocking painting, scrapbook and craft supplies from brands including Acrilex and Faber-Castell.
Best for Art, craft and scrapbook materials across five Sao Paulo-area stores since 1979
The Campeche state crafts house occupies a colonial building in the walled historic center, gathering work from artisans across the state under one roof. Stock runs to Becal jipijapa (panama) hats, cotton hammocks, embroidered blouses and carvings in wood, horn and jabin.
Best for Campeche panama hats, hammocks and embroidery
Casa del Jade gives Guatemalan jade the full-house treatment: rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, cufflinks, masks and home objects, backed by a museum and workshop in Antigua. Its Nahual collections and two-hour carve-your-own-jade experience make the store as much about learning the material as buying it.
Best for Nahual and Maya-inspired collections, plus a two-hour jade-carving workshop
Casa Sánchez is an art supply shop in Rosario, Argentina, selling drawing and painting materials such as watercolours and oil paints. Its range includes brands such as Derwent and Faber-Castell.
The Karnataka State handicrafts emporium on M G Road, Cauvery showcases sandalwood carvings, Mysore silk, rosewood inlay and regional crafts. The KSHDCL showroom has long gathered the state's crafts under one roof.
Best for Karnataka handicrafts, sandalwood and silk
Cavour 1880 occupies a frescoed 19th-century room on Via Gombito in Bergamo's Città Alta and has been run since 1994 by the Cerea family of the Da Vittorio restaurant. Its counters carry pastries, spoon desserts, artisanal gelato, and cakes made under the Da Vittorio name.
Best for Historic Città Alta pastries and Da Vittorio gelato
Cayman Craft Market Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 The widest selection of uniquely Caymanian gifts and souvenirs For a one-of-a-kind shopping experience, the bustling Cayman Craft Market in downtown George Town is the place to be! A stop at the Craft Market puts visitors in touch with the local artisans who create and display uniquely Caymanian art and craft souvenirs.
A family heritage distillery in Nanora village, established in 1969 and run by Gurudatta and Rupa Bhakta, hand-crafting GI-certified caju feni by century-old methods. It was among the first to receive GI certification for bottling authentic Goan cashew feni.
In Hakahau, the main village of Ua Pou, this community craft centre gathers the island's artisanat and is listed as such by Petit Fute. It is a place to find Ua Pou's celebrated 'pierre fleurie' flower-stone carvings.
Best for Ua Pou flower-stone (pierre fleurie) carvings and local crafts
The Centre Culturel Paul Gauguin in Atuona presents the painter's life and final years on Hiva Oa through an interpretive exhibition. Its displays include reproductions of paintings and historical material, alongside a reconstruction of the Maison du Jouir on its original site. The centre opened in 2003; visitors should not expect a collection of original Gauguin paintings.
Best for Gauguin history and the reconstructed Maison du Jouir
The Centre Culturel Paul Gauguin in Atuona explains the painter's final years on Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands. The centre opened in 2003 and presents a permanent exhibition about his life and work rather than a collection of original paintings. The pictures on display include reproductions, an important distinction for anyone planning a visit around seeing an original Gauguin canvas.
A reconstruction of the Maison du Jouir stands where Gauguin built his home during his time on the island. The photographs and documents help place that building within his daily life in Atuona, alongside objects from the period. A dedicated part of the presentation considers how Marquesan culture influenced his work during those final years.
Gauguin lived on Hiva Oa from 1901 until 1903 and is buried at the Calvaire cemetery, separate from the centre. The centre provides context for that island connection through interpretation of the artist and his surroundings. A visit focuses on reproduced works and historical material rather than a gallery promising original paintings for viewing or purchase.
Chacha Museum is a Mount Abu handicrafts emporium stacked with brass figures, silver-plated artefacts, carved wooden idols and kantha-stitched cotton quilts. Regulars browse the showroom in person or order the same antique-style pieces through its online cart.
Best for Handicrafts, brassware, wooden crafts, textiles
A Chengde workshop and gallery that develops and sells cultural-creative products rooted in local intangible heritage, including Fengning bu hu hua fabric-paste pictures built up from layered, cotton-stuffed silk. It documents and markets regional crafts drawn from the imperial Mountain Resort city's traditions.
Best for Fengning fabric-paste pictures and heritage craft goods
Clara Stones shapes Adriatic red coral and other stones into contemporary necklaces, earrings and rings at its atelier on Naljeskoviceva in the Old Town. Collections such as Love Coral draw on Mediterranean coral, and the workshop sits alongside the shop and online store.
Katie Childs set up her working studio gallery at 2 The Terrace in Port Isaac in 1997, painting the surrounding Cornish coastline in oil pastel and collage and selling originals, limited-edition prints and printed-fabric homeware from the same space where she paints daily. Much of her original work is completed on commission and shipped worldwide from the gallery's online shop.
Best for Art Studio & Gallery, Paintings, Homeware
Founded by Ann and Bill Jarvis in 1985 and based in a Clovelly barn conversion since 1995, this workshop hand-screen-prints silk scarves, fabric, and accessories in classic English patterns. The studio has produced commissions for the Royal Academy of Arts and English Heritage.
Co-Operative Coir is a Kerala manufacturer and exporter of traditional Alappuzha coir products including mats, rugs and rope. It is part of the region's signature natural-fibre industry.
Colectivo de Diseño is a collective of local designers who sell handmade design and craft pieces together in one shop. It gives its address as Libertad 290 in the Patagonian city of Bariloche, Argentina.
This downtown Athens boutique gathers goods from Southern and local makers, from home items to award-winning food products. Independently run, it puts regional craft and small-batch producers within a single storefront.
Comploj Albert woodcarvings has carved crib figures and religious and secular sculptures from lime and maple wood for three generations, run by the Comploj family from their shop in the center of Ortisei. The recently refurbished showroom displays one of the valley's largest nativity-figure collections, and the full range also ships through the shop's online store.
A Gijón preserver founded in 1964 in the Veriña district, hand-packing Cantabrian white tuna, other fish and shellfish to traditional Asturian recipes without additives. The full range of tins is sold through the company's online shop.
Cook Craft Canoe Co. operates out of Lake of Bays in Muskoka, Ontario, building custom wood-canvas canoes designed around each paddler's vision. The shop also performs detailed, handcrafted canoe restoration that preserves a canoe's original character.
Since 1895, this Volterra cooperative has carved and polished alabaster into lamps, sculptures, and everyday objects, continuing a craft tradition recognized as a National Historic Enterprise of Italy. Visitors can browse the shop on Piazza dei Priori or book a guided tour of the workshop on Via Padre Eugenio Barsanti to watch artisans at work.
Cooperstown Bat Company turns and finishes wooden baseball bats, from BBCOR-approved playing models to engraved display bats commemorating teams and players. The maker sells directly to players and collectors, offering personalized and commemorative bats alongside its stock best sellers.
Best for Hand-turned and custom-engraved wooden baseball bats
Established in 1849, the Cordani weaving mill in Zoagli produces 100% silk velvet, including the smooth Genoese velvet, on wooden looms some of which date to the 16th to 18th centuries. It holds the Artigiani in Liguria - Velluto di Zoagli trademark protecting the local craft.
Cosecha presents Aruban craft and design through jewellery and textiles alongside sculpture and painted driftwood. Published accounts describe work carrying Aruba's national craftsmanship seal and distinguish shops in Oranjestad and San Nicolas. The Oranjestad location occupies a restored building at Zoutmanstraat 1, while a Santa Cruz page label should not be mistaken for the shop's address.
Best for Aruban craft, jewellery and locally themed design
Craft Bierhaus combines a Revelstoke craft-beer bar with bottle sales for take-away. The retail component is real, but draught service and hospitality remain central to the business.
A craft brewery at Jereka in the Bohinj valley brewing four beers named for Slovenian folklore, from the Man of the Lake summer ale to a black IPA and a sweet stout called Čatež from Bohinj. The beers are brewed under Polinar d.o.o. and distributed across Bohinj and beyond.
Craft Cottage sells work by Bahamian makers from the garden of Doongalik Studios on Village Road in Nassau. Handmade jewellery and painted glass sit alongside straw bags and bath products such as soaps. Shopping for crafts can be combined with looking at Bahamian art in the neighbouring Doongalik gallery and its garden setting.
Best for Bahamian craft gifts in the Doongalik gallery garden
Craft Cottage is a shop in the garden of Doongalik Studios on Village Road in Nassau, offering work by Bahamian makers. Its range includes handmade jewellery and painted glass, alongside straw bags and bath products such as soaps. This gives shoppers several ways to choose a small craft purchase without limiting the visit to framed artwork.
The surrounding Doongalik complex has a separate identity as an art gallery and a place for Bahamian cultural activity. Jackson Burnside and his wife Pam established Doongalik in the 1970s to support Bahamian art and culture. The gallery occupies an older building with a garden, giving the Cottage a setting alongside the work shown there.
Nassau's visitor information describes the Cottage as a shared setting for local artists as well as a retail outlet. A visit can therefore combine looking at craft goods with exploring the neighbouring gallery and its garden setting. Choose the object and maker that interest you, rather than assuming all items come from one workshop or use one technique.
Crafted Coffee Studio runs a specialty coffee bar at Strada Anastasie Panu 17-19 in central Iasi, pouring espresso and batch-brew filter coffee alongside cakes and pastries, with outdoor seating for guests who want to stay. Open weekdays 8 a.m.-4 p.m. and weekends 9 a.m.-3 p.m., it is counted among Iasi's small cluster of dedicated specialty-coffee cafes and keeps a rotating selection of beans for sale to take home.
Best for Crafted Coffee Studio runs a specialty coffee bar at Strada Anastasie Panu
Crafted Coffee Studio operates from Strada Anastasie Panu 17-19 in central Iasi, open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and weekends from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cafe is counted among Iasi's small cluster of dedicated specialty-coffee addresses, serving both espresso and batch-brew filter coffee alongside cakes and pastries, with outdoor seating for guests who want to linger rather than take away. Like most of the city's specialty shops, it keeps a rotating selection of beans behind the counter for home brewing, with staff on hand to match a roast to a guest's equipment. The studio format -- a small, focused bar rather than a multi-room cafe -- puts the emphasis on the cup itself: filter and espresso methods aimed at drinkers who want to taste a bean's origin character rather than a house-blend default. Reviewers note the space is cozy but limited in size, so seating can fill during peak hours. It suits visitors exploring Iasi's old town who want a considered coffee break -- a slow filter or a tightly pulled espresso -- over a fast counter order, plus the option to carry beans home for later.
It is best known for Handmade goods from local and regional artisans — jewelry, home decor, prints, ceramics; craft-focused shop supporting the maker community.
This Oak Bluffs gallery on Martha's Vineyard carries contemporary American-made craft across jewelry, pottery, blown glass, turned wood, garden art and whimsical critters from dozens of studio makers. The full inventory is browsable and buyable through its direct online storefront as well as on the island.
Best for Craft gallery, American handmade, jewelry, ceramics, glass, woodwork
Creaarte fills its Temuco storefront at Avenida Las Mariposas 4370 with handcrafted decor pieces, including custom electricity-meter housing covers, and serves customers across Temuco, Padre Las Casas, and Labranza. A recent Google reviewer praised two visits, calling the shop 'excellent' and 'better every day.'
Led by art master T. Baskaran, this Mamallapuram workshop near the Five Rathas employs around fifty carvers producing traditional stone idols and statues for buyers in India and abroad. Pieces are viewed at the workshop and commissioned directly.
Best for Traditional stone idols and statues hand-carved by fifty craftsmen under art master
Set inside the former Six Ministries compound of the Nguyễn-dynasty citadel, this workshop sells hand-sewn poem hats (nón bài thơ), lotus-leaf conical hats, painted kites, and paper lotus flowers made on site by resident artisans. Visitors can watch or join the hat-stitching and kite-painting before buying the finished pieces in the same courtyard.
Best for Hand-stitched poem hats and citadel-made crafts bought where they're produced
Custom House Studios + Gallery occupies a historic quayside building in Westport, hosting rotating solo exhibitions from contemporary Irish and international artists. The gallery is open daily with regular artist talks and workshops alongside its changing sales exhibitions.
Best for Contemporary art exhibitions, artist talks and workshops
Damascus Box commissions Old City artisans, including named craftsmen such as Mohammad Tarek Aldahh, to make trays, boxes and mirrors inlaid with walnut, lemonwood and mother-of-pearl in traditional geometric patterns. Each piece is handmade in Damascus and dispatched with a certificate of authenticity from the company's Berlin base.
Best for Damascene mosaic trays, boxes and marquetry gifts
Dandong Laotang Textile Mill turns local silk into exfoliating bath gloves and body scrub mitts, drawing on Liaoning's long tussah-silk tradition along the Yalu River. It sells single- and double-layer silk gloves and self-tanning mitts direct to retail and wholesale buyers through its own site.
Danforth Pewter has spun and cast pewter in Vermont since 1975, producing oil lamps, ornaments, jewelry and tableware from its own workshop. Its Church Street shop sells the line directly, much of it hand-finished by the company's smiths.
Daniela Bustos Maya is a Mérida-based accessories label working with vintage 20th-century Mexican coins and Yucatán hammock-weaving techniques. The designer, who is Argentine-born, has built pieces around this craft for about a decade.
Best for Handwoven accessories made with vintage 20th-century Mexican coins and Yucatán hammock-thread techniques
Daniela Bustos Maya is an accessories label based in Mérida, Mexico, built around two specific materials: original 20th-century Mexican coins and the woven threads traditionally used to make Yucatán hammocks. According to the designer's own account, published through NOT JUST A LABEL, the brand emerged roughly a decade ago from her family's weaving tradition, and grew into a collaboration with hammock artisans in Yucatán, working together to "rescue and use different weaving techniques" with thread produced locally in the region. The designer describes her own background as Argentine-born, and frames the brand explicitly as a way of honoring Mexico - the place that "received and accompanied her with love" - without erasing the influence of her life in Argentina and the rest of Latin America. That dual identity shows up directly in the work: pieces are designed to function as a wearable, symbolic connection to Mexican culture, built through techniques passed down across generations of hammock weavers rather than mass-manufactured accessory production. The brand sells directly through its own online store at danielabustosmaya.com.mx, alongside a designer profile on NOT JUST A LABEL, the international platform for emerging designers, which lists Mérida as her base and Mexico as her manufacturing home.
Daniele Boldrini sculpts alabaster, marble and terracotta from his workshop on Via Don Minzoni in Volterra, having learned alabaster working from Volterran craftsmen after training as an accountant. He also works semi-precious stones and focuses his figurative pieces on animals and nature.
Dario Cecchini is an eighth-generation artisan butcher in Panzano in Chianti. His macelleria on Via XX Luglio follows a nose-to-tail philosophy in which nothing is wasted. The shop sells jars of house preparations, runs a grill-only menu and a grill truck, and ships boxes of its recipes from Panzano.
Best for Eighth generation, nose-to-tail, Dante quotes, global icon.
Dario Cecchini carries on the craft of the artisan butcher in the eighth generation of his family. His shop stands on Via XX Luglio in Panzano in Chianti, where he guards the flavours of his own land. The philosophy is summed up in a few words, dal naso alla coda, from nose to tail. Nothing is wasted, and every part of the animal has dignity and finds its place in the kitchen. From that idea come the preparations and the jars sold in the macelleria and shipped from Panzano. The website states plainly that there are no rare breeds and no cover-page names, only beef raised with care. Alongside the butcher's counter run a grill-only menu and a small truck with a grill on board, which also appears in San Giovanni Valdarno. A warning greets visitors at the door, abandon all hope you who enter, you are in the hands of the butcher. Boxes of four jars can be assembled from the house recipes, and a meal voucher can be bought for Panzano. Shipping times and costs are calculated by destination, and the shop says good things do not like haste.
Dastkar Ranthambore sells Bandhani tie-dye textiles made by artisans in Rajasthan's Sawai-Madhopur district, part of a craft-revival project Dastkar began in 1991. The project has grown from around 100 workers to more than 2,000.
Best for Dastkar Ranthambore sells Bandhani tie-dye textiles made by artisans in Rajasthan's Sawai-Madhopur
Dastkar Ranthambore is a craft-revival project run by Dastkar, the Delhi-based not-for-profit society for craftspeople established in 1981. Beginning in 1991, the project focused on villages around the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan's Sawai-Madhopur district, an area where local artisans had largely abandoned traditional skills in favor of agricultural labor. Dastkar's intervention centered on reviving Bandhani tie-dye textile work: at the project's start there were around 100 Bandhani workers in the district; today there are more than 2,000. The project established a dedicated Crafts Centre, the Dastkari Kendra, where designers from India's National Institute of Design and National Institute of Fashion Technology ran training in contemporary product development, tailoring, cutting and sizing, indigo and natural dye techniques, and pottery firing and glazing. The economic impact has been direct and measured: average monthly earnings that stood around Rs. 500 before the project now range from Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 6,000, and the project's annual turnover grew from Rs. 22 lakhs to Rs. 1.29 crore within seven years. Beyond income, the Kendra expanded into a broader community hub, hosting legal aid, health and adult literacy sessions - work Dastkar credits with easing caste divisions that existed in the area before the project began.
Leanne Coulter and Rhonda Davis, who settled on Daufuskie Island in 2010 and 2011, began dyeing indigo together in 2013 from the island's historic Maryfield School. They use Japanese shibori resist techniques to hand-dye scarves and cloth and teach hands-on indigo workshops.
Best for Shibori-technique indigo dyeing and workshops on Daufuskie Island, since 2013
Leanne McJunkin Coulter and Rhonda Davis both ended up on Daufuskie Island — accessible only by boat — within a year of each other: Coulter moved from Cincinnati in 2010, Davis from outside Memphis in 2011. The two became friends on the island before turning that friendship into a shared craft practice.
In 2013 they learned to build and maintain their first indigo vat, beginning a dyeing partnership that, as they put it, has kept their hands "a constant shade of blue" ever since. Their work is explicitly framed as reviving a historic South Carolina Lowcountry indigo tradition rather than introducing a new one, done from a studio inside the island's historic Maryfield School.
Technically, their process follows shibori, the Japanese manual resist-dyeing method, applied to scarves, cloth and other natural-fiber textiles to produce one-of-a-kind patterns. The pair also run exclusive, hands-on workshops where visitors learn the history and techniques directly and dye their own scarf to take home.
De Aquí y De Allá is a souvenir shop specializing in Andean art work, local handcraft, accessories and clothing, with a second shop on the same street at Lautaro Rosas 585-A in Valparaíso.
Demetz Patrick carves nativity scenes, religious figures and chess sets at its wood-carving laboratory in S. Cristina in Val Gardena, a craft tradition in the valley dating back to the 17th century. Customers can shop the full catalog online or visit the wood carving store in person, and the workshop also takes commissions for personalized sculptures.
Dhillon's is an award-winning Coventry microbrewery founded in 2015, canning eight core beers including Sky Blue Army Lager and Red Rebel IPA in nods to Coventry City FC. It runs brewery tours from its Rowley's Green site and also operates the Sky Blue Tavern and Spire Bar in the city.
Our pieces distinguish as well as evoke the right emotions, memories and experience. Din Chel's Craft and Souvenirs, supplying top quality Dominican and Caribbean Crafts and Souvenirs since 2007.
Master cutter Sean Daly founded this family workshop in 1999, hand-cutting deep-relief crystal glassware and gifts with patterns drawn from the Dingle landscape. Visitors can watch cutting at the Green Street premises in the Gaeltacht.
DMC was founded in Mulhouse in 1746 as a printed-cotton manufacturer; its embroidery floss came later and has been made in the same Mulhouse factory since 1898. That factory still produces the mouliné cotton at the heart of its cross-stitch and needlework range today.
Best for Embroidery floss, cross-stitch kits, and needlework supplies.
A social enterprise brand from a royal development project, operating across coffee and macadamia, handicrafts, a cafe, tourism and horticulture divisions, plus a lodge. Its store sells gifts, seasonal fashion and eco-products alongside plants.
Barbara Domsky's studio fuses and casts glass panels, chandeliers, and wall sculptures for private clients and hospitality projects, with past commissions for Wynn Encore and Neiman Marcus. Every piece is designed and fabricated in-house, from the first sketch through the final kiln firing.
Best for Commissioned glass sculpture and lighting
Jackson Burnside's Doongalik Studios is the home of Bahamian art — gallery, garden and shop for junkanoo-fired painting, sculpture and craft. The island's real creative address, own door and all.
Best for Bahamian art and craft from the source gallery
Veteran shaper Doug Haut has built custom Santa Cruz surfboards under his own label for decades, from shortboards to longboards. His range includes the classic Santa Cruz designs the region is known for.
Best for Custom shortboards and longboards shaped by veteran Santa Cruz surfmaker Doug Haut
This north-end Longboat Key shop opened in 2021 and fills its floor with handmade housewares, apparel, and decor from more than fifty local and largely women-owned makers. A back garden doubles as event and workshop space, keeping the inventory rotating with fresh artisan pieces every week.
Housed inside the Sámi cultural centre Sajos, Duodji Shop was founded by the Finnish Sámi Craftsmen's Association together with its artisan members, who set their own prices for the silver jewellery, knives, wood and antler pieces, and woven goods they consign. The shop also stocks books and music in Northern, Inari and Skolt Sámi.
Best for Authentic Sámi duodji and Sámi-language books
Earthlings Coffee Workshop runs the Sarawak Liberica Refinement Project, a six-phase research effort into Borneo's native Liberica and Excelsa coffee varieties, published in MDPI and covered by the BBC. The Kuching-based company also trains baristas through its own Coffee Academy.
Best for Sarawak Liberica coffee researched through the Sarawak Liberica Refinement Project
Earthlings Coffee Workshop is registered in Kuching, Sarawak (company number 953427-K) and organizes its work around three stated pillars — coffee, culture, and humanity. Its central, most distinguishing initiative is the Sarawak Liberica Refinement Project, a six-phase research and development effort into Liberica and Excelsa varieties native to Borneo, aimed at improving and documenting quality in coffee species that get far less specialty-market attention than arabica or robusta. That research has been published in the peer-reviewed outlet MDPI and covered by international press including the BBC, the South China Morning Post, and MAS Going Places Magazine — third-party coverage of a coffee heritage story rather than the shop's own marketing copy. Beyond research, Earthlings runs a Coffee Academy offering "Coffeologist" training courses, supplies wholesale beans and machines, and organizes farm trips to Liberica-growing areas such as Bario and Long Banga. It also hosted the 2025 Borneo Coffee Events, including a symposium and a team brewing competition, positioning itself as an organizer within the regional coffee scene rather than only a retailer. The combination of a named refinement project, published research, and international press coverage gives Earthlings a more documented claim to expertise in Liberica coffee than most single-origin retailers can offer.
Ecofiltro is an Antigua-founded Guatemalan social enterprise that designs and manufactures clay water filters. A store and café in the Antigua area sell its filters and other goods.
Best for Handmade clay water filters and social-enterprise goods
Edwin Fii is a registered Hiva Oa artisan who carves and engraves wood, mother-of-pearl, bone and bamboo, listed in the official Service de l'Artisanat Traditionnel directory. He also makes traditional jewelry and wind instruments.
Best for Carved bone pendants and Marquesan sculpture from the artist's Taaoa atelier
Edwin Fii is a sculptor and engraver working from Taaoa on the island of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas, French Polynesia. For more than 30 years he has specialised in the techniques of working bone, and he describes that passion as having become his profession. His inspiration comes from Polynesian legends and from scenes of daily life, with nature as a further source. His current work is three dimensional pieces that he describes as growing finer and more detailed with each work. Titles shown on his site include Makaiaanui, the pig that crossed the sea, and Tapati at Rapa Nui. The Service de l'Artisanat Traditionnel lists him as an accredited expert whose registered activities include sculpture and engraving on wood and bone as well as mother-of-pearl and bamboo. Traditional jewellery and the making of wind instruments complete that listing. He shows and sells his work at the village of Atuona on exhibition dates published on his site, and pendants are offered online. Visitors may also call at the house, since his atelier stands near the Tohua Upeke sacred site in the Taaoa valley. He asks that anyone planning a visit or requesting a quote contact him beforehand by email.
Einzigartig Creativshop is a craft-supply store and seminar space in St. Pölten, selling art materials and hobby goods alongside a full calendar of classes in pottery, Fimo figures, and other handmade crafts. The shop keeps regular weekday and Saturday hours from its Kortenstraße storefront.
Ekawayuu, based in Riohacha near the Wayuu community in La Guajira, Colombia, sells hand-woven mochilas, bolsos, sombreros, morrales and clutches made by Wayuu community artisans using traditional weaving techniques. The site notes that small variations make each piece unique.
El Cerdito Andaluz is an artisan embutidos maker in Benaoján, producing handmade Andalusian cured sausages and pork products. It sells directly through its own site.
Best for Artisan Andalusian chorizo, salchichón and cured pork
At its Santa Cruz de las Huertas furnace in Tonala, El Nuevo Triangulo de Cristal blows glass into rock glasses, decanters, oil lamps and colored spheres. The family shop lists prices in pesos and takes orders directly through its site and WhatsApp.
Ernest Wright has hand-forged scissors and shears at its Kutrite Works in central Sheffield since 1902, an endangered craft recognized with the Heritage Crafts Association's inaugural President's Award. Every pair is made to order and sold through the company's own online shop.
Ernesto Milanés Art and Cigars, Hand in Hand - CubaPLUS Magazine for exploring Cuba through a whole new lens! Milanés was born in Santiago de Cuba more than three decades ago and considers himself an artist who enjoys craftwork, especially humidors.
An art space in the heart of the old town that sells works by a roster of regional painters and makers and runs exhibitions, workshops and creative events. The shop rotates pieces across the artists it represents.
Estudio 1331 es un proyecto de diseño y arte de Mujeres en las Artes (MUA), dedicado a crear productos de cuero, souvenirs culturales y experiencias creativas hechas en Honduras. Descubre diseño local con propósito, artesanía hondureña y talleres que inspiran.
Ethical marketplace of 100% made-in-Corsica craft — AOP charcuterie, maquis honey, immortelle cosmetics, and Corsican knives from vetted island artisans.
Best for Island-made charcuterie, honey, cosmetics, and knives.
Ethnics of Kutch sells hand block-printed Ajrakh textiles, Bandhej sarees, Lippan Kam mud mirror work and other Kutch handicrafts through its online shop, which ships worldwide with cash-on-delivery and returns available in India. The retailer also lists a corporate gifting and bulk-order catalogue for wholesale customers.
Founded in 2016 by the Georgian Heritage Crafts Association, EthnoDesign gathers handmade jewelry, ceramic tableware, and décor from artisans across Georgia into one social-enterprise shop at 23 G. Akhvlediani Street in Tbilisi. Every purchase helps support the local craft traditions and makers whose work fills its shelves.
Based in Bagan's Wet Kyi Inn quarter, Ever Stand builds lacquerware on woven bamboo cores layered with lacquer resin, clay, sawdust and ash, then hand-etches or hand-paints designs and polishes with fossil-wood ash. The family workshop has shown work at Maison&Objet Paris.
Best for Bamboo-core Myanmar lacquerware, hand-etched and hand-painted
Ever Stand operates from the Wet Kyi Inn quarter, between Old Bagan and Nyaung Oo, an area the workshop describes as sitting within Myanmar's historic lacquerware heartland, where the craft is documented back to the Bagan period of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. The business presents itself as a family workshop, with techniques handed down from father to son across generations rather than taught through an outside apprenticeship system.
Production follows the traditional Bagan method: a base is built from woven bamboo strips, then built up in repeated layers of lacquer resin mixed with clay, wood sawdust and ash to give the surface strength and shape. Designs are then applied by hand, either etched into the surface or painted on, before a final polish using fossil-wood ash. The resulting catalogue spans boxes, trays and plates, vases, place mats, bowls and cups, decorative objects, and pieces finished in gold or silver leaf.
The workshop has taken this output beyond Bagan's local market, exhibiting at the Maison&Objet trade fair in Paris in March 2022, a step that points to export and international wholesale activity alongside its workshop-door retail trade.
This showroom works exclusively in fiber resin, casting a Jungle Art collection of tropical-forest forms alongside a Modern Art line of geometric, art-deco-influenced pieces. Clients can also commission made-to-measure sculptures sized for a specific room or garden.
Fa'asamoa Arts is a Samoan art studio and gallery in Pago Pago, American Samoa, dedicated to reviving and teaching siapo, a traditional Samoan textile art form. The site credits artist Mary J. Pritchard, known as Auntie Mary, with keeping the craft alive through creation, education, and research.
Best for Traditional Samoan siapo textile art and craft education
Fahmi Sasirangan is an award-winning house that pairs modern tailoring with Borneo's sasirangan heritage. It makes handmade shirts, blazers, jackets, tunics, vests and coordinated sets, sold online and through listed stores.
Best for Modern sasirangan fashion, handmade Borneo garments
Falagan weaves wool blankets, scarves and ponchos in Val de San Lorenzo, a Maragatería village that counted eighty-one cloth makers in the mid-1700s and once sent its mantas across Spain with muleteer traders. The workshop still uses natural dyes and pure sheep's wool, and its output sits alongside a village textile museum that documents the centuries-old process.
Fancywork is an independent yarn shop in the Bend Central District, stocking hand-dyed, American and imported yarns alongside needles, hooks, patterns and books. It doubles as a knitting and crochet hub, running classes and events for Central Oregon's fibre crafters.
Fanilo Miampita, founded in 1995 in Antsirabe, Madagascar, is a family atelier working with wild silk, treated cottons, pearls and gold thread, using hand sewing, embroidery, knitting and screen printing to create traditional Malagasy and custom-commissioned pieces. Director Lanto Randrianalifera says the enterprise provides stable employment, social protection and equitable salaries.
Atuona's artisan house gathers Hiva Oa's carvers and craftspeople under one roof on the island where Gauguin and Brel chose to stay forever. Tikis, tapa and seed jewelry, sold by the hands that made them.
The Facebook page describes it as showcasing the craftsmanship of artisans from Segou, listed as a clothing company and fabric store located in Sotuba, Bamako. A post titled "Segou is coming to you" announced Segou-made goods reaching Bamako.
In Ohrid's old town, the Filev family crafts the region's celebrated Ohrid pearls into necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and rings. Each piece is sold with certification through the shop and its online store.
Best for Certified Ohrid pearl necklaces, earrings, bracelets
Part butcher, part food emporium on the High Street, Fillet & Bone stocks quality meats, charcuterie, and provisions drawn from the Cotswolds' artisan producers. A click-and-collect service lets locals order ahead from its Food to Order range.
Best for Quality meats, charcuterie, local provisions
At her Filtværket workshop on Ørstedsgade, Mette Østman designs and hand-felts wool pieces for the home and the body and teaches felting courses. Her studio and webshop carry the felted work, all made from pure wool.
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