Plate M-12 · 1,417 stores · 901–1050 of 1417 · curated ORBIS register
This plate lists 1,417 shops in 130 countries. Paris has the most with 15, followed by Delhi with 14. Among these shops, 84 describe made-to-order work, 21 offer repairs, 151 sell online and 9 work by appointment, going by their own descriptions.
Ask who made the piece: ask whether the maker is in the workshop, or whether the shop sells other makers' work.
Ask how it was made: ask about the materials and the process, and whether a piece can be made to order.
Ask how it will travel: ask for packing or shipping for anything fragile, bulky or heavy.
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Greenville, SC
This family-owned brewery pours more than twenty house beers plus seltzers and ciders from a converted downtown warehouse with a pet-friendly biergarden. Shareable plates, regular bluegrass and jazz sessions, and an annual Oktoberfest fill the calendar.
Best for Downtown biergarden with small-batch beer
Joe Batt's Arm, Fogo Island, Newfoundland
Owned by the Shorefast charity, this maker produces furniture in a community woodshop and quilts, knitwear and wallpaper stitched by Fogo Island residents. The shop at 193 Main Road in Joe Batt's Arm carries the Fogo Island Inn collections alongside textiles developed with designers such as Christopher Farr.
Best for Island-made furniture, quilts, knitwear and textiles
Sheffield / United Kingdom
Since 2012, Forge Bakehouse has hand-made White Peak sourdough and pastries across six Sheffield locations, including a stand inside the train station. Croissants and Portuguese custard tarts round out a case where coffee is also ground fresh per cup.
Best for Handmade White Peak sourdough and Portuguese custard tarts
Forge Bakehouse opened in Sheffield in 2012 and has since grown from a single shop into six locations across the city, including a stand inside Sheffield train station — a foothold that puts fresh bread and pastry in front of commuters rather than only neighborhood regulars. Everything is described as made in-house by a team of artisan bakers and pastry chefs, with the bakery's White Peak sourdough as a signature loaf named for the national park just outside the city. The pastry case runs through French standards — croissants, pain au chocolat, almond croissants — alongside Portuguese custard tarts, a combination that reads more like a modern European bakery than a strictly traditional English one. Coffee gets the same hands-on treatment as the baking: rather than running on autopilot machines, staff dial in and grind fresh beans for each cup, treating the drink as its own craft rather than an afterthought to the pastries. Customers can order ahead for click-and-collect online or buy directly at any of the six shops.
Ortisei / Italy / Online
Franco is a Val Gardena woodcarving manufactory active since 1929, whose local artisans hand-carve and hand-paint madonnas, nativity scenes, angels, crucifixes and secular pieces from alpine wood. Every carving from its own workshop is sold through the Franco online shop and its physical shop in Ortisei.
Best for Woodcarving, sculptures, nativities, crucifixes, religious art
Chiavari
Fratelli Levaggi builds the Chiavarina, the light bentwood-and-cane chair invented in Chiavari in the early 1800s, shaping cherry frames and hand-weaving rush seats by hand. The family workshop makes the classic Campanino and its variants to order, supplying theatres, palaces and collectors.
Best for Handmade Chiavarina (Campanino) chairs
Friday Harbor
A fine-art gallery and shop in Friday Harbor showing oil paintings, prints and nautical work by San Juan Islands artists. The gallery hosts open houses and rotating shows alongside an online store of island art.
Best for Local San Juan Islands fine art
Brienz
The Fuchs family has carved wood in Brienz across several generations, producing figurative sculpture, animals and decorative pieces in local hardwoods. Their workshop continues the town's Holzbildhauerei tradition and sells carvings directly to visitors.
Best for Heritage Brienz woodcarving
Mt Fuji northern foothills / Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi
A craft brewery working at 1,000 metres in Mount Fuji's forested northern foothills, brewing Pils, Weizen, Rauch and Schwarz Weizen to German technique with the mountain's soft spring water. The beers are poured and sold at its Sylvans bar-restaurant down in Fujikawaguchiko and through an online shop.
Best for German-style Mt Fuji craft beer
Nishikatsura (Fuji Five Lakes), Yamanashi
The Fujizakura studio of silk weaver Yamazaki Orimono, carrying on the fine Gunnai textile tradition of Mount Fuji's foothills at Nishikatsura. It weaves neckties and stoles that set historical Japanese patterns into contemporary Western dress.
Best for Gunnai silk ties and stoles
Barichara, Santander
The Fundación Escuela Taller Barichara preserves the town's traditional building and artisan skills, from ceramics and stone to weaving. It also produces its own line of artisan goods.
Best for Traditional crafts & ceramics
Rua das Pedras 168, lj 7, 8, Armação dos Búzios, RJ
A long-established gallery and atelier on Rua das Pedras built around sculptor Flory Menezes's permanent collection. It also shows paintings, drawings, engravings and photography from more than 20 represented artists.
Best for Original sculpture and Búzios contemporary art
Centro, San José
Galería Namu, founded in 1998, is a fair-trade gallery in San José dealing in indigenous and folk art from Central America's tribal communities. The collection spans Boruca masks, Embera and Wounaan basketry, hand-carved tagua nut pieces, pre-Columbian-style work and Costa Rican folk art, with proceeds paid directly to artisans.
Best for Boruca masks, Emberá basketry and hand-carved tagua pieces
Giverny (village centre)
A gallery in the centre of Giverny showing art and craft by a rotating roster of artists, with a shop selling works on paper, paintings and objects. It has run collective and seasonal exhibitions since 2015.
Best for Contemporary art and craft by village artists
17 Cloitre Notre-Dame, Chartres
Standing at the foot of the cathedral since 1976, this gallery showcases the Loire family's four generations of master glassmakers, selling stained glass in traditional lead, fused glass, dalle-de-verre and Tiffany lamps. It handles both new commissions and antique nineteenth- and twentieth-century panels.
Best for Stained glass art and Tiffany lamps
Tbilisi Old Town / Georgia
Gallery 27 fills its storefront at N52 L. Asatiani Street in Tbilisi with handmade Georgian homeware, clothing, accessories, and ethno-design pieces, open daily from noon to 7pm. Shoppers can browse categories like Homeware and Ethno both in person and through the gallery's direct online ordering.
Best for Multi-Craft Gallery, Handmade, Georgian Crafts
Carmel-by-the-Sea
Michael and Elizabeth Lynberg opened Gallery-by-the-Sea in 2013 to show Michael's dramatic landscape and seascape photography of the Monterey coast. The walls also carry paintings and fine-art photography by other regional artists, including views of Pebble Beach and the local shoreline.
Best for Coastal fine-art photography and paintings
Sopocachi, La Paz
Family-run creative workshop in La Paz connecting art with everyday style, with a physical shop selling art prints and Bolivian crafts.
Best for Gallery
East Village
At the Gallery of Wearable Art, Christopher and Dinah Lee design and sew hand-printed silk jackets, kimonos, shawls and painted denim on site in Cambria's East Village. All of the Lees' pieces are made in California and shown beside labels such as Marushka and Desigual.
Best for Hand-printed silk and painted-denim wearable art
Jackson, Wyoming
Gallery Wild is owned by wildlife painter Carrie Wild and photographer Jason Williams, who built the space around contemporary art focused on wildlife, open land, and conservation. The gallery pairs paintings, bronzes, and photography from established and emerging artists with an on-site studio where artists demonstrate technique.
Best for Contemporary wildlife art
Paroa, Greymouth, West Coast, New Zealand
Carver Garth Wilson works pounamu at his studio on the road to Shantytown near Paroa, drawing on customary rights to gather jade from local rivers and mountains. Every piece is carved by hand, with a seasonal gallery and a year-round online shop.
Best for Hand-carved pounamu with customary provenance
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Garvi Gurjari is the heritage emporium of the Gujarat State Handloom and Handicrafts Development Corporation. It retails authentic Gujarati handloom textiles and handicrafts sourced from state artisans.
Best for Authentic Gujarati handloom and handicrafts
Downtown Georgetown
A cooperative of around twenty local artists who show painting, photography and craft drawn from the surrounding Lowcountry in downtown Georgetown. Members staff the gallery in turn and rotate the work on the walls.
Best for Work by Lowcountry artists
Ebeltoft
A studio-glass workshop making one-off hand-blown pieces alongside sets of drinking glasses in Ebeltoft. The makers sell their own work directly through the site rather than through third-party shops.
Best for Hand-blown drinking glasses and one-off studio pieces
Taufers / Italy
In her workshop at Bayergasse 12 in Sand in Taufers, South Tyrol, Marion Plankensteiner shapes glass into jewelry and objects using flame-worked beads and kiln-fused glass techniques. The studio keeps set retail hours, weekday mornings and afternoons plus Saturday mornings, and sells finished pieces both in person and through its online shop.
Best for Glass Art, Jewelry, Studio Shop
Multiple locations / Online
It is best known for Fair-trade Ghanaian-made clothing, textiles and crafts supporting women artisans across 6 communities.
Best for Fair-trade Ghanaian-made clothing, textiles and crafts supporting women artisans across 6 communities
Golden, British Columbia
The Golden Artisan Co-op on 9th Avenue North gathers handmade work from local makers, from soaps and pottery to textiles and regional honey. Run as a rent-based cooperative, every item on its shelves is made by hand rather than bought in wholesale.
Best for Locally handmade goods
Musanze / Rwanda
The Azizi Life Gorillas Gift Shop sits on the Dian Fossey Fund's Ellen Campus at Kinigi, selling fair-trade Rwandan handicrafts including its exclusive gorilla nose-print baskets and imigongo paintings. On some days visitors can meet the weavers at work or book a hands-on weaving lesson with an artisan on campus.
Best for Handicrafts, baskets, weaving, imigongo, fair trade
Barlingbo
Founded by Mathias and Sakarias, this family distillery produces dry gin along with pink gin, vodka, cask-aged gin and ready-to-drink cocktails. It operates from Stafva Manor in Barlingbo, a site whose history reaches back to the 13th century.
Best for Craft gin and vodka
Flims Dorf, Switzerland
Run by four local riders at Via dil Crest 4 in Flims Dorf, Green Valley sells and rents bikes and operates an in-house workshop with a dedicated suspension-tuning service. It carries brands including Specialized and Orbea for the surrounding Flims-Laax trails.
Best for Mountain bike sales, rental, and suspension tuning
Langfang / China
Gu Junming is the thirteenth-generation heir to a family incense-making craft rooted in Guzhuang Village, Anci District, Langfang — a lineage his family and Beijing Daily's own reporting trace back roughly 600 years to the Yuan-Ming dynastic transition, when an ancestral migration from Shanxi is said to have carried the trade into Hebei.
Best for Thirteenth-generation, 600-year family incense craft near Beijing
Gu Junming is the thirteenth-generation heir to a family incense-making craft rooted in Guzhuang Village, Anci District, Langfang — a lineage his family and Beijing Daily's own reporting trace back roughly 600 years to the Yuan-Ming dynastic transition, when an ancestral migration from Shanxi is said to have carried the trade into Hebei. Gu began learning the craft at age six in the family workshop and now holds status as a Hebei Province-level representative transmitter of intangible cultural heritage for traditional incense-making technique, a provincial-level, not national-level, government designation, alongside a separately and privately conferred master-craftsman industry title. His business, registered as Hebei Gu's Incense Industry Co., Ltd., makes line incense, five-element wellness blends, and sandalwood incense through a traditional multi-step process — material selection, powder grinding, mixing to ancestral formulas, pressing, shaping, and drying — and in 2019 was designated a Yanzhao Old Brand, Hebei's regional heritage-business honor. In September 2023 the company signed a partnership with Beijing's Palace Museum Culture Propagation Co. to co-develop Forbidden City-themed handcrafted incense products. Commercially, Gu runs an active Douyin storefront and livestream operation begun in 2019 — 120,000 followers, 347,000 likes across 380 videos, and cumulative sales past 20,000 units nationwide, with single livestream sessions reported earning more than 80,000 yuan — alongside an e-commerce incubation base built to train other regional heritage craftspeople in online sales.
Shimadani, Gujo Hachiman
Watanabe Dyeworks has dyed with natural indigo in Hachiman-cho, Gujo, since around 1580, now run by 15th-generation dyer Kazuyoshi Watanabe. It hand-paints kachin-zome koinobori carp streamers rinsed each winter in the Yoshida River, and dyes noren, happi coats, scarves and bags in fermented natural indigo.
Best for Natural indigo dyeing and hand-painted koinobori
Watanabe Dyeworks (Gujo Honzome) has worked from Shimotani in Hachiman-cho, Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture, for roughly 430 years, tracing its indigo-dyeing lineage to around 1580. The current proprietor, 15th-generation dyer Kazuyoshi Watanabe, continues the Gujo honzome method documented by Gifu Prefecture's own tourism authority: a resist design is hand-drawn in rice paste, pigment is bound with gojiru (soybean extract) for the koinobori's painted colors, and cloth is dipped repeatedly in fermented natural indigo before a final rinse and sun-drying.
The workshop is best known for its hand-dyed koinobori carp streamers, colored by the kachin-zome method rather than vat indigo alone. Physicist Hideki Yukawa is recorded as praising the shop's carp as "wild and powerful," and the dyed streamers are traditionally rinsed in the cold winter waters of the nearby Yoshida River, a step said to set the colors and slow fading.
Beyond koinobori, the shop's natural-indigo output extends to noren curtains, happi coats, scarves and bags, alongside newer items such as tablet cases and coasters sold through its own online shop. Independent sources (Gifu Prefecture tourism site, the shop's Facebook and BASE storefronts) corroborate the family name, the 15th-generation figure and the indigo/koinobori specialization, though the shop's own official domain could not be directly verified due to a certificate mismatch on gujozome.jp.
Hashimoto-cho, Gujo Hachiman
A clog workshop that designs, carves and finishes geta worn for the Gujo Odori summer dance, using locally sourced cypress and cedar. Every pair is made in-house in Hashimoto-cho, from cutting the block to fitting the hanao thong.
Best for Made-in-Gujo dancing geta
Minami-cho, Gujo City
Tanizawa is a Gujo Hachiman kimono shop and authorized dealer of Gujo tsumugi, a hand-woven silk revived after the Second World War by Living National Treasure Rikizo Munehiro through his Gujo Craft Research Institute, with the technique certified in 1982. Alongside tsumugi kimono, obi and accessories, the shop carries plant- and indigo-dyed cloth and arranges weaving and dyeing visits by appointment.
Best for Gujo tsumugi silk and indigo textiles
Mauritius / Mauritius / Online
Carrying on a Mauritian ship-modelling tradition since 1982, H.M Ship Models' master craftsmen hand-build historical, motor and yacht replicas plus custom commissions. More than fifty models are displayed at its Floréal exhibition, and orders ship worldwide from the online store.
Best for M Ship Models' master craftsmen hand-build historical
Hachijojima
Yamashita weaves Kihachijo from pure silk colored with island plant dyes-safflower yellow, tabu-bark brown, and oak-bark black-and sells finished cloth and goods. The shop also bakes Kihachijo sables and runs a small inn for visitors who come to see the loom.
Best for Hand-woven Kihachijo silk
HafenCity
HafenCity Market is a regular market in HafenCity with local food producers, crafts, and harbour views.
Best for Local food producers, crafts, and harbour views at this regular HafenCity market.
Hakone (Gora)
A yosegi specialist in the Gora hot-spring quarter, Hakone Maruyama makes and sells himitsu-bako secret boxes, coasters and trays patterned with the craft's interlocking geometric mosaics. Its product pages break down the woods and techniques behind each piece.
Best for Himitsu-bako secret boxes
Hakuba, Nagano
This microbrewery uses snowmelt water from the peaks above Hakuba Village to make unfiltered, hand-capped beers including Hakuba IPA, Pale Ale and a dark Hakuba Black. Bottles in 330ml and 350ml formats plus merchandise are sold through the brewery's own online shop.
Best for Craft beer to drink in or take home
Tsugaike Kogen, Hakuba Valley
Billed as Japan's only brewery connected directly to a ski slope, this Tsugaike Kogen operation brews small-batch beer with Hakuba Valley water and serves it alongside house-made sausages. The taproom sits at the base of the Tsugaike ski area in the Hakuba Valley.
Best for Slope-side craft beer and food
Managua / Online
This Nicaraguan workshop weaves cotton hammocks by hand, from barred and travel styles to hanging chairs and custom-lettered pieces sold through its direct online store. They describe themselves as producers who make and export their hammocks worldwide, offering wholesale and personalized orders.
Best for Hammocks, cotton-weaving, handwoven, artisanal
Hakone (Hatajuku)
Hamamatsuya has worked wood in Hatajuku for more than two centuries, producing both veneered and solid yosegi-zaiku and the pictorial wood inlay known as mokuzougan. Its counter carries trays, boxes and framed marquetry pictures built from naturally colored timbers.
Best for Yosegi and mokuzougan wood inlay
Ogata, Bungo-ono
A fifth-generation sake brewery in Ogata making the Takakiya label by hand and pressing its junmai sake in traditional wooden fune. The Hamashima family follows a 'half-farming, half-brewing' approach, growing much of its own rice on nearby paddies fed by local water.
Best for Hand-crafted junmai sake
Murray Street, Harbour Island
Video credit: Paola Wells Here's a little about this fantastic island. Harbour Island, also known as Briland to local residents, is only three miles long by half a mile wide.
Best for Craft
Steep Hill, Lincoln, England
Harding House Gallery is an artists' co-operative on Steep Hill in Lincoln, trading from a Grade II listed 15th-century merchant's house once tied to the local weaving trade. Member artists and makers show contemporary work and handcrafted pieces across a range of materials inside the timber-framed building.
Best for Contemporary art and handcrafted work from local makers
Richmond, Virginia
This craft brewery builds its beers on Virginia-grown ingredients across two Richmond taprooms. Both sites open their doors for taproom visits and pours.
Best for Craft beer and taproom visits
Old Creamery Road
Harmony Glassworks combines a contemporary glass gallery with a working glassblowing studio in Harmony, on California's Central Coast. Glassblower and instructor Eric Dandurand founded the business in 2007, bringing his own work together with pieces by other artists. Visitors can browse the gallery or arrange a glassblowing class, with the studio located on Old Creamery Road.
Best for Contemporary glass art and bookable glassblowing classes
Shawbost, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Harris Tweed Hebrides dyes and spins wool at its Shawbost Mill on Lewis, then sends it out to roughly 173 independent weavers who hand-weave the cloth on treadle looms in their own island homes. The mill supplies fashion and interiors houses while keeping production rooted in the craft's 1840s origins.
Best for Handwoven Harris Tweed cloth by the yard
Salem, Massachusetts
HausWitch stocks handmade witchy home goods and metaphysical products from independent New England and US makers. Its shelves lean toward herbalism, home decor and healing.
Best for Witchy home goods and locally made metaphysical products
Madagascar
Hautex, based in Excideuil, France, distributes Madagascar-crafted stone pieces including pebbles, animal figurines, jasper, amazonite, ruby, sapphire and emerald, cut using cabochon and faceting techniques. The company describes stone-cutting as an ancestral skill passed down through generations.
Best for Cut madagascar gemstones and figurines
East Looe, Cornwall, England
Heather Jane & Co runs a Fore Street shop in East Looe showcasing work from roughly 200 independent Southwest England makers, part of a small collective with sister shops in Fowey, Tavistock, Porthleven, and St Ives. Each maker applies individually to display handmade art, ceramics, textiles, and jewellery rather than mass-produced stock.
Best for Handmade art and gifts from Southwest makers
Martinsviertel
Running since 2014 from Studio Gold on Lauteschlägerstraße, this creative workshop hand-makes cork-based design pieces, DIY room projects and Darmstadt-themed merchandise. Studio visits are by appointment, and the makers also take on custom work.
Best for Handmade cork goods and local design gifts
Đồng Văn, Hà Giang
Founder Vàng Thị Dế grows and processes hemp in Thái Pìn Tủng, Đồng Văn, turning hand-woven Hmong cloth into raw fabric, scarves, wallets, and modern garments. Indigo dye and batik patterns run through the clothing and accessories sold directly from the workshop.
Best for Hand-woven Hmong hemp textiles and clothing
Storgatan 41, Linköping
Hemslöjden i Östergötland is the county's craft association, running a shop and gallery on Storgatan in Linköping that sells textiles, woodwork and metalwork made by regional artisans. The organisation also teaches craft courses, from children's activities to professional-level training in traditional techniques.
Best for Regional Östergötland crafts and courses
Herrnhut
The Herrnhut manufactory that has hand-assembled the twenty-five-point Moravian star since 1897, the origin of all such Advent stars. Paper and plastic stars are built by hand at Oderwitzer Strasse, with a shop and visitor demonstrations on site.
Best for Handmade Moravian Advent stars
Nishi-ku, Kumamoto City
This hand-dyeing workshop in western Kumamoto City produces happi coats, noren curtains and shrine and school flags entirely by hand, taking custom commissions from restaurants and festival committees across the region. Its HIGOSOME SHOP line applies the same dye techniques to everyday goods like hand towels and T-shirts.
Best for Dyed noren, happi coats, custom textile orders
Pokhara / Nepal
Nabaraj Pokharel opened Himalayan Singing Bowl and Trading in Lakeside, Pokhara in 1990 after becoming interested in singing bowls through meditation. The shop works with Nepalese artisans on handmade bowls using traditional metalworking methods, also carries gongs, bells and statues, offers sound-healing sessions and ships online; its bowl-making process uses metal alloys, repeated heating, hammering, annealing, shaping and careful tuning.
Best for Handicraft, Singing Bowls, Sound Healing
Hakone (Yumoto)
Run by the Honma family in Hakone-Yumoto, this working shop pairs a museum of Edo- through Showa-era yosegi pieces with a studio where visitors watch marquetry demonstrations and glue their own coasters. The adjoining store sells parquetry boxes and wood-mosaic goods produced on site.
Best for Yosegi demonstrations, museum pieces and boxes
Brienz
The Huggler family has carved wood in Brienz for more than 125 years, specialising in nativity figures, animals and religious sculpture. Its village shop and atelier sell hand-carved works and take commissions.
Best for Carved nativity figures and sculpture
Karimabad, Hunza Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Hunza Weaving Center in Karimabad traces its weaving practice to 1994 and works with individual artisans producing handwoven wool shawls, patti-style textiles, and rugs on traditional looms. Each piece is made to order through slow production, with the center describing its output as woven to be kept for years rather than mass-produced.
Best for Handwoven wool shawls and patti textiles
Zaikoji, Hyuga City, Miyazaki Prefecture
Hyuga Goboard & Stone has manufactured clamshell Go stones and kaya wood boards for more than a century in Hyuga. CEO Hirotaka Kuroki developed a diamond drill technique now used to shape the shells into the stones favored by professional Go players.
Best for Clamshell Go stones and kaya wood Go boards
Takamatsu / Japan
Ichiwado Kogei has made Kagawa lacquerware since its founding in 1917, when its founder trained in the Yamanaka lacquerware district of Ishikawa before opening a Takamatsu shop that relocated to Yashima after the war. The workshop applies traditional zokoku-nuri and goto-nuri finishes alongside brighter, contemporary color-lacquer designs.
Best for Kagawa lacquerware in zokoku-nuri and goto-nuri finishes, founded 1917
Ichiwado Kogei was founded in June 1917 (Taisho 6) and has made Kagawa lacquerware for over a century from what is now its workshop in the Yashima district of Takamatsu. Regional press coverage traces the founder's training to the Yamanaka lacquerware area of Ishikawa Prefecture, a separate, older lacquer-producing region, before he returned to open a shop in central Takamatsu; the business relocated to Yashima after the Second World War.
The workshop's technique centers on two named Kagawa lacquerware finishes: zokoku-nuri and goto-nuri, both historic styles associated with the prefecture's craft tradition. Alongside pieces in these established finishes, Ichiwado Kogei also produces work in brighter, contemporary color lacquers and grain-forward wood finishes, positioning itself as making 'casual vessels accessible to younger generations' as well as gift-oriented collections.
The current workshop operates from Yashima Higashi-cho in Takamatsu, closed Sundays and holidays, and sells both from the physical shop and its own online store.
Av. Misiones 141, Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina
Open on Avenida Misiones since 2004, this Puerto Iguazú shop pairs hand-painted mate gourds, ceramics and alpaca jewelry from local makers like Atip.Ika and Florinda Bichera with leather goods and footwear from more than 30 Argentine designers.
Best for Hand-painted mate gourds, ceramics and alpaca jewelry from more than 30 Argentine
Iguazú Timbó Arte has traded from Avenida Misiones 141 in Puerto Iguazú since 2004, describing itself as a meeting point between art, design and Misiones' own culture and rainforest surroundings. The shop grew from a strongly artisanal base — handmade goods drawing on regional craft traditions — into a broader showcase for more than 30 Argentine makers and designers, still anchored by that original handmade core: hand-painted algarrobo-wood and ceramic mate gourds, alpaca bombillas set with natural stones, and jewelry from named makers such as Atip.Ika and Florinda Bichera. Around that artisanal center the store has added leather goods — hand-painted wallets, belts and bags — along with footwear and clothing lines including ELEPANTS, PURO and ROCAS, and smaller specialty items like smudge sticks and raw gemstones. More than two decades in the same Puerto Iguazú location, without rebranding into a franchise format, puts it among the town's longer-running independent retailers rather than a newer arrival aimed purely at the Iguazú Falls tourist trade. The shop ships nationwide and offers free delivery to Iguazú hotels, extending its reach beyond walk-in visitors to travelers booking ahead.
Ikuji, Kurobe, Toyama, Japan
Founded in 1927 in the fishing port of Ikuji, this maker steams and grills kamaboko fish cakes from Toyama Bay catch, including white shrimp and other local seafood. The company still runs its workshop and retail shop in the harbor district it was named for, alongside an online store at ikujikamaboko.com for its gift boxes.
Best for Toyama-style kamaboko fish cakes and gift sets
676 Koyasan, Koya-cho, Ito District, Wakayama, Japan
A Koyasan storefront dealing in Buddhist altar fittings and prayer beads across many materials, offering wrist malas alongside full juzu sets. The shop also repairs beads brought in by visitors, a service tied as much to the mountain's resident temples as to its pilgrims.
Best for Buddhist altar fittings and bead repair
Tokushima / Japan
in Between Blues is an indigo dye studio based in Tokushima Prefecture, founded in 2016 by Leki Nagahara, who grew up in the town of Kaiyo and competed as a four-time national collegiate surfing champion while at Josai International University.
Best for Organic sukumo indigo dyeing and workshops from a Tokushima studio
in Between Blues is an indigo dye studio based in Tokushima Prefecture, founded in 2016 by Leki Nagahara, who grew up in the town of Kaiyo and competed as a four-time national collegiate surfing champion while at Josai International University. After working in Tokyo, the United States and Australia, Nagahara returned to Tokushima in 2010 to join the textile company Tortoise, where he ran its Kaifu Ai indigo project before starting his own studio, Ocean View Indigo Studio, six years later.
The studio dyes with organic sukumo — fermented indigo-leaf compost — produced in Kamiita, the Tokushima town regarded as the prefecture's leading indigo-production center. Its fermentation follows the traditional lye method: wood and shellfish ash, wheat bran and sake are combined with sukumo to sustain the microbial fermentation that produces the dye, rather than relying on a synthetic reducing agent.
Nagahara has framed the studio's outlook as "Think Global, Act Local," pairing Tokushima's indigo heritage with his own background in surf culture. The studio runs dyeing workshops alongside its product line and has taken on collaborations spanning fashion, media, wellness and the arts, while remaining a small, single-founder operation rather than a mass producer, with sales run through its own online store.
Inari, Finnish Lapland, Finland
Inarin Käsityöpuoti is a collective of independent Lapland artisans, founded by four local makers, selling handmade jewellery, wool scarves, and wood and glass work through a webshop launched in 2019 alongside a seasonal shop in Inari's village centre. Every item is small-batch or one-of-a-kind and made in Finland.
Best for Small-batch Lapland handicrafts from local makers
Tahuaycani, Sachaca, Arequipa
Incalpaca, part of Arequipa's Grupo Inca, spins and weaves alpaca fiber into garments, blankets, and home textiles at its own mill. Its factory outlet in Tahuaycani sells those pieces at mill-direct prices, straight from the source.
Best for Factory-price alpaca garments and blankets
039A Fansipan Street, Sapa, Lào Cai Province, Vietnam
Indigo Cat opened in 2012 on Fansipan Street in Sapa, founded by Pang, a young Hmong woman, as the town's first Hmong family-owned boutique. It sells batik and indigo-dyed textiles, bags, and home pieces made with Hmong, Dao, and Tay artisan families from surrounding villages.
Best for Hmong- and Dao-made indigo-dyed textiles and batik, direct from artisan villages
Indigo Cat was founded in 2012 by Pang, a young Hmong woman who had worked as a local trekking guide in Sapa, in Vietnam's northern mountains. The shop, at 039A Fansipan Street, is documented as the first boutique in the town owned by a Hmong family, opening despite Pang having had no access to formal education as a child.
From the outset the business was built on direct relationships with artisan families rather than wholesale sourcing: Pang built fair-trade links with Hmong, Dao, Tay, and other ethnic minority communities across Northern Vietnam who supply hand-embroidered and batik textiles. At its peak the shop employed five staff for sales and tailoring and worked regularly with more than 50 families supplying raw materials and finished pieces.
Beyond retail, Indigo Cat runs workshops teaching batik and natural indigo dyeing, operates a six-room guesthouse, and offers one- to three-day guided treks that include homestays with local families - extending the shop's artisan network into tourism as a second income channel for the same communities it sources from.
Lincoln / United Kingdom
Indigo Crow in Lincoln is an artist-led gallery and artisan shop with a creative workshop.
Best for An artist-led gallery and workshop
Tottori / Japan
Kamingusaji is a hand-papermaking workshop for Inshu washi in the mountain town of Saji, carrying on roughly 1,200 years of papermaking tradition alongside paper-making experiences for visitors. A shop beside the workshop sells finished washi and paper goods, with a portion available through its online store.
Best for Paper Craft
Centro / Dr. Justo Prieto, Asunción
The Instituto Paraguayo de Artesanía was created by Law No. 2448/2004 to promote the development of national craft, protect artisans, and encourage their training and access to markets. It operates as an autonomous, decentralized entity with its own legal status and assets.
Best for Paraguayan artisan registry and training
Ohara, Iriomote Island, Okinawa, Japan
Iriomote Green Farm makes small-batch handmade kokuto from its own cane during the November-to-May harvest season and grows several pineapple varieties for the following summer, working out of the Ohara settlement on Iriomote Island. The farm also runs Inoshigari-ya, an izakaya on the same site, and sells its seasonal produce directly rather than through outside distributors.
Best for Small-batch black sugar and island pineapples
Jl. Seberang Mesjid, Banjarmasin Tengah
Irma Sasirangan makes and sells sasirangan, the traditional tie-dye cloth of the Banjar people, from its Banjarmasin Tengah showroom. Alongside the fabric it offers finished apparel, scarves, prayer robes and souvenirs, in store and online.
Best for Traditional sasirangan cloth and clothing, Banjar souvenirs
Daufuskie Island, South Carolina
Metal artist Chase Allen hand-forges fish, crabs, rays and other coastal creatures from his island gallery, which runs on an honor-system checkout. The work draws collectors who take the ferry over specifically to browse the open-air studio.
Best for Handmade metal coastal sculpture
Davenport, Iowa
Isabel Bloom produces handcrafted sculptures in Davenport, Iowa, with designs for gifts and spaces around the home. Figures of children and animals sit alongside garden pieces and seasonal designs within the maker's range. Its headquarters studio showroom and tour centre are listed on Federal Street, providing a direct address for the business.
Best for Davenport-made sculptures for gifts and gardens
Isabel Bloom's sculptures are handcrafted in Davenport, Iowa, using cement and a recognisable language of compact figurative forms. The current range includes children and families and animals as well as angels. Garden pieces and seasonal designs form additional groups. Sympathy and inspiration form their own category, reflecting the way many pieces are intended as gifts tied to a particular life event. The artistic history begins with Isabel Bloom herself. Born in 1908, she moved to Davenport as a child and began modelling small animals from creek mud. Her official biography traces a life of sculpture and family alongside more than sixty years of involvement in the Quad Cities arts community. Bloom described the heartfelt quality she sought in art as soul, and the company preserves that emphasis through narrative, approachable figures rather than monumental work. New designs continue beside established subjects, while a separate discontinuation list documents pieces leaving production. The combination of local manufacture and a named artistic lineage distinguishes the business from a general gift catalogue. Each object belongs to a continuing Davenport studio tradition whose materials and subjects are clearly stated by the maker, along with their emotional purpose.
Bad Ischl, Upper Austria
A multi-generational Bad Ischl woodcraft workshop specializing in wooden household goods and toys. Each piece is made by hand.
Best for Handmade wooden household goods and toys
Tongyeong / South Korea
It's Nubi specializes in Tongyeong nubi (traditional quilted) bags, totes and pouches, stitching the region's signature quilting technique into everyday accessories. The dedicated online shop ships from its registered address in Tongyeong's Hangnam-dong and accepts phone orders and culture vouchers.
Best for Textiles & Accessories
Nirasaki / Online
Itsutsuya Shoyu is a long-established maker of hand-crafted miso and soy sauce in Nirasaki, Yamanashi. Its products, including regional souvenir sets, are sold at its shop and through its official online store.
Best for Hand-crafted miso and soy sauce, plus regional souvenir sets, from Nirasaki, Yamanashi
Podgorica
Ivana Murišić Atelier in Podgorica makes made-to-measure haute couture wedding and prom dresses using premium materials, with a custom dress configurator tool for personalized designs.
Best for Made-to-measure wedding and prom dresses
Hakone
Izumiya works near the shore of Lake Ashi, cutting and gluing rods of naturally colored woods into the geometric mosaics that face its trays, jewelry boxes and himitsu-bako puzzle boxes. The shop ships internationally and lists trick chests, kokeshi and spinning tops alongside its marquetry, all made by hand in Japan.
Best for Yosegi puzzle boxes and marquetry gifts
Shimane / Japan
Izumo Mingei Shi has hand-pulled washi paper in the Yakumo hills since the workshop building went up in 1933, carrying on techniques championed by Living National Treasure Eishiro Abe. Visitors can watch papermaking in progress and buy sheets, cards, and craft paper through the studio's dedicated online shop.
Best for Craft - Washi Paper, Handmade Paper, Mingei
Juneau, Alaska, USA
James Johnson, of the Ch'áak' Dakl'aweidi (Eagle Killerwhale) clan, was born and raised in Juneau and carves and prints Tlingit formline design drawn from a family lineage of chiefs. His own site sells his limited-edition prints directly, alongside his exhibition history at Sealaska Heritage Celebrations and regional Native art shows.
Best for Original Tlingit formline prints and carvings
Mossman (Kuku Yalanji country, north of Cairns)
Janbal Gallery is run by Kuku Yalanji artist Brian 'Binna' Swindley, selling his prints and painted boomerangs and teaching two-hour hands-on ochre painting workshops. The gallery is entirely Aboriginal owned and operated and explains the symbolism behind each piece.
Best for Aboriginal art workshops and Kuku Yalanji artwork
Jasper Library and Cultural Centre, Jasper, Alberta, Canada
Run by the volunteer Jasper Artists Guild since 2001, this gallery inside the Jasper Library and Cultural Centre rotates exhibitions from roughly thirty-five regional and local artists. Alongside original landscape and abstract work, it sells prints, cards and a small selection of handmade crafts.
Best for Original art, prints and crafts from Jasper-area artists
Dhaka
Founded in 2000 by musician and artist Anusheh Anadil, Jatra revives Bangladeshi folk crafts through hand-woven clothing, accessories and home decor drawn from village traditions. Its Dhaka showroom sits alongside Jatra Biroti, a linked cafe and cultural gathering space.
Best for Folk-craft clothing and home decor
Punta Cana Village
An ode to the Caribbean’s magical treasures, Jenny Polanco is a lifestyle brand that honors the craftsmanship of the Dominican Republic and the beauty of its people.
Best for Fashion
Stoneyford, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Jerpoint Glass has blown Irish glass by hand at its Stoneyford studio since 1979, shaping wine carafes, glasses, and one-off gallery pieces that come out of exhibitions and experimental work. Visitors can watch glassblowers at the furnace and buy directly from the studio, open daily except limited Sunday hours.
Best for Hand-blown Irish glassware
Ranchi / India
JHARCRAFT is Jharkhand's state silk, textile and handicraft development corporation, running sericulture, handloom and handicraft programs alongside a chain of emporium stores that sell Tasar silk, terracotta, Dokra art and bamboo products. Its Ranchi Megastore on Mahatma Gandhi Marg is one of more than a dozen physical emporiums the corporation operates across India.
Best for State handicraft corporation / heritage emporium
Fore Street, Fowey
The Fore Street gallery of Cornish glass artist Jo Downs, stocked with fused-glass wall art, homeware, jewellery and giftware in coastal colours. It is one of several Jo Downs galleries across the South West sharing the maker's studio output.
Best for Fused-glass art and gifts
Old Town Eureka
Glass artist John Gibbons has hand-blown fine art glass in Eureka for more than twenty years from his studio at 726 Second Street, fabricating his own tools and equipment. Work ranges from starfish, marbles, and murrine anemone vases to multi-story chandeliers and custom lighting, and the studio offers tours and lessons.
Best for Hand-blown glass vessels and sculpture
Santa Cruz, California
Johnny Rice ranks among Santa Cruz's longtime surfboard shapers, working custom orders under his own name. His boards are shaped to each rider's specifications.
Best for Johnny Rice ranks among Santa Cruz's longtime surfboard shapers
Burgos
Juarreno works in the register of alta pasteleria, building layered cakes, petits fours and seasonal desserts from a Burgos workshop. Its cases run from classic Castilian sweets through to contemporary entremets and plated pieces.
Best for High-end cakes and desserts
Cambeba, Fortaleza
Operating from Cambeba since 1999, this maker specializes in bordado richelieu and renda renascença for bed, table, and bath linens, christening garments, and children's wear. Sales run directly to consumers online, with the company's Fortaleza CNPJ and address printed in the site footer.
Best for Richelieu embroidery and Renaissance-lace linens
Koyasan, Koya-cho, Ito District, Wakayama, Japan
Twelve generations of the same family have run this prayer-bead specialist on Koyasan since the Shotoku era of the early 1700s, stringing juzu from crystal, sandalwood, and semiprecious stone to the conventions of each Buddhist sect. The shop also repairs and restrings beads brought in by pilgrims completing the mountain's temple circuit.
Best for Sect-specific juzu prayer beads and bead repair
Api-Api Centre, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Kadaiku has sold Sabahan beadwork, woven tapestries and locally roasted coffee from Kota Kinabalu's Api-Api Centre since 2002. The shop states its retail model directly supports local artisans and preserves indigenous craft techniques.
Best for Sabahan handicrafts and beadwork from Api-Api Centre, trading since 2002
Kadaiku has traded from the ground floor of Block 1 in Kota Kinabalu's Api-Api Centre since 2002, more than two decades in the same downtown storefront. The shop describes itself as more than a souvenir counter — "a showcase of Sabah's rich cultural tapestry" — stocking beaded necklaces and woven tapestries made using techniques the business states it works to preserve alongside the artisans who make them. Alongside the handicraft line, Kadaiku carries locally roasted coffee and traditional Sabahan snacks made from local ingredients and heritage recipes, so a single visit can cover a beaded gift, a bag of local coffee, and a food souvenir under one roof. The business states its retail model is built to directly support local artisans and "sustain community livelihoods" rather than reselling imported crafts, and it also runs a corporate gifting arm with custom orders — a second income line beyond walk-in tourist traffic. Open daily except public holidays from 9am to 6pm, the shop sits in a heavily trafficked downtown retail centre, which fits its positioning as a first stop for Sabahan-made goods rather than a specialist boutique for one craft category alone.
Usuki / Japan
Kagiya has brewed soy sauce and miso in Usuki for over four centuries, tracing its craft back to 1600 and still fermenting in the traditional way at its shop on the town's old merchant street. The full range of soy sauces, dipping sauces, and miso is sold through the shop's own online store with nationwide shipping.
Best for Soy Sauce, Miso
North Fuji (Fujiyoshida / Nishikatsura), Yamanashi
A four-workshop collective in Yamanashi's Fujiyoshida and Nishikatsura towns reviving historic Kai-silk; Makita-Shoten weaves the umbrella line using techniques including kasuri ikat, working under 1% of Japan's total silk output.
Best for Makita-Shoten weaves the umbrella line using techniques including kasuri ikat
Kai-silk takes its name from the historic Kai province, in what is now Yamanashi prefecture, where weavers wove ornate silk linings into plain-looking outer garments during the Edo period, when sumptuary laws restricted visible luxury - a quiet sophistication later praised by the novelist Soseki Natsume, who described the fabric's 'beautiful rat gray liner that reflected the scarce light,' and by the poet Misuzu Kaneko. KAIKIZA is a collective of four small workshops in the Fujiyoshida and Nishikatsura weaving towns, north of Mount Fuji, formed to keep that near-extinct textile in production: Gen Maeda & Co. handles cloth and organic cotton, Tanabe Orimono makes cushions and fabric, Yamazaki Orimono weaves neckties, and Makita-Shoten produces umbrellas and related textiles - the workshop responsible for Kaikiza's umbrella line specifically. Between them the four houses work six traditional techniques - kasuri ikat, shima koushi checks, e-kaiki print patterns, plain muji weaves, blurred hogushi patterns and textured kouhai stripes - combining hand methods with modern looms rather than reviving the craft as pure hand-weaving. The collective uses only about 0.5% of Japan's total silk output, a scale that reflects how far the trade has contracted from its historical peak, and its work has been recognized as one of Japan's '100 advanced small-scale enterprises' and selected for sale in MoMA's design shop - real institutional recognition for a textile that nearly disappeared.
Rann Of Kutch / India
Kala Raksha is an artisan-founded trust that has preserved traditional Kutch embroidery and patchwork since 1993, running a heirloom textile museum alongside a production unit and shop at its solar-powered center in Sumrasar Sheikh, 25 km north of Bhuj. Its Artisan Design and Pricing Committees set the designs and fair wages, and its embroidered garments are also sold through Hotel Ilark in Bhuj and Rann Riders in Dasada.
Best for Embroidery cooperative / heritage trust
Old City (near Tha Phae Gate) / Online
Kalm Village is an art, craft and culture center in Chiang Mai’s Old Town, combining rotating exhibitions with a textile archive, Museum of Makers, library and workshops. Its three lifestyle stores sell clothing and home goods designed in-house with artisans from Thailand and abroad.
Best for Craft exhibitions, workshops, design goods and cultural programming
South Australia, Fregon
Kaltjiti Arts and Crafts is a community based Aboriginal art centre in the remote community of Fregon on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of South Australia. Senior artists including Witjiti George, Taylor Copper, Manitjanu Lennon, Imitjala Curley, Matjangka Norris and Kathy Maringka work collaboratively on paintings exploring the Tjukurpa of the region.
Best for Anangu collaborative desert painting
R.S. Puram, Coimbatore
Kamal Vasthralaya weaves and retails handloom and silk sarees from its R.S. Puram store, including local Kovai cotton alongside Kanchipuram, tussar, and soft silks. In the saree trade for over four decades, it works as manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer of traditional drapes.
Best for Handloom and silk sarees
Yanagawa / Japan
Kamikyu Honten is a Yanagawa shop selling traditional Japanese ceremonial dolls and decorations, including hina dolls, sagemon hanging ornaments and Boys' Day displays, from its storefront in Fukuoka. Staff offer semi-custom hina doll sets built to a customer's budget, and pieces are displayed in-store for viewing before purchase.
Best for Traditional Crafts
Ahe Atoll / French Polynesia / Online
On a far motu of Ahe's lagoon, the family behind Kamoka farms Tahitian pearls with some of the strictest sustainability practices in the trade — reef fish clean the oysters, and nuclei are cut from mother-of-pearl rather than mined shell. The harvest ships worldwide from one of the most remote ateliers in this atlas.
Best for Sustainably farmed Tahitian pearls from a remote motu
Giriloyo, Yogyakarta
A hand-written batik (batik tulis) artisan cooperative on Jl. Imogiri Timur km 14 in Yogyakarta, open daily from 8am to 4pm, selling batik cloth dyed with natural and synthetic colors plus batik-making equipment. It also runs short batik-making courses through the stages of penggemplongan preparation, nyorek/mola pattern drawing, canthing waxing, and dyeing.
Best for Batik tulis cloth and short courses
Hakone (Hatajuku)
In the Hatajuku craft village, Katsuyoshi Kanazashi carves yosegi from solid blocks rather than shaving decorative veneers, so each coaster, bowl or box is a single three-dimensional piece stamped with his seal. The workshop also made the trophy for the opening leg of the Hakone Ekiden relay.
Best for Solid-wood (muku) yosegi carving
Higashi Chaya District
Kanazawa Bikazari Asano, run by gold-leaf maker Hakuichi, sells traditional Ishikawa crafts like Kutani-yaki porcelain and Kaga Yuzen dye in Higashi Chayagai. The shop also hosts hands-on gold-leafing workshops.
Best for Traditional Ishikawa crafts like Kutani-yaki porcelain and Kaga Yuzen dye in Higashi
Kanazawa Bikazari Asano occupies a corner of Higashi Chayagai, Kanazawa's historic geisha district, where it was relocated and reopened in July 2012 as a themed store for Ishikawa's traditional crafts. The shop is run by Hakuichi, the city's best-known gold leaf producer, but its shelves range well beyond gold leaf.
The selection draws on Ishikawa prefecture's 36 recognized traditional crafts, including Kutani-yaki porcelain, Kaga Yuzen dyed textiles, Kanazawa gold leaf itself, Kaga embroidery, and paulownia woodwork — around 300 pieces in total, chosen, the shop says, for being both distinctive and useful in daily life. Established artists sit alongside newer makers the store has picked out early, giving visitors a chance to buy from artisans before they're widely known.
On the second floor, the shop runs its own gold-leafing workshop, open to walk-ins as space allows, where staff guide groups of up to 30 people — including children and first-timers — through applying gold leaf themselves. The shop keeps standard hours, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily except January 1, with the workshop closed Tuesdays.
Sumba / Indonesia
Karaja Sumba works with weavers in Lamboya, West Sumba, to produce hand-dyed ikat textiles using natural dyes gathered from plants around the weaving villages, with each piece taking up to a year to complete. The studio doesn't sell online; visitors are invited to its showroom in Sumba to choose and buy pieces directly.
Best for Ikat weaving workshop
Gudhjem, Bornholm
Karamel Kompagniet cooks handmade caramels and fudge in Gudhjem, boiling small batches in copper pans and flavouring them with liquorice, sea salt and local ingredients. Visitors can watch the sweets being pulled and cut in the open workshop.
Best for Handmade Bornholm caramels
Yekaterinburg / Russia
Karandaev Workshop has carved malachite and bronze pieces in Yekaterinburg since 1991, producing tables, lamps, chess sets and writing sets sold through its own online shop with nationwide free delivery. The workshop's stonework has furnished private residences, churches and business offices across Russia.
Best for Carved malachite and bronze tables, lamps, chess sets, and writing sets since 1991
Kausani, Uttarakhand
Kausani Shawl weaves Himalayan wool into shawls, stoles and Pahadi topis on handlooms, using naturally derived dyes rather than mill-processed color. The workshop's pieces are sold from its own counters across the Kumaon towns of Kausani, Kathgodam and Haldwani.
Best for Hand-woven Himalayan wool shawls and Pahadi topis
Shimabara / Japan
Kawakami Seimen has hand-stretched somen noodles in Shimabara since its 2009 founding, drying bundles of thin wheat noodles using techniques passed down through the region's centuries-old noodle trade. The family-run shop sells its somen and dried-noodle gifts directly through its online storefront from its Nagasaki workshop.
Best for Food - Noodles, Somen, Handmade Noodles
Dhanmondi, Dhaka
A Dhanmondi fashion and craft house working handloom textiles into menswear, womenswear and children's clothing alongside cushions, rugs, wall hangings and terracotta pieces. Its catalogue folds Bangladeshi weaving and craft traditions into everyday and occasion wear.
Best for Handloom fashion and craft home goods
Maui / United States
Master shaper Matt Kinoshita has built Kazuma surfboards, SUPs and kiteboards by hand on Maui for three decades, taking factory-direct and custom orders from his Haʻikū workshop. Boards and accessories are sold through the showroom and by direct order.
Best for Surfboards, shaper, sup
Ashanti weavers (commissioned via Kente Kingdom)
Kente Kingdom commissions scarves and bags from weavers in Ghana, publishing a design library of named strip-loom patterns customers can order as custom weaves rather than buying stock prints. Finished pieces are made up into scarves, stoles and bags and sold through the company's own site.
Best for Custom-commissioned kente scarves, stoles and bags
Veganoor, near Kovalam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Kerala Arts and Crafts Village occupies an 8.5-acre campus in Veganoor, near Kovalam, where more than 100 resident artisans work in wood, metal, and handloom traditions such as Chendamangalam, Balaramapuram, and Kuthampully weaving. Its Curated Emporium sells finished pieces from these craftspeople, and visitors can also commission work directly from the studios.
Best for Kerala handloom, woodcraft and metalwork by resident artisans
Thekkady / India
Located on KK Road at the gateway to Periyar Tiger Reserve in Thekkady, Kerala Crafts sells rosewood carvings, coconut-shell items, and other traditional Kerala handicrafts made by National Award-winning artisans. The shop also takes custom orders, letting customers design a piece to their own specifications.
Best for Woodcraft, Handicrafts, Coconut Craft
Front Street, Old Town
Eleanor Walsh opened this cigar shop in 1963, carrying forward a hand-rolling tradition Cuban immigrants brought to Key West in 1868, and roller Talmaege Culmer became known as the last of the original Key West cigar makers before the craft nearly disappeared. David and Leslie Bevens of Cork & Stogie bought the business in 2018, keeping the rolling and the Talmaege house line based on the island rather than moving it off Key West.
Best for Hand-rolled cigars tied directly to Key West's 19th-century cigar-making history
Rann Of Kutch / India
Khamir is a craft resource centre on a public campus in Kukma village near Bhuj, set up after the 2001 Kutch earthquake to support the region's block-printing, weaving, leather, lacquered wood, metal bell and pottery traditions. Its online shop sells work from Kutch artisans, and the campus itself is open daily for visitors to explore neighboring craft clusters and attend workshops.
Best for Craft resource centre / cooperative shop
Near Wazir Khan Mosque, Old City / Online
Khazineyi is a maker in Lahore known for handcrafted pieces blending Lahore's architectural heritage with contemporary design — miniature paintings, heritage picture frames and gifts inspired by Wazir Khan Mosque motifs.
Best for Miniature paintings, heritage picture frames and gifts inspired by Wazir Khan Mosque motifs
Nakanogo, Hachijojima
Meyu Kobo has dyed and hand-woven Kihachijo silk in the Nakanogo district for around 145 years, drawing its yellows from kariyasu grass and its browns and blacks from island tree bark. The workshop sells kimono cloth alongside smaller pieces like scarves and card cases, and remains the island's sole dyeing-and-weaving house for the craft.
Best for Kihachijo yellow silk textiles
Nagiso, Kiso District, Nagano, Japan
Run by Masayuki Ogura, who inherited the workshop from his father, Kijiya Yamato sits 800 meters up in a kijishi woodturning hamlet in Nagiso, Nagano. Bowls and trays are lathe-turned from chestnut logs, then finished in lacquer and chinkin inlay.
Best for Lathe-turned Kiso chestnut bowls and trays with chinkin inlay
Kijiya Yamato belongs to the kijishi woodturning tradition of the Kiso mountains, a craft the workshop's own account traces back more than a thousand years to Prince Koretaka and the Ogura district of old Omi Province. The present shop sits at roughly 800 meters elevation in Nagiso, Nagano, in a small settlement in the Urushibata area still known locally as a kijishi village, though fewer than ten workshops and shops now remain active there.
The business is currently run by Masayuki Ogura, who took over the craft from his father, Eiichi Ogura. Working chestnut and Japanese horse-chestnut logs on a lathe, the workshop hollows and shapes them into bowls, trays, sake cups and other tableware, aiming, in the proprietor's own framing, for 'the beauty of utility' rather than purely decorative form.
Finished pieces are coated in lacquer and, on selected work, decorated with chinkin, a technique of carving fine lines into the lacquer surface and filling them with gold or metal leaf. That combination of centuries-old lathe-turning with lacquer and metal-inlay finishing is what distinguishes the shop's output from plain turned woodware.
Casco Viejo
Kindly Shop is an honest marketplace supporting local artisans and makers from Panama and Latin America. The business started during the pandemic and operates at Avenida A and Calle 6 in Casco Viejo.
Best for Craft
Stavanger
K for Kinkeliane sells handwoven clothing, toys, and textiles made in partnership with artisans in small Indian villages, blending Norwegian design sensibility with Indian craft traditions from its Stavanger shop. The store is currently running a daily pop-up in Fargegata through August alongside its regular location.
Best for Textiles, Fashion, Handmade Goods
Nikko
Standing in front of Nikko Toshogu for about 150 years, Kishino is a souvenir shop and restaurant. Its shelves hold Nikko-bori wood carvings, cast-iron Three Wise Monkeys, washi prints, kokeshi and other regional crafts, alongside exclusive items made only for the store.
Best for Souvenirs, Nikko crafts, wood carving, traditional crafts
Kiso-Fukushima, Kiso-machi, Nagano, Japan
Kiso Ebiya has worked as a lacquer artisan workshop for around 160 years in Kiso-Fukushima, Nagano — the town regarded as the birthplace of Kiso lacquerware, not Fukushima Prefecture. It makes hinoki magewappa bentwood boxes and lacquer-coated chopsticks and tableware.
Best for Magewappa bentwood boxes and Kiso lacquerware from the craft's birthplace town
Kiso-Fukushima, Kiso-machi, Nagano, Japan
Operating since the Bunkyu era of 1860, this Fukushima workshop turns honoki magnolia and hinoki cypress into cutting boards, ohitsu rice tubs, steaming boxes, and wooden bath stools and buckets, alongside lacquered pieces. The business was incorporated in 1990 but keeps producing the same everyday kitchen and bath woodware it has made since the 19th century.
Best for Honoki cutting boards and hinoki bath and kitchen woodware
Nottingham / Online
Founded in 1983, Kitty Fisher designs and makes Nottingham lace accessories, cushions, table linens and silk pieces in its Nottingham workrooms. It no longer keeps a physical shop, selling its made-to-order pieces solely through its website.
Best for Nottingham lace, handkerchiefs, cushions, silk accessories, table linens
Kaduna
A beads and crafts shop based in Kaduna.
Best for Beads and craft supplies
Brazil Street, Castries
KnottyCreations in Castries makes handmade crochet items, describing itself as "your handmade crochet plug."
Best for Handmade crochet items
Hirosaki, Aomori / Japan
Kobayashi Shikki manufactures and sells Tsugaru-nuri, the multi-layered lacquerware tradition unique to the Hirosaki area of Aomori Prefecture, from its own workshop and retail premises at Higashijokita in Hirosaki City.
Best for An in-house Hirosaki maker of Tsugaru-nuri
Kobayashi Shikki manufactures and sells Tsugaru-nuri, the multi-layered lacquerware tradition unique to the Hirosaki area of Aomori Prefecture, from its own workshop and retail premises at Higashijokita in Hirosaki City. The company describes handling manufacturing, sales, and wholesale in-house, and lists itself among the retailers recognized by the Aomori Lacquerware Federation (Tsugaru Nuri Kumiai), the industry body that maintains the official register of practicing Tsugaru-nuri makers.
Tsugaru-nuri is built on a labor-intensive polishing process — dozens of lacquer layers are built up and then ground back to expose a mottled, marbled pattern — and Kobayashi Shikki's catalog spans the tradition's named finishes, including karanuri, monsha-nuri, and nanako-nuri, applied to chopsticks, soup bowls, sake cups, trays, and tea implements as well as smaller accessory items such as smartphone cases. The shop states it holds new product development meetings every three months to keep pace with contemporary uses for the technique, and separately offers name engraving and lacquerware restoration, positioning items as repairable heirlooms rather than disposable goods.
Tsugaru-nuri is a genuinely distinct craft lineage from the Wajima and Kiso-Hirasawa lacquerware traditions. Kobayashi Shikki is a working, in-house maker rather than a marketplace aggregator, with a fixed Hirosaki address and federation-recognized standing.
Higashinada-ku
Kobe Shu-shin-kan has brewed the Fukuju label in Nada since 1751, drawing on the district's Miyamizu spring water, and gained wider recognition after Fukuju was served at the Nobel Prize banquet. The brewery runs an on-site restaurant and shop selling sake tastings alongside its own craft beer.
Best for Sake pairing and tastings
Kiso Village, Nagano, Japan
Kobo Furukawaya is a one-person workshop producing oroku-gushi, the fine-toothed wooden combs that Yabuhara artisans have cut from minebari birch, boxwood, and isunoki since the Edo period. Craftsman Masao Furuhata's hand-sawing has been shown on NHK's Ippin and Wafu Sohonke, and each comb still takes months of hand-filing to finish.
Best for A hand-cut oroku-gushi wooden comb
Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna
Koko Mosaico is a Ravenna mosaic studio and school creating artistic mosaics that range from ancient Byzantine reproductions to contemporary work. It sells ready-made pieces online and teaches traditional mosaic technique from its workshop at Via di Roma 136.
Best for Handmade Byzantine-style artistic mosaics and mosaic courses
Murakami, Niigata / Japan
A fourteenth-generation Murakami merchant house, Edo-period origin and a former imperial purveyor, working the carved-relief kibori-tsuishu technique unique to the region.
Best for Murakami kibori-tsuishu lacquerware from a fourteenth-generation merchant house
Kosugi Shikki-ten dates its origin to the Edo period, when the family held official-merchant (goyo shonin) status supplying lacquerware to the Murakami domain; it is now in its fourteenth generation under the same family name, and the shop's own account describes it as the oldest continuously operating retailer of Murakami kibori-tsuishu — the region's carved, deeply layered lacquerware — still trading in Murakami City. Between the Taisho era and the pre-war years the shop additionally held Imperial Household Agency purveyor status (kunaisho goyotashi), a formal supplier designation to the imperial household.
Murakami kibori-tsuishu is a distinct technique within Japanese lacquerware: a design is carved into the wood before dozens of lacquer coats are built up over it, so the final surface reads as sculpted relief rather than a flat painted or ground finish, setting it apart from both Wajima's smooth built-up lacquer and Tsugaru's marbled polish-back method. Niigata Prefecture recognized the craft as an Intangible Cultural Property in 1955, and it received national Traditional Craft designation in 1976.
Kosugi Shikki-ten's documented Edo-period origins, unbroken fourteen-generation family line and former imperial-purveyor designation make it a compelling anchor for Murakami lacquerware, distinct from Wajima and Tsugaru in both technique and place.
Koyasan, Wakayama, Japan
Near the entrance to Mount Kōya's Okuno-in cemetery, Koyasan Daisido hand-finishes its Kōya Reikō incense stick from natural materials described in ancient Indian scriptures, alongside raw aromatic wood, zukō powder and Buddhist temple supplies.
Best for Kōya Reikō incense near Mount Kōya's Okuno-in
Koyasan Daisido trades as a 香老舗 (long-established incense house) from a shop near the entrance to Okuno-in, Mount Kōya's vast cemetery and one of Japanese Buddhism's most sacred pilgrimage sites, standing across the street from the Karukaya-dō hall. The shop's principal product, Kōya Reikō, is an incense stick formulated from natural aromatic materials described in ancient Indian scriptures and finished by hand, one stick at a time; the fragrance is designed to be soft and unobtrusive rather than heavy, matching the contemplative use it's built for rather than a showcase scent. Beyond its own incense line, Koyasan Daisido stocks raw aromatic wood, incense powder (zukō) for purification, burners, and a full range of Buddhist temple supplies — ritual implements for goma fire ceremonies, altar items and religious statuary — selling to both individual pilgrims and temples on a wholesale basis. Mount Kōya itself has functioned as a center of Shingon Buddhist practice for around 1,200 years, and the shop positions its incense as a continuation of that fragrance tradition rather than a separate retail add-on; the current shop building is modern, but the trade it houses is not.
Hope Street / Online
Kreatelier combines a fabric shop with custom home-decor work, including cushions, window treatments and upholstery projects. The Hope Street studio also carries gifts and sewing supplies for shoppers planning their own projects.
Best for Seasonal goods, baby gifts and locally designed products
Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island / Greenland
Kirsten Schmidt-Pedersen runs this seasonal studio at Qeqertarsuaq on Disko Island, selling mixed-media art and coffee each June through September. It sits along the walking route to the basalt columns of Kuannit.
Best for Kirsten Schmidt-Pedersen's mixed-media art and coffee
Kuannit Art is the seasonal studio of Kirsten Schmidt-Pedersen, set at Qeqertarsuaq on Disko Island in Greenland's Disko Bay. The studio, confirmed on its own social presence as a mixed-media practice, opens only for the brief Arctic summer, running from June to September, positioned along the walking route out toward the basalt columns of Kuannit — one of the region's known natural landmarks. Alongside the art, Schmidt-Pedersen pours coffee for the walkers passing through, making the stop as much a rest point on the trail as a gallery visit. The studio's profile is modest by design — just over a thousand followers on its own social account — reflecting a genuinely local, seasonal operation rather than a tourist-scaled business, and Visit Greenland's own travel guidance sends visitors here by name, a rare instance of an official tourism body pointing directly at a single small studio. For a traveler routing through Disko Bay, Kuannit Art offers something few other stops combine: original art for sale, a coffee break, and a waypoint on a specific, named hiking route, all confined to a four-month window that requires planning a visit around the season rather than dropping in year-round.
Kavanattinkara, Kumarakom, Kottayam, Kerala
Kumarakom Treasures has spent more than three decades sourcing handmade pieces directly from Kerala artisans, filling its shop near the Virupukalla bus stop with coir work, wood carvings, traditional masks and handwoven carpets. The stock also runs to antique furniture and vintage Kerala pieces alongside handloom textiles and sarees.
Best for Coir crafts, wood carvings, handloom textiles
Shinsha, Kumejima Town
The Kumejima Tsumugi Cooperative Association runs Yuimaru-kan, the island's weaving hall, where mud-and-plant-dyed silk has held status as an Important Intangible Cultural Property since 2004. Visitors can watch dyeing and weaving in progress and buy finished tsumugi textiles through the cooperative's own museum shop and online store.
Best for Mud-dyed Kumejima-tsumugi silk cloth and accessories
Dhaka
The handicraft arm of the Kumudini enterprise, producing handwoven and hand-stitched textiles made by skilled women artisans as a route to their economic self-reliance. Patterns carry motifs drawn from the weavers' own regional culture.
Best for Artisan handwoven textiles
Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
Founded in 1897 in the rush-grass district that gave Kurashiki its Japan Heritage igusa designation, Imayoshi Shoten still weaves tatami-grass mats and bedding sheets prized for their air-purifying scent. The shop's goods have been recognized under Japan's Wonder 500 program for regional craft exports.
Best for Traditional igusa rush-grass mats and bedding
Ibara, Okayama / Japan
The vertical specialist — spinning, dyeing, weaving all in-house, the Ibara facility, and the Okayama mill that controls every step from raw cotton to finished fabric.
Best for Vertical integration, spinning dyeing weaving, Ibara, European supply.
Ghanzi District, D'Kar
The Kuru Art Project, initiated in 1990 by the Kuru Development Trust, gives twenty Naro and Dcui San artists from the D'Kar community facilities to work in oil painting, lithography, linocut and etching. Its artists' work has been exhibited in more than 15 countries, including a 1997 reproduction on British Airways aircraft by artist Cg'ose Ntcõx'o.
Best for San oil paintings and prints
Yamaguchi / Online
Kuwabara's Ouchi-nuri Doll Workshop makes Yamaguchi's traditional Ouchi dolls, whose origin the shop traces to 17th-generation Ouchi clan leader Ouchi Hiroya commissioning them to comfort his Kyoto-born wife. Pairs range from small ping-pong-ball-sized dolls to large lacquered, gold-leafed ceremonial sets, sold through its BASE online shop.
Best for Ouchi lacquer dolls tracing to a 14th-century Ouchi-clan legend, gold-leaf finish
Kuwabara's Ouchi-nuri Doll Workshop makes Ouchi dolls, a Yamaguchi folk craft the workshop traces to the era of Ouchi Hiroya, the 17th-generation head of the Ouchi clan. Per the workshop's own account, the dolls were originally made to comfort a noblewoman from Kyoto whom Hiroya had married, and were designed to blend Kyoto court aesthetics with local Yamaguchi character -- giving the form a specific claimed origin story rather than a generic 'traditional' label.
The dolls are round, lacquered male-female pairs finished with pure gold leaf and gold powder, presented in paulownia-wood boxes. The workshop's current line runs from small dolls roughly the size of a ping-pong ball up to large ceremonial sets (its size range spans model numbers 15 through 40, priced from about \u00a57,900 to \u00a5165,000), plus related items such as Ouchi lacquer cups, single basket dolls, and tiered hinamatsuri display sets with cases and screens.
The workshop sells through its own BASE-hosted online shop and has posted a public notice that prices were revised upward from April because of rising material costs -- a small but concrete, dated operational detail rather than boilerplate.
Ufa / Russia
Creative Workshop Kuznitsa has forged custom ironwork in Ufa since 1998, building everything from fire bowls and wrought staircases to bespoke sculptural pieces for homes and restaurants. Every commission starts with a conversation at the workshop rather than a fixed catalogue, with orders placed by phone or email.
Best for Metalwork, Blacksmithing
Espelette / Basque Country / Online
L'Atelier du Piment focuses on Espelette pepper growers, AOP piment d'Espelette powders, cords, and condiments from the village.
Best for AOP Espelette pepper and Basque condiments.
Nantes / France
L’Eclatante Boutique in Nantes presents work by local artisans and ethically minded makers.
Best for Local artisan and ethical goods
Copán Ruinas
La Boutique del Artesano's Facebook page states that it offers handicrafts made by the hands of people from Copán. It is located in Barrio el Centro on Calle la Independencia, Avenida Centroamérica, Copán, Honduras.
Best for Handicrafts made in copan
San Antonio, Cali
Cali craft shop with 37 years of history, working with more than 150 artisans from different Indigenous communities. Its handmade objects for the home foreground Colombian tradition, innovation and cultural heritage.
Best for Craft
Yucatán, Mérida
La Casa de la Hamaca is a family project born in Yucatán making cotton and nylon hammocks along with installation accessories and folding rocking chairs. Operating since 2022 from Mérida, it reports more than 75,000 sales through Amazon and Mercado Libre.
Best for Handmade yucatan hammocks
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