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Craft & Ateliers — Page 8
Plate M-12 · 1,417 stores · 1051–1200 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.
Ask how it will travel: ask for packing or shipping for anything fragile, bulky or heavy.
Explore craft & ateliers
Use the city plates when they appear below, or open any store for its official door and related ORBIS city and craft links.
Accra · 5Amman · 5Barcelona · 4Bordeaux · 4Cairo · 6Cape Town · 4Colombo · 7Copenhagen · 6Cusco · 10Dar es Salaam · 4Delhi · 14Florence · 5Fukuoka · 6Granada · 6Granada, Nicaragua · 4Hamburg · 5Hanoi · 9Helsinki · 6Ho Chi Minh City · 5Islamabad · 4Jaipur · 6Jerusalem · 6Kagoshima · 4Kanazawa · 14Kathmandu · 7Kolkata · 6Kuala Lumpur · 6Kyoto · 13Lisbon · 4London · 5Manila · 6Marrakech · 4Mexico City · 4Miami · 4Milan · 4Montevideo · 4Nagasaki · 5Naha · 5Nairobi · 5Naples · 6Oaxaca · 4Oberammergau · 4Paris · 15Pontevedra · 4Portland · 5Quebec · 4Rome · 4San Francisco · 4Seoul · 6Seville · 9Shiojiri · 4Singapore · 7Tashkent · 4Tokyo · 13Valencia · 5Vancouver · 4Venice · 5
Visit official site ↗Lipari, Sicily, Italy
Exclusive handcrafted items from the Aeolian Islands. Linen shawls woven in traditional fishing net patterns, stone necklaces.
Best for Artisan crafts, Aeolian
La Casa Eoliana began with Francesca Parisi, who was born near Mount Etna and lived in Siena for twenty years before returning to her Sicilian roots. She founded the business on Lipari in 2011 as a concept store devoted to Sicilian culture. The current La Casa Eoliana Care line focuses on skincare and body products made by hand with natural ingredients. Its home on Lipari supplies both the setting and the vocabulary for the collection. Soapmaking provides a direct link between the products and the Aeolian Islands. The company says it has used a traditional cold-process method for fifteen years, followed by four to six weeks of curing. A seven-island series assigns a distinct formula to each island. Filicudi is paired with lemon and mint, Alicudi with prickly pear, Lipari with pumice, Salina with wine, Vulcano with sulphur, Panarea with jasmine, and Stromboli with activated charcoal. Together, the history and the soap series show how a specific island setting shapes both the formulas and their product names.
Visit official site ↗Mérida
Catedral de la Guayabera describes itself as a manufacturer of Yucatecan handicrafts.
Best for Yucatecan handicrafts and guayaberas
Visit Facebook ↗Grenoble / France
La Chouette Dorée on rue Lakanal in Grenoble is a collective shop run by five craftswomen together.
Best for Work by five resident makers
Visit official site ↗Québec City
La Folle Fourchette is a Québec City kitchen-and-table shop focused on tableware, utensils and practical objects for cooking and entertaining. Its specialist range makes it more useful to buyers than the old generic craft wording suggested.
Best for Specialist tableware and kitchen goods
Visit official site ↗Conques (Conques-en-Rouergue), France
Etcher and sculptor Christiane Lapeyre shares this exhibition space and copper-plate etching workshop at 20 rue Charlemagne with writer Claude Ollive, showing acid-etched prints beside carved wood and stone. It sits inside the medieval village of Conques in the Aveyron.
Best for Original etchings and sculpture
Visit official site ↗Mahuti Bay, Parea, Huahine Iti (98731)
La Passion du Pareo is Nathalie’s workshop and local-artisan shop at Mahuti Bay in Parea, Huahine, centered on hand-painted pareos. Visitors can join hands-on painting workshops, while the shop sells Nathalie’s pareos and local craft, turning the purchase into a practical introduction to Polynesian pareo-making and textile decoration.
Best for Hand-crafted pareos and pareo-making workshops
Visit official site ↗Montreuil
La Petite Épicerie sells beads, resin supplies, haberdashery and kits for small craft projects. The range serves do-it-yourself makers, with finished examples helping shoppers understand materials before starting.
Best for French DIY craft supplies: beads, resins, and haberdashery
Visit official site ↗La Rueca
Hidden GemChachapoyas, Amazonas
La Rueca is the first collective artisan brand of Peru's Amazonas region, gathering weavers, potters and carvers who work traditional techniques into sweaters, cabuya-fiber bags, Awajun pottery and 950 silver jewelry. Its Chachapoyas shop anchors a small chain of outlets that also reach Huancas, Cocachimba and other Amazonas villages.
Best for Amazonas handwoven textiles, natural-fiber bags and indigenous crafts
Visit official site ↗Sardinia / Online
Lady M Sardegna gathers Sardinian knives, filigree jewellery, asphodel baskets and ceramics from island makers. The multi-craft range lets shoppers compare practical objects and ceremonial gifts without visiting separate workshops.
Best for Sardinian filigree and artisan knives.
Visit official site ↗Louth, Lincolnshire, England
Lakings has practiced craft butchery in Louth, Lincolnshire for 110 years, hand-cutting orders sourced from regional farmers who raise native heritage breeds. Its traditional Lincolnshire sausages follow a family recipe of Lincolnshire pork, bread, sage, salt and pepper, alongside specialties like Lincolnshire stuffed chine.
Best for Traditional Lincolnshire sausages and stuffed chine
Visit official site ↗Calle Sagárnaga & Linares, La Paz
LAM Bolivia sells handmade alpaca sweaters, shawls, and accessories from a storefront at the corner of Sagárnaga and Linares, in the heart of La Paz's artisan shopping district. The brand works under fair trade terms and presents itself as an early exporter of Bolivian alpaca craft, favoring small runs over volume production.
Best for Alpaca sweaters and shawls
Visit official site ↗Lam Sam Yick (林三益)
Heritage HouseDatong
A heritage calligraphy-brush maker that also applies its handcraft expertise to cosmetic brushes. Founded in Fuzhou in 1917, the family enterprise moved to Taiwan in 1946 and is now led by the fourth generation.
Best for Handcrafted calligraphy and cosmetic brushes from a family enterprise founded in Fuzhou in 1917
Visit official site ↗Old Town, Leh
LAMO occupies two restored 17th-century houses in Leh's Old Town, founded in 1996 by Monisha Ahmed and Ravina Aggarwal to document and safeguard Ladakhi heritage. Alongside its residencies, exhibitions and archive, it runs a products arm selling traditional Ladakhi craft and cultural goods.
Best for Heritage Ladakhi craft goods and cultural artefacts
Visit official site ↗Punda, Willemstad
Experience the vibrant culture of Curaçao at Landish! Capture memories in traditional attire, enjoy local sweets, and explore authentic handmade products. Discover the essence of Curaçaoan heritage all in one place.
Best for Craft
Visit official site ↗Lanta Plaza, Ban Koh Lanta, Ko Lanta
Painter Mitree Dumsri sells his own abstract and elephant-themed canvases out of a small storefront in Lanta Plaza, each piece signed and sold as a one-off original rather than a print. He works and ships directly, taking orders by phone and WhatsApp alongside the gallery's own site.
Best for Original Thai paintings, abstract and elephant motifs
Visit official site ↗Lancaster County, PA
This shop sells handmade quilts sewn by Amish quilters across Lancaster County, displayed on a working Amish farm near Intercourse and Paradise. Owner Rachel, who has quilted for over 30 years, oversees 100 to 150 original quilts, quillows, and wall hangings on display at any time.
Best for Hand-stitched Amish quilts
Visit official site ↗Taos / United States
Las Comadres on Bent Street in Taos is a gallery of handcrafted gifts made by local women in a cooperative.
Best for Handcrafted work by a women's co-op
Visit official site ↗Tihany / Hungary
Lavender Tihany distills its own lavender oil on the Tihany peninsula and turns it into natural cosmetics, syrups, gins, and honey wines sold from its visitor center and a direct online shop. The brand traces its roots to lavender plantings from the 1920s and now ships skincare, teas, and gift boxes across Europe.
Best for Cosmetics, lavender-products, gastronomy
Visit official site ↗France
French wellington-boot maker founded in Normandy in 1927 by engineer Claude Chamot; added a Casablanca, Morocco factory in 1949, taking the Le Chameau name; boots still handmade by a single bootmaker per pair.
Best for Hand-crafted French rubber boots; Iconic wellington boot; Leather-lined wellie
Le Chameau traces its origin to 1927, when Claude Chamot, an agricultural engineer, set up a rubber-boot workshop behind an agricultural supply store in Cherbourg, Normandy, aiming to build boots comfortable and durable enough for the farmers, hunters and fishermen who had complained about existing rubber footwear. In 1949 the company opened a second production site in Casablanca, Morocco, and it was at that point the brand adopted the name Le Chameau - French for 'the camel' - as a nod to the new North African factory. Manufacturing has continued in both France and Morocco since. The company's signature process has each pair of boots, notably its Chasseur model, handcrafted from start to finish by a single Maitre bottier using a proprietary natural rubber compound the brand calls Chamolux. Le Chameau has more recently taken on ceremonial and sporting associations in Britain, including as official boot partner of the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.
Visit official site ↗Impasse Toutouri, Kourou
Le Corossol Artisanat is a craft shop at 15 Impasse Toutouri in Kourou, French Guiana. The shop presents its business as the passing on of a family passion for local craft.
Best for Craft
Visit official site ↗Pesaro
Maurizio Tombari opened his pipe workshop in Pesaro in 1996, hand-making briar, olive wood and walnut pipes under the name Le Nuvole. He has sold his pipes online internationally since 1998.
Best for Handmade briar wood pipes
Visit official site ↗Karzoo, Leh
The Ladakh Ecological Development Group runs a crafts shop from its Karzoo office in Leh, channelling woollen and pashmina goods made by 38 self-help groups scattered across remote Ladakhi villages. The NGO provides design training and a buy-back arrangement, giving the shop a genuine cooperative-to-retail structure rather than a curated resale model.
Best for Cooperative-made woollen and pashmina handicrafts
Visit official site ↗Choglamsar, Leh
Lehvallee runs a vertically integrated workshop in Choglamsar that takes raw changra fibre through to finished handmade pashmina scarves and shawls, supporting local women and herders along the way. The brand keeps a showroom in Leh and also supplies a sister label, Yangdol, in Europe.
Best for Handmade pashmina scarves and shawls
Visit official site ↗Ouagadougou
The site sells hand-drawn, hand-dyed batik artwork on 100% cotton fabric, made with wax-resist dyeing, in sizes from under 50x50cm to over 100x150cm priced between 20 and 200 euros. Profits are split between the Ouagadougou artisan association CNFAA and the organization's school and permaculture farm project in rural Burkina Faso.
Best for Hand-dyed batik cotton artwork
Visit official site ↗Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans / Occitanie / Online
France's last Catalan weaver, still working at Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans in sun-saturated striped canvas.
Best for Sun-saturated striped canvas woven in Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans, France's last Catalan weaver
Visit official site ↗Leukerbad, Valais
Shop at Switzerland's largest thermal spa resort. Thermal skincare products, wellness goods, and regional crafts. The mineral-rich thermal waters inspire the product range.
Best for Thermal skincare products, wellness goods, and regional crafts
Visit official site ↗Holborn Road, Kingston
OUR STORY Locale is not just a fusion of the passions and talents of three wonder-women, it also represents their vision for more thoughtfully curated retail experiences that shine a light on gifted talent, community and holistic well-being. Locale serves its clientele by serving the many designers, craft peoples and creators it represents and the stories told through the products and services that it offers.
Best for Design
Visit official site ↗Lockhart River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
This Aboriginal community art centre is home to the celebrated Lockhart River Art Gang. It sells the paintings, prints and crafts of its local artists.
Best for Contemporary Aboriginal art and prints from Cape York
Visit official site ↗Longquan Sword Factory (浙江省龙泉市宝剑厂)
Worth a DetourLongquan, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
This state-recognized Chinese Time-Honored enterprise traces to 1956, continuing a Longquan swordsmithing tradition dated to the Spring and Autumn period, more than 2,600 years ago. Master craftsman Zhang Yesheng still forges on site at a factory that doubles as a national industrial-tourism site.
Best for Handcrafted Longquan swords
Longquan's swordsmithing history is conventionally dated to the Spring and Autumn period, more than 2,600 years ago, but the modern factory traces only to 1956, when local artisans were organized into the Longquan County Sword Production Group to keep the craft alive under state industry. It was formally reconstituted as the Longquan Baojian Factory in 1978, and the present company, Zhejiang Longquan City Baojian Factory Co., Ltd., was established in 2003.
Its current chairman and master craftsman, Zhang Yesheng, was born in 1968 and has apprenticed in the trade since 1986; he holds the title of Zhejiang Arts and Crafts Master and is recognised as a transmitter of the region's intangible cultural heritage. Under that continuity of hands-on leadership, the factory has collected a run of state designations: China Famous Trademark status from the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, Chinese Time-Honored Enterprise recognition from the Ministry of Commerce, and a National Special Cultural Industry Key Project designation from the Ministry of Culture.
The site is also rated a National 3A-level scenic area and a National Industrial Tourism Demonstration Site, open year-round with public access to its forging workshops, grinding shops and exhibition halls -- a working factory that doubles as a heritage attraction.
Visit official site ↗Changthang region, sold via Leh-linked cooperative network
Founded in 2017, Looms of Ladakh traces its pashmina back to a women's self-help group in Chumur village on the Changthang plateau, describing itself as a herder-artisan-owned operation rather than a bought-in supply chain. The brand emerged from a partnership involving the then Leh Deputy Commissioner and works directly with the region's changra goat herders.
Best for Traceable herder-to-artisan pashmina
Visit official site ↗Av. Rafael E. Melgar, San Miguel de Cozumel
Los Cinco Soles has gathered Mexican folk art along Cozumel's San Miguel waterfront since the 1970s, stocking Talavera ceramics, sterling silver, Oaxacan textiles and hand-blown glass across a series of connected rooms. The same walled compound holds Pancho's Backyard, a restaurant set around a colonial-style courtyard.
Best for Mexican folk art and sterling silver
Visit official site ↗Male / Maldives / Online
This Male shop gathers Maldivian handicrafts, from carved dhonis and lacquerware to corporate gifts, and offers custom t-shirt printing. Items are sold through its online store, with orders confirmed by phone or Viber.
Best for Handicrafts, souvenirs, lacquerware, dhoni
Visit official site ↗Louisville / United States
The Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory on West Main Street celebrates the famous baseball bats with factory tours and exhibits alongside its ticketed museum. Its gift shop and custom-bat program let visitors buy personalized Louisville Slugger bats and merchandise both in person and online.
Best for Baseball-bats, factory-store, custom-bats
Visit official site ↗Seminole Drive, Huntsville, Alabama
Lowe Mill opened as a cotton textile mill in 1901 and later made combat boots as a Genesco shoe factory through 1978, before entrepreneur Jim Hudson converted the building into an arts center in 2001. The renovated mill now holds 153 studios and more than 200 working artists, with a maker-focused online store and food and drink vendors on site.
Best for Browsing working artist studios inside a converted 1901 cotton mill
Visit official site ↗Central Australia, Santa Teresa
Ltyentye Apurte Traditional Craft Centre is a 100% Arrernte-owned Aboriginal art centre supported by the Atyenhenge Atherre Aboriginal Corporation, making wooden coolamons, boomerangs and necklaces finished with hand-painting and wood-burning. Pieces are carved from mulga, mallee, gidgee and bean tree wood.
Best for Arrernte wood carving and coolamons
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Luna Zorro Studio
Hidden GemAntigua Guatemala / Online
Luna Zorro pairs handwoven robes, kaftans and bags with vintage huipiles and blankets, treating textiles as both design objects and carriers of Maya craft. Founded in Antigua in 2015, the studio works with artisan partners through foot-loom weaving, hand dyeing and embroidery while extending its world into workshops and small-group journeys.
Best for Vintage huipiles and blankets
Visit official site ↗Lung Tam, Du Già valley, Ha Giang province / Vietnam
Lung Tam sits in the Du Già valley of Ha Giang province, roughly 40 kilometers east of Ha Giang City, and is worked primarily by Flower H'Mông and Tày women through a community weaving cooperative built to keep the economic value of the cloth with the people who make it rather than with middlemen.
Best for Hand-grown, hand-spun H'Mông hemp cloth indigo-dyed and woven on-site
Lung Tam sits in the Du Già valley of Ha Giang province, roughly 40 kilometers east of Ha Giang City, and is worked primarily by Flower H'Mông and Tày women through a community weaving cooperative built to keep the economic value of the cloth with the people who make it rather than with middlemen. The village is often marketed to visitors as a "linen" stop on the Ha Giang Loop, but the fiber is genuinely hemp — Cannabis sativa grown in the surrounding fields and harvested in late summer, distinct from the linen (flax) label sometimes attached to it.
The process runs the full chain in-house: hemp stalks are grown and harvested locally, hand-spun on drop spindles or small frames, then dyed in indigo drawn from fermented indigo-plant leaves, with cloth dipped repeatedly and air-oxidized between dips to build the depth of blue characteristic of H'Mông textiles. Weaving is done on backstrap or floor looms in the geometric patterns passed down through the community, and finished cloth is pounded with wooden mallets to compact and gloss the fiber before it is cut into goods. Visitors can watch the working dye vats and active weaving on weekday and Saturday mornings, when the cooperative's daily process is underway.
The cooperative shop sells raw hemp cloth by the meter alongside finished pieces — pouches, bags, scarves and embroidered goods — with prices set collectively to reflect the labor involved; the operation runs cash-only, without card payment. It is a distinct production site from the Đồng Văn hemp-and-indigo workshop, further along the Ha Giang Loop in a different valley and run by a separate community group.
Visit official site ↗Mayagüez
LuzAngel is an artisan from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, whose strongest medium is woodcarving. Her website also presents her visual art and her poetry, and pieces are arranged by contacting her directly.
Best for Craft
Visit official site ↗Halifax, Nova Scotia
This artisan boutique carries work from more than two hundred Maritime makers, including pewter, tartan blankets, pottery, glass art and lobster-rope goods. It runs two Halifax shops, at Bayers Lake and the Hydrostone Market.
Best for Maritime-made gifts and crafts
Visit official site ↗Magazinche
Hidden GemNear city centre (two locations) / Online
It is best known for Local handmade crafts — notebooks, mugs, purses, jewellery; focus on handcrafted items by Bulgarian designers, artists and authors; two locations near city centre.
Best for Local handmade crafts — notebooks, mugs, purses, jewellery
Visit official site ↗Maison de la Broderie de Cilaos
Hidden GemCilaos
In the mountain village of Cilaos, this conservatory keeps alive the intricate jours de Cilaos embroidery that began here in the early 20th century. Visitors watch the brodeuses at work and buy handmade linens and openwork pieces.
Best for Lovers of traditional handcraft and textiles
Visit official site ↗Ouagadougou / Online
Maison Intègre is a Ouagadougou workshop whose craftsmen cast furniture, lighting and objects in bronze from recycled metals, drawing on West African forms. Its permanent collection is sold through the atelier's online shop for direct orders, bringing the same workshop-made pieces to buyers worldwide.
Best for Bronze, furniture, lighting, homeware, recycled metal
Visit official site ↗Maisons Wat Kor Boutique (Silk & Soul)
Hidden GemWat Kor village, Battambang
Set within the heritage Maisons Wat Kor property, this boutique gathers Cambodian goods from fermented Samlot black pepper to pepper, sesame and ginger oils. It also carries artisan and NGO crafts and artwork by local painters and monks.
Best for Battambang pepper, infused oils and local artisan crafts
Visit official site ↗Yekaterinburg / Online
Malakhitov is a Yekaterinburg workshop selling handcrafted malachite boxes, caskets and chests through its own online shop, with pieces ranging from small trinket boxes to large decorative chests priced up to around 113,000 rubles. The site lists a phone contact and Yekaterinburg address alongside its full product catalog.
Best for Handcrafted malachite boxes, caskets, and chests
Visit official site ↗Malindi / Kenya
At Muyeye Village in Malindi, this showroom sells authentic African carvings, Kisii soapstone, masks, drums, and batiks, with hundreds of woodcarvers working on site. Visitors browse and buy directly from the showroom.
Best for Wood carving, handicrafts, African sculpture, masks
Visit official site ↗Prishtina
Malora Studios in Prishtina makes corset designs including Black Swan, Midnight Muse, Midnight Starlight, Nocturne and The Velours Épine, priced at €100 each, across its Noir Sculpté and Obsidian Muse collections.
Best for Handmade corsets
Visit official site ↗Klang Valley, Malaysia
manekNya trains single mothers, retirees, and unemployed artisans across the Klang Valley in the Peranakan art of hand-beading, keeping alive a Baba Nyonya craft once passed only within families. The studio sells beaded shoes and lifestyle pieces and runs hands-on beading workshops.
Best for Peranakan beaded shoes and beading workshops
Visit official site ↗Avenida A y Calle 1a, Casco Antiguo
Panama City boutique founded by Jorge Aguilar in 2019 as a digital platform for handmade products from Latin America. It works with artisans, independent brands and Indigenous communities, and grew from craft fairs into a Casco Antiguo showroom and, in 2023, a boutique.
Best for Craft
Visit official site ↗Shell Esquipulas, Estelí
This online store sells handmade craft gifts made by artisans across Nicaragua, welcoming shoppers to browse work by local craftspeople. Purchases support the artisans who form part of the Manos Nicas network of makers.
Best for Handmade nicaraguan craft gifts online
Visit official site ↗Grazalema, Cádiz, Spain
Artesanía Textil de Grazalema weaves merino-wool blankets, ponchos, capes and shawls in the mountain town that gave the craft its name, working from a factory that also runs a small museum. The mill sells its throws and scarves directly, including personalised pieces.
Best for Merino wool blankets and throws
Visit official site ↗Manufaktur Jobin
Hidden GemBrienz
Jobin is a Brienz woodcarving manufactory producing hand-carved figures, animals and nativity sets in the town's long Schnitzler tradition. Its workshop and shop show carvers at work and sell finished pieces in Swiss pine and linden.
Best for Hand-carved Swiss woodwork
Visit official site ↗India / Online
Indian menswear label founded in 2020, working with an all-women weaving and embroidery community in the northern Himalayas on handwoven mushroom-silk and deadstock-yarn pieces; has exhibited at Pitti Uomo since 2022.
Best for Handwoven Indian knitwear and craft-focused contemporary menswear
Margn is an Indian clothing label built around craft-focused workwear and knitwear, framing its designs through what it describes as protection, preservation and humanity expressed via artisanal techniques. Hand-knitting sits at the center of its production process: each season, the brand works with an all-women community in Jhanjeli, India, a partnership it says has run for about five years, treating the knitwear line as a direct extension of that collaboration rather than an outsourced supply chain. The label's ready-to-wear runs through T-shirts, shirts, kurtas, trousers, co-ord sets and outerwear, sold alongside a separate, in-development line called Margn Origins built around rural-rooted essentials. Margn ships free worldwide, offers exchanges within 15 days, and provides made-to-measure and cash-on-delivery options for customers ordering from India specifically. The brand has drawn coverage from Indian and international fashion press, including features in Vogue India, Harper's Bazaar India, GQ India and Esquire India, alongside international trade press covering emerging Indian menswear labels. Margn's own site frames its identity around this dual focus - modern silhouettes built on traditional hand-craft processes - rather than positioning itself as either a purely commercial workwear brand or a heritage crafts revival project.
Visit official site ↗Nové Mesto, Bratislava
Mária Štvrtecká runs an independent fashion atelier at Račianská 22/A in Bratislava, offering a fluidity collection and a fragility collection. The online shop is still under development, so orders are currently taken by email.
Best for Fluidity and fragility collection fashion
Visit official site ↗Maruku Arts
Hidden GemUluru, Mutitjulu, Yulara region, Northern Territory, Australia
This Aboriginal-owned enterprise sells traditional and contemporary Aṉangu art and craft made by local Aṉangu artists. It is a member of the Indigenous Art Code.
Best for Authentic Aṉangu wood carvings (punu), paintings and handcraft with cultural provenance
Visit official site ↗Folly Beach, South Carolina
Family-run since 1965, McKevlin's is among the oldest surf shops in the United States, a block from the Folly Beach pier at 8 Center Street. The store shapes and sells surfboards and stocks its own apparel, leashes and hardware for local surfers.
Best for Surfboards, wetsuits and surf apparel
Visit official site ↗Mdina / Malta / Online
Malta's original handmade-glassware producer — blown, sculpted, lampworked and fused into vases, lighting, tableware and ornaments, sold online and across the islands.
Best for Glassblowing, glassware, handmade
Visit official site ↗Fujikawaguchiko (Oishi Hana Terrace), Yamanashi
The washi-craft line of long-established papermaker Onao, turning Japanese paper into seasonal decorations, lucky charms, stationery and Mount Fuji motifs. Its Kawaguchiko branch sits inside the Fuji Oishi Hana Terrace complex on the lake's north shore.
Best for Mt Fuji washi paper crafts and gifts
Visit official site ↗Tunisia
Based in Menzel Kamel, Tunisia, Méditerroir produces organic and Demeter-certified olive oil, organic Deglet Nour dates, and olive wood crafted items, run by the Ben Nejma family across generations. Anis Ben Nejma manages the company and Nabila Ben Nejma oversees quality.
Best for Organic olive oil and dates
Visit official site ↗Comércio
Mercado Modelo is a Salvador market containing many independent artisan and souvenir stalls. It is a multi-vendor destination, so individual traders should not be collapsed into one merchant card.
Best for Bahian artisan crafts and souvenirs at Salvador's defining market
Visit official site ↗Jaakunnguup Aqq, Sisimiut
Mersortarfik Panigiit is a small local hide-sewing workshop in Sisimiut, Greenland.
Best for Hide sewing workshop crafts
Kalambaka / Meteora, Greece
Icon painters at this workshop in the shadow of the Meteora rock pillars have hand-produced Byzantine icons of Christ, the Theotokos, and Orthodox saints since 1997, working in egg tempera and gold leaf according to Christian Byzantine tradition. The range runs from small pocket icons to large commissioned panels, alongside monastery products such as incense and herbal goods.
Best for Hand-painted Byzantine icons and monastery products
Visit official site ↗River Landing Drive, Daniel Island
Founded by painters Laurie Meyer and Marissa Vogl, this contemporary gallery hangs oil and mixed-media work by a roster of regional and represented artists at 250 River Landing Drive. Beyond the exhibitions it runs painting workshops and open-studio sessions for collectors and beginners alike.
Best for Contemporary Lowcountry paintings and painting workshops
Visit official site ↗Valladolid / Spain
Miel Montes Torozos has produced raw, artisan honey from the Montes Torozos hills near Valladolid since 1980, offering thyme, lavender, and holm-oak varieties along with gift sets. Orders can be placed through the shop's online store or directly by phone and WhatsApp while the site undergoes updates.
Best for Raw thyme, lavender and holm-oak honey gift sets
Visit official site ↗Naoshima / Japan
Mikazuki Shoten is a takeout coffee stand on Naoshima, opened in April 2017 near the Benesse Art Site, pouring morning and evening house blends Asami and Yumi. It also sells original apparel made with regional artisans.
Best for Morning and evening house blends, Asami and Yumi, poured at a Naoshima
Mikazuki Shoten opened as a takeout-only coffee stand on Naoshima on April 20, 2017, run by an owner who goes by Suzu, near the island's Benesse Art Site gallery cluster. The stand keeps its pour list narrow and specific: a morning blend called Asami and an evening blend called Yumi, rather than a broad rotating menu.
Beyond coffee, the shop designs its own apparel -- t-shirts, hoodies, denim jackets, and caps carrying Japanese coffee-themed graphics -- made through collaborations with regional artisans, including local tanners, dyers, and textile makers who produce leather coasters and canvas bags for the shop. Mikazuki Shoten has also partnered with PAPLUS on eco-friendly cup packaging, and it operates a second space, Unominato Base, used as an event venue and a future retail concept still taking shape.
Having passed its fifth anniversary in 2022, the shop is now in its sixth-plus year on an island better known internationally for its museums than its coffee counters -- positioning itself less as a stop for a quick espresso and more as a small, artisan-collaborated retail concept built around two named house blends.
Visit official site ↗Centro
mixta is a San Miguel de Allende boutique combining contemporary Mexican jewelry, clothing, home objects and accessories. The edit is design-led and multi-category, making it useful for finding several independent makers in one stop.
Best for Mexican textiles, ceramics, furniture, and jewelry in one curated boutique
Visit official site ↗Shirakawa Go / Japan
Miyama Tofu Shop hand-makes tofu and the local suttate dip in the Shirakawa-go gassho-style village, selling stone-pressed ishidofu prized for holding its shape even when tied with rope. The shop sells directly to visitors and ships nationwide through its dedicated online store.
Best for Food, Tofu, Handmade
Visit official site ↗Moa / Online
An Indigenous art centre on Moa Island in the Torres Strait, representing local artists whose prints, textiles and carvings are sold with each maker named. Works are purchased through the centre's online shop.
Best for Art, Torres Strait Islander Art, Prints
Visit official site ↗Koh Samui, Thailand
Opened in 1987, this was the first art gallery to establish on Koh Samui, built on a house style of impressionist oil paintings layering Buddha-inspired faces over abstract grounds. Resident artists still produce gallery originals and custom portrait commissions, each issued with a certificate of authenticity.
Best for Original Thai oil paintings and custom portraits
Visit official site ↗Mariacka Street, Old Town (ul. Mariacka 46)
Maria Fijałkowska makes everything in her own workshop, favouring natural, unpolished amber forms set with gold and silver. Some pendants pair raw amber with diamonds for a sculptural finish.
Best for Natural-form amber with a sculptural bent
Visit official site ↗Avenue Father Joseph Wresinski, Ouagadougou
The brand sells handwoven Faso Dan Fani cotton loincloths across collections such as Origin, Baoule, Bogolan, Signature and Nobility, woven by hand at partner workshops. It lists locations in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Cocody Riviera Faya in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire.
Best for Handwoven faso dan fani cotton pagnes
Visit official site ↗Sam Sharpe Square, Montego Bay
The gift shop at Montego Bay Cultural Centre in Sam Sharpe Square sits within a museum devoted to Jamaican culture.
Best for Craft
Visit official site ↗Koyasan, Koya-cho, Ito District, Wakayama, Japan
Founded in 1950, this family workshop still makes its raw goma-dofu with Guatemalan white sesame, Koyasan spring water, and Yoshino kudzu starch, following the method it opened with. The shop sells directly from its Koyasan premises, closed Mondays, with a small dine-in counter attached.
Best for Raw sesame tofu made with Yoshino kudzu
Visit official site ↗Morro Bay, California
This Morro Bay yarn shop stocks fibre by weight and by brand, from Malabrigo and Sandnes Garn to needles, notions, sashiko supplies and craft books. Alongside the online store it runs classes and events for knitters, crocheters and menders.
Best for Yarn, knitting, crochet, craft supplies
Visit official site ↗Vladimir / Russia
The Center for Traditional Mstyora Miniature produces lacquer miniature paintings on papier-mache in Mstyora village, a craft settlement recorded under its earlier name Bogoyavlenskaya Sloboda as far back as 1628, and marks finished pieces with the artist's surname, year, and place of manufacture. The center also runs guided tours, master classes, and custom religious-themed commissions.
Best for Lacquered papier-mache miniature paintings from Mstyora, Russia
The Center for Traditional Mstyora Miniature operates from Lenin Street in the village of Mstyora, Vladimir Oblast -- a settlement whose own historical record, per the center, reaches back to 1628 under its earlier name, Bogoyavlenskaya Sloboda. The village is described as one of Russia's major centers for artistic craft, historically home to lacquer miniature painting on papier-mache alongside embroidery and jewelry work.
The center's core craft is the papier-mache lacquer miniature: small painted panels built up on a papier-mache base and finished in lacquer, a production method the center describes itself as preserving as a 'unique technology.' Finished pieces traditionally carry three marks of authorship and place -- the year of execution, the master's surname, and 'Mstyora' as the place of manufacture -- a signing convention the center continues.
Alongside production and sale of finished miniatures, with a stated growing focus on religious subject matter, the center runs guided tours and hands-on master classes in the painting technique, and accepts custom orders with delivery across Russia.
Visit official site ↗Arequipa
The Michell Group runs this free alpaca centre and showroom with live alpacas and vicuñas. Visitors watch spinning and weaving demonstrations and shop fine baby-alpaca garments and textiles.
Best for Visitors watch spinning and weaving demonstrations and shop fine baby-alpaca garments
Visit official site ↗Old San Juan
Mundo Taíno describes itself as the only stores in Puerto Rico offering a wide variety of 100% local items, sourced from more than 300 artisans.
Best for 100 percent local puerto rican crafts
Münster / Germany
Münster Manufakturen on the Prinzipalmarkt in Münster brings together traditional craft and modern design.
Best for Traditional craft and modern design
Visit official site ↗Musee du Bois de Vaipaee
Worth a DetourVaipaee, Ua Huka
The Musee du Bois in Vaipaee presents Marquesan wood art, its sculptures set within the Papua Keikaha arboretum on Ua Huka. Listed by Tahiti Tourisme, it is open daily year-round with free entry and can be reached at +689 40 91 60 26.
Best for Marquesan wood carving and sculpture heritage
Visit official site ↗Perugia / Italy
Museo Atelier Giuditta Brozzetti is a working hand-weaving atelier in Perugia's former church of San Francesco delle Donne, producing table runners, cushions, and scarves on antique looms using centuries-old Perugian patterns like Griffin and Pomegranate. Its online shop sells the handwoven pieces worldwide alongside guided tours of the museum floor.
Best for Weaving atelier, Handwoven Textiles, Table Linens, Scarves
Visit official site ↗San Antonio Aguas Calientes, near Antigua Guatemala
Set in the Kaqchikel-speaking village of San Antonio Aguas Calientes just outside Antigua, this combined museum and workshop teaches backstrap-loom weaving on the same looms used to produce the huipiles and textiles displayed and sold on site. Four-hour sessions walk visitors through warping the loom and reading the brocade patterns that identify a weaver's home community.
Best for Backstrap-loom weaving demonstrations and huipiles
Visit official site ↗Dhanmondi, Dhaka
A brand devoted since 2018 to reviving Dhaka muslin, the near-transparent handwoven cotton lost for over a century, working with weavers on jamdani and muslin sarees that can take thousands of hours across sixteen stages. Pieces are offered by request-to-own from its Dhanmondi base.
Best for Revived Dhaka muslin and jamdani sarees
Visit official site ↗Old Town, Kotor
Mustrica, at Old Town 352 in Kotor, sells handmade Dobrota lace — a protected intangible cultural asset of Montenegro made with needle, thread, thimble and scissors on linen or cotton canvas, taking three to four hours for even the smallest motif — alongside batik and crocheted lace and paintings, drawings and watercolours.
Best for Handmade Dobrota lace
Visit official site ↗Bolgatanga
My Bolga Baskets has seven years of experience exporting handmade Bolga baskets woven from natural grass. The company moved to direct sales benefiting the weavers.
Best for Handwoven Bolga grass baskets
Visit official site ↗El Jadida
This El Jadida-branded boutique sells Moroccan handwork direct to buyers, from naturally woven straw baskets and hand-embroidered pouches to potter's-wheel ceramics and rope-and-rattan light fixtures. Each piece is described with the traditional technique behind it, and the catalogue is expanding into handmade garden furniture.
Best for Handwoven baskets, embroidered pouches and Moroccan ceramics
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Myochin Honpo
Heritage HouseHimeji, Hyogo
The Myochin family forged armor for the Himeji domain before turning to fire tongs, and in 1965 the 52nd-generation smith tuned a pair of them into the clear-ringing hibashi wind chime the workshop is now known for. Hand-forged pieces run from the signature iron chimes to titanium bells, letter openers and vases, still made at the family's Himeji forge.
Best for Hand-forged iron wind chimes and hibashi
Visit official site ↗Montana, USA
Bozeman load-carriage science — the 3-Zip and military-grade packs from Dana Gleason’s workshop.
Best for Military packs, USA-made
Visit official site ↗Portsmouth Nh / United States
N.W. Barrett Gallery has represented several hundred craft artists in fine gems, high-karat gold and other media from its Market Street space in Portsmouth, NH since 1985. The gallery is open seven days a week, year round.
Best for Crafts, Gallery
Visit official site ↗Thimphu / Bhutan
Operating as a state incense unit since the 1960s before privatizing in 1991, Nado Poizokhang hand-rolls Zur Poe and Riwosangchoe incense from roughly 700-year-old formulas at its Thimphu factory beside Changangkha Lhakhang, using up to 108 ingredients per ritual blend.
Best for Hand-rolled Zur Poe and ceremonial Riwosangchoe incense made to centuries-old formulas
Nado Poizokhang started as a government-run incense unit in Bhutan in the 1960s and was commercialized into a private, family-run company in 1991, as part of the Royal Government's broader privatization of state enterprises — making it, by its own claim, Bhutan's oldest hand-made incense manufacturer. The factory sits in Thimphu beside Changangkha Lhakhang and turns out more than ten thousand sticks a month, still hand-rolled rather than machine-extruded. Formulas are inherited rather than invented in-house, dated by the company to roughly 700 years of Bhutanese incense-making tradition: daily-use sticks are built from around 40 natural ingredients, while ritual incense uses 108, a number chosen for its significance in Buddhist practice. The main hand-made lines are Zur Poe, offered across seven grades suited to everyday offerings and meditation, and two ceremonial Riwosangchoe blends, alongside ZANGDRUP (a fine herbal powder) and SANG (a coarser high-altitude plant-leaf powder) for smoke offerings. Materials — trees, fruits, bark, stems, flowers, leaves and roots — are sourced from rural Bhutanese communities, which the company frames as a way of supporting local livelihoods alongside the incense trade itself, keeping both the recipe and the supply chain rooted in the same country the factory has served since the 1960s.
Visit official site ↗Nagada
Hidden GemDokki
Founded around a handloom in the early 1990s, Nagada weaves Egyptian cotton and linen into handwoven cloth that becomes galabeyas, kimonos, coats and dresses, plus home textiles from its Loom Collection. The design house works out of The Villa on Refaa Street in Dokki and builds each season around natural fibres and traditional loom techniques.
Best for Handwoven Egyptian cotton and linen
Visit official site ↗Nantong Blue Calico Museum (南通蓝印花布博物馆)
Worth a DetourNantong / China
Founded in 1996 by master craftsman Wu Yuanxin in Nantong, Jiangsu, this museum preserves the region's indigo-resist blue calico dyeing tradition, listed as national intangible cultural heritage in 2006. Its collection exceeds 26,000 textile pieces, and the affiliated Yuanxinlan workshop still produces the cloth using the historic lime-and-bean-flour resist technique.
Best for Blue calico, indigo-resist dyeing, textile museum, Nantong heritage craft
Blue calico printing and dyeing traces back over a thousand years, with Nantong emerging as a major cotton-textile center during the Ming and Qing dynasties, when as many as nineteen registered dye workshops operated in the city's Dyeing and Weaving Bureau district. The craft uses a resist paste of lime and bean flour applied through a hollowed pattern plate, followed by repeated soaking in fermented indigo-vat dye and scraping away the paste to reveal white-on-blue patterns.
Wu Yuanxin, a craftsman from Qidong under Nantong's jurisdiction, comes from a family that grew cotton and wove and dyed calico for generations -- his grandmother wove the cloth and his grandfather dyed and printed it. Recognized as a Chinese arts and crafts grandmaster and among the first national intangible-cultural-heritage inheritors, Wu has worked in blue calico for more than forty years and founded the Nantong Blue Calico Museum in 1996 (some Chinese-language sources cite 1997) as the country's first museum to combine collection, exhibition, research and production of the craft under one roof.
The museum's holdings include more than 60,000 traditional printed-textile pieces dating to the Ming and Qing dynasties and over 200,000 patterns, alongside a full set of historic production tools. Its contemporary arm, the Yuanxinlan brand -- run by Wu together with Wu Lingshu and Ni Shenjian -- designs blue-calico patterns and craft goods that pair the millennium-old technique with present-day aesthetics.
Visit official site ↗Downtown Waterfront, Kingston
Celebrate Emancipation and Independence with the National Gallery of Jamaica Gift Shop’s Emancipendence Summer Sale ! From 31 July to 7 August 2026 , enjoy 15% off selected items and special discounted bundle offers.
Best for Craft
Visit official site ↗National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo
Hidden Gem75 J.M.N. Nkomo St, L. Takawira Ave, Bulawayo
The National Gallery's Bulawayo branch fills Douslin House, a 1901 building on the corner of J.M.N. Nkomo Street and Leopold Takawira Avenue, with Zimbabwean stone and wood sculpture, painting, basketry and Tonga artifacts. Its in-house Sabona Sales Shop sells work by local artists, from sculptures, drums and baskets to balancing birds and decorated wooden pens, alongside pieces from the DRC.
Best for Zimbabwean sculpture, crafts and gallery shop
Visit official site ↗Patan, Lalitpur
Nepal Statues are handcrafted in Patan (Lalitpur), Nepal, by Newar artisans using lost wax casting, copper repoussé, hand carving, 24K gold gilding and hand painting, and are certified by the Department of Archaeology in Kathmandu before shipping. The catalog includes Buddha and Bodhisattva statues and thangka paintings, with consecration available through Sangye Choeling Monastery in Kathmandu.
Best for Handmade gilded Buddha statues
Visit official site ↗St Ives / United Kingdom
Founded in 1965 by potter Janet Leach, the New Craftsman Gallery has spent sixty years showing ceramics, jewelry, and painting from artists tied to the St Ives art scene, including early champions of Lucie Rie and Bernard Leach. The gallery runs a full calendar of rotating exhibitions and ships purchased artworks nationally and internationally.
Best for Art & Craft Gallery, Ceramics, Jewelry
Visit official site ↗Patan, Lalitpur
Nidhiratna's Buddhist statues, thangka prints and ritual items are handmade in Patan, Nepal, using copper with 24K gold fire-gilding and oxidized copper finishes inlaid with turquoise and coral. Statues can be consecrated on request at Sechen Monastery and are shipped worldwide free of charge.
Best for Handmade gilded Buddhist statues and thangka
Visit official site ↗Old Town, Piran
Nika's Tiny House is an atelier in Piran making handcrafted miniature houses as sculptural artworks. Each piece is documented on a world map at the atelier, with the artist painting the destination country as the tiny houses travel worldwide. The practice of tracking each piece's destination began in 2015.
Best for Handmade miniature tiny house sculptures and artwork
Visit official site ↗Minamishinano / Japan
For more than sixty years, Niku no Suzukiya has been the butcher of the remote Toyama district in Iida, Nagano, famous for its miso-and-garlic marinated 'Toyama Jingisu' mutton and wild game. From its village shop and HACCP-certified workshop it ships mutton, boar, venison, bear, and other rare meats across Japan through its online store.
Best for Butcher, Jingisukan, Gibier, Meat
Visit official site ↗Nim Po't
Hidden GemAntigua Guatemala / Online
Under one tin roof on 5a Avenida Norte, Nim Po't gathers huipiles, wooden masks, textiles and folk art from weaving villages across the Guatemalan highlands — less a shop than a standing census of the country's craft. Everything is bought outright from the artisans, and the sheer range makes it Antigua's essential first and last stop.
Best for Highland huipiles, masks and folk art under one roof
Visit official site ↗Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhegorodsky Souvenir is a Nizhny Novgorod chain selling Russian folk crafts and gifts, from matryoshka dolls and Pavlovo Posad shawls to Gorodets prints and pryaniki. Shoppers buy through its online store or at its shop on Bolshaya Pokrovskaya and several city kiosks.
Best for Souvenirs, Russian crafts, matryoshka, gifts
Visit official site ↗Governors Harbour, Eleuthera
Norma’s Gift Shop in Governors Harbour The gift shop is situated right in the center of Governors Harbour on the corner opposite Da Perk cafe – facing Queens Highway and right on the road around the harbour. It was built for Miss Norma – who had owned the land for some years – by the late Richard Rolle around 1990.
Best for Craft
Visit official site ↗Whitehorse
North End Gallery, on the banks of the Yukon River in Whitehorse, showcases original Yukon paintings, art prints, Indigenous art and crafts and handmade gifts made entirely by Canadian artists.
Best for Yukon and Indigenous art
Visit official site ↗Datong
A craft-and-antiques studio formerly profiled for bookbinding, sewing and woodworking workshops. An official Facebook page was identified through the independent article, but no recent operating evidence or current address could be independently confirmed.
Best for Bookbinding, sewing and woodworking workshops
Notojima / Online
On Notojima island near Nanao, this glass studio sells artists' work and handmade glass pieces alongside its blowing and sandblasting experiences. Its glassware is available at the on-site direct shop and through its BASE online store.
Best for Glass, handblown glass, glass art, glassware
Visit official site ↗Takaoka / Japan
Nousaku has cast tin, bronze, and brass tableware, bells, and vases at its Takaoka foundry since 1916, work recognized by MoMA's design store and multiple Good Design Awards in Japan. The company runs factory tours and a workshop program from its Toyama headquarters alongside its retailer network.
Best for Metal casting foundry
Visit official site ↗Whakarewarewa, Rotorua
The New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute (NZMACI) operates within Te Puia at Hemo Road, Tihiotonga, Rotorua, teaching and showcasing whakairo carving. Its Ahua Gallery and Oha Gift Store sell hand-crafted Maori taonga.
Best for Maori carving school and gallery
Visit official site ↗Iragbiji
Obatala Centre for Creative Arts operates in Iragbiji, Osun State, under the artist Chief Muraina Oyelami. The centre runs a museum alongside workshops and creative arts programming for the public.
Best for Art museum and creative workshops
Visit official site ↗Warkworth / New Zealand
Rick Urban, a potter, and his wife Mio Endo run this Warkworth gallery representing more than fifty New Zealand and international pottery, ceramic, painting, and jewellery artists. The gallery, tucked down an alley off Queen Street, sells both in person and through its online shop, with new work added regularly.
Best for Art & Craft Gallery, Pottery
Visit official site ↗Oficina do Doce
Hidden GemGaleria Rossio, Aveiro
Aveiro workshop dedicated to Ovos Moles de Aveiro — a 16th-century convent sweet with EU Protected Geographical Indication status — running 30-minute sessions where visitors learn the history, help fill and cut the wafer shells, then taste the results.
Best for Ovos Moles and sweet-making workshops
Ovos Moles de Aveiro trace back to the 16th-century Convent of Jesus in Aveiro, where nuns used large quantities of egg whites in domestic tasks such as starching and ironing habits, leaving them with surplus egg yolks. Rather than waste the yolks, the convent developed a way to use them: mixing yolk with a sugar syrup made from imported Madeira sugar, and encasing the resulting sweet paste inside thin wafer shells shaped like small shellfish and sea creatures, a nod to Aveiro's lagoon and coastal setting. The recipe and technique were passed down through the convent and, later, secular producers, following the same conventual method for generations. Ovos Moles de Aveiro became the first Portuguese convent-origin sweet to receive Protected Geographical Indication status from the European Union, a designation that legally ties the name to the Aveiro region and to production following the traditional recipe — protecting it from being made elsewhere under the same name. Oficina do Doce, located in Aveiro's Galeria Rossio, operates as a hands-on interpretation center for this history rather than only a point of sale: its Ovos Moles workshop runs roughly 30 minutes, walking participants through the sweet's convent origins before letting them take part in filling and cutting the wafer shells themselves, finishing with a tasting of the finished ovos moles and other conventual sweets from the wider Aveiro region.
Visit official site ↗570 route d'Apt, 84220 Roussillon, Provence, France (former Mathieu ochre works)
Set in a restored former ochre factory, this cooperative ecomuseum is devoted to colour, with a comptoir shop and e-boutique selling ochres and pigments, plant dyes and mordants, binders, fine-art supplies and tadelakt tools. It also runs hands-on workshops.
Best for Ochre pigments, natural dyes and colour workshops
Visit official site ↗Tokushima / Online
Okamoto Textile Factory has woven cotton on power looms since its founding in the Taisho era, specializing in Awa indigo dyeing and shijira-ori textured cloth turned into shirts, jinbei and selvedge denim. Its Rampuya online shop and physical mill sell the finished garments and fabric nationwide from Tokushima.
Best for Awa indigo shijira cloth, shirts, jinbei and denim
Visit official site ↗Oketo / Japan
From the small Hokkaido town of Oketo, Oke-Craft gathers turned wooden tableware and cutlery made by two dozen independent workshops under a regional craft brand born in 1983. Bowls, plates, cups, and utensils are sold at the Forest Craft Center shop and through the official online store.
Best for Woodcraft, wooden-tableware, homeware
Visit official site ↗Old Town Eureka
This artist-run cooperative art gallery in Humboldt County sits at Second and F Streets beside the Old Town gazebo. Members show paintings across all mediums along with photography, jewelry, mosaics, ceramics, and woodwork, all made by local artists.
Best for Work by local cooperative artists
Yellowknife / Canada
Old Town Glassworks is a worker-owned Yellowknife cooperative that has upcycled discarded bottles into etched glassware since 1994, selling finished pieces and custom engravings from its McDonald Drive shop and online store. Visitors can also book hands-on glass-cutting workshops at the studio.
Best for Etched glassware upcycled from discarded bottles, custom engravings
Visit official site ↗Corfu
This Corfu workshop makes authentic handmade objects from the island's olive wood, presenting its pieces through an online Creations catalogue and offering wholesale to retailers. Olive timber's dense, marbled grain leaves each carved item individually patterned.
Best for Handmade olive-wood objects
Visit official site ↗El Poblado, Medellín
Colombian specialty coffee roasted artisanally in Medellín and sourced directly from growers in Antioquia. The brand documents fair payment and traces each bag to its farm, producer and process through a QR code.
Best for Coffee
Visit official site ↗Osu
Founded in 2011 by Maryanne Mathias and Molly Keogh after a 2009 trip to Ghana, Osei-Duro pioneered West African batik printing on silk and rayon. The label is headquartered and dyed in Accra, with a design studio in Vancouver and distribution out of Colorado.
Best for Ghanaian-made batik on silk and rayon
Osei-Duro grew out of a 2009 trip to Ghana by Maryanne Mathias and Molly Keogh, two North American designers who had known each other since high school. Mathias had trained in fashion design in Vancouver and already ran a small hand-dyed clothing line out of Montreal; Keogh held a fashion design degree from California College of the Arts and a master's in African Studies from Indiana University. What began as an open-ended experiment became a company formally founded in 2011.
The label's defining move was applying West African batik techniques to silk and rayon rather than the cotton batik is traditionally worked on, contracting small-scale Ghanaian artisans and manufacturers to hand-dye and sew every piece. Ghana was Mathias's first stop specifically because of its established cottage textile industry and room for it to grow.
Osei-Duro is headquartered and dyed in Accra, with a design studio in Vancouver, Canada, and a distribution center in Colorado. The founders describe economic and environmental sustainability as intrinsically linked, and source materials within Ghana where possible to cut transport impact while supporting local textile producers directly.
Visit official site ↗Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar), Maharashtra
Established in 1891, this sixth-generation, Silk Mark-certified handloom house weaves the region's Himroo brocade and Paithani sarees, with motifs drawn from the Ajanta and Ellora caves. It supports around 300 weaving families.
Best for Heritage Himroo brocade shawls, stoles and Paithani sarees
Visit official site ↗Paraguayita Mia
Hidden GemAsuncion
This Asuncion craft shop works directly with local artisans on handmade Paraguayan pieces. Stock includes ao po'i embroidered shirts, ponchos, table linens, ñandutí-style decor, wooden crafts and souvenirs.
Best for Paraguayan artisan gifts, ao po'i and ñandutí craft
Visit official site ↗Livingston, Montana
This gallery represents the paintings and lithographs of Parks Reece, a self-described 'mythological surrealist' who has worked in Livingston since the early 1980s after leading the nonprofit Danforth Gallery. Since 1997 his limited-edition lithographs have been produced locally at Deep Creek Productions.
Best for Surrealist Western-themed art and lithographs
Visit official site ↗Luang Prabang / Laos
Passa Paa is a family-run studio on Sakkaline Road in Luang Prabang crafting contemporary Hmong textiles from hand-dyed indigo, hemp and applique. Its shop and online store carry scarves, bags, wallets and homeware, each piece worked with traditional Lao and Hmong stitching techniques.
Best for Textiles, Hmong applique, indigo, hemp
Calle Poeta Prudencio 4, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
Pastelería Iturbe bakes from its own obrador on Calle Poeta Prudencio in Logroño, turning out macarons, cakes and seasonal pastries the shop describes as part of the city's collective memory. The range expands considerably each December for Christmas, with orders taken by phone, WhatsApp or in person.
Best for Artisan cakes, macarons and seasonal pastries
Visit official site ↗Patan Patola (Salvi Heritage Museum & Weaving House)
Heritage HousePatan / India
The Salvi family has woven double-ikat Patan patola for some thirty-five generations, and their Rani ki Vav road heritage house pairs a small museum with genuine natural-dye sarees and scarves for sale. Each cloth is tie-dyed on both warp and weft so its pattern reads identically on either side.
Best for Thirty-five generations of Salvi-family double-ikat weaving, a heritage museum
Visit official site ↗Patan Gujarat / India
Run by veteran weaver Vijay Sevanthilal Salvi and his grandson, Patan's Patola Art hand-weaves double-ikat patola sarees, each taking four to five months on the loom. The Patan showroom welcomes visitors daily to see and buy the family's designs.
Best for Run by veteran weaver Vijay Sevanthilal Salvi and his grandson
Visit official site ↗UK
Fair-trade fashion’s pioneer — Safia Minney’s 1991 ethical blueprint, organic and artisan-made.
Best for Fair trade fashion pioneer
Pernille Bulow Glas
Hidden GemSvaneke, Bornholm
Pernille Bulow has blown glass in Svaneke since the early 1980s, and her studio produces coloured drinking glasses, vases and lamps in the expressive style that made her one of Bornholm's best-known designers. Visitors can watch the glassblowers at the furnace and buy from the adjoining shop.
Best for Hand-blown Bornholm glass
Visit official site ↗Crete, Elounda
Petrakis Byzantine Icon Workshop paints icons in the Cretan School style using genuine gold leaf, natural pigments and organic glue, with work held in churches and collections in Greece and abroad. Ioannis Petrakis runs the studio in Elounda, Crete, alongside Yiorgia Petrakis.
Best for Cretan school byzantine icon painting
Visit official site ↗Phare Ponleu Selpak
Hidden GemAnh Chanh village, Battambang
This Battambang non-profit arts school and circus houses visual-arts studios and galleries where students make and sell paintings, graphic art and crafts. It is the birthplace of the Phare Cambodian Circus.
Best for Cambodian contemporary art, circus and visual-arts studios
Visit official site ↗Udaipur / India
Pichwai Artist, working from a studio in Udaipur since 1983, hand-paints traditional Pichwai devotional artworks depicting Shrinathji and Krishna on paper, cloth, and canvas. Pieces are sized and priced individually on the website, with worldwide shipping and custom commissions available.
Best for Pichwai Painting, Traditional Art
Visit official site ↗Pixel Mosaici
Hidden GemRavenna
Pixel Mosaici runs mosaic courses in Ravenna for children and adults, from beginners to advanced, working with individuals and groups. It sells handmade pieces and reproductions and takes custom commissions from its workshop at Via Sinistra Canale Molinetto 181.
Best for Mosaic courses and handmade mosaic pieces
Visit official site ↗Cabo Rojo
Plaza Artesanal Rolando Ortiz Medina opened in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, on 14 July 2010 as a place for artisans to show and sell Puerto Rican crafts. It is made up of 20 artisan stalls and also has a craft gallery.
Best for Craft
Visit official site ↗Xixiu District, Anshun
Anshun's Pobarey museum and experience hall houses over 700 Miao, Buyi and Yao wax-resist textiles, with hands-on indigo-dye classes at its Gu Family Former Residence branch. Its shop sells hand-woven batik goods alongside an indigo coffee corner.
Best for Hands-on indigo batik-making workshops and wax-resist textile crafts
Anshun, in China's Guizhou province, is one of the historic centers of Miao, Buyi and Yao wax-resist batik-making, and Pobarey's museum and experience gallery is built around that inheritance. The core collection runs past 700 pieces of wax-resist textile work drawn from those three traditions, displayed alongside a working experience hall where visitors can try the craft themselves rather than just view it behind glass. Classes run from introductory indigo-dyeing and hand-drawing sessions up to more advanced instruction — the site's own program history includes an advanced autumn batik-making course for visitors who want to go beyond a single afternoon workshop. Pobarey operates more than one site in the city, including a branch inside the Gu family's former residence, folding the craft into a piece of local architectural heritage rather than treating it as a stand-alone attraction. The attached shop sells the results: hand-woven batik fabric worked into scarves, bags and other cultural-creative goods, plus a small indigo-themed coffee corner for visitors who want to linger. It's a working museum model — collection, classroom and shop under one roof — built specifically around Guizhou's minority textile traditions rather than a generic craft-shop format.
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Podestà Sedie
Hidden GemChiavari
Podestà Sedie is a long-established Chiavari workshop that turns and bends local hardwood into the slender Chiavarina chair and its many models. It hand-canes and finishes each frame for homes, restaurants and event venues.
Best for Chiavari chairs and variants
Official site not recordedAmazon ↗
Poli Distillerie
Heritage HouseBassano area / Veneto / Online
Family grappa distillery founded in 1898 by Giobatta Poli in Schiavon, near Bassano del Grappa in the Veneto. Now run by the fourth generation, it operates alongside the Poli Grappa Museum, a two-floor, roughly 1,000 sq m exhibition of distillation history and about 2,000 historic grappa bottles.
Best for Artisanal grappa flights.
Poli Distillerie traces its origins to 1898, when Giobatta Poli distilled pomace from a small mobile still he moved between farmhouses in the Veneto countryside. The business settled permanently in Schiavon, near Bassano del Grappa, and has remained solely owned and run by the Poli family across four generations, now led by great-grandchildren Giampaolo, Barbara, Andrea and Jacopo Poli. The distillery produces grappa and other Italian distillates using both traditional discontinuous bain-marie stills and more modern equipment, and sells its range through its own shop and internationally via importers such as Winebow. Attached to the production site is the Poli Grappa Museum, a free, self-guided museum spanning roughly 1,000 square metres across two floors. It traces the history of distillation and the emergence of grappa as an Italian product, and houses a collection of around 2,000 grappa bottles produced between the 1930s and 1980s, sourced from nearly 400 distilleries, many of which no longer exist. Labels and captions are presented in both Italian and English. The museum and shop are open six days a week, giving the distillery a public-facing cultural role beyond its role as a working producer, and positioning it as one of the more visitable grappa houses in the Bassano del Grappa area.
Visit official site ↗Mackinac Island / United States
Poppins on Main Street on Mackinac Island is full of handcrafted gifts and paper goods.
Best for Handcrafted gifts and paper goods
Visit official site ↗Pormpuraaw Art & Culture Centre
Hidden GemPormpuraaw, Cape York, Queensland
This Aboriginal-owned centre in the remote Cape York community of Pormpuraaw shows paintings and ghost-net sculptures by local Indigenous artists. Their work is sold through the centre's own online shop.
Best for Indigenous Australian art (paintings, ghost-net sculpture)
Visit official site ↗Leavenworth / United States
Posy on Commercial Street in Leavenworth carries goods made by artists and craftsmen of the Northwest.
Best for Small-batch goods by Northwest makers
Visit official site ↗Sardinia / Online
Pretziada pairs international designers with Sardinian master artisans to develop contemporary objects.
Best for Sardinian craft-design collaborations.
Visit official site ↗Primavera Gallery
Hidden GemKing's Parade
Primavera has shown British studio craft and contemporary art since Henry Rothschild opened it in 1945, early on championing potters such as Lucie Rie and Bernard Leach. The King's Parade gallery sells ceramics, jewellery, glass, textiles and paintings from established and emerging makers.
Best for British studio ceramics and craft
Visit official site ↗Productos La Sala
Hidden GemCadiz province
Productos La Sala gathers flor de sal by hand from Cadiz salt marshes, packing the unrefined marine crystals with no additives. The maker sells its artisanal salt through its own online shop.
Best for Unrefined artisanal flor de sal
Visit official site ↗Mohammadpur, Dhaka
A fair-trade producer founded in 2001 that supports over 1,500 rural artisans across ten centres making baskets, handmade paper, crochet and palm-fibre goods from recycled sari, jute and silk. A WFTO member, it won the organisation's 2015 design award for a handmade-paper ornament and exports from its Asad Gate base.
Best for Fair-trade baskets, paper and fibre crafts
Visit official site ↗Puawai Jade
Hidden Gem1174 Whakaue Street, Rotorua, New Zealand (plus Eat Streat)
Led by master carver Niki Nepia, this locally owned gallery-studio works more than 95% New Zealand pounamu into traditional Māori and contemporary designs. Carvers work on site, in view of visitors.
Best for Authentic NZ pounamu pendants and seeing a master carver at work
Visit official site ↗Eagle Beach, Palm Beach
Find authentic & unique handmade art created by Aruban artists. With over 30 contributing local Aruban artists, there is a large variety of art to explore!
Best for Gallery
Visit official site ↗Adelgade 29E, central Ebeltoft
A working glassblowing studio where glass is blown daily on weekdays, turning out cone and onion vases, optic and bongo bowls, lidded jars, pendant vases and glass jewellery. Visitors can watch the furnace work in the old merchant's courtyard before buying finished pieces in the adjoining shop.
Best for Watching glass blown and buying it fresh
Visit official site ↗Nuuk / Greenland
Qiviut ApS works with muskox wool and sealskin to make neck warmers, baby kamik boots, breadbaskets and skeins of natural or dyed qiviut yarn, all rooted in Inuit tradition. Based on Imaneq in central Nuuk, the shop sells its sustainable Greenlandic goods both in store and through its online catalogue.
Best for Qiviut, musk ox wool, sealskin, knitwear, Inuit craft
Visit official site ↗Twin Bridges Mt / United States
R.L. Winston Fly Rods has built bamboo and graphite fly rods in Twin Bridges, Montana since 1929, now also making Bauer fly reels and its own sunglasses line. Rods, reels, and merchandise are sold through its own online shop as well as a network of dealers.
Best for Fly Rod Maker, Fishing Gear
Visit official site ↗Val Gardena / Italy
Rabanser Holzschnitzerei has carved Madonnas, saints, crucifixes, and nativity figures from wood in Val Gardena since master carver Otto Ferdinando Rabanser founded the workshop in 1976, now run by his son Florian. Finished pieces are sold from the shop in St. Ulrich and through the workshop's own online store, alongside custom carvings made to order.
Best for Hand-carved saints, crucifixes and nativity figures
Visit official site ↗India / Online
Rahul Mishra, the first Indian designer to show at Paris Haute Couture Week, sells ready-to-wear and festive couture, including sherwanis, lehengas, and sarees, through his Shopify storefront with worldwide shipping. The label also lists flagship retail stores under its 'Find Us' page and works directly with Indian craft communities on embroidery and weaving for each collection.
Best for Fashion, couture, indian craft
Visit official site ↗Maribor / Slovenia
Rajzefiber in Maribor offers a choice of original souvenirs made by hand in the Štajerska region.
Best for Handmade souvenirs of Štajerska
Visit official site ↗ReCreativ
Hidden GemOld Town (Apollonia Hirscher St)
An independent art-and-craft shop on Apollonia Hirscher Street stocking materials for painting, modelling and handmade hobby work along with finished craft pieces. It serves Brașov's makers and hobbyists from a single Old Town storefront.
Best for Art and craft supplies for painting, modelling, and hobby work
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