Plate M-12 · 1,417 stores · 1201–1350 of 1417 · curated ORBIS register
This plate lists 1,417 shops in 130 countries. Paris has the most with 15, followed by Delhi with 14. Among these shops, 84 describe made-to-order work, 21 offer repairs, 151 sell online and 9 work by appointment, going by their own descriptions.
Ask who made the piece: ask whether the maker is in the workshop, or whether the shop sells other makers' work.
Ask how it was made: ask about the materials and the process, and whether a piece can be made to order.
Ask how it will travel: ask for packing or shipping for anything fragile, bulky or heavy.
Use the city plates when they appear below, or open any store for its official door and related ORBIS city and craft links.
Knysna Industria, Western Cape, South Africa
This Noble Street microbrewery cans small batches of pale ale, golden ale, lager and IPA by hand, using minimal filtration so the yeast stays in for body and flavour. It takes its name from Knysna's century-old Red Bridge and runs a taproom and beer garden alongside the production floor under ownership that took over the 2013-founded brewery in 2019.
Best for Small-batch canned craft beer and taproom visits
Downtown, Bend
Red Chair Gallery sold fine art and contemporary craft from its Old Town Bend location in the O'Kane Building for 16 years before its storefront closed on January 3rd, 2026, with artists' work now sold online. The gallery received the Best of Bend Community Choice Award in 2024 from The Bulletin.
Best for Fine art and contemporary craft online
Red Lodge, Montana
Red Lodge Ales has brewed and packaged beer and cider in Montana since 1998. It produces its own craft beers and ciders under the Red Lodge Ales name and welcomes visitors to its taproom.
Best for Locally brewed Montana craft beer and cider; taproom visit
Pesaro
Regina Scarlatta di Galeazzi Cristian handcrafts classic and special pipes with a range of finishes and colorations. The workshop operates from Via Grossi 59 in Pesaro under proprietor Galeazzi Cristian.
Best for Handcrafted smoking pipes
Ichinomiya, Aso
Founded in 1762 at the foot of Mount Aso, Yamamura Shuzo brews its Reizan label from local spring water and Kumamoto rice. The kura has carried its craft through more than two and a half centuries.
Best for Aso spring-water junmai and daiginjo sake
Stowe Vermont / United States
Remarkable Things at Stowe Craft sells handcrafted jewelry, art, furniture and gifts from American studio artisans out of its shop at 34 South Main Street in Stowe, Vermont, open daily. The gallery also runs a full online store with free shipping on orders over $150.
Best for Craft gallery & gift shop
Datong
A surviving traditional Chinese movable-type foundry with vast racks of lead characters and matrices. Established in 1969; the Ministry of Culture lists the Taipei address, hours and official site.
Best for Established in 1969
Bloomington, Indiana / United States
Rowland and Chinami Ricketts run their indigo studio from a working farm in Bloomington, Indiana, where they grow their own organic indigo on six acres and process it themselves using traditional Japanese sukumo methods rather than buying in extracted pigment.
Best for Organically farmed, sukumo-processed indigo, coverlets, kasuri-woven kimono yardage
Rowland and Chinami Ricketts run their indigo studio from a working farm in Bloomington, Indiana, where they grow their own organic indigo on six acres and process it themselves using traditional Japanese sukumo methods rather than buying in extracted pigment. Rowland trained as an indigo farmer and dyer during an apprenticeship in Tokushima, Japan, in the late 1990s before earning an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2005; Chinami studied indigo dyeing in the same region and apprenticed under weaver Yumie Aoto, focusing on kasuri (ikat) weaving.
The couple keep the full cycle in-house — cultivating the plant, composting it down into sukumo, building and maintaining natural fermentation dye vats, and dyeing and weaving the finished cloth themselves. Rowland's work runs from woven coverlets and dyed textiles to noren partitions and large-scale gallery installations; Chinami weaves narrow-width kasuri-patterned yardage historically used for kimono and obi, alongside pieces the two make together.
They sell finished textiles and indigo seed through their own online shop, and their work has shown at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among other institutions — exhibition and retail sit alongside Rowland's teaching post at Indiana University's Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design.
Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
This women's cooperative in the Buhoma community at the edge of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest weaves traditional baskets from grasses gathered in the forest and runs tailoring and sewing workshops. Visitors sit with expert weavers to make their own basket, and sales of the crafts fund education and support for local women.
Best for Handwoven baskets and tailored goods
Leola
Riehl's Quilts & Crafts sells handmade quilts in patterns including Cathedral Window, Log Cabin, Ocean Wave, and Mariner's Compass, made by local artisans in Lancaster County, PA, from its shop at 247 E Eby Rd in Leola. The store also offers quillows, quilt repair, home decor, and a Snack Shack with coffee and snacks.
Best for Handmade lancaster county quilts
Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
This Rishikesh maker works natural fibers such as jute and bhimal, the Himalayan nettle, into bags and handcrafted goods. Its craft draws entirely on plant fibers.
Best for Natural-fiber (jute / bhimal) handmade bags and crafts
Rockland, Maine
This Rockland makers' market and collective brings together artisans from around Midcoast Maine. Their locally handmade goods fill the tables.
Best for Locally handmade Maine goods from area makers
Main Street
A ski brand that hand-builds its skis and carries its own packs and apparel, run from a Main Street shop that doubles as a bar and gathering spot. The Breckenridge location combines gear sales with food and drink under one roof.
Best for Handmade skis and mountain gear
Nirona village, ~40 km from Bhuj, near Khavda
Padma Shri awardee Abdulgafur Khatri and his family hand-paint boiled-castor-oil pigment onto cloth with a metal stylus in Nirona village, a technique carried through the family for generations after nearly disappearing with industrialization. Their signature Tree of Life motif drew international attention when Prime Minister Modi presented a piece to Barack Obama in 2014, and the craft now carries a Geographical Indication tag for the Kutch region.
Best for Hand-painted Rogan Art textiles, including the signature Tree of Life design
Behämsgasse, Brienz
Rolf Blöchlinger runs a one-man woodcarving atelier on the Behämsgasse in Brienz, shaping figurative and contemporary sculpture, reliefs and smaller carved objects. Trained in the Brienz tradition, he sells his own hand-carved work directly from the studio.
Best for Individual artist woodcarvings
Gloucester Road
This Gloucester Road shop-gallery sells original paintings, prints and handmade gifts made by Bristol artists, many of whom take commissions. Part of the Glos Rd Central community of independents, it stocks frames sized to its prints so buyers can hang work straight away.
Best for Bristol-made art and handmade gifts
Conwy (Crown Lane)
Founded in 1881 and constituted under Queen Victoria, the Royal Cambrian Academy is an independent art charity in Conwy whose hundred-plus member artists show and sell paintings and prints in its Crown Lane galleries. Its programme mixes member and visiting-artist exhibitions with live painting demonstrations and community workshops.
Best for Original Welsh paintings and prints
Setapak Jaya
Founded in 1885, Royal Selangor is the world’s foremost name in quality pewter, a brand synonymous with design and craftsmanship.
Best for Quality pewter craftsmanship from a workshop founded in 1885
Ajloun Forest Reserve, Jordan (RSCN)
The RSCN Wild Jordan Nature Shop is the official store of the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, selling handicrafts from the Ajloun Forest Reserve's community workshops such as the Soap House, Biscuit House and calligraphy and craft projects. Sales support local conservation-based livelihoods.
Best for Ajloun handmade soaps, biscuits and nature crafts
Bandung / Indonesia
Hand and stamped batik made on-site at a working Bandung atelier, with hands-on batik-making sessions for visitors.
Best for Hands-on Bandung batik from a working atelier led by Komarudin Kudiya
Rumah Batik Komar operates out of Bandung, West Java, under Dr. H. Komarudin Kudiya, described by the business itself as the only Indonesian traditional batik craftsperson with an academic background, and a figure known for keeping meticulous documentation of the craft's patterns and history. The business runs two Bandung locations: a combined showroom and working atelier on Jl. Cigadung Raya Timur, and a second showroom on Jl. Sumbawa, giving it both a production base and a separate retail presence.
At the Cigadung site, Batik Komar functions as an edu-tourism destination as well as a working house — visitors can watch batik being made on the premises and take part in guided batik-making sessions and cap (stamp) batik packages rather than only shopping a finished collection. The business has operated in Bandung since the late 1990s, positioning it as one of West Java's established batik houses outside the more heavily documented Central Java centers of Yogyakarta, Solo, Pekalongan and Cirebon.
The house's own materials reference a "Pendulum Batik Series" among its product lines, alongside the standard run of batik cloth and finished garments sold through its shop and online. The practical reason to visit is clear: Batik Komar is a working Bandung atelier where batik is made on site and visitors can take part in guided batik-making sessions.
Palembang / Indonesia
Rumah Tenun weaves and sells Palembang songket and tenun shot through with gold and copper thread, from Bungo Cino florals to Lepus collections. Its cloths can be seen at boutiques in Palembang and Jakarta or browsed through the online shop.
Best for Songket, tenun, handwoven textiles
Newport Beach / United States
Shaping handmade boards in Newport Beach since 1967, Russell Surfboards specializes in retro, alternative and custom shapes. Its Balboa shop takes custom board inquiries and also sells its own board models and apparel.
Best for Surf shop, surfboards, custom shaping
Sandy Bay / West End area, Roatán
Rusty Fish makes artwork out of recycled materials at its workshop, the Taller de Artes, in Sandy Bay, Roatán, turning discarded items viewed as liabilities into new pieces. The venture provides employment to local Roatanians and supports the Roatan Marine Park.
Best for Upcycled recycled-material artwork
Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland
Designer Sarah Ward-Hendry founded RUXX in 2010 and opened its first physical shop in Kinsale in 2021, selling the brand's full handmade clothing range plus shop-only samples. Each piece is described as sewn stitch by stitch in-house rather than mass produced.
Best for Handmade womenswear from an Irish design studio
Ichikawa Daimon, Ichikawamisato, Yamanashi, Japan
Saiki Enka Honten has hand-built fireworks shells in Ichikawa Daimon for roughly 120 years and is credited locally as the originator of the elaborate Koshu-style fireworks displayed each August at the town's Shinmei Fireworks Festival. The company still designs, manufactures, and launches its own pyrotechnic programs from its workshop in a town ranked among Edo-era Japan's three great fireworks centers.
Best for Hand-built Koshu-style fireworks shells and custom pyrotechnic displays
Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche / Lorraine / Online
Saint-Louis has been active as a glassworks in the Moselle forest village of Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche since 1586 and in 1781 became the first crystal-glass manufacturer in continental Europe. Now part of the Hermès group, it still mouth-blows and hand-cuts every piece on-site, from stemware and paperweights to chandeliers.
Best for Cut-crystal stemware, paperweights, and lighting. Decanters and vases.
Kaya Grandi, Kralendijk
Salt Shop Bonaire on Kaya Grandi in Kralendijk sells culinary sea salt, body scrubs and bath salts.
Best for Craft
Ingonish, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Salty Rose's occupies a restored historic property in Ingonish on the Cabot Trail, combining a small inn and the Periwinkle Café with a shop of Nova Scotia art and craft. The retail side stocks work by Cape Breton and mainland Nova Scotia makers rather than imported souvenirs.
Best for Nova Scotia art, craft and local fare
Old Bisbee (33 Subway Street)
A gallery on Subway Street run by husband-and-wife artists Sam Woolcott and Poe Dismuke, showing only their own painting and sculpture since 2008. The pair moved here after eleven years on Main Street and sell available works in the space and online.
Best for Original painting and sculpture
Avenida Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz
Samay Latin Art, on Avenida Charles Darwin in Puerto Ayora, opened in 2001 as Galeria Aymara and relaunched as Samay (Quechua for spirit) in 2020. It sells tagua carvings by the Wounaan Tribe, Maximo Laura tapestries, ceramics and woven hats.
Best for Samay Latin Art, on Avenida Charles Darwin in Puerto Ayora
Samay Latin Art traces back to 2001, when owners Paola and Martin opened Galería Aymara on Puerto Ayora's Avenida Charles Darwin, selling jewelry and Latin American art. After running under that name for close to two decades, they closed it in 2020 and relaunched as Samay — Quechua for spirit or soul — describing the new identity as a fusion of ancestral and contemporary Latin American art rather than a straight continuation of the old shop.
The gallery now works with roughly a dozen regional and emerging artists across a spread of mediums: tagua-nut carvings by the Wounaan Tribe, woven tapestries by Peruvian textile artist Maximo Laura, handwoven Baronesa hats, ceramic pieces, sculpture in various styles, and copper-plate engravings and mechanical sculptures. That range moves the shop well past a jewelry-and-souvenir stand — it functions as a small survey of Ecuadorian and wider Latin American craft, anchored by named makers rather than anonymous stock. For visitors passing through Puerto Ayora, it's a chance to buy work traceable to a specific artist or community, from a gallery that has operated on the same street under two names across more than two decades.
Old Town, Mostar
SamIrma in Mostar, run by Irma Leto Nametak at Rade Bitange 9, hand-shapes, casts and hand-paints souvenirs using quality non-toxic materials and hand-mixed paints, including Old Bridge replicas for 20 KM and Mostar magnets for 4 KM.
Best for Handmade old bridge replicas and magnets
Hashimoto-cho, Gujo Hachiman
Housed in a converted machiya in Gujo Hachiman's old town, this studio makes wax and vinyl food replicas and runs walk-in workshops where visitors mould their own tempura and lettuce. A retro gallery displays vintage samples alongside magnets, key straps and other finished pieces sold at the counter.
Best for Food-sample making workshops and replica souvenirs
Gujo Hachiman
Operated by Iwasaki Mokei Seizo, a Gujo food-sample manufacturer descended from the craft's local pioneers, this facility produces restaurant display replicas and hosts hands-on sessions making lifelike tempura and parfaits. The attached shop sells sample-based souvenirs ranging from sushi magnets to dessert accessories.
Best for Food-sample factory tours and making experiences
Sample Village Iwasaki is a food sample workshop and shop at 250 Hachimancho Jonancho in Gujo, Gifu Prefecture, about five minutes on foot from Gujo Hachiman Station on the Nagaragawa Railway. It is run by Iwasaki Mokei Seizo. That company grew from the work of Takizo Iwasaki, who was born in Gujo Hachiman and first commercialised food samples in Japan. As a child he watched drops of candle wax fall into water and form white shapes like plum blossoms. In 1931 he encountered a food model made as a teaching aid. After many failed prototypes he produced a detailed rice omelet he named the commemorative omelet. In 1932 he founded Iwasaki Seisakujo in Osaka and spread the samples nationwide, helped by a lending system for restaurant displays. In 1955 he opened a factory in Gujo Hachiman as a contribution to his hometown. It was renamed Iwasaki Mokei Seizo in 1963. Craftsmen trained there later formed their own companies, and the town became a centre of the trade, known as the town of food samples. The company describes its aim as samples that look more real than the real thing by capturing the moment a dish looks ready to eat. Visitors make their own tempura or sushi samples, or a bowl of shaved ice. Exhibits include a giant pizza, and the shop sells magnets and accessories shaped like food. A second shop trades in the centre of the town, a short walk from the river.
Polson / United States
Sandpiper on Main Street in Polson is run by the member artists whose work it sells.
Best for Fine art and craft by member artists
Fortaleza
A Fortaleza hammock workshop with a physical storefront and 38 years in the trade, weaving redes de descanso and home decor at its own facility. Local artisans hand-finish each hammock, and the shop ships nationally and abroad while keeping in-store pickup for Fortaleza buyers.
Best for Handwoven cotton hammocks direct from the maker
Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone
A long-standing Arles shop with its own atelier, Santi Belli makes and sells santons alongside Provencal decoration. Its town-centre boutique also stocks nativity decor and regional craft supplies.
Best for Santons and Provencal decoration
Foz
Artisanal Italian gelato since 1949 — Attilio Santini's cult-following Portuguese institution with 60+ flavors.
Best for A wide range of artisanal Italian gelato flavours at this Portuguese institution
Santini Gelato is an Italian gelato shop established in 1949 by Italian immigrant Attilio Santini, who brought authentic Italian gelato-making traditions to Portugal. The brand has expanded to multiple locations across Portugal including shops in Belém, Chiado, Cascais, Carcavelos, Porto, and Faro. The Porto location at Largo dos Lóios, 18 offers around 20 flavors at any time, with approximately 60 seats inviting customers to linger. Santini is famous for its natural ingredients and ultra-fresh flavors, especially the strawberry variety, which has a cult following for good reason. The menu includes classics like hazelnut and lemon sorbet alongside Portuguese-inspired options such as Bolo de Bolacha and Pastel de Nata gelato. Despite its size, the Porto shop draws substantial queues even at 10pm, reflecting its long-standing local reputation for quality and variety.
Aubagne / Provence / Online
Santons Escoffier is an Aubagne santon maker for Provençal figurines, nativity scenes, and southern craft objects.
Best for Provencal santon figurines and nativity scenes from Aubagne
Aix-en-Provence / Online
Santons Fouque is a family atelier of santonniers hand-making Provençal santon nativity figurines in Aix since 1934. Its output includes the well-known 'coup de Mistral' figure.
Best for Hand-made Provencal santon nativity figurines, including the 'coup de Mistral' figure
Sapa, Lào Cai Province, Vietnam
This social enterprise turns hemp cloth grown and woven in nearby Hmong villages into tablet bags, scarves, table linens, and cushion covers, decorated with natural indigo dye and traditional motifs. Proceeds go directly to the craftswomen who make each piece and to a school the organization runs for their children, cutting out middleman resellers.
Best for Hemp and indigo Hmong handicrafts
Odori
Sapporo City's permanent Ainu-craft retail corner, operated under contract as the shop 'PORSE,' in the underground passage near Odori Station (Namboku Line Exit 5, Chuo Ward); sells work from Hokkaido Ainu Association-certified or city-trained artisans, who keep 70% of sales.
Best for Ainu crafts made by regional artists
This is a municipal program run by the City of Sapporo to support the Ainu cultural-industry economy, not an independent artisan's shop. The city established a permanent Ainu Cultural PR Corner in the underground passage near Odori Station, where a contracted operator runs the retail shop known as PORSE. Rather than artisans selling their own work directly, participating makers consign pieces to PORSE and receive 70% of the sale price, with 30% going toward the shop's operating costs. Eligibility to participate is restricted: artisans must live in Sapporo or maintain their workshop there, and must hold certification from the Hokkaido Ainu Association, have completed a government-run craft training program, or have previously taken part in a city-sponsored Ainu cultural initiative.
Mawanella / Sri Lanka
Sapumal Industries was established in 1977 as a family-owned business on Kandy Road in Mawanella, Sri Lanka, describing itself as the island's pioneer manufacturer of incense sticks and incense powder.
Best for Sri Lankan incense sticks, powder, and sambrani manufactured continuously
Sapumal Industries was established in 1977 as a family-owned business on Kandy Road in Mawanella, Sri Lanka, describing itself as the island's pioneer manufacturer of incense sticks and incense powder. Close to five decades later it remains family-run, having grown into what it calls the country's leading and fastest-growing producer in the category, holding ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certification for its manufacturing and environmental processes.
The company's core line covers incense sticks, incense powder, and sambrani (resin incense burned on charcoal, common to South Asian devotional practice), made through its own research and development laboratory and press facilities rather than outsourced production. It has diversified over the years into air fresheners, perfumes, and safety wax matches, and operates two subsidiary companies alongside the original Mawanella works.
Distribution runs across all of Sri Lanka's provinces as well as export markets, making Sapumal one of the more established names supplying the island's own incense-burning tradition — a market distinct from, but adjacent to, the Indian agarbatti trade that supplies much of South Asia. Its near-half-century of continuous operation from the same Mawanella base underlines a company built on manufacturing scale rather than a single retail identity.
Guatemala
SaviaGuate is a fair-trade shop selling one-of-a-kind clothing, bags and accessories made by Mayan artisans, including reworked huipiles and hand-woven pieces. It sells online and documents the maker behind each craft.
Best for Fair-trade Mayan textile fashion
Duomo
Renzo Scarpelli founded this workshop in 1960 to practice commesso fiorentino, the inlaying of hard and semi-precious stones into pictorial panels. The family cuts Tuscan paesina and gabbro alongside lapis lazuli and malachite into landscapes and still lifes, with a gallery near the Duomo.
Best for Pietre dure stone inlay panels
Praia da Joaquina
Shaping custom boards at Praia da Joaquina since 1978, Schlickmann builds performance surfboards tuned to each rider across models like the Spark, Blade and Titan. The workshop treats every order as an authorial piece, matching outline and volume to a surfer's style and level.
Best for Custom-shaped performance surfboards
City Centre (Buchanan Galleries)
A social-enterprise store in Buchanan Galleries representing more than 300 Scottish artists and makers, who keep almost all of each sale rather than paying commission. Shelves carry prints, ceramics, jewellery, textiles and stationery produced across Scotland.
Best for Scottish-made gifts, prints and jewellery
Newport Ri / United States
Since 1986, Newport Scrimshanders has kept the American folk art of scrimshaw alive at its Bowen's Wharf shop. Its craftsmen carve jewelry, knives and display pieces from repurposed ivory, sold in store and through the online shop.
Best for Scrimshaw, artisan gallery, jewelry, carving
Tadoussac / Canada
Tucked along Route 138 in Tadoussac, Québec, this atelier-boutique has invited visitors into master sculptor G. Hovington's world of wood carving, with doors open daily from May through October. Step inside and the smell of freshly worked wood mingles with rows of strikingly lifelike carved faces, each piece born entirely on site.
Best for Wood Sculpture, Studio-Shop, Woodworking
Old San Juan
Sea Foam sells items made by local artists using organic material. It describes its items as rare and not otherwise available.
Best for Rare handmade items from local artists
Kerala (Alappuzha coir belt)
Season Coir is a Kerala manufacturer and exporter producing coir pith, mats, rugs and geotextiles. Its output is rooted in the Alappuzha coir tradition.
Best for Coir pith, mats and geotextiles
Punta Arenas
Ofrecen telares elaborados en lana de oveja regional, joyas hechas a mano, objetos decorativos con identidad local y productos aromatizantes artesanales
Best for Craft
Ebensee
Andreas Auer runs this small Ebensee workshop where a CAD-trained hand and modern fabrication turn wood into pins, key chains, home decor and seasonal charms for Christmas, Easter and Mother's Day. Everything is made to order for individuals, businesses and clubs, with personalisation on request and free shipping on orders over 40 euros.
Best for Personalised wooden charms and gifts
Willemstad (Chichi shop Punda) & Chichi Garden
Founder Serena Janet Israel casts and hand-paints the trademarked Chichi figures here—curvy 'big sister' sculptures that have become a Curaçao craft. The studio also runs paint-your-own workshops.
Best for Handmade hand-painted Chichi® figures and paint-your-own workshops
Near Pambar Falls, Kodaikanal
SG Cottage Industries produces eucalyptus oil, spice blends, herbal cosmetics and fruit-filling chocolates from the hills around Kodaikanal, working with a network of 300+ local artisans and farmers. Its products are marketed as chemical-free and made outside conventional factory lines.
Best for Kodaikanal-made natural products — eucalyptus oil, spice blends
SG Cottage Industries works out of the hills around Kodaikanal, positioning itself as a local venture rather than a manufacturer: products are described as "made from plant, not in a plant," produced with local artisans and farmers instead of factory lines. The catalog runs across eighteen categories — chocolates, cosmetics, natural oils, herbal soap, spice blends, and teas among them — with the company stating the work is done by "300+ curators across the country" rather than a single workshop. The chocolate line includes fruit-filling varieties such as strawberry alongside the more expected spice blends and eucalyptus and other essential oils drawn from the surrounding hill country, plus instant coffee and traditional cottage-industry staples typical of Kodaikanal's tourist-facing shop row. The stated mission centers on preserving "the rich heritage and natural goodness of Kodaikanal" and on "empowering local communities and helping preserve traditional craftsmanship" rather than competing on scale — chemical-free formulation is called out specifically as a selling point across the cosmetics and soap lines. There's no founding date or named founder on the site, so the shop's story is told through its product range and stated sourcing model rather than a personal history — a multi-product format that groups food, cosmetics, and gifts under one artisan-network label.
Miyajima / Online
A Miyajima workshop making and selling the island's traditional wooden shakushi rice scoops, including hand-lettered custom pieces. Orders can be placed on site or through the shop's online store.
Best for Woodcraft, Rice Scoops, Traditional Crafts
Kondagaon, Bastar
Makes dhokra art from the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh using the lost-wax casting technique, hand-pouring molten metal into wax-carved molds to produce brass and wrought iron pieces the site says are never quite identical. Works directly with artisan communities and lists more than 50 artisans.
Best for Dhokra lost-wax metal casting
1157 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel Island, Florida
Family-owned since 1976, She Sells Sea Shells stocks Sanibel shells and exotic sea life alongside handmade shell craft — jewellery, ornaments, novelties, shell animals and flowers. Southwest Florida has voted it the best shell shop around.
Best for Sanibel shells and handmade shell crafts
Lukang / Taiwan
Shi Jin Yu Muxiang Zhai, formerly known as Shi Jin Yu Sanfang, has made incense beside Lukang's Mazu (Tianhou) temple since 1756, during the Qianlong era of the Qing dynasty.
Best for Hand-rolled agarwood and sandalwood incense from a 1756 Lukang house
Shi Jin Yu Muxiang Zhai — formerly known as Shi Jin Yu Sanfang — has made incense beside Lukang's Mazu (Tianhou) temple since 1756, during the Qianlong era of the Qing dynasty, making it one of Taiwan's oldest continuously run incense houses. The business is now transitioning to its eighth generation, with Shih Yeh-chih working alongside his father, seventh-generation proprietor Shih Chi-hsun, to keep the shop running.
Its incense — standing sticks, coils, offering incense, incense towers, and powdered incense among the range — is made by hand from agarwood, sandalwood, and traditional Chinese herbal ingredients, without synthetic dyes, and the shop holds SGS quality certification for its products. That combination of hand production and multi-generation family ownership situates it within Lukang's wider cluster of historic incense makers, a town whose incense trade dates to Fujianese immigrant craftsmen of the same period.
Now run under its updated name, the shop continues to balance the eighth generation's interest in newer product formats against the handmade methods its Qianlong-era founders established, a tension the current owners describe openly as inheritance meeting innovation.
Takaoka / Online
Shikki Kunimoto has sold Takaoka lacquerware for more than 42 years, running an online shop that includes 3D raden (shell-inlay) pieces alongside bowls, trays, and serving dishes. It also carries collaborations with other Toyama-area craft producers such as FUTAGAMI and Momentum Factory Orii.
Best for Takaoka lacquerware retailer with 3D raden shell-inlay pieces
Nagiso (Minami-Kiso), Nagano, Japan
Shimizu Mokuzai has processed local timber into hinoki bathtubs, sawara sushi tubs, and ohitsu rice containers in Nagiso since 1944, running production from raw log through finished piece in its own workshop. The company also cuts honoki and hinoki cutting boards and still repairs pieces it made and sold decades earlier.
Best for A honoki or hinoki cutting board, or a cypress sushi tub
Omachi / Japan
In Omachi, Shinshu Matsusaki Washi carries on a papermaking tradition dating to the eleventh century, working strong kozo fiber and pressed leaves into handmade washi. The workshop makes and sells washi homeware and interior goods and offers paper-making experiences.
Best for Washi, japanese-paper, papercraft
Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
Shipibo Store sells clothing and textiles carrying kené, the geometric embroidery of the Shipibo-Konibo people, made by artisans working with the Iquitos-based operation at Calle Atahualpa. Ponchos, tunics and backpacks are hand-embroidered in cotton and wool using patterns passed down through generations of Amazonian weavers.
Best for Shipibo-Konibo kené textiles
Sabae, Fukui / Japan
Shitsurindo has made Echizen lacquerware in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture since 1793, trading under its former name Owanya Uchida before adopting its current one; the company store still operates from its long-held address at Nishibukuro-cho in Sabae.
Best for A 230-year Sabae house spanning Echizen lacquerware's full range
Shitsurindo has made Echizen lacquerware in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture since 1793, trading under its former name Owanya Uchida before adopting its current one; the company store still operates from its long-held address at Nishibukuro-cho in Sabae. Echizen-nuri is the tradition that supplies the large majority of Japan's commercial and restaurant lacquerware — a different scale and market than the collector-facing Wajima or Aizu traditions — and Shitsurindo is one of the district's oldest surviving houses still trading directly to the public rather than only wholesale.
The company runs three distinct product lines from the same workshop: Shitsurindo proper, which keeps traditional forms focused on everyday practicality; aisomo cosomo, a playful, contemporary-colored line aimed at younger buyers; and RIN&CO., a dishwasher-safe lacquerware and lifestyle-goods line built for daily use without the fragility associated with classic urushi finishes. Alongside new production, the shop offers kintsugi repair, mending broken lacquerware with gold-dusted lacquer rather than discarding it.
Echizen-nuri's retail-facing side is genuinely underrepresented relative to its commercial-lacquerware dominance, and Shitsurindo — 230-plus years in continuous operation, with an English-language site describing its own history and three named product lines in specific, checkable detail — is a well-documented example of that side of the tradition.
Pedlar Street, Galle Fort
Shoba is a women's society in Galle Fort running a gallery, craft classes and a cafe, selling handmade crafts made by local women. Its projects support women who have faced poverty and personal loss.
Best for Handmade crafts supporting local women
Richmond / USA / Japanese Fabric
The military chino — Japanese cotton twill, field trouser silhouette, and the Richmond brand that brings Japanese fabrics to American military-inspired workwear.
Best for Military chino, Japanese twill, field trouser, Richmond.
Minami Alps / Japan
Showaen is a fruit grower in Minami-Alps run by craftsman Kobayashi, specializing in Yamanashi peaches, grapes like Shine Muscat and Kyoho, and prized Kiyo plums. The farm sells its seasonal harvest direct by mail order, opening reservations each June, and also welcomes visitors for fruit picking.
Best for Fruit, Peaches, Grapes, Mail-order
Rann Of Kutch / India
Shrujan is a not-for-profit founded in 1969 by Rolex Award laureate Chanda Shroff to revive Kutch hand embroidery, and its craftswomen's work is sold through Shrujan's own shops and exhibitions across India and abroad. The organisation also runs the Living and Learning Design Centre near Bhujodi, documenting the embroidery traditions of Kutch's many craft communities.
Best for Embroidery heritage organisation
Sost, Gojal, upper Hunza Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Silk Route Bazar operates out of Sost in Gojal, upper Hunza, selling woolen products spun and woven from mountain wool alongside Chitrali and Hunza caps. The business also stocks dried fruit, nuts, honey, and shilajit sourced from the surrounding valleys, and ships both wholesale and retail orders.
Best for Traditional caps and mountain wool shawls
Mitchell Street
An ethical women's gallery and giftshop on Mitchell Street selling original artworks with certificates of authenticity alongside Babbarra and Merrepen fabrics, pandanus baskets, scarves and organic cotton apparel. Artwork prices include Australia Post shipping, and the gallery declines commission and reproduction requests.
Best for Aboriginal women's art, textiles and weaving
on the Green
Six Loose Ladies is a yarn and fiber shop on Chester's Green stocking natural and hand-dyed yarns, spinning fiber, and knitting and weaving supplies. The cooperative hosts classes, spinning circles, and drop-in craft sessions.
Best for Yarn, fiber, and knitting supplies
Skagen / Denmark
Skagen Bryghus has brewed specialty and pilsner beers in Skagen's former power station since 2005, using a 2,000-liter German copper brewhouse in the old machine hall. The brewery sells its beers through an online webshop and pours them fresh at its on-site restaurant and Denmark's largest beer garden.
Best for Food & Drink, Craft Beer, Brewery Restaurant
Skaneateles Ny / United States
Skaneateles Artisans runs a gallery and showroom tucked under the village's Old Stone Mill, gathering handmade goods from regional makers under one roof. The shop is open seven days a week for browsing and buying, from 10am on weekdays to 11am on Sundays.
Best for Art & Galleries, Artisan Gallery, Handmade Goods
Chiang Mai
Founded in 2015 by Kanchalee "Ann" Ngamdamronk and Sergey "Serge" Tishkin, who met while studying indigo dyeing and shibori in Japan, Slowstitch Studio dyes with sappanwood, mangosteen skin and other plant matter. It runs a shop in Chiang Mai's Loang Him Kao craft neighborhood.
Best for Shibori and natural-dye textiles from a Chiang Mai studio, founded 2015
Slowstitch Studio's founders, Kanchalee "Ann" Ngamdamronk and Sergey "Serge" Tishkin, met roughly a decade before founding the studio, in a small mountain village in Japan, where Serge was completing an informal apprenticeship under a textile master craftsman and Ann had arrived from Bangkok to study indigo dyeing and shibori. They formally established Slowstitch Studio together in 2015.
Most of the studio's work centers on shibori, the Japanese stitch-resist dyeing tradition, applied using a range of natural dyestuffs beyond indigo alone — sappanwood, maphuut bark, mangosteen and pomegranate skins, eucalyptus leaves, coffee, myrobalan tree pods and onion skins, each yielding a different hue.
After two to three years selling online only, the pair opened a physical shop in Loang Him Kao, an old craft-community neighborhood in Chiang Mai's San Kamphaeng district, where they also teach boro-style mending and botanical dye workshops in small groups.
Lom, Norway
Smak i Lom curates food and craft goods from named small producers across the Ottadalen valley, including Aukrust Gard and Hugsotte Gardsmjølk, in a turf-roofed timber storefront. A click-and-collect counter and online store reach customers nationwide.
Best for Smak i Lom curates food and craft goods from named small producers
Smak i Lom operates from a turf-roofed timber storefront in the center of Lom, a village in Norway's Ottadalen valley, and its stock is built around named regional producers rather than an anonymous wholesale supply chain. Among the suppliers on record: FJELLBIT for handmade soaps, HUGSOTTE GARDSMJØLK for farm milk, and AUKRUST GARD, an organic farm — a list specific enough that a shopper can trace a jar of honey or a wheel of cheese back to the farm it came from, not just a regional label.
The shop states its sourcing standard directly: "hjå oss er ingenting tilfeldig," nothing here is random, applied to a stock built on organic, handcrafted and locally sourced goods rather than any one of those three alone. A click-and-collect counter handles fresh meat, dairy and produce for local pickup, while a separate online store ships the shelf-stable goods — cheeses, cured meats, jams, honey — nationwide across Norway.
For a village shop in a mountain valley, naming its individual producer partners rather than describing them generically is the clearest distinguishing detail on record.
Puerto San Carlos, Bariloche
"Sobre el Nahuel" es un espacio de emprendedores/as de Bariloche donde podemos encontrar una amplia gama de productos, desde tejidos y prendas de vestir hasta juguetes y accesorios decorativos, artesanías únicas que reflejan la impronta local y regional.
Best for Craft
Aquiraz, Ceará
Sofis Indústria e Comércio de Castanhas do Nordeste roasts and packs its own cashews in Aquiraz, on the coast just southeast of Fortaleza. The operation processes rather than resells, emphasizing artisanal roasting to preserve the nut's natural flavor.
Best for Artisanally roasted Ceará cashews
Siem Reap
A workshop and boutique in the Wat Damnak area of Siem Reap producing ten flavors of Cambodian liqueur and three alcoholic jams, with each liqueur bottle hand-painted by local artists with Angkor Wat and Apsara dancer motifs. It also sells sculptures, paintings and Khmer scarves and weaving sourced from local artisans.
Best for Hand-painted cambodian liqueur bottles
Kaya Grandi, Kralendijk
Ontdek onze unieke collectie cadeaus, groot, klein wij hebben van alles in huis!
Best for Craft
Selva Di Val Gardena / Italy
Sonia Demetz hand-carves and color-paints wooden nativity scenes and religious art at her studio in La Poza, between Selva and Santa Cristina in Val Gardena, continuing a painting technique she learned from her mother. Her pieces are sold through an online shop and directly from her art workshop, which also runs the adjoining Gardena Train Stop snack station.
Best for Sonia Demetz hand-carves and color-paints wooden nativity scenes and religious art
Hadiboh and Qalansiyah, Socotra
In Hadiboh and Qalansiyah, Women's Institutes bring together Socotri women artisans selling traditional crafts such as woven palm baskets and mats. The Soqotra Cultural Heritage project points to these women's groups as the authentic, income-supporting source of island-made handicrafts.
Best for Handmade Socotri crafts (woven palm baskets, mats, souvenirs)
Agadir
Souk Berbere artisanal describes itself, in French, as the first souk of Moroccan artisanal crafts in Agadir, according to its Facebook page.
Best for Moroccan artisanal crafts
Largo do Pelourinho 13, Funchal (Somos Concept Store) / Online
Madeiran slow-fashion label founded in 2013 by designer Mariana Sousa in Funchal, combining traditional Madeira embroidery, knitting, and crochet with contemporary womenswear; pieces are hand-finished by Sousa's family and local artisans.
Best for Madeiran slow fashion combining local embroidery, knitting and crochet
SOUS was founded in 2013 by Mariana Sousa, a Madeira-born fashion and textile designer who graduated in fashion and textile design in 2012 and returned home to open her first store in Funchal. The label is built around Madeira's traditional needlework - hand embroidery, knitting, and crochet - reworked into contemporary women's clothing. Production stays close to home: pieces are made by a small circle of women that includes Sousa's mother and grandmother, alongside local artisans, using techniques such as hand embroidery and hand- and machine-knitting on distinctive fabrics like ground flax linen. SOUS sells through its Funchal store and online.
Hue, Vietnam
Since 2009 this Hue workshop has employed deaf and disabled artisans to hand-tailor and weave goods, including pieces made from recycled cans and bottles, under a program run with the local Office of Genetic Counseling and Disabled Children. Part of every sale funds heart surgeries for children in the province, a mission the shop has tied to its handicraft work since it opened.
Best for Handmade textiles and recycled-material crafts from a Hue workshop for disabled artisans
Kobuchisawa, Hokuto City
Brothers Hiroshi and Satoshi Tabata hand-build stained glass clocks, wine-bottle lamps and custom panels at their workshop beside Resonare Yatsugatake in Kobuchisawa. The studio also runs hands-on sessions where visitors assemble their own stained glass pieces to take home.
Best for Handmade stained glass clocks and workshop experiences
Giengen / Germany / Online
The original teddy bear manufacturer since 1880 — the iconic button-in-ear, hand-sewn mohair animals.
Best for The original teddy bear
Every teddy bear on earth descends from Giengen. Steiff, founded by Margarete Steiff in 1880, made the original — the jointed mohair bear that gave the world's most beloved toy its form — and the house has spent a century and a half defending a simple, staggering claim: whoever your bear was, this workshop made the first one. The street address itself honors Richard Steiff, the nephew whose bear design conquered the world.
The proof is a button. Every genuine Steiff animal carries the Knopf im Ohr — the button in ear — the small brass fastener that has marked authenticity since the house invented brand protection for toys. It exists because imitation began almost immediately; it persists because the difference is real. A Steiff is hand-sewn in mohair, the animals' faces given their expressions by hands trained in the house tradition, each species rendered with a naturalist's respect that makes the menagerie — bears foremost, but elephants, rabbits, the whole ark — feel observed rather than invented.
Steiff animals occupy a category few objects reach: they are toys, heirlooms, and collectibles simultaneously, passed down, auctioned, and above all *kept*. The bear received in childhood attends the rest of a life. That endurance is the house product beneath the mohair: Margarete Steiff, who built a world company from a seamstress's workshop in a small Swabian town, sold something sturdier than toys — the durable companion, button in ear, made in Giengen since 1880.
Stewart Island / New Zealand
Stewart Island Botanicals crafts organic skincare and spa products by hand from a shop and workshop at 12 Main Road in Oban, using seaweed harvested from the waters around New Zealand's Stewart Island. The full range, from calendula balms to a seaweed body polish, ships to customers across New Zealand and Australia via the site's online shop.
Best for Beauty & wellness, organic skincare, seaweed spa range
Nelson / New Zealand
A yarn, fabric and craft-supply shop in the Nelson-Tasman region, Stitchcraft also makes bespoke handmade gifts and offers made-to-measure sewing, repairs and alterations. Its handmade goods and supplies are sold in-store and through a direct online shop.
Best for Textiles, craft supplies, handmade gifts, sewing
Switzerland
Swiss ski manufacturer founded in 1935 by Josef Stöckli; production has been centered in Malters, near Lucerne, since 1986 — the last remaining ski factory in Switzerland — home to the race-bred Laser series used at World Cup level.
Best for Premium skis, handcrafted
Stöckli traces its origins to 1935, when founder Josef Stöckli began making skis on a small production line, turning out an initial run of 50 pairs. The company built its reputation on manufacturing innovation: its first laminated wood skis combining hickory and ash with screwed-on steel edges appeared in 1945, it became the first Swiss maker of metal skis in 1957, and it introduced plastic-compound construction in 1965. Ski production has been concentrated at the company's Malters facility, outside Lucerne, since 1986, and Stöckli is now the only remaining ski manufacturer still producing in Switzerland. Its Laser line is the brand's high-performance piste and race series, engineered for carving and competitive skiing; specific Laser models used by World Cup racers are also sold at retail, giving recreational skiers access to race-level equipment. The company today also makes apparel alongside its core ski manufacturing, but skis handmade in Malters remain its identity.
City Centre
This artist collective bends galvanised wire and threads glass beads into sculptures, lampshades, animals and the beaded radios that made Cape Town wire art famous. Begun as a fair-trade project, it employs and trains artisans who work on the floor of the Shortmarket Street rooms.
Best for Wire and beadwork art
Santa Cruz, California
Stretch Boards makes custom boards in Santa Cruz and traces William “Stretch” Riedel’s board-building work to 1979. The company describes producing each board under one roof, with EPS and epoxy construction a particular focus. Its models and custom options should be discussed in relation to the surfer and intended conditions rather than selected by appearance alone.
Best for Custom surfboards and EPS/epoxy construction from Santa Cruz
Stretch Boards is the Santa Cruz board-making business associated with William Riedel, known as Stretch, whose work began in 1979. His background includes boards for surfing and other forms of wave riding, with custom construction central to the company's story. The maker identifies a factory in midtown Santa Cruz rather than an outsourced retail-only operation.
The company describes building each board under one roof and gives particular attention to EPS and epoxy construction. Its approach combines materials and shape with feedback from riders, rather than treating every board as the same product with different graphics. The current catalogue presents different models, including variations on the Fish design developed with rider input.
Start a board enquiry with the surfing you actually do and the conditions for which you need it. A model name alone does not settle the dimensions or construction that will suit an individual surfer. Discuss those decisions directly with the maker, and keep ordering or factory-visit arrangements separate from assumptions based on old workshop photographs.
East Legon
Co-founded in 2013 by actress Rosario Dawson and former Bottega Veneta executive Abrima Erwiah, Studio 189 runs a manufacturing facility in Accra, Ghana, working with artisans on hand-batik, natural indigo dyeing and kente weaving. The brand won the CFDA + Lexus Fashion Initiative Award in 2018.
Best for Social-enterprise fashion made in Accra using hand-batik, natural indigo and kente weaving
Studio 189 was founded in 2013 by Rosario Dawson and Abrima Erwiah, a former Bottega Veneta executive, after the two connected through their shared work with One Billion Rising, a global campaign against violence toward women. The name reflects the brand's aim to build a fashion company rooted directly in African manufacturing rather than sourcing from it at a distance.
The label operates a manufacturing facility and store in Accra, Ghana, alongside a New York store and e-commerce site, and partners with artisanal communities across techniques including natural plant-based indigo dyeing, hand-batik and kente weaving. Its stated mission centers on job creation, skills training and education within the communities it works with, alongside partnerships with bodies such as the UN's ITC Ethical Fashion Initiative.
The brand's approach has drawn industry recognition, including the CFDA + Lexus Fashion Initiative Award in 2018 and a CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund grant. Erwiah has since also taken on a director role at Parsons School of Design, continuing to link the brand's commercial work with fashion education.
Chiang Dao (Chiang Mai province)
Based in Chiang Dao district north of Chiang Mai, Studio Chiangdao Blue grows its own indigo and dyes cotton and hemp using traditional techniques. It runs private indigo-dyeing workshops for individuals and families as well as educational programs for student groups.
Best for Indigo-growing dye studio and workshop below Doi Chiang Dao
Chiavari
This Chiavari studio practises water and oil gilding and the restoration of gilded woodwork, treating frames, sculpture and altarpieces. It applies gold leaf by traditional bole-and-gesso methods and takes on both commissions and conservation.
Best for Gilding and gilded-wood restoration
Chiang Mai (hillside north)
Founded in 1988 by textile scholar Patricia Cheesman above Chiang Mai, Studio Naenna hand-weaves silk and eco-cotton with Karen backstrap weavers, using 25-year-old indigo vats and other natural dyes. Cheesman's daughter Lamorna now leads the studio and its Nimmanhaemin showroom, Adorn.
Best for Natural-indigo handweaving on the slopes above Chiang Mai, since 1988
Patricia Cheesman founded Studio Naenna in 1988, drawing on research into Lao and Thai textiles that began in the early 1970s, when she was working on a UN pottery project in Laos. Following villagers who fled to Vientiane during the 1975 Lao Revolution and brought their heritage cloths with them, she began documenting and studying regional weaving and dye traditions in depth, later lecturing on ceramics and textiles at the University of Chiang Mai from 1985.
The studio sits in the shade of Suthep mountain, surrounded by fruit and dye trees, and works with Karen weavers using backstrap looms and 100 percent natural indigo dyes drawn from indigo vats kept going for 25 years. Its stated aim is to honor a 2,000-year-old regional weaving tradition while working at the pace of the natural materials involved — ikat, brocade and embroidery on silk and eco-cotton.
Patricia's daughter, Lamorna Cheesman, has since taken over the studio's operations, running both the original workshop and its Nimmanhaemin showroom, Adorn, alongside ongoing indigo and weaving workshops open to visitors.
Old Town (Diocletian's Palace area) / Online
It is best known for Hand-painted silk scarves, ties, and accessories — original designs inspired by Dalmatian coast; each piece hand-painted with traditional silk painting techniques; unique wearable art.
Best for Hand-painted silk scarves, ties and Dalmatian-inspired accessories
Sadar Bazaar, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
Subhash Emporium is a long-established Agra marble-inlay gallery working in the pietra dura tradition of the Taj Mahal's craftsmen. It makes and sells handcrafted inlaid marble tabletops, boxes and decorative pieces.
Best for Marble inlay (pietra dura) tabletops and decor
Sucre
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Maastricht / Netherlands
SUD on Boschstraat in Maastricht is a shop and working studio, showing local designers beside its own work.
Best for Handmade local design, and the atelier behind it
Ajrakhpur (near Bhuj), Kutch / India
Sufiyan Ismail Khatri works the Ajrakh craft from Ajrakhpur, the resettlement village outside Bhuj that Kutch's Khatri printing families built after the 2001 earthquake and named for the trade itself.
Best for Hand-carved block, clay-resist Ajrakh textiles dyed in indigo
Sufiyan Ismail Khatri works the Ajrakh craft from Ajrakhpur, the resettlement village outside Bhuj that Kutch's Khatri printing families built after the 2001 earthquake and named for the trade itself. He belongs to the Khatri community, and the International Folk Art Market's own profile of him describes his work as continuing what it calls "the four thousand year old tradition of Ajrakh hand-block printing," tracing the craft itself to the Indus Valley civilization rather than dating the Khatri family's own residency in Kutch to any specific century.
The work itself is entirely hand-executed and multi-staged. Khatri hand-carves his own printing blocks from teak, working out each pattern's mathematics before cutting, then builds the cloth's motifs through a resist-and-dye sequence: a clay-based resist paste is applied by block, and the fabric passes through repeated dye baths using natural materials — indigo for blue, iron for black, and plant mordants including madder and turmeric for red and yellow — with the resist stripped between stages to build up Ajrakh's characteristic layered geometric fields, eight-pointed stars, and floral repeats. It is dyeing as much as printing: each color requires its own bath and its own resist step, repeated across the length of the cloth.
Khatri is explicit that his motivation runs past craft technique into the community that sustains it. "The craft brought to the community an identity and a standing in the society," he has said, framing his work as an effort to restore the social standing Ajrakh artisans held before industrialization eroded it after the 1950s. His output — rugs, wall hangings, cushions and other home textiles carrying traditional Ajrakh symmetry — sells through his own storefront and through folk-art and craft-representation channels rather than a single branded retail site, consistent with how many Kutch artisan households sell directly.
Yakushima / Japan
Suginoya is a Yakusugi woodcraft workshop and store one minute from Yakushima Airport, producing and selling crafts made from the island's ancient buried cedar. Visitors can also join a hands-on chopstick-making workshop led by the shop's craftsmen.
Best for Crafts made from Yakushima's ancient buried cedar, plus hands-on chopstick-making workshops
Chowbara Road, Bidar
Makes handcrafted Bidriware, described on the site as a 500-year-old metal art form from Bidar, using silver inlay and engraving techniques. Based at Chowbara Road in Bidar's old city.
Best for Handcrafted bidriware silver inlay
Utrecht centrum / Online / Haarlem
Sûr Atelier produces slow-fashion clothing in its own ateliers in Haarlem and Utrecht, working with New Dutch residents to hand-make a natural-fabric collection of tops, trousers and outerwear for men and women. The brand sells through a full online shop and shares the makers' stories behind each collection on its site.
Best for Sustainable fashion, slow fashion, womenswear
Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima / Japan
Suzuzen traces its founding to 1832, when it operated as Suzuki-ya Lacquerware Shop, an official merchant to the Aizu domain's ruling household.
Best for Aizu lacquerware and hands-on makie workshops in historic storehouses
Suzuzen traces its founding to 1832, when it operated as Suzuki-ya Lacquerware Shop, an official merchant to the Aizu domain's ruling household. The business still occupies its historic compound in central Aizuwakamatsu, where six storehouses — kura — have been adapted into a lacquerware sales hall, a makie decoration workshop, an art gallery, and a local sake storehouse. Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs registered the main Suzuzen building as a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in October 2021; separately, its Kaze no Tsuji facility received the first-ever Fukushima Prefecture Architectural Culture Award back in 1983 — two distinct honors decades apart, not a single 2022 designation.
Aizu-nuri is one of Japan's most historically significant lacquer traditions, ranked alongside Wajima and Kishu lacquerware among the country's three major production centers, yet it has had essentially no presence in ORBIS until now. Suzuzen sells finished Aizu lacquerware — trays, bowls, and decorative pieces bearing the region's characteristic gold-leaf makie ornamentation — directly from its storehouse showroom, and runs hands-on makie-painting sessions where visitors apply lacquer and gold to their own pieces under the guidance of resident craftspeople.
What distinguishes Suzuzen from a purely transactional lacquerware retailer is the museum function built into the same structure: exhibit panels throughout the kura lay out the history of Aizu lacquer production and the techniques specific to it, so a purchase there comes with a grounded sense of the craft's origin rather than a generic souvenir framing. For a region this consequential to Japanese lacquer history, a nearly-two-century-old merchant house still trading from its own registered-heritage buildings is a rare and verifiable anchor.
Svaneke, Bornholm
Svaneke Bryghus is an organic craft brewery in the harbour town of Svaneke, brewing certified-organic lagers, ales and seasonal beers. It runs a brewery restaurant and sells its bottled beer across Bornholm and beyond.
Best for Organic Bornholm craft beer
Lamu Old Town, Lamu Island, Kenya
Carver Almasi works in the tradition behind Lamu's studded doors, hand-carving frames, stools, plaques and ceremonial staffs marked with Swahili folk motifs, and leads walking tours through Old Town explaining the history of the carved doorways. Commission orders run months out, and short courses let visitors pick up the chisel work directly from him.
Best for Hand-carved frames, stools and Swahili folk-motif woodwork
Uozu / Japan
Takayasumi Lacquerware Shop has sold Uozu-crafted lacquerware for more than 100 years and is now run by fourth-generation proprietor Masato Takayasumi. It carries everyday soup bowls, chopsticks, and trays alongside ceremonial gift boxes for weddings, longevity celebrations, and memorials.
Best for Fourth-generation Uozu lacquerware shop, 100+ years, everyday and ceremonial pieces
Takayasumi Lacquerware Shop has operated in Uozu, Toyama Prefecture, for more than a hundred years, per the shop's own stated history, and is now in its fourth generation under proprietor Masato Takayasumi. That length of continuous operation puts it among the more established single-family lacquerware retailers in the region.
The shop's range spans both daily use and ceremonial occasions: soup bowls, chopsticks, cups, nested boxes (jubako), and trays for everyday dining sit alongside gift-grade pieces made specifically for weddings, longevity celebrations, and memorial observances -- a product spread that reflects lacquerware's traditional role in Japanese life-cycle gift-giving as much as its use as tableware.
Takayasumi sells both in person and online, accepting major credit cards, Amazon Pay, bank transfer, and cash on delivery -- a retail setup aimed as much at national mail-order customers as at local shoppers in Uozu.
Yakushima / Online
Takedakan is a Yakushima woodcraft shop selling yakusugi (ancient cedar) items such as trays, chopsticks and gift pieces through its own online store, run under the family workshop name since 1962. The site links to a physical store location via Google Maps alongside its e-commerce catalog.
Best for Yakusugi ancient-cedar trays, chopsticks and gift pieces
Takayama / Japan
Takumikan occupies a three-floor building near Takayama's old town, combining a first-floor shop for its own TaKuMi craft woodware and Hida souvenirs with upper floors of Hida furniture from maker Shirakawa. Its wooden trays, vases, and accessories are also sold through the shop's Rakuten storefront for customers who can't visit in person.
Best for Furniture and craft shop
Ohrid / North Macedonia
For four generations the Talevi family has hand-made Ohrid pearls, a craft passed from father to son for some ninety years. Their Ohrid shop and online store carry necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and pendants made with the closely guarded family emulsion.
Best for Four-generation hand-made Ohrid pearl necklaces, earrings
Trinidad
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Barichara, Santander
Run by the Fundación San Lorenzo, this Barichara workshop makes paper by hand from fique and natural fibres. It is an emblematic artisan institution in the town.
Best for Handmade fique paper & stationery
Mérida
Taller Maya is a social-enterprise platform connecting shoppers with products made by Maya artisan communities in Yucatán. The range centers on handmade craft and design while the project’s wider model emphasizes community production and fairer trade.
Best for Yucatán craft sold through this social-enterprise home design shop
Park City / United States
Six generations on, Tanner Trading sells authentic Native American turquoise jewelry, Navajo rugs, pottery and sandpaintings from its Park City store and a sister shop in Farmington, New Mexico. Each piece is credited to its Navajo, Zuni or Hopi maker, and the online store ships nationwide.
Best for Native American jewelry, turquoise, Navajo weavings, Southwest art
Jalan Tabuan, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Tanoti grew out of a weaving workshop the Queen of Malaysia established in 2008, formalising into a social enterprise in 2012 that trains Sarawakian women in songket and pua kumbu weaving. The Kuching studio sells handwoven textiles and ceremonial pua kumbu tapestries alongside rattan and basketry pieces.
Best for Handwoven pua kumbu and songket textiles
Sicily / Online
Handmade Sicilian coppole in Italian fabrics — the island's flat cap, one size at a time, embroidery on request.
Best for A true hand-sewn coppola.
6th of October, Giza
Started in 2019, TAYETs makes handwoven jute baskets, cotton storage, rugs, poufs and wall art from natural materials at its base in 6th of October City. The brand leans on traditional Egyptian weaving techniques for its home décor and accessories.
Best for Handwoven jute baskets and natural-fibre decor
Roseau
Teana's Creations Plus is a small business that creates home products such as upholstery throw pillows.
Best for Handmade upholstery throw pillows
HARD District (Gregory Street)
Ted Garcia paints plein-air waterscapes, landscapes, and still lifes and shows them at his one-man gallery at 327 Gregory Street in the historic mining and casino town of Black Hawk, Colorado. His signature project, Plein Air 365 x 5, produced more than 2,000 daily paintings between 2009 and 2014.
Best for Original plein-air paintings and prints
The Forks, Winnipeg
Teekca's Boutique in Winnipeg sells locally made moccasins, mukluks and mitts. It also carries original paintings, dream catchers and caribou tufting.
Best for Locally made moccasins and crafts
Winnipeg
Teekca's Boutique has showcased handcrafted giftware from over 300 Indigenous artisans at The Forks Market in Winnipeg since 1995. The shop also hosts cultural workshops in mukluk-making, beadwork and dreamcatcher crafting for visitors and schools.
Best for Indigenous-made giftware, beadwork and mukluk crafts
Alnmouth, Northumberland
An independent gift shop and gallery in the coastal village of Alnmouth, stocking locally made crafts, artwork and prints. It works as a small showcase for Northumberland makers.
Best for Local crafts, art and gifts
Ponce City Market, Virginia-Highland
This independent boutique carries goods from hundreds of local and independent makers and designers. It serves as a hub for Atlanta-made handmade apparel, accessories and gifts.
Best for Locally made handmade gifts, apparel and accessories
Newcastle
An independent gallery in Newcastle's Ouseburn quarter, the Biscuit Factory shows and sells original art and craft across a rotating program of exhibitions. Buyers browse the walls in person or purchase paintings, prints and maker gifts through its online shop.
Best for Art gallery, original art, prints, craft
Carloway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
The Carloway Mill on the west coast of Lewis is the smallest of the island's three Harris Tweed mills, still running a carding machine dating to 1906 and wooden finishing equipment that mills the cloth more gently than modern machinery. It produces bespoke tweed for apparel, interiors and accessories.
Best for Bespoke Harris Tweed cloth from a small artisan mill
Rose Hall, Montego Bay
Nestled in the heart of Main Street Rose Hall, Montego Bay, The Collective 876 (Shop 3) is a boutique marketplace that celebrates the vibrant creativity and craftsmanship of Jamaica. This charming store offers a curated selection of unique, locally made items that embody the island
Best for Craft
Lunenburg / Canada
The Dory Shop has hand-built Grand Banks dories and other traditional wooden boats on the Lunenburg waterfront since 1917, using time-worn patterns, oak, pine and grown hackmatack frames. Finished dories are sold from stock and to order through its online shop, and it runs boatbuilding workshops.
Best for Boat building, wooden boats, dories
Lamu, Kenya
Boatbuilders in Lamu construct dhows from reclaimed plastic and flip-flops, work that produced the Flipflopi Ndogo, billed as the world's first sailing dhow built entirely from recycled plastic. The same workshop's artisans carve furniture from the salvaged material, including a Swahili-style throne made for King Charles, and sell finished pieces through their Flipflopi Designs line.
Best for Recycled-plastic dhows and Swahili-style carved furniture
Grand Avenue, Saint Paul
The Grand Hand Gallery, relocated to 1338 Grand Avenue in Saint Paul, curates a collection of art the gallery describes as ranging from organic and ethereal to bold and colorful.
Best for Curated fine craft and art
Old San Juan
Family-owned by Harold Hernandez for more than 26 years, The Handcraft Store on Calle Fortaleza in Old San Juan sells locally made masks, nativities, ceramics and glow-in-the-dark coconut sea creatures, plus prints and paintings by island artists.
Best for Locally made masks, nativities, ceramics and glow-in-the-dark coconut sea creatures
The Handcraft Store has operated on Calle Fortaleza, one of Old San Juan's main artisan-shopping streets, for more than 26 years, owned by Harold Hernandez under the tagline 'Por Encima de Los Gandules.' Like its neighbors on the same street, it stakes its identity on locally made work rather than imported souvenirs, gathering prints, paintings and mosaics alongside coconut and higuera-gourd vejigante masks, hand-carved nativity scenes, ceramic mugs and bowls, and religious plaques and crosses.
One recurring, distinctly Puerto Rican item is its line of hand-painted, glow-in-the-dark coconut fish and turtles, a novelty craft form specific to the island's souvenir tradition. The shop ships internationally and maintains an online storefront alongside its physical location at 101 Calle Fortaleza, extending its reach to customers who can't visit Old San Juan directly. Over more than a quarter century in the same stretch of the old city, it has become one of a small cluster of artisan shops, alongside similarly long-running neighbors on Fortaleza, that collectively make the street a reliable stop for handmade Puerto Rican craft rather than mass-produced tourist goods.
Kent, Connecticut
Formerly the Heron American Craft Gallery under founder Ellen Corsell, this North Main Street shop has spent roughly four decades championing American studio craft and now represents more than 100 makers. The mix runs from hand-blown glass and ceramics to jewelry, kitchenware, and sculpture, all made by working American craftspeople rather than imported.
Best for American studio craft - ceramics, glass, jewellery
Lal Darwaja, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
The House of MG is a heritage boutique hotel set in a restored early-20th-century Ahmedabad mansion. It is home to the Ahmedabad Trunk gallery, which sells museum-quality Gujarati textiles, handicrafts and books.
Best for Heritage stay, curated Gujarati textiles and crafts
Anegundi
A community trust founded in 1998 by Shama Pawar in Anegundi, across the Tungabhadra from Hampi, whose banana-fibre craft initiative has grown from eight women to some 150 to 200 artisans. Its workshops make ropes, baskets and domestic crafts, with an export line called TIKAU and a new artisan-owned cooperative, Hari Dharti.
Best for Banana-fibre baskets and homeware
Lunenburg / Canada
The Mariner's Daughter is a yarn shop at 123 Bluenose Drive on the Lunenburg waterfront, stocking natural-fibre yarns, needles, patterns and its own knitting kits. It sells in store and through an online shop, with a focus on Canadian-made products.
Best for Yarn shop, knitting, wool, kits
Leura, Blue Mountains
The Nook is a co-operative of artists and artisans located on the main street of Leura in the Blue Mountains, functioning as a collective marketplace showcasing the work of local artists, designers and artisans. Members share the rent, fees and duties of running the shop, which operates year-round except Christmas Day and Anzac Day.
Best for Cooperative of local artists and artisans
Alnmouth, Northumberland
Set in a former Victorian school in Alnmouth, this contemporary gallery shows and sells work by regional and national artists and makers. The old classrooms make for generous hanging space.
Best for Contemporary art and craft
Nelson Springs, Charlestown
The Olive Tree is an artisan store and gallery in Cotton Ground on the island of Nevis.
Best for Artisan store and gallery on nevis
Bird-in-Hand
The Quilt Shop at Miller's, operating since 1998 at 2811 Lincoln Highway in Ronks, PA, sells hand-stitched quilts, table runners, and wall hangings made by Lancaster County Amish and Mennonite artisans in a 3,500-square-foot showroom. Virtual personal shopping is available by appointment via FaceTime or Facebook Video.
Best for Amish and mennonite hand stitched quilts
Woodland
The Wild Grove Collective is a brick-and-mortar shop in downtown Woodland housing over 45 local small businesses that showcase and sell their handmade goods. The collective also runs community craft workshops and pop-up events for all ages.
Best for Artisan Collective
Larissa
Theodore Papadopoulos Byzantine Iconography Workshop paints wall and portable Byzantine icons and teaches the technique through in-person and online courses at its Byzantine School of Iconography. The school also documents its portfolio of completed works and student feedback.
Best for Byzantine icon painting classes
Kingston (Camp Road, Devon House, Norman Manley Airport)
Things Jamaican traces to a 1960s government program to keep island-made goods on Jamaican shelves and was relaunched in 2001 under that original mandate. The retailer now sources from more than 600 local artisans and producers for its food, craft, and aromatherapy shelves, running stores at its Camp Road headquarters, inside Devon House, and at the international airport.
Best for Island-made souvenirs, artisan-sourced gifts
Quay Street, Latin Quarter
Trading from Quay Street since 1750, this is the workshop that first cast the Claddagh ring, and a small back-room museum shows some of the oldest surviving examples. The family still makes rings, brooches and pendants in sterling silver and 9, 14 and 18 carat gold.
Best for Original Claddagh rings
Dolma Ling, Sidhpur, Dharamshala
Tibetan Nuns Project incense is hand-extruded by Buddhist nuns at Khachoe Ghakyil (Kopan) Nunnery in Nepal and at Tashi Jong Monastery in India, using natural high-altitude plants and woods. Proceeds support the makers and nuns at Dolma Ling and six other Indian nunneries.
Best for Hand-extruded natural incense made by Buddhist nuns at Kopan Nunnery in Nepal
The Tibetan Nuns Project's incense is made by Buddhist nuns at Khachoe Ghakyil (Kopan) Nunnery in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley, home to around 360 nuns, working in a dedicated workroom where the incense paste is extruded by hand into sticks and coils rather than machine-pressed. The recipes use only natural high-altitude plants and woods — combinations such as lemongrass with white sandalwood, and juniper with cedarwood — drawing on traditional Tibetan medicinal ingredients rather than synthetic fragrance oils. A second line, Lama Chodpa, is made at Tashi Jong Monastery in the Indian Himalayas using ingredients including saffron, agarwood, Himalayan silver fir, camphor and valerian. Sales of both lines support the nuns who make them directly, and purchases through the Tibetan Nuns Project's own store additionally fund food, shelter, education and healthcare for more than 900 nuns across seven nunneries in India that the organization supports — including Dolma Ling Nunnery and Institute near Dharamsala, where nuns run a separate handicrafts program making dolls and other goods from recycled monastic robes. The incense itself reflects the same self-sufficiency model behind Dolma Ling's tailoring workshop: monastic communities producing sellable goods so that humanitarian aid isn't the only thing keeping the nunneries running.
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Centro / General Santos 1825, Asunción
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Puerto Vallarta / Mexico
Tierra Huichol sells hand-beaded Wixárika sculptures and yarn paintings from its Puerto Vallarta Malecón flagship, with further galleries in Olas Altas and Sayulita, plus custom corporate-gift commissions for clients like Google and Toyota.
Best for Handmade Wixárika beadwork sculptures and yarn paintings, with corporate-gift clients including Google
Tierra Huichol works in two signature Wixárika (Huichol) forms: beaded sculptures — animal and mythological figures built up bead by bead — and yarn paintings, made by pressing colored yarn into wax-coated boards in patterns that carry meanings tied to devotion, tradition and a connection to nature specific to Wixárika cosmology. The flagship sits on Puerto Vallarta's Malecón at Paseo Díaz Ordaz 592, with two further galleries in the Olas Altas/Romantic Zone and in Sayulita, giving the brand a presence across three of the region's main tourist circuits rather than a single storefront. Alongside retail sales to visitors, Tierra Huichol has built a corporate-gifting arm, producing custom Huichol-art awards and bespoke pieces for clients that include Google, Toyota and Lamborghini — a notable reach for indigenous Mexican art into international corporate accounts. Catalog pieces ship worldwide, and the shop takes personalized commissions alongside its standing collection. The result is a business operating on two tracks at once: a walk-in gallery selling authentic, hand-beaded and hand-woven Wixárika work to browsing tourists, and a design studio translating the same craft tradition into recognition pieces for some of the world's largest companies — both resting on the same base of indigenous artisan labor rather than mass production.
Orthez / Southwest France / Online
Basque-linen weaver based in Orthez; secondary sources date the workshop's founding to 1919 under Jean Moutet, while the company's own site describes itself as 'family-owned since 1874.' Holds the Basque Linen geographical indication and Living Heritage Company status.
Best for Béarnaise linge basque woven in Orthez since 1919, in contemporary color
Sources disagree slightly on Tissage Moutet's founding date. Multiple independent sources describe the Orthez weaving workshop as founded in 1919 by Jean Moutet, continuing the area's tradition of linge basque. The company's own current website, however, states 'family-owned since 1874,' which likely reflects the Moutet family's broader weaving history predating the formal Orthez workshop, though this wasn't independently confirmed. The company still manufactures entirely in the Bearn region of southwest France, producing an estimated 100,000 tablecloths and roughly 1.3 million towels and dishcloths annually. It holds the Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant label and the Basque Linen Geographical Indication.
Lake Toba region, North Sumatra
This social enterprise, founded in 2018, works with Batak weavers around Lake Toba to keep handwoven ulos production alive using traditional backstrap and ikat techniques. Alongside ceremonial ulos cloth, it produces contemporary clothing and accessory lines that put the weavers' work into everyday use.
Best for Handwoven Batak ulos textiles and ikat cloth
Ogunquit / United States
This fine-art gallery across from the Perkins Cove drawbridge shows and sells original oil paintings by Todd Bonita and roughly twenty other represented artists. Open seasonally in Ogunquit, it also houses the Ogunquit Summer School of Art.
Best for Art-gallery, paintings, fine-art
Tana Toraja / Online
Todi Shop sells Toraja ikat weaving, wood carvings, and beaded jewelry made at its own weaving workshop in Tana Toraja, with pieces ranging from woven blankets to miniature Tongkonan house carvings. Orders are placed through its WooCommerce storefront, which ships worldwide and tracks each order online.
Best for Weaving workshop
Igo, Amakusa City, Kumamoto
Potter Masashi Sueishi runs this Amakusa studio, specialising in kohiki, white slip laid over dark clay. The everyday tableware is made to sit quietly alongside daily life.
Best for Handmade kohiki tableware
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