Plate M-31 · 585 stores · 301–450 of 585 · curated ORBIS register
This plate lists 585 shops in 103 countries. Paris has the most with 41, followed by Nairobi with 17. Among these shops, 43 describe made-to-order work, 9 offer repairs and 29 sell online, going by their own descriptions.
Ask where the leather comes from: ask which tannery supplied the hide and how it was tanned, then compare the answers between shops.
Ask how the seams are made: hand stitching and machine stitching wear differently, so ask which one this piece uses.
Ask about export paperwork: exotic skins can need permits to cross borders, so ask before buying anything you will carry home.
Use the city plates when they appear below, or open any store for its official door and related ORBIS city and craft links.
Roma Norte, Mexico City
Proyecto República sells collections from roughly 15 independent designers spanning high-end and emerging labels, offering clothing, eyewear, bags and jewelry online. It ships worldwide with free delivery on orders over $100.
Best for Independent designer fashion collections
Piazza Di Spagna & Immediate Area, Rome / Online
Florentine handbag house founded in 1954 by Carla and Roberto Braccialini as a small straw-bag workshop; after Roberto's death in 1976, Carla took over and introduced the whimsical animal- and object-shaped bags - cars, fish, birds - that became the brand's signature.
Best for Playful sculptural handbags.
Braccialini was founded in Florence in 1954 by Carla Braccialini and her husband Roberto, starting as a small workshop producing straw handbags decorated with leather appliques. After Roberto's death in 1976, Carla took control and steered the brand toward the whimsical, sculptural bag shapes - cars, fish, birds, shoes - that became its trademark. Through the 1960s-1980s the brand expanded into the US, Germany and Japan, and in 1987 began a collaboration with Vivienne Westwood. Today Braccialini is headquartered at Via di Casellina in Scandicci, near Florence.
Rome
A family-run leather workshop that has been making bags, belts, and accessories in Rome for three generations.
Best for Roman leather bags and accessories
Rome
A family leather workshop creating hand-stitched bags, belts, and accessories from vegetable-tanned Tuscan leather. Three generations of craftsmanship at prices far below designer equivalents.
Best for Family leather workshop creating hand-stitched bags, belts
Rome
Carpisa supports luggage after purchase with free repairs or spare parts, including some items outside the standard warranty. Selected suitcases also use a scannable code that can help a finder contact the owner.
Best for Well-designed, affordable Italian luggage — practical and stylish for a weekend bag.
Rome
This Roman workshop and shop makes handmade Italian leather bags and accessories. The goods are crafted on site.
Best for Handmade Italian leather bags and accessories
Piazza Di Spagna & Immediate Area, Rome / Online
Piazza di Spagna's glove specialist — Roman leather gloves in every color since 1934.
Best for Roman leather gloves.
Rome
A leather factory since 1964, this Roman workshop makes handcrafted bags and accessories. Its craft has run in the city for six decades.
Best for Handcrafted leather bags and accessories from a Roman workshop running since 1964
Italy
Rome-based luxury leather designer Maurizio Amadei (since 2006), pioneering one-piece garments from single leather or fabric, folded and hand-stitched to preserve material essence.
Best for Hand-cut leather, draped
Maurizio Amadei is a self-taught fashion designer trained in London who founded M.A+ in 2006 following the dissolution of the legendary brand Carpe Diem, where he served as designer. Born in Rome, Amadei established his brand on a singular design philosophy: minimizing seams to allow the raw material itself to emerge as the dominant aesthetic element. M.A+ is celebrated for pioneering innovative one-piece garment construction, often crafted by folding and hand-stitching a single piece of leather or fabric rather than assembling multiple components. This approach preserves structural integrity and the soul of the material while creating distinctive silhouettes. The label is recognized for original cutting techniques, unique fabric treatments, and extraordinary leather pieces. Each creation carries an authenticating mark—either metal or fabric cross—certifying its handmade origin and construction integrity. The brand has developed a strong following among luxury fashion enthusiasts and museum curators, with work represented in contemporary design collections internationally.
Rome
This Roman maker produces handmade Italian leather bags. Leatherwork is the whole of its trade.
Best for Handmade Italian leather bags
Via Dei Condotti, Rome / Online
Tolentino leather-goods heritage since 1907 — Marche craftsmanship spanning fashion, bags, accessories, and luxury goods.
Best for Heritage leather goods.
Nazareno Gabrielli is one of Italy's oldest and most respected leather goods companies, founded in 1907 in Tolentino (Marche region). The company began as an artisan workshop for sophisticated decoration using advanced techniques such as photoengraving and xylographs. By 1922, the business expanded into clothing and leather goods, bags, and gloves. In 1928, Fiat commissioned Nazareno Gabrielli to create leather padding for Italy's first royal train. From the post-war period onward, the brand became one of the most prestigious names in Italian fashion, reaching peak expansion in the 1980s across leather goods, clothing, accessories, diaries, and licensed manufacturing for brands including Cartier. The company is headquartered at Contrada Cisterna 63, Tolentino (Macerata).
Rome / Online
Roman saddle-stitched leather revived — the 1957 artisan house Jackie O loved, in Via Margutta spirit.
Best for Saddle-stitched bags and belts.
Salzburg / Austria
Leather workshop offering bags and made-to-order leather goods, with repairs and leatherworking classes. The workshop is upstairs on Getreidegasse.
Craftsmen's Center
An independent Samarkand workshop producing leather bags and accessories.
Best for Leather bags and accessories from an independent Samarkand workshop
San Sebastián / Spain
Lainer makes its bags in its own workshop in Donostia, and its shop is on Calle Eustasio Amilibia.
Best for Bags made in Donostia
San Sebastián / Spain
Peletería Mari Carmen is a furrier on Calle San Lorenzo in San Sebastián that makes all kinds of skins to measure.
Best for Made-to-measure furs and leather
Barrio Italia, Santiago
Fugitivo makes leather and canvas backpacks, bags, briefcases, wallets and belts in Chile, including RFID wallets. Bags and backpacks carry a two-year working guarantee. The range also includes notebooks, hats and other small goods.
Best for Leather
Providencia, Santiago
Providencia shop for Chilean-designed and made illustrated souvenirs and gifts, featuring national illustrators across posters, stationery, books, magnets and bags.
Best for Design
Jardines Metropolitanos, Santiago
Leather Spa offers leather repair and care services to its customers. Its Santiago store is at Calle Eusebio Manzueta 19 in Jardines Metropolitanos, in the Dominican Republic.
Best for Leather
Barrio Italia, Santiago
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Best for Leather
Sapporo
Handmade leather-bag specialist in Sapporo's Tanukikoji shopping street, part of a small Hokkaido group with sister shops in Otaru and Hakodate; works Hokkaido deerskin, cordovan and vegetable-tanned leather into bags and small goods made by local craftsmen.
Best for Hokkaido-made leather bags, deerskin goods, cordovan, wallets, and small accessories
Mizubasho is a Hokkaido leather-goods specialist with three shops — in Sapporo's Tanukikoji shopping street (on the second floor of the Kobushiya souvenir shop), in Otaru, and inside Hakodate's Kanemori Red Brick Warehouse. Rather than a general craft shop, it focuses specifically on handmade leather bags and small goods, built around several in-house and partner lines: an original deerskin range prized for its light, soft feel; a cordovan series made from the dense leather cut from a horse's hindquarters, prized in leathergoods for its durability; Leather Studio KAZU, a more casual Hokkaido-made line; ITAGAKI Bag's vegetable-tanned pieces, designed to develop a worn patina with use; and small handmade leather gifts under the Kawa Monogatari name. The goods are produced by Hokkaido craftsmen rather than imported, and the shops position themselves as a specialist alternative to generic souvenir stores in the same tourist districts.
Sarajevo / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Shop selling handmade gifts, bags, knitwear and accessories. The Sarajevo shop is distinct from the organisation's Tuzla office.
Old Town, Sarajevo
Molimao's Sarajevo store at Zelenih Beretki 32, opened in 2021, sells the label's own geometric, typographic streetwear, art prints, tote bags and accessories. It also carries curated brands including IZIPIZI eyewear, Tako ceramics, Buub leather belt bags and Dubioza Kolektiv merchandise.
Best for Graphic streetwear and designer accessories
Marijin Dvor, Sarajevo
Werkstatt's Alta Shopping Center location at Franca Lehara 2 in Sarajevo sells jewellery including rings, earrings, earcuffs, bracelets, anklets and necklaces. Items come in both regular and gold-plated finishes for men and women, alongside bags.
Best for Gold plated rings and bracelets
Insadong, Seoul
A concept store and online magazine selling Korean-made natural cosmetics, home decor, stationery, accessories, handbags and socks from independent Korean artisans and small businesses, with worldwide shipping.
Best for Korean artisan lifestyle goods and cosmetics
Seville / Spain
Enrile has hand-crafted leather goods in Seville's Los Remedios neighborhood for generations, making everything from cufflinks to travel cases with in-house engraving for personalization. The full online shop ships its handmade cordovan and calfskin pieces worldwide.
Best for Leather goods, Marroquinería
City Hall
Singapore bookbinding and leather atelier founded in October 2014 by Winnie Chan and James Quan, building on Chan's family bindery dating to 1942. Offers personalized notebooks, leather goods and bookbinding workshops across multiple Singapore ateliers, and won the President's Design Award's Design of the Year in 2016.
Best for Personalized notebooks and leather bookbinding, Singapore atelier since 2014
Bynd Artisan was founded in October 2014 by Winnie Chan and James Quan, but its roots go back to 1942, when Chan's grandfather, Chan Koon Song, opened a small bindery workshop in Singapore. That business grew into the Goy Liang Book-Making Company, based at a Mohamed Sultan Road shophouse from 1947, and Winnie Chan joined the family trade as its third generation in 1994.
Chan and Quan began developing a new retail concept in 2012 and opened Bynd Artisan's first atelier two years later -- inside the Chan family's own factory in Boon Lay, after the founders were unable to secure retail space in a mall. The brand's flagship atelier followed at Holland Village in 2015, and the concept expanded to five Singapore stores by 2020, offering personalized and monogrammed notebooks, leather goods, travel accessories and bookbinding workshops built around traditional hand-binding techniques.
The brand has since collected local recognition, including the President's Design Award's Design of the Year in 2016 and the Singapore Tourism Board's "Best Shopping Experience" award in 2017, and in 2022 launched reBynd, an eco-conscious offshoot. Chan and Quan were also named Singapore Tourism Board 'Passion Made Possible' ambassadors in 2019.
City Centre, Sofia
Artistique in Sofia sells tableware, home accessories, aromatics, candles, notebooks, umbrellas, teas, bags and scarves. Its stock includes handcrafted porcelain pieces by Michael Aram.
Best for Porcelain tableware and home accessories
City Centre, Sofia
Concept 166 at ul. Georgi S. Rakovski 166B in Sofia is a pop-up space for Bulgarian designers, stocking clothing from Maria Queen Maria, Jessitup London and My Mantia, and bags from Kloshar and Krepej. It also carries Mr. Boho sunglasses, Asya Creations hats and candles from Una Vela, Epoque Candles and Glazart Studio.
Best for Bulgarian designer clothing and accessories
PRINTEMPS
Stockholm bag and backpack label founded 2004 by childhood friends Anton, Daniel and Sebastian Sandqvist, who began building packs in Anton's Stockholm basement. Known for waxed-canvas rolltops blending Nordic outdoor and city design.
Best for Waxed-canvas rolltop bags for Nordic outdoor commuting
Sandqvist was founded in 2004 by three childhood friends - Anton, Daniel and Sebastian - who grew up together in rural Sweden before settling in Stockholm in the late 1990s. Anton Sandqvist, a mechanical engineer, began building backpacks in his Stockholm basement almost as a creative side project. Within a month his basement held the first hundred Sandqvist bags; within eighteen months the brand had grown into a small but reputable Swedish name stocked by around fifteen retailers nationwide. The design language draws on vintage outdoor packs and Swedish military gear, reworked with updated materials - waxed and coated canvas, leather trim, simple rolltop and flap-closure silhouettes.
No. 161, Sec. 1, Dihua St., Datong Dist., Taipei City, Taiwan / Taipei / Taiwan
150+ years on site); 2016 Taipei shop-renewal turned the old grain/steamer wholesaler into a working bamboo-wood retail door (PeoPo 2026-06-30; VERSE).
Best for 2016 Taipei shop-renewal turned the old grain/steamer wholesaler into a working bamboo-wood retail door.
Vene 12, Tallinn / Estonia
A group of artisan studios working in jewelry, hats, textiles and leather.
Telliskivi 60A/5, 10412 Tallinn / Estonia
A leather-goods studio and design shop offering bags, small leather goods and repair services.
Tangier
Boutique Majid was established in 1970 at 66 Rue Les Almouhades in Tangier by Abdelmajid Rais El Fenni and curates Moroccan antiques across jewelry, hats, caftans, ceramics, textiles, wood and leather, including a 19th-century Saharan amber bead and a late-1800s Sefrou wedding caftan with silk brocade. Travel & Leisure Magazine (Feb '99) called it one of the top antique shops not just in Tangier but in all of Morocco.
Best for Antique jewellery and caftans
Yashnabad
Tashkent leather-and-clothing label started by Alexey Manshaev, with leather production from 2008 and its own storefront from 2011; makes bags, wallets, belts and graphic T-shirts in-house, patterning goods on Uzbek ikat and nomadic motifs.
Best for Uzbek leather bags, accessories, and clothing
Kanishka began as a project of Alexey Manshaev, who started producing leather goods in 2008 before opening a full storefront in 2011 in Tashkent. The brand's signature is combining Central Asian design language — patterns drawn from Uzbek ikat weaving and older nomadic motifs — with everyday, utilitarian product forms: leather bags, wallets and belts alongside graphic T-shirts. Its stated approach is to keep the full production cycle in-house, from raw material to finished piece, and to work primarily in local, natural materials — cotton fabric, leather and sheep pelts — rather than importing components. That local-materials focus, paired with the ikat and nomadic-pattern branding, has made Kanishka one of the more visible homegrown design labels in Tashkent's retail scene, distinct from the international fashion chains that dominate much of the city's clothing market.
Mirabad
A Tashkent leather-accessories label with a strong local design identity.Established 2013.
Best for Leather accessories with a strong Tashkent design identity, est. 2013
Jaffa, Tel Aviv
Mor Sinai is a leather workshop in Jaffa making tallit and tefillin bags and other Judaica from Italian leather, describing its craftspeople as Israeli leather artisans. The studio sells directly through its own site and has hosted visiting artisans from abroad to observe its leatherworking process.
Best for Leather tallit and tefillin bags
Tokyo / Online
Tokyo leather artisans — punk-inspired hand-treated leather jackets with Japanese precision. Each piece is a wearable sculpture of rebellion and craft.
Best for Hand-treated punk leather jackets
Tokyo / Online
Tokyo leather goods atelier — hand-stitched raw leather accessories and footwear that patina beautifully over time. The Japanese answer to artisanal leather craft.
Best for Raw leather accessories and footwear that age beautifully
Kuramae, Tokyo
ThoroughBrace sells leather bags, wallets and school bags, including randoseru and backpacks, and runs a leather craft experience where customers make their own pieces. It describes its products as artisan-made individual pieces from Kuramae, a Tokyo district it calls a city of craftsmanship, where its flagship store is located.
Best for Leather bags and craft experience
Toronto
A one-man leather studio, Cavalier Goods Co. has handmade leather goods in Toronto since 2018 from a studio on Lappin Avenue open by appointment. It makes wallets, card holders, watch straps, belts, passport holders and custom bespoke leather pieces.
Best for Handmade leather goods
Toronto
A single craftsman hand-stitches each bespoke piece at Norfolk Handmade's Toronto studio, using leathers sourced from respected tanneries. The atelier makes bespoke leather handbags, including the MJ Crossbody, and bag charms.
Best for Bespoke leather handbags
Queen West, Toronto
Zumel & Co describes itself as a Toronto women's clothing store. It lists dresses, skirts, tops, pants, shorts, bodysuits, coats, jackets, handbags, hats and accessories.
Best for Womens clothing and accessories
Valencia
Valencia studio created by Irene Valera Molins, making bags and timeless jewelry by hand with a local design identity. Its catalogue includes macrame, canvas and embroidered bags alongside rings, pendants and earrings.
Best for Jewellery
Venice
Bottega Casati Venezia has followed the tradition of marbled paper and bookbinding since 1983 from Cannaregio in Venice's historic center, near La Fenice. Owner Stefano Casati's workshop makes notebooks, photo albums, masks and document holders from its own marbled paper, hand-printed velvet and Italian leather.
Best for Venetian marbled paper and bookbinding
Venice, Italy
Venice’s velvet R — Giuliana Camerino’s 1945 house of trompe-l’oeil bags beloved by Grace Kelly.
Best for Luxury bags, heritage
Verona / Italy
FiluFilu is Laura Guerresi's leather goods workshop in Verona, where she hand-sews soft-leather bags, backpacks, and belts, including popular styles like the Cubotto and Bassotta. Pieces ship within two to three days from her Via Oberdan studio, which customers can also visit in person.
Best for Hand-sewn leather bags, backpacks and belts
Vico Equense / Italy
Angela Barba on Via Roma in Vico Equense makes leather sandals by hand in the Capri and Positano manner.
Best for Handmade leather sandals
Vienna / Austria
R. Horn's Vienna hand-crafts fine leather bags, briefcases, and wallets sold from three storefronts in Vienna's first district, including its flagship at Herrengasse near Michaelerplatz. The brand has been featured by Bloomberg Businessweek for its PUR briefcase and partners with sheltered workshops through its Good Goods collaboration.
Best for Horn's Vienna hand-crafts fine leather bags, briefcases
Warsaw
The Polish shop sells traditional handcrafted items including wooden furniture and carved sculptures, leather slippers and wallets, brass and bronze tables and candlesticks, crystal and glassware, regional costumes and folk dolls, hand-embroidered tablecloths, lace decorations and amber jewelry. It also stocks Easter figurines such as decorated eggs and lambs.
Best for Polish folk handicrafts and souvenirs
Windhoek / Online
Katharina Karl is a Windhoek-based fashion label offering quality leather handbags, wallets and Namibian handcrafted coats designed by founder Katharina Karl. Each bag is catalogued with materials and dimensions online and purchased by contacting the designer directly, including via WhatsApp.
Best for Leather handbags, wallets, and Namibian handcrafted coats, ordered directly via WhatsApp
Independence Avenue CBD, Windhoek
Slowtown Coffee Roasters, marking 15 years in business this September, sells coffee beans including its House Blend, African Sunrise Blend and Del Campo, plus pods, drip bags and hot chocolate from its Namibia base. It also offers office coffee supply, barista training and event catering stations.
Best for Namibian roasted coffee blends
Yangon / Online
Yangoods is a Myanmar leather goods brand selling handbags, wallets and accessories for men and women through its own online shop, with free shipping on orders over 200,000 kyats. The brand also runs a wholesale program and lists physical store locations under its site's Store Location page.
Best for Myanmar-made handbags, wallets, and leather accessories
12 Abovyan Street, Yerevan / Armenia
A souvenir shop and art gallery selling works made in clay, wood, metal and leather.
City centre, Zagreb
Hippy Garden's Masarykova 5 showroom in Zagreb sells blouses, coats, dresses, jumpsuits, skirts and wedding dresses. It also carries earrings, belts, eyewear, jewelry and bags.
Best for Womens clothing and wedding dresses
Tarpon Street, San Pedro
12 Belize sells only Belizean-made products, including accessories, leather goods, bath and body items, books, food and beverages, jewelry, home décor and toys, with lines such as MayaBags and Lemon Crush Belize. It stocks items like handmade ceramic mugs, stained glass ornaments, mahogany hand-carved pieces and soy wax candles.
Best for Belizean made gifts and crafts
Pécs
In Pécs's Zsolnay Cultural Quarter, this factory-store continues glovemaking rooted in János Hamerli's 1861 workshop, under the Hamerli and 1861 Kesztyűmanufaktúra names. Visitors can tour its working manufactory, where nappa and deer leather gloves are hand-cut and sewn.
Best for Leather gloves and a working manufactory tour in Pécs's Zsolnay Quarter
Pécs / Hungary
Located in Pécs's Zsolnay Cultural Quarter, this glove manufactory and factory-store traces its name to János Hamerli's 1861 workshop, under the Hamerli and 1861 Kesztyűmanufaktúra brands. Visitors can watch nappa and deer leather gloves being hand-cut and sewn on site.
Best for Leather gloves and a factory-store showroom in Pécs's Zsolnay Quarter
Tirana
4 Leather Goods in Tirana cuts, sews and stamps custom bags, wallets, belts and accessories by hand from natural leather in its studio. It offers personalization with initials, names or logos and a minimum order of 10 pieces for corporate gifts.
Best for Custom handmade leather goods
Lorient / Brittany / Online
Lorient-based maker of bags and accessories cut from decommissioned racing sails, including Vendee Globe boats; founded 2005 in Brittany's 'Sailing Valley,' sails 100% recycled.
Best for Bags and furniture upcycled from Vendée Globe racing sail canvas in Lorient
727 Sailbags began in 2005 when sailor Jean-Baptiste had the idea of turning a sail from his family's Farr 727 boat into a travel bag. The venture became the company Green Sails in 2010, with 727 Sailbags as its product brand, and it set up its workshop in Lorient, in the Brittany region known as ocean racing's 'Sailing Valley.' Every bag, item of luggage or decorative piece is made from a decommissioned sail, collected from sailors and sailmakers and sorted and identified in France before being cut and sewn. 727 Sailbags is an official partner of the Vendee Globe round-the-world race, and for the 2024 edition produced a collection made from sails used by competitors in earlier editions.
Arequipa
A. AKANA ATELIER is the family project of three sisters, Adri, Carla and Ana Lu, with its atelier in Arequipa. They make leather goods by hand and to order, and the catalogue includes tote bags and slippers as well as gloves.
Best for Leather
Capri island
A.mano cuts and assembles leather sandals by hand in the Caprese tradition, letting customers choose straps, buckles and stones for a made-to-measure fit. Each pair is finished in genuine Italian leather while the buyer waits.
Best for Custom handmade leather sandals
Bolgatanga
AAKS bags are handcrafted in Ghana from raffia fibers that are ecologically harvested from family farmers there. Each piece is finished with leather handles, using linen or cotton lining.
Best for Handwoven raffia bags with leather details
Granada, Cali
Founded in Cali in 2000 by designer Adalgiza López, this Colombian leather-goods house has more than 15 years of experience. Its bags and accessories are handmade to order by Colombian artisans using nationally sourced cowhide from chrome-free tanning.
Best for Leather
Eldoret
Based on the ground floor of Rupa's Mall in Eldoret, AfroStyled sells handmade jewelry, leather bags, belts and wallets, apparel, sisal products and home decor made from genuine leather, brass, canvas, sisal and kitenge fabric. It also has locations at Yusufi Antiques Gallery and 52 Galleria in Mombasa.
Best for Handmade leather and sisal crafts
Saint-Junien / Limousin / Online
Family-run in Saint-Junien since 1937, Agnelle is now on its third generation, with founder Marie-Louise's granddaughter Sophie Grégoire leading since 1986. Recognized as a Living Heritage Company, it has made gloves for Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin and Balenciaga.
Best for Saint-Junien leather and cashmere gloves made for couture houses
Agnelle was founded in Saint-Junien, France, in 1937 by Marie-Louise, who ran the workshop through the Second World War and the Resistance while modernizing its production methods. Her daughter, Josie Le Royer, expanded the business by building relationships with Paris couture houses including Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Lanvin, turning a regional glove workshop into a supplier for the runway.
Marie-Louise's granddaughter, Sophie Grégoire, joined the family firm in 1986 and has led it through further collaborations with designers such as Balenciaga, Inès de la Fressange and Louis-Gabriel Nouchi, while keeping production in Saint-Junien, a town in the Limousin region long associated with French glovemaking. The house has been officially recognized as an Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant (Living Heritage Company) since 2007 and listed among France's "Métiers Rares" (rare crafts) since 2011.
Agnelle's range now extends beyond classic leather gloves into wool, cashmere, silk and alpaca pieces, plus motorcycle and tactical styles, for both men and women — a wider material palette than its founding-era leather work, built on top of three generations of the same family's ownership.
Trinidad / Papa Juan XXIII 1641, Asunción
AKI is a Paraguayan brand bringing traditional craft into contemporary handmade leather goods. It works with local embroiderers, leatherworkers, designers and artists, using ancestral techniques including ñandutí across accessories, backpacks, travel pieces and personalized corporate gifts.
Best for Leather
Central Tirana
Albanian Bazaar, the online shop of Tirana's Albanian Night store, sells woven textiles, tapestries and rugs, pottery, ceramics, woodworking and glasswork, handmade jewelry and leathercraft. It also sells food items like raki, wine, honey and olive oil from local Albanian producers.
Best for Albanian handmade crafts and raki
Thesen Island, Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa
Aldo Kleyn hand-cuts and stitches exotic-skin handbags, belts and wallets, building on techniques he began developing as a teenager in a small Johannesburg shop before running a store in New York. His Thesen Island flagship, opened in 2010, is known for reworking crocodile leather into wearable designs rather than traditional accessories alone.
Best for Handmade crocodile-leather bags, belts and wallets
El Poblado, Medellín
Andrea Landa es una marca de legado colombiana que se inspira en las técnicas tradicionales hechas a mano. Traemos el cuero a la vida a través de creaciones artísticas en cuero 100% hechas a mano. Andrea Landa is a Colombian Legacy brand. That brings leather to live through the use of handmade techniques.
Best for Leather
Emilia-Romagna
Arcahorn, based at C.da San Francesco 4 in Recanati, makes accessories that combine horn with leather, Amara ebony veneer, and hammered (martellata) leather finishes. The company is registered as Arcahorn srl in Recanati.
Best for Horn and leather accessories
Lotissement Argana, Essaouira
Argana Crafts is an online marketplace representing 20 artisan cooperatives based in Essaouira, covering categories including carpets and textiles, jewelry and accessories, thuya wood, fashion and sewing, and leather goods. It describes its work as supporting local artisans and using natural materials.
Best for Thuya wood and leather crafts
Centro Comercial Tinamit Maya, Panajachel
Artesanias Santiago Atitlan sells typical bags and beadwork in leather, cloth and seed beads, and bead bracelets with leather. The shop states it has a sales room at Centro Comercial Tinamit Maya local A-6 in Panajachel, Solola.
Best for Typical bags and bead-and-leather bracelets
Nantes / France
At La Poudrerie in Nantes, artisan Jocelyn Verbraeken hand-makes leather bags, satchels, backpacks, small leather goods and instrument cases, each unique or in short series. The workshop takes bespoke orders and repairs and is open to visitors on weekdays with a quick phone call ahead.
Best for Leather goods, maroquinerie, bespoke, handcrafted
Nantes / France
Atelier Osmose is a workshop and shop on rue de l'Arche-Sèche in Nantes making leatherwork and ceramics.
Best for Leatherwork and ceramics
Paros
Atelier1935 traces its start to Aikaterini Korpi Zissi, a seamstress who began hand-making leather sandals in 1935 in Athens, sourcing quality leather from a Cretan supplier in Monastiraki. The workshop now sells its handmade sandals, made from calfskin leather, from Paros with worldwide shipping.
Best for Handmade greek leather sandals
Graulhet / Occitanie / Online
Tarn leather-goods maker for handbags, wallets, belts, and French workshop-made accessories.
Best for Tarn workshop-made handbags, wallets, and belts
Dillon, Montana
This downtown Dillon store outfits ranch hands and riders with western boots, hats, denim and leather goods, and has earned recognition for its custom bootmaking. Stock runs from working gear to dress western wear.
Best for Western boots and gear
Sifaka Street, Chania Old Town
In the Maheradika quarter on Sifaka Street, Baba Yianka stitches leather goods entirely by hand with rulers, forks and needles rather than electric machines. The range covers the Vourgiali backpack, belts, wallets, tobacco cases and jewellery in traditional Cretan designs.
Best for Hand-stitched leather bags and accessories
City centre, Skopje
Bagabond is a concept store at Dame Gruev 5 and Ljubljanska 4 in Skopje selling bags, jewelry, wallets, cases and belts made from 100% natural leather. Its curated stock spans brands including The Manual Co., Buffalo, Still Nordic, Tuscany Leather and Izipizi.
Best for Leather bags and accessories
Bahir Dar, Amhara Region
A tannery and finished-leather maker established in Bahir Dar in 1998 by Yigzaw Assefa. It processes goat and sheep skins and cow hides into finished leather, garment leather, shoe uppers and dressing and sport gloves for export.
Best for Ethiopian finished leather goods and gloves
Station Hill, Bamenda
This fair-trade certified cooperative in Bamenda represents more than 200 artisans producing African masks, musical instruments, baskets, shopping bags and household decorations. It traces to a cooperative Douglas C. Kelley founded as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bafreng in 1963-1965, and today runs a store, restaurant and guest house in Bamenda.
Best for Masks baskets and musical instruments
Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa
This label makes leather and canvas travel bags, backpacks, briefcases and duffels by hand in Knysna, aiming for pieces built to be used for decades rather than replaced. The range covers men's and women's carry goods, with construction and material choices geared toward long service life over trend-driven turnover.
Best for Handmade leather and canvas travel bags
Helena
Master saddler Steve Stefely, apprenticed under German craftsman Otto Maile, has hand-built custom English and Western saddles in Helena since 1982. The shop also makes bespoke tack, leather goods and historical leather reproductions.
Best for Custom hand-tooled saddles
Dobříš / Czech Republic
Dobříš was one of Bohemia's principal glovemaking towns for more than 150 years, a craft the town's own museum still keeps an exhibition on.
Best for Hand-cut, hand-stitched Czech leather gloves from a revived Dobříš workshop
Dobříš was one of Bohemia's principal glovemaking towns for more than 150 years, a craft the town's own museum still keeps an exhibition on. That production line went dark in 1992 and the local apprenticeship school followed it three years later. Bohemia Gloves is what came after: Petra Kesnerová, who entered the leather trade in 2011 through her future father-in-law's business, took over one of the country's last surviving glove workshops in Dobříš and rebuilt it as a standalone house rather than letting the craft lapse a second time. Regional press (Deník) and the workshop's own site both frame the venture in the same terms — reviving a nearly extinct domestic trade, not inventing a new one.
Production stays close to the traditional method the town was known for: kid and deerskin leather bought from Italian tanneries (a family tannery in Naples supplies part of the stock), hand-cut and hand-stitched by a small team — the workshop describes roughly four to five hours of stitching per pair — then pressed, inspected, and packaged in Dobříš. Kesnerová has been explicit in interviews that the goal is putting real Czech gloves back into daily use and teaching buyers the difference between that and cheaper synthetic imports, while warning that the trade could still die out without more support.
The result is a real, currently operating retail business, not a workshop taking B2B orders only: a working e-shop at bohemiagloves.cz sells women's, men's, driving, wedding and sport gloves (roughly 390-3,950 Kč, most models 1,950-2,650 Kč) with a 30-day exchange policy, backed by physical showrooms in Prague, Brno, Ostrava and Bratislava. That combination is what the earlier Czech search came up empty on — Prostějov turned out to be a garment town, Dobříš's own industrial-era manufacturers had left, and the one still-operating maker found there, Výroba rukavic Macka, remains B2B-only. Bohemia Gloves fills the actual gap: the same town's craft, revived, and sold direct to the public.
Vicenza / Veneto / Online
Veneto leather atelier of the intrecciato weave since 1966 — logo-free luxury from Montebello Vicentino. Atelier housed since 2013 in late-18th-century Villa Schroeder Da Porto at Montebello Vicentino, with an on-site artisan school (Accademia labor et ingenium).
Best for Woven leather bags and quiet-luxury accessories.
Bottega Veneta was founded in Vicenza in 1966, in the Veneto leatherworking country that still anchors its production, and built its name on a single technical idea: intrecciato, the hand-woven leather lattice its artisans developed to give soft leather structure. The house's original motto — 'when your own initials are enough' — announced a philosophy of luxury without visible logos, letting the weave itself serve as signature. That discretion has kept Bottega collectible across decades of fashion cycles: the woven pouches, Cassette bags, and Jodie hobos are recognized at a glance by texture alone. The craft is genuinely demanding — intrecciato pieces are woven by trained hands in Veneto ateliers — and the house runs its own school to sustain the skill. Come for leather goods above all; the weave is the argument, and no other house makes it.
Check the weave's edges when buying: on a true intrecciato piece the strips run continuously into the seams, the quiet proof of the hand assembly.
Vientiane
A Lao fine silk boutique selling silk skirt sets in Kum Fun and Mai Larb styles, shawls and table runners crafted by Lao craftswomen, alongside women's and men's clothing, bags and silver jewelry.
Best for Lao silk skirt sets and shawls
Centro
A family leather house designing and making bags and small leather goods in San Sebastián.Established 1948.
Best for Family leather house designing and making bags and small leather goods
Tuscany / Online
Tuscan leather-goods house founded in 1974 by Mauro Sani in Stabbia, still family-run; named for the Maremma buttero cowherds, working in vegetable-tanned Buttero leather from Conceria Walpier.
Best for Tanino sneakers and western boots.
Buttero was founded in 1974 by Mauro Sani in Stabbia, a town in Tuscany, and is now run by his children and grandchildren. The brand takes its name from the butteri, the Tuscan cowherds who traditionally worked the Maremma plains on horseback, and it draws its visual language from Italian saddlery and equestrian gear. Buttero's shoes, boots and sneakers are made locally by skilled Tuscan craftsmen using vegetable-tanned Italian leather. The specific leather most associated with the brand, known as Buttero leather, is a full-grain calf leather that is vegetable-tanned, dyed through, and hand-finished on the bench - produced since 1973 by Conceria Walpier in Castelfranco di Sotto, also in Tuscany.
Tui / Spain
Cabuxa hand-crafts leather bags, jewelry, and stationery from its workshop in Tui, Galicia, stamping many pieces with its own designs before selling them online and at craft fairs across Spain and Portugal. The shop, run from Malladoura in Baldráns, ships its bolsos and marroquinería nationwide.
Best for Leather Goods, Jewelry
Tuscany, Italy
A Cesena leather-goods house founded in 1986 by Marco Campomaggi, son of a sculptor; bags are garment-dyed in a slow natural process from 100% Italian cowhide vegetable-tanned in Tuscany, finished with signature star- and flower-shaped studs.
Best for Bags, studded leather, accessories
Campomaggi was founded in 1986 by Marco Campomaggi, who grew up in the countryside around Teodorano in Emilia-Romagna and designed his first bags while still at school, drawing on a family background in sculpture through his father's work. The label is based in Cesena and built its identity on two signature techniques rather than seasonal fashion trends. First, garment dyeing: finished bags, not just the raw hides, go through a slow natural dyeing process that lets each piece take and react to color unevenly, so no two bags finish identically and the leather is left, in the brand's own description, freer to age and darken over use. Second, decorative studding: metal studs — varied in size and cast in shapes including stars and flowers — are used across collections as a structural design element rather than incidental hardware. The leather itself is sourced as 100% Italian cowhide, vegetable-dyed by tanneries in Tuscany before the garment-dyeing stage. The combination of raw, deliberately imperfect coloring and heavy stud detailing has become the house's recognizable signature across four decades of production.
Capri / Online
Amedeo Canfora opened this workshop at the start of Via Camerelle in the late 1940s, cutting and nailing leather sandals to measure opposite the Grand Hotel Quisisana. The house famously shod Jackie Kennedy and still hand-finishes jeweled and plain pairs in its back-room atelier.
Best for Hand-made Capri sandals, customized to fit.
Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo
Casa Calíope is a bookstore selling books in English and Spanish across genres including romance, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, poetry, classics and young adult, along with tote bags and bookmarks. It runs a reading club with monthly member benefits and staff picks by co-owners María Eugenia and Stephanie.
Best for English and spanish language books
Ayacucho
Casa de la Artesanía Ayacuchana is an exhibition space at CITE Ayacucho that shows handicrafts from the region, including Huamanga stone carving, textiles, religious imagery, Sarhua panels, leatherwork and metalwork. It is located facing Plaza María Parado de Bellido in Ayacucho, Peru.
Best for Regional handicraft exhibition space
Fortaleza
Designer Celina Hissa built this label around renda de bilro, labirinto, file, and carnauba straw, turning centuries-old Cearense hand techniques into structured handbags, kaftans, and dresses. Every piece ships with a QR-coded card linking to the artisan who made it, from a network that is 99 percent women, and the company holds B Corp certification.
Best for Contemporary bags and clothing in traditional Ceará lace
Millau / Aveyron / Online
Millau glovemaker since 1892 and, since 2012, part of Chanel's Métiers d'Art ecosystem, Causse Gantier hand-cuts and hand-sews lambskin and peccary leather gloves. Some styles take more than 100 separate operations to complete.
Best for Couture-grade lambskin and peccary leather gloves from Millau
Causse Gantier was founded in 1892 in Millau, a town in southern France long associated with leather tanning and glovemaking. The house has been formally recognized as an Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant (Living Heritage Company) and is listed in UNESCO's Rare Arts & Crafts registry, markers reserved for businesses that maintain historic hand-craft methods rather than industrialized production.
In 2012, Causse became part of Chanel's Métiers d'Art ecosystem, the group of specialist ateliers — including embroiderers, featherworkers and shoemakers — that the fashion house has acquired to keep rare crafts in-house and supplying its own collections. The gloves themselves are made from lambskin and peccary leather with cashmere and silk linings and tulle or satin accents; the company describes some models as requiring more than 100 separate operations, from leather selection through hand-embroidery and precision cutting, before a pair is finished.
That combination — a 19th-century Millau workshop now operating inside a modern luxury conglomerate's craft division — places Causse alongside a small group of French glovemaking houses, including Maison Fabre in the same town, that have survived by attaching themselves to couture demand rather than mass retail.
San Pedro Sula
Cefiro – Diseño hondureño, cuero italiano Ir al contenido Home Sobre Cefiro Tienda Carrito Contacto Carrito/ L 0.00 Destaca con Cefiro Bolsos de cuero de lujo que fusionan la elegancia del diseño hondureño con la artesanía italiana. Desliza para ver los bolsos Lo Mejor de Cefiro Calidad, estilo y precio en cada producto.
Best for Leather
Santa Maria Novella
Silvano Cellerini opened this bag workshop in 1957 and built a reputation for structured leather goods cut and assembled entirely by hand in Florence. The atelier still makes women's and men's bags, travel pieces, wallets and belts to order, letting clients choose leather, lining, buckles and finish.
Best for Made-to-order structured leather handbags
France / Online
French flight-jacket nobility since 1832 — the aviator leathers that dressed early pilots, still cut in Crocq. in 1914 the Crocq works made leather overalls and jackets for the French Air Force; production remains in Crocq.
Best for Aviator flight jackets since 1832, still cut in Crocq
Woodstock
Caleb Pedersen's label Chapel hand-makes leather and waxed-canvas backpacks, duffels and wallets built for hard wear and long life. Bags are cut and stitched in Cape Town and sold through the brand's own studio and online store.
Best for Leather and canvas bags
Chattanooga
This Chattanooga workshop hand-cuts and stitches leather bags, wallets, everyday-carry gear and knife and tomahawk sheaths, including custom scabbard work for RMJ Tactical. The makers blend traditional leather craft with modern design and take custom and small-run commissions.
Best for Handmade leather bags, wallets and sheaths
Carouge (43 rue Ancienne)
A mother-and-daughter leather atelier at 43 rue Ancienne in Carouge, chris.murner draws on more than forty years of craft to make handbags, travel bags, belts and small leather goods. The workshop also takes bespoke commissions and carries out restorations.
Best for Artisan leather goods, restorations
Morne Fortune, Castries
Christy Creations is a Saint Lucian designer in Castries making hand-painted, hand-crafted bags, accessories and clothing. The designer received the CSC 2018 Innovative Designer Award.
Best for Hand painted bags and accessories
Sagarnaga / Witches Street, La Paz
Chuspita Handmade makes unique leather goods combined with traditional Bolivian textiles, including backpacks, wallets and belts finished with Andean weavings. Founded in 1995 and based near Plaza San Francisco in La Paz, each piece is the work of Bolivian artisans.
Best for Handmade leather goods with Andean textiles
Louisville / Online
Clayton and Crume handcrafts leather goods, from belts and wallets to bags and barware, in its Louisville, Kentucky workshop, with free monogramming and a build-your-own belt bar. The range is sold through an online store, and the brand runs a flagship shop and a Stitch bourbon bar in Louisville.
Best for Leather-goods, belts, wallets
Charlotte
Charlotte leather workshop hand-cutting and stitching full-grain bags, wallets, journals, and belts, much of it customizable and monogrammed. The studio produces its goods on site and sells direct.
Best for Handmade full-grain leather goods
Portugal
Corkadia makes cork purses, wallets, belts, backpacks, watches, hats and sandals from cork leather crafted in Portugal, offering more than 500 designs. The material is described as lightweight, water-resistant and PETA-approved vegan.
Best for Cork bags and accessories
Portugal
CorkLane makes handbags, totes, clutches and wallets from natural Portuguese cork leather in colors including natural, coral, teal and black, with products such as the Jackie Shoulder Bag and the Cork Tote Bag. The material is vegan, plastic-free and biodegradable, with no animal ingredients.
Best for Cork handbags and wallets
Shoppes at Southdale, South Avenue, Kingston, Jamaica
Craft Cottage has traded as 'the original home of Made in Jamaica' for roughly four decades from its Shoppes at Southdale location in Kingston. The shop stocks handmade Jamaican goods such as straw bags and hats, aromatherapy products, and home décor sourced directly from local artisans.
Best for Handmade Jamaican souvenirs and artisan home goods
Tateshina / Japan
Marked by a big sign along Route 299 in the Tateshina highlands, this log-cabin workshop has designed and sold custom leather goods, including keychains and bags printed with customers' own pet photos, since at least 2009. The shop at 5522 Kitayama, Chino City keeps regular 9:00–19:00 hours and also carries a line of nature-healing CDs composed with musician Junichi Kamiyama.
Best for Leather Goods, Custom Printing, Workshop Shop
Kampong Glam / Online
It is best known for Leathercraft — handcrafted leather goods and workshops; create personalized wallets, belts, key holders; hands-on experience making your own unique souvenirs.
Best for Create personalized wallets, belts, key holders
Yorkshire / Online
Croots hand-makes field-sports and travel leather goods — gun slips, cartridge bags, holdalls, and satchels — in bridle leather, waxed canvas, and British twill at its own workshop in Malton, North Yorkshire. Founded by John and Margaret Smith in 1978 as Field Sports Products, it passed to their daughter and son-in-law in 2004, who renamed it Croots.
Best for Field bags
Cotacachi, Otavalo
Cuero Cotacachi sells Ecuadorian leather products made by local artisans, describing its goods as the finest Ecuadorian leather, 100 percent authentic. The range includes jackets, wallets, boots and travel accessories for men and women.
Best for Authentic Ecuadorian leather goods
Cody, Wyoming
Custom Cowboy Shop outfits working ranch hands and collectors with handmade saddles, bits, spurs, chinks, and wild rags built for the Big Horn Basin. The store pairs its own line of leather tack with vintage cowboy gear sourced across the region.
Best for Custom saddles and cowboy tack
Strovolos, Nicosia
The Cyprus Handicraft Centre, at 186 Athalassas Avenue in Strovolos, Nicosia, is an outlet for producing and selling traditional folk art and crafts, where visitors can watch artisans at work. It sells embroidery and lace, tapestry, weaving, basketry, woodcarving, pottery, copperware and silver metalwork, and leather and garment items.
Best for Traditional Cypriot embroidery, lace, pottery, and metalwork
Toyooka / Japan
D.L.P. is a small bag workshop in Toyooka, Japan's historic bag-making town, where craftsmen work leather and canvas into original totes, wallets, and hand-dyed patine pieces. The workshop also runs an online shop and a new Tajima Cowhide line made in partnership with local tanners.
Best for Hand-dyed leather totes, wallets and Tajima cowhide goods
Tegucigalpa / Honduras
Handcrafting full-grain leather bags, wallets, and belts in San Pedro Sula since 1974, Danilo's runs a flagship atelier and three additional storefronts across Honduras, including a boutique in Mall Multiplaza Tegucigalpa. Shoppers can visit any of the four locations for personalization and monogramming, or order online with worldwide shipping.
Best for Leather Goods, Bags, Wallets
Warminster / England / Online
English glove maker since 1777, now a Royal Warrant holder to The King, with gloves still hand-finished at its Warminster, England factory. Its leather driving gloves have appeared on screen in the James Bond films Skyfall, Spectre and No Time to Die.
Best for Royal warrant leather gloves, hand-finished in England
Dents has made gloves in England since 1777, and its Heritage collection is crafted at the company’s Warminster factory. The house holds a Royal Warrant first granted in 2016 by the then-Prince of Wales, now King Charles III. Its modern identity also reaches film: Dents links its Fleming driving gloves to Daniel Craig’s James Bond in Skyfall and Spectre, and to Lashana Lynch’s Nomi in No Time to Die. Alongside the historical range, the company maintains a glove museum and offers repair services—useful signs that its founding date still connects to product knowledge and aftercare.
San Pedro Sula
Deta & Arte is a digital-print shop in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, with more than 28 years of work. It sells personalized cushions, framing, canvases, stickers, printed wood, paper bags and stationery, and runs several named house brands of personalized goods.
Best for Craft
Ukunda–Diani Road, opposite GPS Petrol Station
Located on the road opposite the GPS Petrol Station in Ukunda-Diani, the club sells oil paintings such as "African Woman" alongside Maasai handcraft, handbags and curios. Portrait painter Jimmy creates family and individual portraits from photographs at the gallery.
Best for Oil paintings and maasai handcraft
Lancaster County, PA
This leather workshop manufactures its belts, handbags, briefcases, and travel bags on-site rather than importing stock, and also repairs leather goods brought in by customers. Its product range runs from everyday belts to overnight and sports bags made in-house.
Best for Handmade leather bags and belts
Ballinasloe, Ireland
Founded 1937 in Ballinasloe as a co-operative to create local jobs, named after Madame du Barry; in the early 1990s it became the first brand with a GORE-TEX licence for leather sailing boots, forerunner of the Galway boot.
Best for Country boots, Irish
Dubarry was founded in 1937 in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, as a joint venture between a Northampton shoemaking family and the local Chamber of Commerce, set up explicitly as a co-operative to create local employment and slow emigration from the area. The brand took its name from the French courtesan Madame du Barry, a deliberate choice to give an Irish-made shoe a European identity distinct from its domestic competitors.
Its defining product breakthrough came in the early 1990s: Dubarry became the first brand worldwide to hold a GORE-TEX licence for leather sailing boots, launching the waterproof, breathable Shamrock Boot. Its popularity with customers wearing it beyond sailing led Dubarry to develop follow-on styles — the Huntsman and Huntima, later renamed Galway and Kildare — extending the technology from the water to the country and equestrian markets that now anchor the brand.
Manufacturing shifted from Ballinasloe to contract partners in Portugal by the end of the 1990s, as costs rose and skilled labor grew scarce in Ireland, though design and quality control remain centered at the original Ballinasloe headquarters.
Rue Ali Kallel, La Marsa
This Tunisia-based atelier concept store creates silver jewelry and leather goods, including bags, rings, earrings and necklaces.
Best for Silver jewelry and leather bags
Centro Histórico / La Recova, Asunción
El Pampero has more than 40 years of experience selling tourist items in Asunción, including ñandutí lace, encaje yu lace, bolsones bags, carteras and blusas.
Best for Ñandutí lace and encaje yu
Capri town
Emanuela Caruso continues a Capri sandal-making lineage, cutting and assembling leather thong sandals by hand in the island's workshops. Customers pick straps and stones for pairs finished to measure while they browse.
Best for Handmade Capri leather sandals
Villa de Leyva
En Cueros la Villa: cueros, artesanías en Villa de Leyva, Boyacá. Atiende en Cra 9 # 14-14 (154001) Villa de Leyva, Boyacá. Teléfono: 📞 +57 318 4535.... Los usu
Best for Leather
Kompleksi Magnet, Tirana
Erina Atelier, at Rr Artan Lenja Kompleksi Magnet, Dorado 1112 in Tirana, sells paintings and wearable pieces branded from them — scarves, blouses, bags and pens. Its newest clothing line is made from fabric printed with Erina's own paintings.
Best for Wearable art from original paintings
Toledo
Espadas de Toledo makes handcrafted swords, daggers and katanas, including historical reproductions such as swords attributed to El Cid, Boabdil and Don Pelayo, along with damascene gold-inlay work. Its materials include forged iron, brass and leather, and it offers an online sword configurator for personalized designs.
Best for Toledo swords and damascene work
Fes
A Fes leather workshop making handmade bags, wallets, jackets and belts and teaching traditional tanning and leatherworking in hands-on sessions. Options range from studio shopping tours to advanced artisan classes.
Best for Handmade leather goods and workshops
Caen / Normandy / Online
Normandy net-bag maker founded 1860 near Caen, originally weaving fishing and agricultural nets; revived in the early 2000s by Jean-Philippe and Catherine Cousin and awarded France's Living Heritage Enterprise label in 2017.
Best for Normandy cotton net bags, a market-day staple since 1860.
Filt is a textile company founded in 1860 in Normandy, originally producing sturdy nets for fishing and agricultural use before developing the woven cotton filet - the net shopping bag once carried by generations of French shoppers. Production remains based in a workshop near Caen, and each bag is finished bearing the first name of the employee who sewed it. The company underwent what is described as a reawakening in the early 2000s under Jean-Philippe and Catherine Cousin, who revived the shopping-net line and pursued international expansion. In 2017 Filt was awarded the Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant label, an official French state recognition of craftsmanship excellence.
Sweden
The Arctic fox of Örnsköldsvik — Kånken packs, G-1000 waxed cotton and Swedish trail sensibility.
Best for Technical mountaineering; G-1000, Kånken, outdoor
Antigua
Antigua Guatemala gallery and showroom for Latin American art and design. It works with visual and multidisciplinary artists as well as designers of fashion, jewelry, leather goods, furniture and decorative objects.
Best for Galleries
Dillon, Montana
The Frecker family, saddlemakers since 1990, runs a tack store on West Bannack Street in Dillon stocking their custom saddles, belts, leather goods and riding supplies. Made-to-measure saddles are built to order alongside repairs.
Best for Custom saddles and tack
Interlaken / Switzerland
Gallery Metropole on Höheweg in Interlaken shows a wide range of Swiss watches and leather goods.
Best for Swiss watches and leather goods
Chattel Village, Holetown
Ganzee is a Caribbean souvenir retailer, offering souvenir tees, island apparel, caps and hats, beach and kitchen towels, photo frames, bags, mugs and postcards. Built on more than 25 years in the island souvenir business, it operates shops across Barbados, Grenada and St. Lucia.
Best for Caribbean souvenirs and island apparel
Akure
A beads and hair business in Akure offering beaded bags, bridal beads and jewelry, plus natural hairstyling and bead training.
Best for Beaded jewelry and natural hairstyling
Centralia / USA
Geier Glove Company was founded in 1927 in Centralia, Washington by the Geier brothers, and the company has stayed in that same town making leather gloves and moccasins for close to a century.
Best for Family-run Pacific Northwest leather work, dress, and driving gloves since 1927
Geier Glove Company was founded in 1927 in Centralia, Washington by the Geier brothers, and the company has stayed in that same town making leather gloves and moccasins for close to a century. Its own site frames the standard simply: "attention to detail with regard to fit, wear, and comfort has been important" since the brothers started the business, and every piece is still made in the U.S.A.
The catalogue covers work, dress, driving, and riding gloves for men and women, built from what the company describes as the best leathers available for glove and moccasin making, and offered in full and half sizes rather than a generic universal fit — a small but telling detail for a maker whose business is literally hand coverings. Moccasins round out the line as a secondary product, but gloves remain the core of what Geier does and has always done.
There's no origin myth or celebrity backstory here, just a family glove shop in the Pacific Northwest that kept its production domestic while much of the American glove industry didn't. Best suited to buyers looking for honest, regionally made leather workwear and driving gloves rather than a fashion-house name.
Hertfordshire / England / Online
British luxury luggage since 1897 — vulcanized fibreboard suitcases, royal warrant holder, and the choice of James Bond and the Royal Family.
Best for British luxury luggage
Globe-Trotter has made suitcases from vulcanised fibreboard — layered paper bonded to unlikely toughness — since 1897, and the material is the whole romance: light as attitude, strong enough that Edwardian advertising showed an elephant standing on one. Founded by David Nelken in Saxony and soon thoroughly English, the firm settled into the craft that continues today in its Hertfordshire workshop: cases built on Victorian-era machinery, corners hand-bent, leather straps saddle-stitched.
The client book is the national story. Queen Elizabeth II took Globe-Trotter on her 1947 honeymoon and used the cases lifelong; Churchill carried one; Edmund Hillary's 1953 Everest expedition packed them to base camp. James Bond made them cinematic in the Daniel Craig era, and the house's collaborations — Gucci, Tiffany, 007 editions — trade on exactly that passport.
Royal Warrant holder, deliberately small, defiantly analogue: Globe-Trotter sells the trunk-era's virtues intact — luggage as heirloom, travel as occasion, paper outlasting plastic.
Mobile markets, Luxembourg
Goldstéck is a family-run business in Luxembourg making handmade accessories for kids, moms and women, including bags, backpacks, bibs, blankets, hats and headbands. Started as a hobby in 2017, the brand also releases limited-edition and seasonal designs.
Best for Handmade bags and kids accessories
harbour, Qaqortoq
Great Greenland sells sealskin jackets, vests, gloves, mittens, boots, bags and home goods, along with reindeer skin, lamb skin and musk ox products. Its Qaqortoq shop and tannery has operated since 1977 and includes a visitor center with exhibitions and workshops.
Best for Sealskin clothing and accessories
USA
Backpack maker founded in San Diego in 1977 by Wayne and Suszy Gregory, built around Wayne's Active Suspension System for pack-to-body fit. Acquired by Bianchi International in 1983; owned by Samsonite since a 2014 purchase from Black Diamond for $85 million.
Best for Backpacks, outdoor
Wayne Gregory designed his first backpack at age 14 as a Boy Scout project, and in 1970 launched an earlier venture, Sunbird, making external-frame packs - it folded by 1973. In 1977 he founded Gregory Mountain Products in San Diego with his wife Suszy. The company's packs were built in the back room of Wayne's retail store, based on the principle that a pack should be worn, not carried, leading to Gregory's Active Suspension System. Bianchi International acquired the company in 1983, and it relocated to Temecula, California. Black Diamond Equipment later owned Gregory before selling it to Samsonite International in 2014 for $85 million.
Monte-Carlo
Atelier Grinda in Monte-Carlo is a small customization boutique where a single artisan handmakes bespoke leather goods, including wallets, using traditional techniques with ethically sourced, fair-trade leather.
Best for Bespoke handmade leather wallets
Jackson, Wyoming
GRIT stocks heritage Western menswear at 165 North Center Street, carrying labels like RRL, Freenote Cloth, and Rocky Mountain Featherbed alongside its own made-to-order denim, limited-edition boots, and leather goods. The shop also serves as a northern outpost of Santa Fe's Shiprock Gallery, selling turn-of-the-century Navajo rugs, weavings, and jewelry.
Best for Heritage western menswear and Navajo textiles
Centro, Viña del Mar
Halasa Textil Hogar is a family-owned textile company operating for over 30 years in Viña del Mar, selling curtains, bed linens, tablecloths and fabrics, and offering upholstery and furniture restoration. It uses imported fabrics from Spain and China alongside national eco-leathers, with a minimum one-year guarantee on fabrics, seams and manufacturing.
Best for Custom curtains and home textiles
Thimphu / Bhutan
The Handicrafts Association of Bhutan channels the work of a nationwide network of roughly 7,500 micro and small artisan enterprises into a single WooCommerce storefront selling masks, baskets, bags and cushions rooted in the country's Zorig Chusum tradition. Based on Metog Lam in Thimphu, the association pairs its e-shop with training and market-access programs for Bhutanese craftspeople.
Best for Masks, baskets, bags, and cushions rooted in Bhutan's Zorig Chusum tradition
Hampi
A Hampi-based maker weaving bags, accessories and homeware from banana fibre and water hyacinth pulled from the Tungabhadra, finished with tamarind-seed beads and river-grass seeds. The workshop frames its work around turning agricultural and invasive-plant waste into usable goods while supporting local artisans.
Best for Banana-fibre and water-hyacinth bags and homeware
Centro, Antigua
Armonia-Harmony in Antigua Guatemala makes fashion pieces such as boots, bags and other items in leather. Each piece is made by hand.
Best for Handmade leather boots and bags
Jericó, Antioquia, Colombia
Hecho en Jericó has made carrieles, the tooled leather satchel that originated in this Antioquia town, for more than fifteen years, offering both machine-sewn and hand-stitched options. The workshop also sells wallets, shoulder bags and waist pouches, all 100% Colombian leather.
Best for Workshop also sells wallets, shoulder bags and waist pouches
Hecho en Jericó has made carrieles — the tooled leather shoulder satchel that originated in this Antioquia town — for more than fifteen years, and the workshop's own branding leans hard on that geography: 'Hecho en Jericó,' made in Jericó, on a shop that also states its goods are '100% Cuero,' full leather, made '100% en Colombia.' Buyers can choose between machine-sewn pieces and a hand-stitched option, cosido a mano, priced separately — a distinction the workshop states outright rather than treating hand-stitching as a hidden upcharge. Beyond the classic carriel, the range extends to wallets, shoulder bags and waist pouches carved from the same leather, plus regional pieces like aguadeño hats, ponchos and coffee that round out a Jericó-made assortment rather than a single product. The shop ships nationally and internationally rather than limiting itself to walk-in visitors to the Antioquia workshop, and leans on customer testimonials framed as 'historias reales, calidad real' — real stories, real quality — as its own proof rather than third-party reviews. For a shopper who wants the original carriel form from the town where it started, made in leather with a choice of stitching method, this is the workshop that leads with both the origin claim and the construction detail most competitors leave vague.
Online / brand-level record
Catalan accessories house founded in 2014 by Jose Bartolome and Albert Escribano, drawing on their Valencia and Mallorca roots; known for the woven-strap Espiga bag, made by leatherworkers in Sax, Valencia.
Best for Woven Espiga bags and minimalist Menorcan-soul sandals, Catalan leather craft.
Hereu was founded in 2014 by Jose Bartolome and Albert Escribano, who returned to their Mediterranean roots - Valencia and Mallorca respectively - after years working in London and Paris to start the label. The name means 'heir' in Catalan, and the brand builds its designs around Mediterranean folk imagery and craft traditions. Its best-known piece is the Espiga bag, a shoulder bag defined by a braided strap made from pliable, padded strips of lambskin woven together; the bag is produced by manufacturers in Sax, a town in the Valencia region with a long-standing leather-making history. Hereu has since expanded into footwear alongside its handbags.
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