15 stores · curated ORBIS register
Vietnamese studio ceramics move at the pace of the kiln rather than the market. Hien Van Ceramics runs a Vietnamese ceramics studio founded in 2004 in Bac Ninh province, just northeast of Hanoi, where the clay beds run deep. Authentic Bat Trang links a Hang Gai shopfront to a working kiln in Bat Trang, backing hand-painted Bat Trang ceramics. Amai Saigon shapes softly irregular handmade ceramics and tableware in Ho Chi Minh City. Leave room in the suitcase for a bowl that refuses to behave.
Bat Trang village
Sells Bat Trang ceramics from its shop at the Bat Trang ceramics market in Gia Lam, Hanoi, including tea sets, altar wares, decorative vases, ceramic lamps and dinnerware. Pieces are finished with crackle glaze, cobalt blue glaze, hand-painting or relief decoration.
Best for Bat Trang tea sets and altar ceramics
Old Quarter
Hanoi ceramics shop selling handmade pieces from Bat Trang Ceramic Village, about 20km outside the city. The collection favors playful, unconventional shapes such as watermelon bowls and octopus-print mugs.
Best for Handmade ceramics from Bat Trang Ceramic Village near Hanoi
Cerender's ceramics are made in Bát Tràng, a village on the far bank of the Red River southeast of central Hanoi, whose potters have worked in continuous production for more than 700 years, making it Vietnam's oldest and best-known ceramic-making center. The Hanoi shop itself sits in the Old Quarter near St. Joseph's Cathedral, putting it within walking distance of the district's cluster of small independent retailers rather than out at the village workshops themselves — a common arrangement among Bát Tràng-sourced ceramics sellers, who maintain a city storefront for tourists and expatriate residents while production stays in the village. Beyond the shop's better-known novelty pieces, Cerender's range extends to export-oriented tableware and furnishing accessories — flower pots, tea sets, table lamps, and fine textured porcelain — giving it a broader catalogue than the whimsical single-item pieces most visitors photograph. The shop has changed addresses within the Old Quarter more than once, moving in recent years from a Ấu Triệu Street location to its current storefront on Hàng Trống, one of the neighborhood's older, name-preserving streets clustered around Hoàn Kiếm Lake — the kind of relocation common to small independent Hanoi retailers navigating short leases in a historic, high-turnover shopping district.
Hàng Trống, Hoàn Kiếm, Hanoi
Vietnamese ceramics studio founded in 2004 in Bac Ninh province, drawing on 11th-century Ly and Tran dynasty pottery. Pieces are glazed using ash from rice hulls and wood.
Best for Vietnamese ceramics studio founded in 2004 in Bac Ninh province
Hiên Vân Ceramics traces its shapes back to a single kiln, built in 2004 in Hiên Vân commune, in Bac Ninh province's Tien Du ward. The studio's founders spent years studying ceramics from Vietnam's Ly, Tran, Le, and Mac dynasties before developing their own forms, drawing especially on 11th-century pottery techniques.
Rather than industrial glazes, Hiên Vân relies on ash from rice hulls and wood, a formula the studio credits with giving its pieces the character associated with historic Vietnamese ceramic ware. Clay is sourced from multiple regions and blended to a proprietary formula the workshop says gives finished pieces their structural solidity.
The range spans functional tableware and ceremonial pieces to architectural ceramics, including large relief carvings, garden statues, and decorative bricks and tiles — work the studio positions as bridging traditional craft with contemporary use. Patterns are drawn from temple carvings, antiques, and historic artworks rather than reproduced from a catalogue.
The result is a small-batch operation focused on continuing a specific regional ceramic tradition, a stance the studio traces directly to its founding research into Ly and Tran dynasty ceramic craft.
Tay Ho, Hanoi
A two-storey concept store at No.47, Alley 52 To Ngoc Van Street in Hanoi's Tay Ho area, selling fashion, beauty and home goods including ceramics, candles and lacquerware. It also stocks kids' items, stationery and gifts, and offers free nationwide delivery over 1,000,000 VND.
Best for Fashion beauty and home goods
Tây Hồ
Oriberry grew out of 1998 charity work supporting Vietnam's ethnic-minority farmers, becoming a coffee and tea company in 2010. It sources single-origin beans from Quang Tri, Lam Dong, and Daklak, and sells hand-painted Bat Trang ceramics alongside them.
Best for It sources single-origin beans from Quang Tri, Lam Dong, and Daklak
Oriberry didn't begin as a coffee company. Its roots trace to 1998, when its founders started charity work supporting indigenous and ethnic-minority communities in remote parts of Vietnam; the coffee business, formalized in 2010, grew out of that work as a way to keep the income direct rather than routed through aid. The company sources single-origin coffee from named Vietnamese regions — Quang Tri, Lam Dong, Dien Bien, and Daklak — and green and red tea from Thai Nguyen, buying direct from smallholder farmers rather than operating estate farms of its own. Oriberry describes a specific quality process behind that sourcing: soil testing on the farms, a required Brix sugar level in the cherries before they're accepted, and screening of the green beans for pesticide residue, rather than a general ethically-sourced claim with no mechanism behind it. Alongside the coffee and tea, the company sells brewing equipment and hand-painted Bat Trang ceramics — cups, bowls, and drip filters made in Vietnam's Bat Trang pottery village — pairing a food product with a craft one from the same country. Oriberry runs a café near Hanoi's West Lake as its physical retail point, but the core of the business is still the direct relationships with smallholder farmers that the 1998 charity work started, sixteen years before the company itself existed.
District 2
A Saigon ceramics and tableware shop known for softly irregular handmade forms. Recommended among District 2’s local craft stores.
Best for Softly irregular handmade ceramics and tableware
District 3
A ceramics shop and studio producing colorful Vietnamese-stoneware vessels. Spanish artist Leandro Marcelino makes the pieces and hosts classes.
Best for Colorful Vietnamese-stoneware vessels by Spanish artist Leandro Marcelino, plus his classes.
Thảo Điền, Ho Chi Minh City
A stationery and design shop selling stamps, ceramics, board games, home goods, and locally produced objects using Vietnamese motifs. The source identifies illustrator Simon Phan and Hoa Phạm as the founders.
Best for Vietnamese-motif stamps, ceramics, and board games designed by founders Simon Phan
District 1
Deaf-staffed teahouse and adjoining craft shop in Hoi An's Old Town, part of the Reaching Out Vietnam social enterprise founded in 2000; sells Hue-style handcrafted tableware, ceramics and homewares made by deaf and disabled artisans.
Best for Handmade crafts made by silent artisans
Reaching Out Teahouse is run as part of Reaching Out Vietnam, a social enterprise founded in 2000 in Hoi An to provide employment for local deaf and disabled residents under fair-trade principles - fair wages and safe working conditions for artisans and staff. All servers at the teahouse are speech- and hearing-impaired; communication with customers runs through gentle hand gestures, circle-marked menus, and small wooden signaling blocks rather than spoken orders. The teahouse itself occupies a restored old house in central Hoi An and serves tea, coffee, fruit juices and biscuits. Behind and alongside it, Reaching Out operates a retail and workshop space selling tableware handcrafted in the style of Hue's former imperial court, along with ceramics, homewares and jewelry made by the same artisan community. The enterprise has been covered by regional press as a model for disability employment tied to Vietnam's tourism economy.
District 2
Sadéc District makes contemporary Vietnamese homeware rooted in the craft villages of the Mekong Delta. Its founders first found handmade work in Long Xuyên and Sa Đéc before travelling on through Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar. The range spans ceramics and woven rattan as well as wood and glass, and there are textiles and metal pieces too. Each piece combines traditional technique with modern design. Its Saigon shop is on Xuan Thuy in Thao Dien, District 2.
Best for Locally made Vietnamese decorative wares, ceramics, and handcrafts
Sadéc District is a Vietnamese homeware label whose journey began in Long Xuyên and Sa Đéc and the provinces of southwestern Vietnam. There its founders found handcrafted products made by generations of local artisans. From there they travelled through the wider Mekong region, taking in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar. They were looking for work rooted in the artistic traditions of river communities. The collection pairs that craft with contemporary design. Pottery and tableware come from skilled ceramicists, and baskets are woven from rattan and bamboo. Wooden furniture and serving boards sit alongside glass vases and candle holders. Cushions and table linens are joined by decorative metal accents. Some pieces combine several of these materials in one object. Singapore Airlines' SilverKris guide describes the business as formed by a coterie of local designers. It notes homeware from glasses to ceramics inspired by the craft villages of the Mekong Delta. Qantas Travel Insider places the relocated Saigon shop on Xuan Thuy in Thao Dien, District 2. It lists tableware and kitchenware alongside ceramics and rattan pieces among the stock. The company says its aim is to keep exploring every country connected by the Mekong River.
District 1
Independent souvenir and gift shop at 43 Tôn Thất Thiệp, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, run by Audrey Tran — three floors of Vietnam-themed magnets, ceramics, totes and playful graphic gifts.
Best for Playful Vietnamese graphic gifts and home objects
Saigon Kitsch is an independent souvenir and gift shop at 43 Duong Ton That Thiep in Ben Nghe ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, a short walk from the Municipal Theatre. Run under the Instagram handle @saigonkitsch_shop by Audrey Tran, the shop spreads its stock - magnets, ceramics, candles, tote bags, T-shirts and other Vietnam- and pop-culture-themed novelty items - across three floors, with a pottery selection singled out on the top floor. It's positioned for travelers wanting souvenirs with a design-forward sensibility rather than mass-produced tourist trinkets. The shop is cash-only and does not allow photography or filming inside, and keeps long daily hours (roughly 8am-10pm).
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This ceramics studio reworks the household stoneware tradition of Song Be with contemporary glazes and forms suited to modern kitchens and tables. The business ties its production directly to support for the ceramic artisans and workers behind each piece.
Best for Contemporary Song Be ceramics
Old Town, Hoi An
Reaching Out has trained and employed artisans with disabilities in Hoi An's old town since 2000, producing silver jewelry, ceramics, lacquerware, and textiles at its Arts & Crafts Shop rather than importing stock. The fair-trade workshop doubles as a teaching space, running lantern-folding sessions that put visitors in direct contact with the makers.
Best for Fair-trade silver jewelry, ceramics, and lacquerware
Hang Gai / Bat Trang village
Authentic Bat Trang links a Hang Gai shopfront to a working kiln in Bat Trang, the pottery village across the Red River, selling hand-painted bowls, teapots and vases with the village's fire-changed glazes. The workshop also runs pottery-throwing and ceramic-painting classes and factory tours.
Best for Hand-painted Bat Trang ceramics
Bat Trang village
A handmade pottery manufacturer founded in 1991, with a second workshop established in Bat Trang village in 1989 employing around 200 workers alongside designers and artificers. Ceramics are exported to nearly 20 countries including the EU, US, Australia, Israel and Japan, produced to customers' specifications.
Best for Handmade Bat Trang pottery for export
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