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Craft & Ateliers — Founded 1800–1899

39 stores · curated ORBIS register

Olive oil and vinegar anchor À l'Olivier, with stoneware also forming part of the house's range. Its Paris origins date to 1822, while the Nice business developed later with a workshop and market shop. In Yame, Aimoriyama works with Kurume kasuri textiles, continuing a weaving workshop that dates to 1858. Volterra's Cooperativa Artieri Alabastro carves and polishes alabaster into lamps and sculptures, with a shop on Piazza dei Priori.

À l'Olivier

Heritage House

Nice / Online

Nice oil merchant since 1822 — olive oils, vinegars, and the stoneware jars of the old town. Workshops moved to the Nice region in 1978; the Nice Flower Market shop opened in 2003 (official timeline). Founding shop was Paris Marais, 1822.

Best for Nice olive oils and flavored vinegars.

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Aimoriyama

Heritage House

Yame (Hirokawa), Fukuoka / Japan

Aimoriyama is a Kurume Kasuri workshop in Hirokawa, Yame County, Fukuoka Prefecture, tracing its founding to Ansei 5 — 1858, in the closing years of the Edo period — and currently led by Torao Moriyama.

Best for Hand-bound, sukumo-dyed Kurume Kasuri ikat cotton from an 1858 Fukuoka weaving workshop

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · JapanORBIS register

Black Forest, Gutenbach

Anton Schneider Uhrenmanufaktur, established in 1848 in Gutenbach in the Black Forest, describes itself as the oldest still-active manufacturer of cuckoo clocks, hand-carving and assembling clocks from domestic wood with mechanical movements. Its clocks carry the VdS-Siegel authenticity certificate for original Black Forest cuckoo clocks.

Best for Handcrafted black forest cuckoo clocks

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Naples — Galleria Umberto I / Online

A Torre del Greco coral house, founded 1855 — six generations of Neapolitan coral, cameos and mother-of-pearl worked since the Bourbon court; the atelier and small museum share the Galleria Umberto salon.

Best for Neapolitan red coral and cameos worked by hand.

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · ItalyORBIS register

Banja Luka, Republika Srpska

Founded by Trappist monks in Banja Luka in 1873, Banjalučka Pivara brews the Nektar range from its historic brewery and remains one of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s longest-running beer producers. In 2026 it became part of Finland’s Olvi Group while retaining its local brewery identity and brands.

Best for Local craft and lager beer, brewery heritage, Nektar Pivo

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Bosnia and HerzegovinaORBIS register

Cavour 1880

Hidden Gem

Città Alta (Via Gombito)

Cavour 1880 occupies a frescoed 19th-century room on Via Gombito in Bergamo's Città Alta and has been run since 1994 by the Cerea family of the Da Vittorio restaurant. Its counters carry pastries, spoon desserts, artisanal gelato, and cakes made under the Da Vittorio name.

Best for Historic Città Alta pastries and Da Vittorio gelato

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Bergamo / ItalyORBIS register

Volterra / Italy

Since 1895, this Volterra cooperative has carved and polished alabaster into lamps, sculptures, and everyday objects, continuing a craft tradition recognized as a National Historic Enterprise of Italy. Visitors can browse the shop on Piazza dei Priori or book a guided tour of the workshop on Via Padre Eugenio Barsanti to watch artisans at work.

Best for Stone Carving, Alabaster

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Zoagli (GE)

Established in 1849, the Cordani weaving mill in Zoagli produces 100% silk velvet, including the smooth Genoese velvet, on wooden looms some of which date to the 16th to 18th centuries. It holds the Artigiani in Liguria - Velluto di Zoagli trademark protecting the local craft.

Best for Genoese silk velvet

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · LiguriaORBIS register

Calle Mayor 10, 28013 Madrid / Madrid / Spain

El Riojano is a Madrid pastry shop at Calle Mayor 10, with a history dating to 1855. Its range includes cakes and confectionery, with an online shop for ordering from the bakery.

Best for Cakes and confectionery

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Frey

Heritage House

Cernobbio / Bellagio (Como)

Frey has produced silk scarves, foulards and shawls in the province of Como since 1899, describing each piece as a zero-mile product made entirely within the Como area. Its boutiques face the lake at Cernobbio and Bellagio, with a showroom in Cantù.

Best for Silk scarves and shawls

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Province of Como / ItalyORBIS register

Gyokushodo

Heritage House

Osaka / Japan

Gyokushodo has made incense in Osaka since 1804 (Bunka 1), a run of more than 220 years centered in the city's Higashinari ward.

Best for Everyday-to-altar-grade incense from a 220-year Osaka maker

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Herrnhuter Sterne

Heritage House

Herrnhut

The Herrnhut manufactory that has hand-assembled the twenty-five-point Moravian star since 1897, the origin of all such Advent stars. Paper and plastic stars are built by hand at Oderwitzer Strasse, with a shop and visitor demonstrations on site.

Best for Handmade Moravian Advent stars

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Herrnhut / Upper Lusatia / GermanyORBIS register

Idrija (day trip from Ljubljana)

Founded in 1876, the Idrija Lace School keeps the bobbin-lace tradition of this mining town alive, training around 500 students a year and selling framed lace pieces through its own shop. The 'Quick Silver' line borrows patterns from Idrija's mercury-mining history, translating them into lace panels priced for serious collectors.

Best for Framed bobbin lace and lace-making courses

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Idrija / SloveniaORBIS register

Saiwaimachi, Kanazawa

A gold-leaf manufacturer with a showroom selling leaf-decorated goods and a workshop for applying gold leaf to take-home objects. The company was established in Kanazawa in 1898.

Best for Gold-leaf decorated goods and hands-on gold-leaf application workshops since 1898 in Kanazawa

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Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan

Founded in 1900 and rooted in ham-making techniques introduced to Kamakura by British trader William Curtis in 1874, this house still cures loin ham, boneless ham, sausage and canned specialties by hand. It has supplied hotels and Olympic events in Tokyo and Sapporo while keeping its original Kamakura workshop running.

Best for Traditional cured ham and sausage

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kamakura / JapanORBIS register

Front Street, Old Town

Eleanor Walsh opened this cigar shop in 1963, carrying forward a hand-rolling tradition Cuban immigrants brought to Key West in 1868, and roller Talmaege Culmer became known as the last of the original Key West cigar makers before the craft nearly disappeared. David and Leslie Bevens of Cork & Stogie bought the business in 2018, keeping the rolling and the Talmaege house line based on the island rather than moving it off Key West.

Best for Hand-rolled cigars tied directly to Key West's 19th-century cigar-making history

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Key West / FloridaORBIS register

Kiso Urushi (Yoshihiko)

Heritage House

Kiso-Fukushima, Kiso-machi, Nagano, Japan

Operating since the Bunkyu era of 1860, this Fukushima workshop turns honoki magnolia and hinoki cypress into cutting boards, ohitsu rice tubs, steaming boxes, and wooden bath stools and buckets, alongside lacquered pieces. The business was incorporated in 1990 but keeps producing the same everyday kitchen and bath woodware it has made since the 19th century.

Best for Honoki cutting boards and hinoki bath and kitchen woodware

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kiso-Fukushima / NaganoORBIS register

Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Founded in 1897 in the rush-grass district that gave Kurashiki its Japan Heritage igusa designation, Imayoshi Shoten still weaves tatami-grass mats and bedding sheets prized for their air-purifying scent. The shop's goods have been recognized under Japan's Wonder 500 program for regional craft exports.

Best for Traditional igusa rush-grass mats and bedding

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kurashiki / JapanORBIS register

Mackintosh

Heritage House

Scotland, UK

The Scottish inventor of the rubberised raincoat, 1823 — handmade bonded-cotton coats from the Cumbernauld factory, now a quiet-luxury fashion staple.

Best for The original raincoat, still handmade in Scotland.

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Scotland / Handmade in Scotland / Cumbria and Europe / ItalyORBIS register

Matsuyama / Japan

Art Labo Kasuri (Mingei Iyo-kasuri Kaikan) in Matsuyama keeps alive the indigo ikat technique devised around 1802 by weaver Kanaya Kana. Visitors can watch weaving demonstrations, try a natural indigo dyeing experience, and shop aizome handkerchiefs, bags and Ehime specialty treats.

Best for Iyo-kasuri indigo ikat weaving demonstrations and dyeing experiences

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Umi Town, Kasuya-gun, Fukuoka

Mori Hakataori has woven Hakata-ori since 1896, working from Umi Town on the edge of Fukuoka to produce obi and pile-woven silk goods. Its Oriaguri direct shop and factory tour sit at the main mill.

Best for Hakata-ori obi and silk goods

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Fukuoka / JapanORBIS register

7-3-5 Murasaki, Chikushino-shi, Fukuoka 818-0061, Japan / Chikushino / Japan

Nishimura Orimono is a working Hakata-ori weaver; Gihei Nishimura opened the weaving factory in 1861 after studying under the Shirouzu family (one of the Edo twelve licensed houses); ORIBA at the factory entrance sells obi and accessories.

Best for Nishimura Orimono is the oldest Hakata-ori weaver still operating.

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Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar), Maharashtra

Established in 1891, this sixth-generation, Silk Mark-certified handloom house weaves the region's Himroo brocade and Paithani sarees, with motifs drawn from the Ajanta and Ellora caves. It supports around 300 weaving families.

Best for Heritage Himroo brocade shawls, stoles and Paithani sarees

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Aurangabad / IndiaORBIS register

Papier d'Arménie

Heritage House

Paris / Online

Made in Montrouge, France since 1885, Papier d'Arménie's paper strips are soaked in alcohol-dissolved benzoin resin and burned rather than lit, a format created after founder Auguste Ponsot saw Armenians burn benzoin to freshen their homes.

Best for Original benzoin-soaked incense papers, made in the same Montrouge workshop since 1885

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Litchfield Beach / Pawleys Island, SC

The company traces its rope hammock to 1889, when riverboat captain Joshua John Ward wove a cooler, more comfortable alternative to canvas cots on Pawleys Island, and it still bills itself on "130 Years of Quality." Hammocks are hand-knotted from cotton or DuraCord rope on oak spreader bars, with pillows, stands, and porch swings made in the same Lowcountry workshops.

Best for Hand-knotted rope hammocks and porch swings

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Pawleys Island / South CarolinaORBIS register

Peterson of Dublin

Heritage House

Dublin / Ireland

Peterson's origins run back to 1865, when German immigrant brothers Friedrich and Heinrich Kapp opened a pipe-making shop, Kapp Brothers, on Grafton Street in Dublin, working in meerschaum and briar root.

Best for Irish System pipes and briar pipe craftsmanship from the world's

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · IrelandORBIS register

Plisson

Heritage House

PRINTEMPS

Paris shaving-brush maker founded in 1808 by Jacques-Louis and Marie-Hélène Plisson, who both came from brush- and fan-making families and later supplied Napoleon; still family-run, it combines horn, ivory and exotic-wood handles with badger and synthetic bristle work.

Best for Badger-hair shaving brushes and the barbière ritual since 1808

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Poli Distillerie

Heritage House

Bassano area / Veneto / Online

Family grappa distillery founded in 1898 by Giobatta Poli in Schiavon, near Bassano del Grappa in the Veneto. Now run by the fourth generation, it operates alongside the Poli Grappa Museum, a two-floor, roughly 1,000 sq m exhibition of distillation history and about 2,000 historic grappa bottles.

Best for Artisanal grappa flights.

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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

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · WalesORBIS register

Santa Eulalia

Heritage House

Barcelona / Passeig de Gràcia 93 / Online

Barcelona's grand fashion house since 1843 — four generations of the Taberner–Sans family, 2,000 m² on Passeig de Gràcia by architect William Sofield, its own bespoke tailoring atelier, in-house fragrances, and a champagne bistrot. The Catalan capital's benchmark of luxury for 180 years.

Best for The definitive Barcelona luxury edit, with bespoke tailoring upstairs.

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Kiel, Germany

Friedrich Schulz founded this sail loft in 1897; the firm has since sewn racing and cruising sails for clients from Prince Heinrich of Prussia to the four-masted bark now sailing as the Sea Cloud. Today's Schultz-Segel GmbH still builds spinnakers, gennakers, rigging, and canvas covers from its Kiel loft using computer-plotted patterns.

Best for Custom sails and rigging, maritime heritage

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kiel / GermanyORBIS register

Tatsumura Textile

Heritage House

Nishijin, Kyoto, Japan

Tatsumura Textile has woven brocade in Nishijin since 1894, when founder Heizo Tatsumura began reconstructing textile patterns held in the Shosoin imperial repository. The house went on to weave ceremonial cloth for imperial enthronements and collaborated with Christian Dior, work still referenced in its current jacquard collections.

Best for Art brocade and Shosoin-pattern jacquard textiles

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Kyoto / JapanORBIS register

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

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Turrones Espí

Hidden Gem

Alicante, Xixona (Jijona)

This family firm has made Alicante's almond-and-honey turrón since 1890, still working the nougat by hand. Both the hard Alicante and softer Jijona styles come out of the same artisan tradition.

Best for Artisan turrón de Alicante and Jijona

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Alicante / SpainORBIS register

Vlisco

Heritage House

Helmond / Accra / Abidjan / Online

Since 1846 Vlisco's Helmond mill has printed the wax cloth West Africa made its own — patterns named and renamed in Accra and Abidjan markets, worn for every occasion that matters. The original, still printing.

Best for The true Dutch wax of West Africa since 1846

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · NetherlandsORBIS register

Wangxingji Fans

Heritage House

Hangzhou, Zhejiang

Founded in 1875, Wangxingji built its name on black-paper folding fans coated in persimmon lacquer and on scented sandalwood fans, a range that now covers more than ten thousand designs across nineteen categories. National and provincial intangible-heritage masters still cut, mount and hand-paint the fans at the Hangzhou workshop, which pairs its retail hall with a small fan museum.

Best for Hand-painted folding fans and sandalwood fans

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Hangzhou / ChinaORBIS register

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