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Windhoek
African Kirikara, led by Claudia von Hase from Guest Farm Kiripotib, makes carpets and rugs from 100% natural Swakara sheep wool in ten natural colors, along with jewellery set with precious and fantasy-cut stones and handwoven baskets and ceramics. Its team, split evenly between men and women, trains apprentices in spinning, weaving and design.
Best for Swakara wool carpets and rugs
Windhoek / Online
Elze Jewellery is the work of Windhoek-based goldsmith Elze Eigelaar, who designs and hand-makes nature-inspired earrings, pendants and bangles. Pieces are priced in the online catalogue and ordered directly through WhatsApp or the site's contact form, with delivery and returns handled from her studio.
Best for Nature-inspired earrings, pendants, and bangles hand-made by Windhoek goldsmith Elze Eigelaar
Windhoek
Herrle & Herma Jewellers crafts fine jewellery using Namibian precious materials from its Windhoek storefront in the Sanlam Centre, with a second shop in Swakopmund. The retailer sells rings, necklaces and gold and silver investment coins both in-store and through its online shop with worldwide DHL shipping.
Best for Fine jewelry in Namibian precious materials, plus gold and silver investment coins
Old Breweries, Windhoek
The Namibia Craft Centre opened in 1990 in the Old Breweries complex on Tal Street in Windhoek. About forty craft enterprises hold retail space there, drawn from communities and projects across the country. Woven baskets, carved makalani kernels, San ostrich eggshell jewellery, Himba bracelets and embroidered linen fill the floor. The Omba Arts Trust took over its management in 2004.
Best for Forty Namibian craft enterprises trading under one roof in Windhoek.
The Namibia Craft Centre opened in 1990 in the Old Breweries complex on Tal Street in Windhoek, under Newveld Ventures Investment and Development Company. The Rossing Foundation took over management in 1996 and added the Omba Gallery. Kerry MacNamara Architects won an award for the design, and the rebuilt centre opened in 1997. Demand for trading space pushed a further expansion in 1999 that brought in the Hilde List Loft and the Cold Room. The Omba Arts Trust was established in 2004 and took the centre over from the Rossing Foundation. In 2009 the trust chose to concentrate on craft development, and the centre was registered separately as Namibia Arts, Craft and Design. About forty craft enterprises hold retail space under that roof. They come from distinct communities, ethnic groups, separate projects. The centre reckons that the trade supports more than 4,000 crafters and their families in some of the most rural and marginalised areas of the country. The stock reads as a map of Namibia. Woven baskets, carved makalani kernels, San ostrich eggshell jewellery, wild silk scarves, Himba bracelets, handmade paper, hand-woven carpets and embroidered linen all sit within a few metres of each other. Parking is enclosed and the building is reachable on foot. The centre describes the result as Namibia gathered under one roof.
Katutura, Goreangab Dam, Windhoek
Penduka, meaning "Wake up!" in Otjiherero and Oshiwambo, has operated for more than 30 years at Green Mountain Dam Road, Goreangab, Katutura, Windhoek, making embroidery, batik textiles, jewellery and upcycled "Trash to Treasure" home goods by hand. It employs rural artisans lacking access to capital or infrastructure, and also runs accommodation, a restaurant and an HIV & TB initiative.
Best for Handmade embroidery and batik textiles
Cnr Tobias Hainyeko & Theo-Ben Gurirab Ave, Swakopmund
Kristall Galerie, established in Swakopmund in 1998, sells cut gemstones and crystal specimens through three jewelry boutiques and a souvenir shop, and displays the largest known quartz crystal cluster on public display in the world, a 3m by 3m, 14,100kg specimen found in Namibia's Erongo region in August 1985. Its studio crafts semi-precious stones including tourmaline and pietersite sourced from Namibia.
Best for Cut gemstones and crystal specimens
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