A Taipei lifestyle label and shop for naturally dyed clothing, paper goods, accessories and everyday design. MOGU has operated since 2003 and currently lists its Nanjing West Road base in Datong.
Best for Naturally dyed clothing, paper goods, accessories and everyday design
Openbook: founded 1976 by Wei Dewen as Southern Material Center; Taiwan / Hakka / Indigenous / historical-map research. CTS News (26 Apr 2018): 40 years of Taiwan-history academic publishing and a Gongguan-alley walk-in scholars visit.
PAPERWORK (紙本作業) is a PAPERWORK describes itself in its own words as "a letterpress studio, based in Taipei, Taiwan.
Best for Original letterpress-printed stationery and custom letterpress runs on vintage presses in Taipei.
PAPERWORK describes itself in its own words as "a letterpress studio, based in Taipei, Taiwan. We specialize in printing & designing stationery by old-fashioned way, using vintage cast-iron presses, with our printing passions." That self-description sets the studio's primary identity as letterpress production, not general paper retail — the vintage presses are working equipment, not decor.
The studio's own line consists of original paper goods produced by letterpress: greeting cards, postcards, notecards, envelopes and letter sets, each carrying the characteristic debossed impression the process leaves behind. Custom letterpress printing runs through an associated service, FuFu Print, and the studio also teaches letterpress technique through workshops, giving PAPERWORK both a commercial-production side and an instructional one — a structure shared with Taiwan's other surviving letterpress operators, including the historic Ri Xing Type Foundry, also in Taipei, which still casts the traditional Chinese lead type the wider craft depends on.
PAPERWORK sits within a small but active Taipei cluster of letterpress-dedicated studios working to keep the process commercially viable rather than museum-only, and its own stated focus — traditional printing methods and vintage presses, not digital shortcuts — is the distinguishing claim that survives direct verification against its site.
An independently owned stationery and homeware shop with an online store and a café-style Taipei location. Founded in 2013; its official social profile lists the current Zhongxiao Xinsheng address.
Best for Stationery and homeware in a café-style space in Taipei's Zhongxiao Xinsheng, since 2013
B1, No. 9, Ln. 333, Sec. 3, Roosevelt Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City 106, Taiwan / Taipei / Taiwan
Official about (visited 2026): publisher 1982, walk-in 1984; Chen Longhao; 2026 is year 44. Veins of Taipei (8 Dec 2025): Gongguan basement humanities/social-science independent; same alley address. Liberty Times (18 Jan 2026): 43-year independent; 羅斯福路三段333巷9號B1.
A Taipei stationery boutique founded by graphic designer Karen Yang in 2013, mixing its own brass-and-steel tools with carefully selected global stationery classics.
Best for Karen Yang's own brass-and-steel stationery tools alongside curated global classics
A printmaking shop and workshop offering letterpress, woodcut and silk-screen work, printed paper goods and classes. The current official site advertises 2026 workshops and lists the Nanjing West Road studio.
Best for Letterpress, woodcut, and silk-screen printing, plus paper goods and classes