A downtown Bozeman lifestyle shop of goods for celebrating everyday life, from stationery and home items to gifts and small-batch finds. The store curates a warm, design-minded mix aimed at hosts and gift-givers.
Miller Lane Mercantile in Denver — Beautifully-crafted eco-friendly kitchenware, ceramics, home decor, women's accessories and stationery celebrating 'simple goods for slow living'.
Best for Beautifully-crafted eco-friendly kitchenware, ceramics, home decor, women's accessories and stationery
The Rugged Press is a boutique letterpress print shop and design studio in Indianapolis, printing greeting cards, stationery, and custom invitations one sheet at a time on a restored 1909 Chandler & Price floor press. The LGBTQ+-owned studio grew out of its founders' letterpress classes into a full design practice built on more than 15 years of combined graphic-design experience.
Craft Contemporary Shop sits inside the museum at 5814 Wilshire Boulevard, selecting jewelry, ceramics, books, stationery and artist-made objects that connect with the institution’s craft-focused exhibitions. The museum, founded in 1973, is a nonprofit devoted to contemporary art made through craft media and processes, and shop purchases support its exhibitions and programming.
A fine stationer and gift shop on Fifth Avenue South in Naples, Florida, Arabesque offers custom wedding invitations, engraved papers, fountain pens, leather goods and gifts. Now past its twentieth year, it serves customers in-store and through an online stationery and gift storefront.
Best for Stationery, wedding invitations, gift shop, pens
The Museum of Modern Art's design store is the reference point for the whole category — objects vetted by curators, from Eames to the newest Japanese stationery. Design retail as an extension of the collection.
love, Pittsburgh is a women-owned gift shop featuring over 100 local small businesses, with locations at 805 Liberty Ave downtown, 1728 Penn Ave in the Strip District, and 301 Shiloh Street in Mount Washington. The shop carries apparel, home goods, stationery and collectibles from Pittsburgh-area makers.
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Founded 1989 by Ron and Jennifer Rich; 1998 they opened the Pearl District retail space with an urban paper mill and letterpress shop behind the counter. Stationery Trends (2019) independently: retail opened 1998 in the Pearl with a view into the print shop and mill.
Best for Paper, letterpress printing and an urban mill in the Pearl District.
The Aesthetic Union is a letterpress printing studio in San Francisco operating for over a decade, offering custom letterpress printing, retail paper goods and art prints, workshops starting from $100, and press rental facilities. The shop stocks greeting cards and stationery featuring collaborative designs with artists Wyatt Hersey and Cane Howlet.
Albertine Press letterpress-prints stationery and greeting cards on an antique press at 1309 Cambridge Street in Cambridge, MA, alongside custom wedding invitations and envelope liner designs. The shop also sells gifts including candles, journals, prints, and jewelry.
Best for Letterpress stationery and wedding invitations
Vintage letterpress shop run by sisters Emily and Betsy Sokolosky, hand-setting type and carving images for posters, stationery, and wedding invitations since 2016. Each piece is printed and hand-inked individually, including a long-running poster series for public radio's Mountain Stage.
Biblion Used Books & Rare Finds occupies a corner shop at Second and Market Streets in Lewes, stocking a curated mix of used, rare and antiquarian volumes alongside literary gifts, stationery and original art. The shop keeps daily hours from 11am to 5pm for browsers hunting first editions and out-of-print finds.
Best for Rare and used books, literary gifts, and antiquarian finds
Biblion is a used bookshop at 205 Second Street in Lewes, Delaware, that also sells cards and gifts, with art on the walls. The shop describes its stock as a thoughtful collection of contemporary and antiquarian books, with the literary and the quirky as its strength. The majority of books arrive from regular guests through a trade credit policy, so the shelves reflect the reading habits of the town. A very small selection of new titles covers local subjects by local authors, joined by History Book Festival titles in the lead-up to that September event. Because the collection is small and turns over quickly, the shop asks callers to phone rather than email about a specific book. Cards and gifts come from other small businesses, with boxed note cards and writing paper alongside. The walls hold original art by local artists and prints by artists from around the country. Nothing is sold online, since the owners prefer the in-person experience and point visitors to their small suppliers instead. The shop does not typically buy books for cash and directs sellers to the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. A quotation on the site calls second-hand books wild books, homeless books that come together in variegated feather.
An independent bookstore in downtown Punta Gorda since 2012, Copperfish Books sells new and used titles, runs active book clubs, and gift-wraps purchases for free. The shop at 212 W. Virginia Avenue also ships books nationwide and stocks audiobooks and e-books through its website.
Connecticut's full-line independent art-supply store since 1947, Hull's on Chapel Street in New Haven stocks fine-art, printmaking, drawing and model-building materials plus custom on-site framing. It offers in-store shopping, local delivery and a direct online store.
Idaho Made is a locally owned cooperative in Old Boise founded in 2010, staffed by a rotating cast of over 60 member artisans selling pottery, jewelry, stationery and sculpture. The shop describes its inventory as seasonal, changing with the rotating makers who staff it.
The Magazine Street shop carries the full Lionheart range, including cards, stationery and wedding invitations. Letterpress work is printed in-house at the company’s River Road studio rather than outsourced as generic paper goods.
Best for New Orleans stationery label creating locally designed cards, prints
This Mason Avenue shop carries stationery, greeting cards, jewelry and gifts, and is an authorized Brighton dealer. Its inventory centers on paper goods, accessories and coastal keepsakes.
An independent bookshop on neighboring Sanibel Island stocking new titles, local and nature writing, and paper goods and stationery. It serves the paired Sanibel and Captiva islands as their community bookstore.
Nahcotta has sold original art and curated home goods, jewellery and stationery from its Congress Street shop in Portsmouth, NH since Deb Thompson founded it in 2000. The gallery-boutique hosts a biweekly rotation of represented artists and its annual Enormous Tiny Art show, alongside a full online store.
At 20 Main Street, Nell is a women's clothing and home-goods boutique carrying dresses, knitwear and jackets alongside jewelry, handbags, decor and stationery. It stays open through the shoulder seasons, serving locals as well as summer visitors.
Best for Dresses, knitwear, and jackets alongside jewelry and home decor at 20 Main
Occasionette is an independent gift shop founded by Sara Villari in 2013 on East Passyunk Avenue, now at 1704 East Passyunk Avenue with sister shops in Collingswood and Chestnut Hill. A card wall and candles sit beside kitchen goods and a house line of Philadelphia-designed exclusives. Philadelphia Magazine named it Store for Snail Mail in 2016 after the shop expanded its paper goods.
Best for Gifts, cards, and party supplies from independent makers
Occasionette is a gift shop that opened in 2013 on East Passyunk Avenue in South Philadelphia and now trades from three neighborhood shops. The Philadelphia store stands at 1704 East Passyunk Avenue, with a second at 724 Haddon Avenue in Collingswood, New Jersey, and a third at 8521 Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill. Founder Sara Villari's shop was named Store for Snail Mail in Philadelphia Magazine's 2016 city awards after she expanded to stock more paper goods, and the magazine has called it movie-set cute. A card wall anchors each shop. Around it sit candles and kitchen towels. Coasters and Swedish dishcloths share space with puzzles and games. Art prints hang above tote bags and hats. A house line of Occasionette exclusives is designed in Philadelphia and sold in the shops and online, shipping nationwide. Philadelphia sports fans find Phillies and Eagles goods, and a Garden State range serves the New Jersey side of the river. The shop describes itself as woman-owned and dog friendly. A loyalty card gives a free greeting card for every twelve purchased, and shoppers carrying a reusable Occasionette bag save five percent. The company states a belief in local, independent retail as a force for good in the communities it serves.
This Automobile Alley mercantile curates sustainable, locally sourced gifts and home goods, from candles and stationery to Oklahoma-made souvenirs. Shop its flagship on North Broadway, its two other OKC locations, or the online store.
Best for Gift-shop, home-goods, lifestyle, local-goods
Scriptura specialises in fine paper, pens, invitations, cards and calligraphy materials on Magazine Street. Custom stationery services distinguish it from a general gift shop and make planning ahead worthwhile.
Best for Fine papers, pens, invitations, and calligraphy supplies in New Orleans
Founded in 1886, Sherman's is a Maine bookseller, and this Main Street branch pairs its shelves with stationery and Maine-made gifts. The Bar Harbor store keeps the independent bookshop tradition alive on Mount Desert Island.
Sonoma County Leather makes handcrafted leather goods in Sonoma County, California, including wine carriers, travel totes, handbags and notebooks such as the Vintner Tote and Wine Tote, Pacific, offering custom engraving and embossing.