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Stationery of United States

31 stores · curated ORBIS register

Heyday

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Downtown Bozeman

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.

Best for Design-led gifts and home goods

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Denver / Online

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

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Garden City

Cultural venue with a curated shop selling art prints, handmade jewellery, books by Egyptian authors, and locally designed stationery.

Best for Art prints, handmade jewellery, books by Egyptian authors, and locally designed stationery

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Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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.

Best for Letterpress stationery and custom prints

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Los angeles / United States

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.

Best for Museum-shop, jewelry, books, home-goods

Fifth Avenue South, Naples, Florida

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

MoMA Design Store

Worth a Detour

53rd Street, New York, Online

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.

Best for The museum store that defines the genre

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Strip District, Pittsburgh

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.

Best for Gifts from local pittsburgh makers

516 NW 12th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209, United States / Portland / United States

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.

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San Francisco

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.

Best for Letterpress printing and workshops

Cambridge

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

Hansford Street

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.

Best for Letterpress posters and stationery

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Lewes, Delaware, USA

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

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Punta Gorda / United States

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.

Best for Books & Stationery

New Haven / United States

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.

Best for Art supply store, framing, stationery

Downtown, Boise

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.

Best for Handmade goods from local artisan co-op

Lionheart Prints

Hidden Gem

Magazine Street / Online

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

⚒ Booksellers & Stationers · USAORBIS register

Love Letters

Hidden Gem

Mason Avenue, Cape Charles

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.

Best for Stationery, cards and gifts

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Portsmouth Nh / United States

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.

Best for Art, Gifts, Home Goods

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Nell

Main Street

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

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Occasionette

Hidden Gem

East Passyunk / Collingswood NJ / Online

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

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Oklahoma City / United States

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

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Magazine Street

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

⚒ Booksellers & Stationers · New OrleansORBIS register

Sonoma County

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.

Best for Handmade leather bags and totes

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