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Athens, Greece
Two Is Company brings Greek handwork to jewelry and leather accessories in Athens. The collection is strongest when read as an accessories workshop rather than a general fashion store, with handmade production in Greece at its centre.
Best for Accessories, handmade
Agias Theklas 2, Psyrri, Athens
The poet-sandal maker's workshop — handmade leather sandals fitted to your feet. The same family has made them since the 1920s.
Best for Handmade leather sandals fitted to your feet
Historic Centre, Athens
A shirt shop using deadstock fabrics and small-batch production connected to a family tailoring workshop.
Best for Shirts made from deadstock fabrics in small batches
Koukaki
Trabala Studio is a ceramic workshop in Athens' Koukaki neighborhood, founded by Jenny and Iraklis in 2017. They hand-throw stoneware pieces like ceramic donkeys and coffee cups, fired at up to 1280°C.
Best for Handmade stoneware ceramics, including a signature ceramic donkey and small coffee cups.
Tucked into a quiet corner of Koukaki, just south of the Acropolis, Trabala Studio has been shaping stoneware since 2017, when Jenny and Iraklis opened the workshop together. The pair work almost entirely in high-temperature stoneware clay, firing pieces between 1260°C and 1280°C — a range that gives their tableware and decorative objects a density closer to traditional Greek pottery than to delicate studio ceramics.
The shop doubles as a working studio, so visitors can see pieces take shape before they're glazed. Among the recurring forms are a small ceramic donkey and a pair of miniature cups built for the short, strong shot of Greek coffee. Nothing here is mass-produced: each piece carries the particular imperfections of hand-thrown clay, glazed by two people rather than a production line.
Trabala keeps modest, published hours — open Tuesday through Saturday, with specific windows on weekdays and a single Wednesday block — and sits on Odissea Androutsou, a residential street a short walk from Koukaki's main shopping strip. For visitors after a souvenir made where they bought it, it's a specific, traceable stop rather than a generic gift shop.
Psirri, Athens
Savapile is a family hat workshop in Psirri, near Monastiraki, run by Lisa Sarigiannidou, who learned the trade from her father. In business since 1960, it makes handmade Greek fisherman's caps and straw hats, including custom pieces for adults and children.
Best for Handmade Greek fisherman's caps and straw hats from a Psirri family workshop running since 1960
Savapile is a hat-making workshop tucked down an alleyway in Psirri, close to Monastiraki in central Athens. The business has been operating since 1960 and is now run by Lisa Sarigiannidou, who inherited both the workshop and the craft from her father. Its core product is the Greek fisherman's cap, a flat wool or cotton cap long associated with Aegean sailors and fishing communities, made by hand on the premises rather than sourced from a factory. Alongside the fisherman's caps, the workshop produces straw hats — Panama-style and boater shapes among them — made to order for both adults and children, letting customers choose brim width, band color and sizing rather than buying off a fixed rack. The shop's own Instagram account cites coverage in Vogue, Madame Figaro and Harper's Bazaar, situating the small workshop within a wider fashion-press narrative about Athens' surviving hand-craft trades. Because the business runs at appointment- and walk-in scale, with no large retail footprint, it has stayed dependent on word of mouth and repeat local customers rather than tourist foot traffic, despite sitting close to one of the city's busiest tourist crossroads at Monastiraki.
Athens / Greece
Located at Dionysiou Areopagitou 15 in Athens, the Acropolis Museum runs a ground-floor gift store and a second-floor bookstore stocked with exhibit-inspired jewelry, ceramics, and titles on Athenian history. Its standout offering is a line of precise hand-cast exhibit replicas produced in the museum's own workshops by the conservators who care for the originals.
Best for Museum shop, replicas, jewelry
near Acropolis, Athens
The Leather Sandals is a workshop run by sandalmaker Argiris Vlachos, who hand-crafts sandals, bags, wallets and belts at his shop near the Acropolis in Thisio, Athens, with a second location in Fira, Santorini. Visitors can watch him make the pieces on site.
Best for Handmade leather sandals and bags
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