A bespoke tailoring studio at 635 Hai Ba Trung Street in Hoi An, founded in 2005, where every garment is cut, sewn and pressed on-site with no outsourcing. Most orders are ready within 24 hours, with international shipping to more than 40 countries.
Blue Lotus Leather hand-cuts and hand-sews wallets, bags, and card holders in its Hoi An studio, and opens that same workshop to visitors for classes ranging from two-hour introductions to two-day advanced courses. The shop keeps its material focus narrow: leather only, finished by hand rather than machine.
Best for Handmade leather wallets, bags, and leather-craft classes
A bespoke tailor at 117 Phan Chu Trinh in Hoi An offering custom men's and women's suits, dresses, coats and jumpsuits. Garments go through consultation, fabric selection, measurement and fitting stages.
Friendly Shoe Shop runs its own on-site workshop with more than 40 artisans cutting and stitching leather shoes and bags to measure, rather than sending orders out to third-party makers. The shop has worked in Hoi An for over fifteen years, building a line of named signature styles alongside its custom commissions.
Hoi An Lanterns Online ships handmade silk lanterns directly from workshops in the city, offering jacquard and printed-silk versions in the crane, lotus, and koi motifs long associated with the town's lantern trade. The catalog spans plain color lanterns for everyday use to UV-reactive neon designs made for events.
Best for Handmade silk lanterns shipped internationally
A Hoi An-based maker of handcrafted silk lanterns from 10cm to 150cm, including hand-painted and 3D flower variants, plus handmade bamboo lamps from 10 to 50cm. Lanterns collapse for shipping and expand like an umbrella in under a minute.
Kimmy Tailor pairs precise measuring with a large in-house fabric library so customers choose cloth and silhouette in the same sitting rather than over several visits. Suits start around $180, a price point the atelier uses to compete with Hoi An's bigger tailoring houses on turnaround and fit rather than volume.
Best for Made-to-measure suits, dresses, and wedding attire
Little Daisy Hoi An teaches hand embroidery, sewing, and crochet from a workshop in Tra Que Vegetable Village just outside the old town, and sells the linen clothing and embroidered pieces its staff and students make there. The setting away from the tourist core keeps it closer to a working studio than a souvenir counter.
Best for Hand-embroidered linen clothing and embroidery classes
Lotus Jewellery has worked silver and gold from its Le Loi Street address in the ancient town for more than fifteen years, offering bespoke design and repair alongside its ready stock of rings, necklaces, and bracelets. Its artisans handle both restoring older pieces and building new ones from a customer's sketch.
Best for Custom silver and gold jewelry, plus repairs
A bespoke tailoring workshop at 127 Tran Hung Dao Street in Hoi An, operating since 1999 and hand-cutting suits, dresses, shirts, trousers and overcoats shipped to over 50 countries. Suits range from $149 to $309 depending on fabric, including wool blends, merino and cashmere.
Photographer Réhahn spent roughly eight years traveling to Vietnam's ethnic minority villages before opening this museum in a nineteenth-century French colonial house on Phan Boi Chau Street, filling four rooms with portraits, some sixty traditional costumes, and artifacts gathered directly from the communities pictured. Admission is free, an unusual choice for a private collection of this depth.
Best for Portrait photography and ethnic minority costume collection
Reaching Out has trained and employed artisans with disabilities in Hoi An's old town since 2000, producing silver jewelry, ceramics, lacquerware, and textiles at its Arts & Crafts Shop rather than importing stock. The fair-trade workshop doubles as a teaching space, running lantern-folding sessions that put visitors in direct contact with the makers.
Best for Fair-trade silver jewelry, ceramics, and lacquerware
A made-to-measure tailor at 29 Nguyen Thai Hoc in Hoi An's Old Town, making suits, dresses, blouses, shirts and trousers in linen, cotton, wool and blended fabrics. Turnaround is 1 to 3 days plus one or two fittings.