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The Nations / Online
Nashville-based fashion brand designing apparel, leather bags, shoes and jewellery through a women-centred ethical-production model.
Best for Ethical fashion with social justice mission — scarves, leather goods (handbags, shoes), jewelry
East Nashville / Online
Apple & Oak sells vintage rugs and homewares in East Nashville, with its shop now inside Open Invite on Riverside Drive. The range extends from Turkish rugs to cards and smaller household gifts, so the store works for both room-sized purchases and something portable. Consult the current rug selection before visiting, since vintage pieces are individually listed rather than a uniform collection.
Best for Vintage rugs and homewares in East Nashville
Apple & Oak is a Nashville rug shop centred on one-of-a-kind vintage textiles rather than standardised new collections. Its own catalogue describes Turkish rugs as hand-knotted, made from natural fibres and sourced directly from Turkey. A listed example, Doris, is dated to the 1940s-50s, illustrating the shop's preference for pieces whose age, dimensions and construction are recorded individually. That specificity makes the catalogue useful for comparing scale and weave across distinctive pieces. The shop operates from Riverside Drive inside Open Invite and gives local customers a short in-home trial option on in-store rugs. It also offers rug rentals by arrangement, a practical service for interiors, events or temporary installations. Apple & Oak's current rescue-rugs collaboration with Wags & Walks Nashville connects selected vintage-rug sales with dog adoption: the shop states that 30 percent of those rug sales goes to the rescue organisation. The result is a focused Nashville business for vintage Turkish rugs, with direct-sourcing claims, item-level construction notes and services built around trying or renting individual pieces.
Nashville / United States / Online
Nashville designer Ceri Hoover makes leather handbags and shoes plus jewelry and a tennis-focused Sport line, emphasizing clean shapes and considered detail. The collections are sold through the brand's direct online store with worldwide shipping.
Best for Leather goods, handbags, accessories, jewelry
Nashville / United States
Cheekwood Estate & Gardens runs two on-site shops — the Garden Shop at Botanic Hall and the Museum Shop inside the Historic Mansion — selling jewelry from over 20 brands, gardening and art books, and home decor. Merchandise from both shops is also available through its online store.
Best for Museum store, garden gifts, jewelry, books
Marathon Village
Corsair Distillery produces experimental whiskey, gin and other spirits at Nashville facilities, with tours and tastings central to the visit.
Best for Experimental whiskeys, gins, and spirits from this two-location Nashville distillery
East Nashville / Online
Independent Nashville music shop buying, selling and repairing used and vintage instruments, with lessons and inclusive beginner support.
Best for Sit down and jam, peruse vintage finds
Nashville / United States
Located inside the Frist Art Museum at 919 Broadway in Nashville, the gift shop stocks handcrafted jewelry, ceramics, textiles, and exhibition catalogues tied to shows like International Surrealism from Tate. It does not sell online, but members get a standing 10 percent discount and can shop in person during the museum's posted hours.
Best for Located inside the Frist Art Museum at 919 Broadway in Nashville
The Gulch
Popular local coffee roaster and café with breakfast, lunch, and dinner in multiple Nashville locations.
Best for Popular local coffee roaster and café with breakfast, lunch
Frothy Monkey opened in 2004 in a 1,200-square-foot bungalow in Nashville's then-transitional 12South neighborhood. Roughly a year and a half later, Ryan Pruitt joined the staff, worked up to General Manager, and in 2011 bought the company with a small group of partners; under that ownership the business grew to four full-service Nashville locations plus outposts in Franklin, Chattanooga, and Birmingham and Homewood, Alabama. In 2015, once in-house coffee volume justified it, the company launched Frothy Monkey Roasting Co. to roast its own beans rather than buy from an outside supplier. Today's leadership team includes Pruitt alongside Chef Chase Ingalls, Marketing and Creative Director Jennifer Sheets, and Operations lead Ryan Moloney. The café positions itself as a genuine all-day spot — "Coffee, Brunch and Dinner Cafe" — open seven days with breakfast through dinner service, wine specials on Wednesdays, and date-night programming on Fridays. What distinguishes Frothy Monkey from a typical multi-location coffeehouse chain is that sequence of milestones: a single 2004 bungalow, a 2011 employee buyout, and a 2015 pivot to in-house roasting, each independently datable rather than folded into vague founding-story language.
Rosebank
Independent record store in East Nashville with new and used vinyl, live in-store performances.
Best for New and used vinyl plus live in-store performances in East Nashville.
Downtown
Nashville letterpress shop founded in 1879 by brothers Charles and Herbert Hatch, whose family had learned the trade from their father William in Prescott, Wisconsin. Still hand-carves wood-type imagery and prints roughly 500-700 jobs a year from its home within the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Best for Working letterpress poster shop founded in Nashville in 1879
Hatch Show Print traces to a Wisconsin print shop run by William Hatch, where his sons Charles and Herbert learned letterpress printing before the family relocated to Nashville in 1875. Four years later, in 1879, the brothers founded C.R. and H.H. Hatch; their first job was a handbill advertising a Nashville appearance by the preacher Henry Ward Beecher. To fill demand for circus, minstrel and vaudeville advertising, the shop cut its own oversized wood type -- fonts as tall as forty and eight inches -- to print billboard-scale posters.
The shop's best-known era came under William Hatch, Charles's son and a master woodblock carver, whose hand-carved images of touring performers became its signature. Working from behind the Ryman Auditorium from 1925 to 1992, the shop printed posters for Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway and other touring acts alongside routine commercial jobs for Nashville businesses. William Hatch died in 1952, and the business changed hands several times before Gaylord Entertainment donated it to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in 1992.
Now housed at 224 Rep. John Lewis Way South, Hatch Show Print continues to operate as a working shop rather than a static exhibit, hand-setting wood and metal type to produce an estimated 500 to 700 different print jobs a year and drawing more than 100,000 visitors annually who watch posters being pulled on the same presses the shop has used for generations.
Tennessee, USA
Nashville denim label founded in 2009 by Matt and Carrie Eddmenson, who converted a 1950s service station in the 12 South neighborhood into a combined retail shop and jeans workshop; the name honors Carrie's grandparents.
Best for Hand-signed jeans, Nashville
Imogene and Willie was founded in 2009 by husband-and-wife team Matt and Carrie Eddmenson, who converted a 1950s gas station in Nashville's 12 South neighborhood into a combined retail store and production workshop. The brand's name combines the first names of Carrie Eddmenson's grandparents - Imogene, her grandmother, and Willie, her grandfather. It launched with two core fits, the women's Imogene and the men's Willie, built around a stated mission of making the best pair of USA-made jeans, and is widely credited with helping establish Nashville as a denim destination.
Nashville / Online
Nashville's sartorial shop — stocks 100Hands one-piece collar polos and Forrest Lennard one-piece spread collar shirts.
Best for US-side access to OPC makers.
North Nashville
Nashville Farmers Market is a Year-round farmers market with local produce, artisan goods, and international food hall vendors.
Best for Year-round local produce, artisan goods, and an international food hall
Nashville / United States
Nelson's Green Brier Distillery revived an 1860s family whiskey recipe in Marathon Village, Nashville, and sells its Tennessee whiskey, bourbon, and rye from an on-site Mercantile shop open daily to the public. Visitors can also fill their own bottle from the Rickhouse's limited-release barrels or order spirits, apparel, and barware through the distillery's online store.
Best for Distillery, whiskey, bourbon, spirits
Nashville, USA
Nashville footwear brand founded 2011 by Patrick Woodyard, built around a company-run shoemaking factory in Trujillo, Peru; that factory (Creatra) shut down and was foreclosed in early 2025, and Nisolo changed ownership.
Best for Ethical Shoes
Nisolo was founded in 2011 by Patrick Woodyard, who met a group of skilled but underemployed shoemakers while working in microfinance in Trujillo, Peru, and built the company around a factory there that Nisolo itself owned and operated - an unusual structure for a fashion brand, intended to guarantee living wages and consistent work for the artisans. The company was based in Nashville. That structure changed in 2024-2025: the Trujillo factory, operating under the name Creatra, paused operations in July 2024, shut down entirely by January 2025, and was placed into foreclosure by lenders after loan defaults. In February 2025, new ownership (Project Bound Inc.) took over the Nisolo brand. Nisolo's website remains active and continues to sell shoes, now emphasizing Leather Working Group certification rather than the original owned-factory narrative.
Nashville, Tennessee
Pennington Distilling Co focuses on Nashville craft distillery making Whisper Creek Tennessee Sipping Cream and Pickers Vodka. Production is associated with Nashville, while the range centers on whisper Creek Tennessee Sipping Cream and Pickers Vodka, made in Nashville.
Best for Whisper Creek Tennessee Sipping Cream and Pickers Vodka, made in Nashville
Nashville / United States / Online
Founded by Phillip Nappi and named for his boot-making great-grandfather, this Nashville brand makes leather boots, shoes and bags using kudu and Tuscan leathers crafted with European partner workshops. Its footwear and leather goods are designed in Nashville and sold online.
Best for Footwear, leather goods, boots
Nashville / United States
Family-owned since 1946, Phillips Toy Mart is a Nashville toy store on Harding Pike stocking everything from Playmobil and Brio to plush, dolls, games and a large model-train display. It offers gift wrapping, a birthday registry and in-store shopping for all ages.
Best for Toy store, games, dolls, model trains
East Nashville
Proper Bagel makes New York-style bagels and prepares sandwiches to order in East Nashville. The counter also offers house-made cream cheeses, smoked fish and deli sides for take-away meals.
Best for New York-style bagels, house-made cream cheeses, and breakfast sandwiches in East Nashville
Oakland / Nashville / Santa Fe / Online
The three-city curation — Oakland, Nashville, Santa Fe, the 'non-essential essentials' philosophy, and the American retailer that treats every garment as a considered purchase.
Best for Three cities, non-essential essentials, considered purchase.
Nashville / United States / Online
The Tennessee State Museum's online store sells museum-branded souvenirs including building magnets, ornaments, stickers, patches, and lapel pins featuring the museum's logo. It operates as part of a network of Tennessee state government shops, with proceeds supporting the museum.
Best for Museum shop, souvenirs, gifts
Nashville, Tennessee
Third Man Records is a Jack White's record store, label headquarters, and novelty lounge with a live recording booth. At Nashville, Tennessee, the range centers on jack White's label headquarters, novelty lounge, and live recording booth.
Best for Jack White's label headquarters, novelty lounge, and live recording booth
East Nashville
Urban Cowboy is a boutique hotel in a renovated Victorian mansion with Western-themed rooms and a public bar. Production is associated with Nashville, while the range centers on western-themed rooms in a renovated Victorian mansion, plus a public bar.
Best for Western-themed rooms in a renovated Victorian mansion, plus a public bar
Nashville / United States / Online
Founded by musician Holly Williams, White's Mercantile is a general store for the modern-day tastemaker with a Nashville home in Belle Meade. It carries apparel, fragrance, gifts and home goods in-store and through its online shop.
Best for General store, gifts, apparel, home goods
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