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ORBISTHE ATELIERS ISSUEWax-print cloth is designed and printed in Côte d'Ivoire at Uniwax, continuing the Abidjan house's production since 1967. Abu Dhabi's House of Artisans presents Emirati handicrafts at Qasr Al Hosn, with live demonstrations and workshops alongside its craft shop. Sadu and Talli are among the traditions represented there, with Khoos also included in the centre's work. Nike Art Gallery (Nike Art Foundation) - Abuja shows Nigerian contemporary art and adire textiles, forming the Abuja branch of Nike Davies-Okundaye's wider foundation.
This plate lists 1,417 shops in 130 countries. Paris has the most with 15, followed by Delhi with 14. Among these shops, 84 describe made-to-order work, 21 offer repairs, 151 sell online and 9 work by appointment, going by their own descriptions.
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Craft & Ateliers · 1,417 shops, the best first
Helmond / Accra / Abidjan / Online
Since 1846 Vlisco's Helmond mill has printed the wax cloth West Africa made its own — patterns named and renamed in Accra and Abidjan markets, worn for every occasion that matters. The original, still printing.
Best for The true Dutch wax of West Africa since 1846
Bangkok / Online
The Thai Silk Company founded 1950 by the American architect who revived a dying craft and vanished into the Cameron Highlands — hand-woven Thai silk from the Surawong flagship and the Heritage Quarter, dressed The King and I and The White Lotus alike.
Best for Hand-woven Thai silk and the legend that comes with it.
Bangkok / Thailand
The Jim Thompson Iconic Store in Bangkok's Heritage Quarter spans two floors and stocks more than 6,000 products, including menswear, womenswear, bags, and homewares made from the brand's signature silk. Its cinnabar-hued interior features pieces exclusive to the location, including the limited House on the Klong collection.
Best for Thai-silk, fashion, homewares
Barcelona / Passeig de Gràcia 93 / Online
Barcelona's grand fashion house since 1843 — four generations of the Taberner–Sans family, 2,000 m² on Passeig de Gràcia by architect William Sofield, its own bespoke tailoring atelier, in-house fragrances, and a champagne bistrot. The Catalan capital's benchmark of luxury for 180 years.
Best for The definitive Barcelona luxury edit, with bespoke tailoring upstairs.
Cernobbio / Bellagio (Como)
Frey has produced silk scarves, foulards and shawls in the province of Como since 1899, describing each piece as a zero-mile product made entirely within the Como area. Its boutiques face the lake at Cernobbio and Bellagio, with a showroom in Cantù.
Best for Silk scarves and shawls
Grandate (Como)
Founded in 1902, Mantero prints and weaves silk foulards, apparel and accessories at its mill in Grandate just outside Como, drawing on an archive of exclusive patterns. Every step is carried out in the province of Como and the goods are labelled 100% made in Italy.
Best for Printed silk foulards and scarves
Paris / Online
Made in Montrouge, France since 1885, Papier d'Arménie's paper strips are soaked in alcohol-dissolved benzoin resin and burned rather than lit, a format created after founder Auguste Ponsot saw Armenians burn benzoin to freshen their homes.
Best for Original benzoin-soaked incense papers, made in the same Montrouge workshop since 1885
Papier d'Arménie has burned the same way since 1885: a strip of paper soaked in benzoin resin dissolved in alcohol, torn off, folded into a fan, and lit to smoulder rather than flame. The company traces its start to the chemist Auguste Ponsot, who saw Armenians burning benzoin to freshen their homes and, working with the pharmacist Henri Rivier, adapted the practice into a paper carnet a French household could use without a censer or coal. Production has stayed in Montrouge, just outside Paris, for more than a century, and the business has stayed in family hands — Mireille Schvartz, great-granddaughter of a co-founder, has run it since 1991. The line has grown past the original Tradition formula to include Rose and an Arménie blend, but the format hasn't changed: booklets of perforated paper strips, no burner or reed required. By 2023 the workshop was turning out some 3.5 million booklets a year, with about 15 percent exported, still recognizable as the same product generations of French households have kept in a kitchen drawer for the smell alone. It reads less as a fragrance house than a single fixed ritual, unchanged since a nineteenth-century encounter with an Armenian household custom.
PRINTEMPS
Paris shaving-brush maker founded in 1808 by Jacques-Louis and Marie-Hélène Plisson, who both came from brush- and fan-making families and later supplied Napoleon; still family-run, it combines horn, ivory and exotic-wood handles with badger and synthetic bristle work.
Best for Badger-hair shaving brushes and the barbière ritual since 1808
Plisson was founded in Paris in 1808 by Jacques-Louis and Marie-Hélène Plisson, a couple who both came from established families in the brush-making and fan-making trades — crafts built on the same underlying skills of fitting fine bristles or materials into a shaped handle. Their manufacture combined two distinct artisan disciplines: tabletterie, the shaping and finishing of noble materials such as horn, ivory and exotic woods into small objects, and brosserie, the selection and precise placement of bristle fibers into a functional brush head. That combination positioned Plisson well when the modern shaving brush began to take off as a household grooming tool in the nineteenth century, and the house built a reputation that reached Napoleon's court — the Plissons made the emperor a beard brush designed for travel, and the brand adopted an eagle as its emblem for years afterward in reference to that association. Plisson has remained under family ownership through its history, continuing to combine both original disciplines rather than specializing narrowly in one: its range spans razors, shaving brushes in both natural badger-hair and synthetic-fiber versions, shaving cosmetics, hairbrushes, and grooming tools for beards and mustaches. The brand sells both through its own outlets and through counters inside larger retailers, including a presence within the Paris department store Printemps, keeping the more than two-century-old maker within reach of a mainstream retail audience rather than confined to a single flagship address.
Dublin / Ireland
Peterson's origins run back to 1865, when German immigrant brothers Friedrich and Heinrich Kapp opened a pipe-making shop, Kapp Brothers, on Grafton Street in Dublin, working in meerschaum and briar root.
Best for Irish System pipes and briar pipe craftsmanship from the world's
Peterson's origins run back to 1865, when German immigrant brothers Friedrich and Heinrich Kapp opened a pipe-making shop, Kapp Brothers, on Grafton Street in Dublin, working in meerschaum and briar root. Charles Peterson later brought the brothers a pipe design of his own and proposed a partnership; the firm was renamed Kapp & Peterson and went on to patent, in 1890, the reservoir-and-bore "System" pipe design that still carries the Peterson name. The company is described by pipe-trade sources as the oldest continuously operating briar pipe factory in the world, and today Peterson trades from a retail shop at 48-49 Nassau Street, Dublin 2.
The Nassau Street premises sells Peterson's own pipe lines, including the System, Aran, Sherlock Holmes and Donegal Rocky ranges, together with pipe accessories. Peterson's own site states that its silversmiths, who fit the sterling-silver bands used on many of the firm's pipes, train in-house through an apprenticeship the company describes as lasting four to eight years, and that the wider production tradition is passed down within the workshop across generations of pipe-makers.
Peterson's System design introduced a moisture-wicking reservoir and graduated internal bore intended to keep the smoke channel drier, an engineering approach that distinguished it from standard briar pipes of the period and that the company continues to manufacture using the same underlying patent principle.
Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Founded in 1875, Wangxingji built its name on black-paper folding fans coated in persimmon lacquer and on scented sandalwood fans, a range that now covers more than ten thousand designs across nineteen categories. National and provincial intangible-heritage masters still cut, mount and hand-paint the fans at the Hangzhou workshop, which pairs its retail hall with a small fan museum.
Best for Hand-painted folding fans and sandalwood fans
C-Scheme
Shop contemporary styles by Anita Dongre. Timeless styles crafted for the modern woman featuring modern details, nature-inspired motifs & heirloom crafts.
Best for Anita Dongre's nature-inspired motifs and heirloom-craft womenswear
C-Scheme
Anita Dongre's Jaipur presence offers the designer's womenswear, occasionwear and accessories, including collections rooted in Indian craft and contemporary festive dressing.
Best for Anita Dongre occasionwear, dresses, lehengas and accessories
Kyoto / Japan
Ueba Esou has made and sold natural pigments for Japanese-style painting from the same corner of Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward since 1751.
Best for Centuries-old gofun and iwa-enogu mineral pigments for traditional Japanese painting
Ueba Esou has made and sold natural pigments for Japanese-style painting from the same corner of Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward since 1751. The shop opened during a period when the city supported a whole trade in nihonga materials — accounts describe roughly twenty pigment shops operating in the surrounding streets at the trade's peak.
The house specializes in two pigment families central to nihonga: iwa-enogu, ground mineral pigments (some made from lapis lazuli and other stones that command premium prices for their color), and gofun, the white pigment made by grinding calcined shell. Ownership has passed down through the same family for generations; the company's own account of itself describes an eleventh generation now running the business.
Of the pigment shops that once served Kyoto's painters, Ueba Esou describes itself as the last one still trading from its own historic Shimogyo Ward neighborhood — a narrower claim than being Kyoto's last natural-pigment shop overall, since at least one other genuine nihonga pigment specialist, Saiun-do, still operates elsewhere in the city (Nakagyo Ward). It has also extended its shell-grinding craft into a gofun-based nail polish line, "Gofun Nail," which won a Good Design Award in 2015 — a contemporary product built on the same material the shop has processed for over 270 years.
Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Founded in 1900 and rooted in ham-making techniques introduced to Kamakura by British trader William Curtis in 1874, this house still cures loin ham, boneless ham, sausage and canned specialties by hand. It has supplied hotels and Olympic events in Tokyo and Sapporo while keeping its original Kamakura workshop running.
Best for Traditional cured ham and sausage
Kanazawa
Kaga embroidery workshop in Kanazawa founded in 1912 by Sutaro Imai; now run by his great-granddaughter Sachiko Yokoyama, a nationally recognized traditional craftsperson, producing hand-stitched silk, gold and silver thread work.
Best for Kaga embroidery craftsmanship since 1912
The Kaga embroidery workshop known today as Kaga-nui IMAI began in 1912 in Kanazawa, founded by Sutaro Imai as 'Nui no Imai.' The craft itself dates back further, transmitted from Kyoto in the early Muromachi period alongside Buddhist teachings and originally used for altar decoration, using silk, gold and silver thread worked by hand into three-dimensional designs that cannot be replicated by machine. The workshop passed through a second-generation head, Fukueda, and a third, Kiyoshi, before reaching its current representative, Sachiko Yokoyama, the founder's great-granddaughter. Yokoyama was designated a National Traditional Craftsperson in 2008 and established the current Kaga-nui IMAI studio in 2011, continuing production of traditional pieces alongside newer, contemporary-facing designs.
Hirosaka, Kanazawa
Founded in 1780 in Kanazawa's Musashigatsutsuji district, Nosaku has sold Kaga maki-e lacquerware alongside Wajima and Yamanaka lacquer pieces across eight generations. It also runs hands-on maki-e gold-inlay workshops for visitors at its Kanazawa shops.
Best for Kaga maki-e lacquerware and hands-on maki-e workshops
Nosaku dates its founding to 1780, when Notoya Sakutaro opened a lacquerware shop in Kanazawa's Musashigatsutsuji district. Eight generations later the family business still operates under a stated motto, 'the shop exists for customers,' and continues to sell lacquerware out of Kanazawa rather than having relocated or franchised out the family name.
The shop's range covers three related but distinct Ishikawa Prefecture lacquer traditions: Kanazawa lacquerware decorated in the Kaga maki-e style, in which gold or silver powder is sprinkled into wet lacquer to build up a design; Wajima Nuri, the multi-layered lacquer technique associated with the port town of Wajima; and Yamanaka Nuri, known for lacquering over finely turned wood. Selling all three under one roof lets Nosaku present Ishikawa's lacquer output as a regional family rather than a single house style.
Beyond retail, Nosaku offers maki-e experience workshops where visitors can try the gold-leaf inlay technique themselves, alongside custom lacquerware commissions and a repair service for existing pieces. The business operates a main shop in Kanazawa's Hirokoji district and a second location inside JR Kanazawa Station, plus a small tea room, Urushi no Mi, on site.
Kolkata / India / Online
Indian draped minimalism since 1998 — deconstructed lehengas in raw silk, aari embroidery, and understated opulence. Deepika Padukone's favourite.
Best for Draped minimalist Indian couture
Kyoto / Japan
Aizenkobo is a Kyoto indigo-dyeing workshop and shop set a few blocks from the Nishijin weaving district in Nakagyo Ward, near Nijo Castle.
Best for Naturally fermented indigo textiles from a third-generation Kyoto dye house near Nishijin
Aizenkobo is a Kyoto indigo-dyeing workshop and shop set a few blocks from the Nishijin weaving district in Nakagyo Ward, near Nijo Castle. The novelist Junichiro Tanizaki gave the workshop its name on February 18, 1929; the characters read literally as "indigo-love workshop." Now in its third generation, the business began as an obi maker before its current proprietors — Mrs. Utsuki and her artist husband — steered it toward Western-style indigo garments as kimono sales declined. Mrs. Utsuki has described the shift plainly: "I came to see that sales were dropping," she has said of the years after she married into the family shop.
Aizenkobo dyes with fermented natural indigo rather than a synthetic vat, a process that demands repetition: cotton is dipped roughly 100 times to build depth of color, silk closer to 200. Unlike chemical indigo, the workshop says the natural dye deepens rather than fades with washing and wear, and it markets its cloth's antibacterial and fire-resistant qualities as a byproduct of the fermentation method itself rather than any added finish.
The workshop's reputation has traveled well beyond Kyoto — a piece is held in the British Museum's permanent collection — and by its own account roughly nine in ten customers now come from outside Japan. For a shop that began as word-of-mouth obi-making, that is a marked inversion of its original clientele.
Karasuma district, Kyōto
HOSOO is a Kyoto textile house with roots in Nishijin weaving dating to 1688 and a contemporary interiors range. Its flagship shop offers textiles for furniture and curtains, alongside a gallery devoted to textile exhibitions. The building also has a lounge, while the separate members-only kimono salon is not part of ordinary public shop access.
Best for Nishijin textiles for furniture, curtains and interiors
HOSOO traces its weaving business to Kyoto's Nishijin district in 1688, where patterned textiles are made from pre-dyed yarns. The process involves more than twenty stages shared among specialist craftspeople, rather than a single operation at one loom. That textile tradition now reaches beyond kimono cloth into fabrics and objects intended for use in contemporary interiors.
The Kyoto flagship makes that wider application visible through a shop offering furniture and curtains ordered using HOSOO textiles. The house presents a choice of more than 150 fabrics for this work, giving material selection a central role. Looking at a length of cloth and seeing it on furniture are related parts of the same visit.
A gallery in the building hosts textile exhibitions, while the lounge provides another setting within the flagship. The house also maintains a kimono business, although its members-only salon should not be assumed open to every visitor. For general shopping, begin with the public store and its textile applications rather than planning around access to that private salon.
Karaku Incense Co., Kyoto, Japan
Shoyeido has made incense in Kyoto since 1705, spanning twelve generations of the same family business. Its incense is still handcrafted there using traditional recipes and aged raw materials, including aged agarwood and sandalwood in the Xiang-do Master's line.
Best for Twelve generations since 1705 — aged agarwood, sandalwood, and the Xiang-do Master's line.
Nishijin, Kyoto, Japan
Tatsumura Textile has woven brocade in Nishijin since 1894, when founder Heizo Tatsumura began reconstructing textile patterns held in the Shosoin imperial repository. The house went on to weave ceremonial cloth for imperial enthronements and collaborated with Christian Dior, work still referenced in its current jacquard collections.
Best for Art brocade and Shosoin-pattern jacquard textiles
Chiado
Founded in 1741 on Rua do Alecrim, Fábrica Sant'Anna is a working Lisbon tile workshop, where painters still trace each azulejo freehand rather than by machine transfer. The workshop produces both museum-grade reproductions of 18th-century patterns and custom commissions, made on the same premises where the craft began nearly three centuries ago.
Best for Hand-painted tile panels
Scotland, UK
The Scottish inventor of the rubberised raincoat, 1823 — handmade bonded-cotton coats from the Cumbernauld factory, now a quiet-luxury fashion staple.
Best for The original raincoat, still handmade in Scotland.
Intramuros, Manila
A family-founded retailer selling Barong Tagalog, embroidered textiles, native accessories, shell craft, and Filipino home decor. Nestor and Salud Tesoro founded the business after the liberation of Manila. Established 1945.
Best for Barong Tagalog, embroidered textiles, shell craft
Makati
Filipino heritage craft flagship—tableware, embroidered textiles, shell work, and traditional apparel from 80 years of artisan partnerships.
Best for Heritage craft store at Greenbelt, the brand's flagship
Founded in 1945 by Nestor and Salud B. Tesoro, Tesoros Greenbelt is a curated destination for authentic Filipino handicrafts, supporting local makers while preserving cultural heritage. The flagship store at 1016 Arnaiz Avenue in Makati has expanded to 12 locations across the Philippines including NAIA terminals and El Nido. The shop offers handmade tableware, embroidered textiles, shell crafts, and traditional apparel at accessible prices, making it both a tourist draw and a trusted resource for locals seeking quality cultural products.
Mumbai / India / Online
India's sustainable luxury empire — Grassroot line supporting 45,000 artisans, bandhani on organic cotton, and conscious couture.
Best for Sustainable Indian luxury
Nagasaki / Japan
Fukusaya has baked its hand-mixed Nagasaki castella since 1624, keeping the crunchy layer of zarame sugar at the bottom of every cake. Alongside the flagship sponge, its Nagasaki head office and shops sell Hollander cake, handmade monaka wafers and seasonal Fukusaya Cube gift boxes.
Best for Hollander cake, handmade monaka wafers and seasonal Fukusaya Cube gift boxes
Nagoya / Japan
Shibori Hisada has sold Arimatsu shibori tie-dye since 1913, when it branched off an older house on the old Tokaido road; the wider Arimatsu shibori tradition dates back some 400 years. Now run by a fourth generation from two stores in Nagoya, it makes yukata, kimono, clothing and accessories in resist-dye patterns.
Best for Arimatsu shibori tie-dye kimono, yukata and accessories
Arimatsu, the Nagoya district where the shop stands, was established in 1608 after Tokugawa Ieyasu made his ninth son Yoshinao daimyo of Owari; tie-dyed indigo hand towels made there soon after are considered the origin of Arimatsu shibori, a craft that expanded over four centuries into more than 100 distinct resist-dyeing techniques.
The Hisada shop's own lineage runs through an older house, Hashimotoya, said to have been founded on the old Tokaido road during the Genroku era (1688-1704). In 1913, the tenth-generation head of Hashimotoya branched off to found an independent shop under the name Hisada, becoming its first-generation owner as Hisada Kinnojo. A second-generation owner, Hisada Haruyoshi, took over at age fifteen in 1928 after his predecessor's death, and a fourth generation, Hisada Koichiro, became company president in 1990.
The shop today operates a main store and a station-front store, both in the Arimatsu neighborhood of Nagoya's Midori Ward, selling furisode and other kimono, yukata, Western clothing, accessories and interior textiles dyed in Arimatsu shibori patterns, along with custom orders and gift packaging.
Naples — Galleria Umberto I / Online
A Torre del Greco coral house, founded 1855 — six generations of Neapolitan coral, cameos and mother-of-pearl worked since the Bourbon court; the atelier and small museum share the Galleria Umberto salon.
Best for Neapolitan red coral and cameos worked by hand.
Nice / Online
Nice oil merchant since 1822 — olive oils, vinegars, and the stoneware jars of the old town. Workshops moved to the Nice region in 1978; the Nice Flower Market shop opened in 2003 (official timeline). Founding shop was Paris Marais, 1822.
Best for Nice olive oils and flavored vinegars.
Oberammergau / Germany
Carving sacred art in Oberammergau since 1556 and now in its fourteenth generation, the Albl family creates hand-worked crucifixes, saints, altars and nativity sets commissioned by churches worldwide. Alongside bespoke commissions from its Am Weinberg studio, ALBL sells smaller carved works such as its Divine Mercy Christ through an online shop.
Best for Woodcarving, sacred art, crucifixes, nativity, Holzbildhauerei
Obuse / Japan
Founded in 1755, the Masuichi-Ichimura sake brewery in the small town of Obuse crafts junmai sake using selected rice and old wooden-vat methods, its platinum-leaf sign marking the timber storefront. Bottles sell through the online shop and at the brewery's direct store, where the 'teppa' counter offers tastings and a chat with the toji.
Best for Sake brewery, junmai sake, kioke brewing, Nagano, Obuse
Osaka / Japan
Gyokushodo has made incense in Osaka since 1804 (Bunka 1), a run of more than 220 years centered in the city's Higashinari ward.
Best for Everyday-to-altar-grade incense from a 220-year Osaka maker
Gyokushodo has made incense in Osaka since 1804 (Bunka 1), a run of more than 220 years centered in the city's Higashinari ward. Through that span the house's stated focus has stayed narrow: refining blending technique and quality across a full range of grades, from everyday sticks to Buddhist altar and gift incense, rather than diversifying into unrelated product lines.
The more recent turn in its history is retail-facing: Gyokushodo opened its first flagship store, Ichikō Ichie ('one incense, one encounter'), moving a business that had operated mainly as a maker and wholesaler into direct contact with customers and, per the company's own account, toward international as well as domestic buyers.
For a house whose name rarely reaches incense drinkers outside Japan the way Kyoto's grander names do, Gyokushodo's two-century run as a working Osaka incense maker — and its recent step into its own storefront — makes it a working counterpart to the more famous temple-incense houses, built on volume and range rather than a single signature blend.
Litchfield Beach / Pawleys Island, SC
The company traces its rope hammock to 1889, when riverboat captain Joshua John Ward wove a cooler, more comfortable alternative to canvas cots on Pawleys Island, and it still bills itself on "130 Years of Quality." Hammocks are hand-knotted from cotton or DuraCord rope on oak spreader bars, with pillows, stands, and porch swings made in the same Lowcountry workshops.
Best for Hand-knotted rope hammocks and porch swings
Casco antiguo, seville / Spain
Juan Foronda has handcrafted flamenco accessories from Calle Sierpes in Seville since 1923, specializing in hand- and machine-embroidered mantones (Manila shawls), mantillas, fans and bridal hair pieces. The family workshop, Foronda y Balbuena, ships its embroidered pieces worldwide through its online shop.
Best for Flamenco accessories, mantones, mantillas, hand embroidery
Shimoda / Japan
Ogiso Shoten has cured dried fish (himono) in the port town of Shimoda since it was founded in 1900, with craftsmen still hand-splitting and drying mackerel, horse mackerel, and other local catch each morning. The shop ships its himono nationwide through its online store and keeps a full retail location for visitors.
Best for Food - Dried Seafood, Himono, Fish Products
Kōbe & Tokyo, Japan
Japan's largest incense manufacturer, with a history dating to 1575 when the Kōjū family began serving the Imperial Court.
Best for Japan's largest incense manufacturer
Murano / Venice / Online
Murano glass dynasty since 1295 — handcrafted blown-glass chandeliers and lighting by master artisans using traditional techniques.
Best for Murano chandeliers and heritage glass.
Barovier & Toso, founded in 1295, is one of the world's oldest family businesses and a master of lighting design. The company is a producer of Venetian glass and chandeliers based in Murano, Italy, well known for its exquisite Murano glassware handcrafted using traditional techniques passed down through generations of glassmakers. The Barovier dynasty began in 1295 when Jacobello Barovier, mentioned in historical documents as a master glassblower, began pinching, cutting, blowing, and twisting molten mixtures of sand and minerals into works of art. The creations of Barovier & Toso are one-of-a-kind works in Venetian mouth-blown crystal, handcrafted by master artisans in Murano who serve as custodians of an age-old tradition passed down across generations. Specialties include crystalline glass, mother-of-pearl glass, and gold-free cornelian red glass. The company offers a product line called 'Venezia 1295,' a chandelier collection referencing the foundational year of the Barovier family. The brand continues to produce luxury lighting and decorative glass objects using traditional techniques, maintaining the highest standards of Venetian glassmaking.
Venice / Italy
Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua still weaves its prized soprarizzo velvet by hand on eighteenth-century looms once owned by the silk guild of the Venetian Republic, alongside damasks, brocatelles, and lampas fabrics for haute couture and historic restoration projects. The family-run showroom and shop on Santa Croce welcomes visitors by appointment to see the looms in action.
Best for Hand-woven soprarizzo velvet, damasks, and lampas on 18th-century Venetian guild looms
Yame (Hirokawa), Fukuoka / Japan
Aimoriyama is a Kurume Kasuri workshop in Hirokawa, Yame County, Fukuoka Prefecture, tracing its founding to Ansei 5 — 1858, in the closing years of the Edo period — and currently led by Torao Moriyama.
Best for Hand-bound, sukumo-dyed Kurume Kasuri ikat cotton from an 1858 Fukuoka weaving workshop
Aimoriyama is a Kurume Kasuri workshop in Hirokawa, Yame County, Fukuoka Prefecture, tracing its founding to Ansei 5 — 1858, in the closing years of the Edo period — and currently led by Torao Moriyama. Kurume Kasuri is an ikat-patterned cotton weaving tradition, and Aimoriyama presents itself as one of the few remaining workshops that still carries out the full process by hand, from thread-binding through dyeing to weaving, rather than outsourcing any stage.
The workshop dyes with natural sukumo fermented using sake, hardwood-ash lye, and shell ash rather than synthetic dye, and uses organic cotton throughout. Before dyeing, threads are hand-bound with hemp bark to create the resist pattern that becomes the finished ikat design once woven; the bound threads are then dipped and beaten through a cycle repeated, by the workshop's own account, thirty to forty times to build the pattern's color.
Aimoriyama offers factory tours by reservation as well as hands-on weaving and dyeing workshops, and sells finished Kurume Kasuri cloth and made-up goods drawn directly from its own looms and dye vats. Its self-description as a keeper of the complete traditional process — rather than a single stage of it — is the workshop's own characterization, consistent with the process detail it publishes, and distinguishes it from the many Kurume Kasuri sellers who weave or dye but not both.
Larressore / Basque Country / Online
The Ainciart family has hand-made the makhila — the honored Basque walking stick with hidden steel tip — in Larressore since before 1780; each is engraved with its owner's name and motto.
Best for Custom-engraved makhilas and lifetime Basque heirlooms.
<p>In Larressore, a Basque village in the hills behind Bayonne, the Ainciart Bergara family has made the makhila since around 1780 — seven generations in the same workshop, practicing a craft with no industrial equivalent anywhere. The makhila is the Basque walking stick: a shaft of medlar wood, a woven leather grip, engraved metal fittings, and, concealed beneath the pommel, a steel point. It is cane, companion, and weapon of last resort — traditionally offered as the highest Basque token of honor.</p><p>The timescale is the astonishment. The medlar is scored while still growing on the hillside, so the living wood scars into ornament; it is cut years later, straightened over fire, and dried for up to a decade before the workshop touches it. Every stick is made for its owner — measured to height, engraved with name and motto. Presidents and popes have received them; shepherds commissioned them first.</p><p>Nothing about the process has been accelerated, because nothing can be: the tree sets the schedule. Ainciart Bergara is what the atlas means by a world-singular address — not a brand with a heritage department, but a family still doing the thing itself, in the village where it began.</p>
Yogyakarta / Indonesia
Batik Plentong was established in Yogyakarta in 1950 by Oleh Djaelani and has stayed a family business through its second generation, with Hadi Suwito — now in his 80s — running operations after more than six decades with the company.
Best for Hand-drawn tulis and hand-stamped cap batik made and naturally dyed
Batik Plentong was established in Yogyakarta in 1950 by Oleh Djaelani and has stayed a family business through its second generation, with Hadi Suwito — now in his 80s — running operations after more than six decades with the company. A workshop opened in the early 2000s as a response to the regional economic crisis, diversifying the business into a production site that visitors can enter to watch the process directly, alongside its ongoing wholesale and made-to-order output.
The house runs both of batik's classic hand techniques side by side under one roof. Women artisans work tulis — hand-drawing wax patterns onto cloth with a canting, the small spouted copper tool that traces intricate motifs freehand — while male craftspeople work cap, stamping wax designs with carved copper blocks for more repeatable patterning. After waxing, cloth goes through repeated dye cycles using natural colorants, and the wax is then removed — by boiling water for cotton, by gasoline for silk — in a full process that can take up to two months per piece depending on size and complexity. The current team numbers around a dozen craftspeople spanning genders and generations, including second-generation batik maker Ibu Muryanti.
Suwito's own framing of the craft's value is direct: hand-drawn custom pattern work, he has said, "can never be produced by machines," and pricing reflects that gap — finished pieces range from roughly Rp500,000 into the tens of millions of rupiah depending on complexity, well above mass-produced batik-print alternatives. The workshop's continued operation as both a working atelier and a place where the tulis-and-cap process is visible to visitors makes it a rare direct window into hand batik production rather than the printed-batik goods that dominate most retail.
Volterra / Italy
Since 1895, this Volterra cooperative has carved and polished alabaster into lamps, sculptures, and everyday objects, continuing a craft tradition recognized as a National Historic Enterprise of Italy. Visitors can browse the shop on Piazza dei Priori or book a guided tour of the workshop on Via Padre Eugenio Barsanti to watch artisans at work.
Best for Stone Carving, Alabaster
Panzano in Chianti / (Tuscany)
Dario Cecchini is an eighth-generation artisan butcher in Panzano in Chianti. His macelleria on Via XX Luglio follows a nose-to-tail philosophy in which nothing is wasted. The shop sells jars of house preparations, runs a grill-only menu and a grill truck, and ships boxes of its recipes from Panzano.
Best for Eighth generation, nose-to-tail, Dante quotes, global icon.
Dario Cecchini carries on the craft of the artisan butcher in the eighth generation of his family. His shop stands on Via XX Luglio in Panzano in Chianti, where he guards the flavours of his own land. The philosophy is summed up in a few words, dal naso alla coda, from nose to tail. Nothing is wasted, and every part of the animal has dignity and finds its place in the kitchen. From that idea come the preparations and the jars sold in the macelleria and shipped from Panzano. The website states plainly that there are no rare breeds and no cover-page names, only beef raised with care. Alongside the butcher's counter run a grill-only menu and a small truck with a grill on board, which also appears in San Giovanni Valdarno. A warning greets visitors at the door, abandon all hope you who enter, you are in the hands of the butcher. Boxes of four jars can be assembled from the house recipes, and a meal voucher can be bought for Panzano. Shipping times and costs are calculated by destination, and the shop says good things do not like haste.
Mulhouse / Alsace / Online
DMC was founded in Mulhouse in 1746 as a printed-cotton manufacturer; its embroidery floss came later and has been made in the same Mulhouse factory since 1898. That factory still produces the mouliné cotton at the heart of its cross-stitch and needlework range today.
Best for Embroidery floss, cross-stitch kits, and needlework supplies.
Shimadani, Gujo Hachiman
Watanabe Dyeworks has dyed with natural indigo in Hachiman-cho, Gujo, since around 1580, now run by 15th-generation dyer Kazuyoshi Watanabe. It hand-paints kachin-zome koinobori carp streamers rinsed each winter in the Yoshida River, and dyes noren, happi coats, scarves and bags in fermented natural indigo.
Best for Natural indigo dyeing and hand-painted koinobori
Watanabe Dyeworks (Gujo Honzome) has worked from Shimotani in Hachiman-cho, Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture, for roughly 430 years, tracing its indigo-dyeing lineage to around 1580. The current proprietor, 15th-generation dyer Kazuyoshi Watanabe, continues the Gujo honzome method documented by Gifu Prefecture's own tourism authority: a resist design is hand-drawn in rice paste, pigment is bound with gojiru (soybean extract) for the koinobori's painted colors, and cloth is dipped repeatedly in fermented natural indigo before a final rinse and sun-drying.
The workshop is best known for its hand-dyed koinobori carp streamers, colored by the kachin-zome method rather than vat indigo alone. Physicist Hideki Yukawa is recorded as praising the shop's carp as "wild and powerful," and the dyed streamers are traditionally rinsed in the cold winter waters of the nearby Yoshida River, a step said to set the colors and slow fading.
Beyond koinobori, the shop's natural-indigo output extends to noren curtains, happi coats, scarves and bags, alongside newer items such as tablet cases and coasters sold through its own online shop. Independent sources (Gifu Prefecture tourism site, the shop's Facebook and BASE storefronts) corroborate the family name, the 15th-generation figure and the indigo/koinobori specialization, though the shop's own official domain could not be directly verified due to a certificate mismatch on gujozome.jp.
Herrnhut
The Herrnhut manufactory that has hand-assembled the twenty-five-point Moravian star since 1897, the origin of all such Advent stars. Paper and plastic stars are built by hand at Oderwitzer Strasse, with a shop and visitor demonstrations on site.
Best for Handmade Moravian Advent stars
Takamatsu / Japan
Ichiwado Kogei has made Kagawa lacquerware since its founding in 1917, when its founder trained in the Yamanaka lacquerware district of Ishikawa before opening a Takamatsu shop that relocated to Yashima after the war. The workshop applies traditional zokoku-nuri and goto-nuri finishes alongside brighter, contemporary color-lacquer designs.
Best for Kagawa lacquerware in zokoku-nuri and goto-nuri finishes, founded 1917
Ichiwado Kogei was founded in June 1917 (Taisho 6) and has made Kagawa lacquerware for over a century from what is now its workshop in the Yashima district of Takamatsu. Regional press coverage traces the founder's training to the Yamanaka lacquerware area of Ishikawa Prefecture, a separate, older lacquer-producing region, before he returned to open a shop in central Takamatsu; the business relocated to Yashima after the Second World War.
The workshop's technique centers on two named Kagawa lacquerware finishes: zokoku-nuri and goto-nuri, both historic styles associated with the prefecture's craft tradition. Alongside pieces in these established finishes, Ichiwado Kogei also produces work in brighter, contemporary color lacquers and grain-forward wood finishes, positioning itself as making 'casual vessels accessible to younger generations' as well as gift-oriented collections.
The current workshop operates from Yashima Higashi-cho in Takamatsu, closed Sundays and holidays, and sells both from the physical shop and its own online store.
Koyasan, Koya-cho, Ito District, Wakayama, Japan
Twelve generations of the same family have run this prayer-bead specialist on Koyasan since the Shotoku era of the early 1700s, stringing juzu from crystal, sandalwood, and semiprecious stone to the conventions of each Buddhist sect. The shop also repairs and restrings beads brought in by pilgrims completing the mountain's temple circuit.
Best for Sect-specific juzu prayer beads and bead repair
Usuki / Japan
Kagiya has brewed soy sauce and miso in Usuki for over four centuries, tracing its craft back to 1600 and still fermenting in the traditional way at its shop on the town's old merchant street. The full range of soy sauces, dipping sauces, and miso is sold through the shop's own online store with nationwide shipping.
Best for Soy Sauce, Miso
Kiso-Fukushima, Kiso-machi, Nagano, Japan
Operating since the Bunkyu era of 1860, this Fukushima workshop turns honoki magnolia and hinoki cypress into cutting boards, ohitsu rice tubs, steaming boxes, and wooden bath stools and buckets, alongside lacquered pieces. The business was incorporated in 1990 but keeps producing the same everyday kitchen and bath woodware it has made since the 19th century.
Best for Honoki cutting boards and hinoki bath and kitchen woodware
Higashinada-ku
Kobe Shu-shin-kan has brewed the Fukuju label in Nada since 1751, drawing on the district's Miyamizu spring water, and gained wider recognition after Fukuju was served at the Nobel Prize banquet. The brewery runs an on-site restaurant and shop selling sake tastings alongside its own craft beer.
Best for Sake pairing and tastings
Murakami, Niigata / Japan
A fourteenth-generation Murakami merchant house, Edo-period origin and a former imperial purveyor, working the carved-relief kibori-tsuishu technique unique to the region.
Best for Murakami kibori-tsuishu lacquerware from a fourteenth-generation merchant house
Kosugi Shikki-ten dates its origin to the Edo period, when the family held official-merchant (goyo shonin) status supplying lacquerware to the Murakami domain; it is now in its fourteenth generation under the same family name, and the shop's own account describes it as the oldest continuously operating retailer of Murakami kibori-tsuishu — the region's carved, deeply layered lacquerware — still trading in Murakami City. Between the Taisho era and the pre-war years the shop additionally held Imperial Household Agency purveyor status (kunaisho goyotashi), a formal supplier designation to the imperial household.
Murakami kibori-tsuishu is a distinct technique within Japanese lacquerware: a design is carved into the wood before dozens of lacquer coats are built up over it, so the final surface reads as sculpted relief rather than a flat painted or ground finish, setting it apart from both Wajima's smooth built-up lacquer and Tsugaru's marbled polish-back method. Niigata Prefecture recognized the craft as an Intangible Cultural Property in 1955, and it received national Traditional Craft designation in 1976.
Kosugi Shikki-ten's documented Edo-period origins, unbroken fourteen-generation family line and former imperial-purveyor designation make it a compelling anchor for Murakami lacquerware, distinct from Wajima and Tsugaru in both technique and place.
Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
Founded in 1897 in the rush-grass district that gave Kurashiki its Japan Heritage igusa designation, Imayoshi Shoten still weaves tatami-grass mats and bedding sheets prized for their air-purifying scent. The shop's goods have been recognized under Japan's Wonder 500 program for regional craft exports.
Best for Traditional igusa rush-grass mats and bedding
Datong
A heritage calligraphy-brush maker that also applies its handcraft expertise to cosmetic brushes. Founded in Fuzhou in 1917, the family enterprise moved to Taiwan in 1946 and is now led by the fourth generation.
Best for Handcrafted calligraphy and cosmetic brushes from a family enterprise founded in Fuzhou in 1917
Himeji, Hyogo
The Myochin family forged armor for the Himeji domain before turning to fire tongs, and in 1965 the 52nd-generation smith tuned a pair of them into the clear-ringing hibashi wind chime the workshop is now known for. Hand-forged pieces run from the signature iron chimes to titanium bells, letter openers and vases, still made at the family's Himeji forge.
Best for Hand-forged iron wind chimes and hibashi
Patan / India
The Salvi family has woven double-ikat Patan patola for some thirty-five generations, and their Rani ki Vav road heritage house pairs a small museum with genuine natural-dye sarees and scarves for sale. Each cloth is tie-dyed on both warp and weft so its pattern reads identically on either side.
Best for Thirty-five generations of Salvi-family double-ikat weaving, a heritage museum
Bassano area / Veneto / Online
Family grappa distillery founded in 1898 by Giobatta Poli in Schiavon, near Bassano del Grappa in the Veneto. Now run by the fourth generation, it operates alongside the Poli Grappa Museum, a two-floor, roughly 1,000 sq m exhibition of distillation history and about 2,000 historic grappa bottles.
Best for Artisanal grappa flights.
Poli Distillerie traces its origins to 1898, when Giobatta Poli distilled pomace from a small mobile still he moved between farmhouses in the Veneto countryside. The business settled permanently in Schiavon, near Bassano del Grappa, and has remained solely owned and run by the Poli family across four generations, now led by great-grandchildren Giampaolo, Barbara, Andrea and Jacopo Poli. The distillery produces grappa and other Italian distillates using both traditional discontinuous bain-marie stills and more modern equipment, and sells its range through its own shop and internationally via importers such as Winebow. Attached to the production site is the Poli Grappa Museum, a free, self-guided museum spanning roughly 1,000 square metres across two floors. It traces the history of distillation and the emergence of grappa as an Italian product, and houses a collection of around 2,000 grappa bottles produced between the 1930s and 1980s, sourced from nearly 400 distilleries, many of which no longer exist. Labels and captions are presented in both Italian and English. The museum and shop are open six days a week, giving the distillery a public-facing cultural role beyond its role as a working producer, and positioning it as one of the more visitable grappa houses in the Bassano del Grappa area.
Setapak Jaya
Founded in 1885, Royal Selangor is the world’s foremost name in quality pewter, a brand synonymous with design and craftsmanship.
Best for Quality pewter craftsmanship from a workshop founded in 1885
Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche / Lorraine / Online
Saint-Louis has been active as a glassworks in the Moselle forest village of Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche since 1586 and in 1781 became the first crystal-glass manufacturer in continental Europe. Now part of the Hermès group, it still mouth-blows and hand-cuts every piece on-site, from stemware and paperweights to chandeliers.
Best for Cut-crystal stemware, paperweights, and lighting. Decanters and vases.
Lukang / Taiwan
Shi Jin Yu Muxiang Zhai, formerly known as Shi Jin Yu Sanfang, has made incense beside Lukang's Mazu (Tianhou) temple since 1756, during the Qianlong era of the Qing dynasty.
Best for Hand-rolled agarwood and sandalwood incense from a 1756 Lukang house
Shi Jin Yu Muxiang Zhai — formerly known as Shi Jin Yu Sanfang — has made incense beside Lukang's Mazu (Tianhou) temple since 1756, during the Qianlong era of the Qing dynasty, making it one of Taiwan's oldest continuously run incense houses. The business is now transitioning to its eighth generation, with Shih Yeh-chih working alongside his father, seventh-generation proprietor Shih Chi-hsun, to keep the shop running.
Its incense — standing sticks, coils, offering incense, incense towers, and powdered incense among the range — is made by hand from agarwood, sandalwood, and traditional Chinese herbal ingredients, without synthetic dyes, and the shop holds SGS quality certification for its products. That combination of hand production and multi-generation family ownership situates it within Lukang's wider cluster of historic incense makers, a town whose incense trade dates to Fujianese immigrant craftsmen of the same period.
Now run under its updated name, the shop continues to balance the eighth generation's interest in newer product formats against the handmade methods its Qianlong-era founders established, a tension the current owners describe openly as inheritance meeting innovation.
Sabae, Fukui / Japan
Shitsurindo has made Echizen lacquerware in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture since 1793, trading under its former name Owanya Uchida before adopting its current one; the company store still operates from its long-held address at Nishibukuro-cho in Sabae.
Best for A 230-year Sabae house spanning Echizen lacquerware's full range
Shitsurindo has made Echizen lacquerware in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture since 1793, trading under its former name Owanya Uchida before adopting its current one; the company store still operates from its long-held address at Nishibukuro-cho in Sabae. Echizen-nuri is the tradition that supplies the large majority of Japan's commercial and restaurant lacquerware — a different scale and market than the collector-facing Wajima or Aizu traditions — and Shitsurindo is one of the district's oldest surviving houses still trading directly to the public rather than only wholesale.
The company runs three distinct product lines from the same workshop: Shitsurindo proper, which keeps traditional forms focused on everyday practicality; aisomo cosomo, a playful, contemporary-colored line aimed at younger buyers; and RIN&CO., a dishwasher-safe lacquerware and lifestyle-goods line built for daily use without the fragility associated with classic urushi finishes. Alongside new production, the shop offers kintsugi repair, mending broken lacquerware with gold-dusted lacquer rather than discarding it.
Echizen-nuri's retail-facing side is genuinely underrepresented relative to its commercial-lacquerware dominance, and Shitsurindo — 230-plus years in continuous operation, with an English-language site describing its own history and three named product lines in specific, checkable detail — is a well-documented example of that side of the tradition.
Giengen / Germany / Online
The original teddy bear manufacturer since 1880 — the iconic button-in-ear, hand-sewn mohair animals.
Best for The original teddy bear
Every teddy bear on earth descends from Giengen. Steiff, founded by Margarete Steiff in 1880, made the original — the jointed mohair bear that gave the world's most beloved toy its form — and the house has spent a century and a half defending a simple, staggering claim: whoever your bear was, this workshop made the first one. The street address itself honors Richard Steiff, the nephew whose bear design conquered the world.
The proof is a button. Every genuine Steiff animal carries the Knopf im Ohr — the button in ear — the small brass fastener that has marked authenticity since the house invented brand protection for toys. It exists because imitation began almost immediately; it persists because the difference is real. A Steiff is hand-sewn in mohair, the animals' faces given their expressions by hands trained in the house tradition, each species rendered with a naturalist's respect that makes the menagerie — bears foremost, but elephants, rabbits, the whole ark — feel observed rather than invented.
Steiff animals occupy a category few objects reach: they are toys, heirlooms, and collectibles simultaneously, passed down, auctioned, and above all *kept*. The bear received in childhood attends the rest of a life. That endurance is the house product beneath the mohair: Margarete Steiff, who built a world company from a seamstress's workshop in a small Swabian town, sold something sturdier than toys — the durable companion, button in ear, made in Giengen since 1880.
Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima / Japan
Suzuzen traces its founding to 1832, when it operated as Suzuki-ya Lacquerware Shop, an official merchant to the Aizu domain's ruling household.
Best for Aizu lacquerware and hands-on makie workshops in historic storehouses
Suzuzen traces its founding to 1832, when it operated as Suzuki-ya Lacquerware Shop, an official merchant to the Aizu domain's ruling household. The business still occupies its historic compound in central Aizuwakamatsu, where six storehouses — kura — have been adapted into a lacquerware sales hall, a makie decoration workshop, an art gallery, and a local sake storehouse. Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs registered the main Suzuzen building as a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in October 2021; separately, its Kaze no Tsuji facility received the first-ever Fukushima Prefecture Architectural Culture Award back in 1983 — two distinct honors decades apart, not a single 2022 designation.
Aizu-nuri is one of Japan's most historically significant lacquer traditions, ranked alongside Wajima and Kishu lacquerware among the country's three major production centers, yet it has had essentially no presence in ORBIS until now. Suzuzen sells finished Aizu lacquerware — trays, bowls, and decorative pieces bearing the region's characteristic gold-leaf makie ornamentation — directly from its storehouse showroom, and runs hands-on makie-painting sessions where visitors apply lacquer and gold to their own pieces under the guidance of resident craftspeople.
What distinguishes Suzuzen from a purely transactional lacquerware retailer is the museum function built into the same structure: exhibit panels throughout the kura lay out the history of Aizu lacquer production and the techniques specific to it, so a purchase there comes with a grounded sense of the craft's origin rather than a generic souvenir framing. For a region this consequential to Japanese lacquer history, a nearly-two-century-old merchant house still trading from its own registered-heritage buildings is a rare and verifiable anchor.
Lunenburg / Canada
The Dory Shop has hand-built Grand Banks dories and other traditional wooden boats on the Lunenburg waterfront since 1917, using time-worn patterns, oak, pine and grown hackmatack frames. Finished dories are sold from stock and to order through its online shop, and it runs boatbuilding workshops.
Best for Boat building, wooden boats, dories
Quay Street, Latin Quarter
Trading from Quay Street since 1750, this is the workshop that first cast the Claddagh ring, and a small back-room museum shows some of the oldest surviving examples. The family still makes rings, brooches and pendants in sterling silver and 9, 14 and 18 carat gold.
Best for Original Claddagh rings
Tsurajima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
Founded in 1909 in Kurashiki's Tsurajima district, Watanabe Shuzo Honten brews using Bitchu toji craftsmanship handed down through the region's brewing guild. Its Yume Kurashiki and Sasa labels span junmai daiginjo to kimoto-method junmai.
Best for Bitchu-style regional sake
Abidjan / Online
Abidjan's own wax-print house — real Ivorian wax designed and printed in Côte d'Ivoire since 1967, the cloth of West African celebration sold from the source, not the copy.
Best for True Ivorian wax prints from the source
Al Hosn, Abu Dhabi
At the Qasr Al Hosn cultural site, House of Artisans works to keep Emirati handicrafts like Sadu, Khoos and Talli alive. Live demonstrations and workshops sit alongside a craft shop.
Best for Emirati heritage crafts, demonstrations and workshops
Abuja
Founded by Nike Davies-Okundaye and described as the largest gallery in West Africa, this space shows Nigerian contemporary art, adire textiles and crafts. The Abuja gallery is one arm of her wider Foundation.
Best for Nigerian contemporary art, adire textiles and crafts
Aachen / Germany
Clou on Klosterplatz in Aachen sells unusual paper goods alongside greeting cards made by hand.
Best for Paper goods and handmade cards
Asokoro
Founder and creative director Dolly Kola-Balogun opened Retro Africa in Asokoro, Abuja, in 2015 as a home for contemporary African art. The gallery pairs exhibitions with public workshops and artist residencies exploring African identity and heritage.
Best for Contemporary African art exhibitions and residencies
Accra
Hamamat African Village sells raw, unrefined shea butter sourced from Ghana and West Africa. The products are handmade daily using a fruit-to-butter process the brand ties to ancestral tradition.
Best for Raw shea butter and body care
Accra
This Asylum Down shop stocks professional art brands such as Sennelier and Cretacolor, alongside handmade gifts. The shop describes its mission as inspiring creativity through quality supplies.
Best for Professional art supplies and handmade gifts
Accra
Miller and Marian makes handcrafted shea butter skincare and hair care products sourced from Ghana. The company works directly with women's cooperatives across Ghana to ensure fair wages.
Best for Handcrafted shea butter skincare
Accra
NAYA by Africa sells self-care products crafted in Ghana, with stores at A and C Mall and Marina Mall in Accra. Formulations use African botanicals such as shea butter and cocoa butter.
Best for Shea butter and botanical self-care
Mekanisa, Addis Ababa
Sabahar is a fair-trade workshop that weaves Ethiopian cotton and eri peace silk into scarves, throws and homewares on traditional handlooms. It has a retail shop and runs workshop tours in Addis Ababa.
Best for Handwoven Ethiopian cotton and silk textiles
Mekanissa, Addis Ababa
The retail shop of an Addis Ababa fair-trade textile workshop selling handwoven scarves, shawls, table linens, and locally made craft goods. The shop is located a short walk from the production workshop.
Best for Handwoven scarves, shawls, and table linens from an Addis Ababa fair-trade textile
Algiers / Algeria
AMADHAL STORE in Ben Aknoun, Algiers, specializes in Algerian handicrafts and artisan-made goods made by local makers.
Best for Algerian handicrafts and artisan goods
Alicante / Spain
I Love Alicante on Calle San Francisco turns memories of the city into everyday treasures.
Best for Handcrafted souvenirs of Alicante
Alicante, Xixona (Jijona)
This family firm has made Alicante's almond-and-honey turrón since 1890, still working the nougat by hand. Both the hard Alicante and softer Jijona styles come out of the same artisan tradition.
Best for Artisan turrón de Alicante and Jijona
Alicante / Spain
Zoco on Calle Poeta Quintana wants to bring local Alicante craft closer to those who visit.
Best for Craft made in Alicante province
Todd Mall, Alice Springs, NT
Founded in 1972, this artist-owned company was the birthplace of the Western Desert dot-painting movement. It represents Pintupi and Luritja artists, and the work it carries is museum-grade.
Best for Museum-grade Western Desert Aboriginal paintings
Jabal Amman (Second Circle), Amman
This Amman emporium gathers traditional Jordanian handmade goods, from pottery and ceramics to olive-wood and mother-of-pearl pieces. Embroidered textiles, rugs, glass, basketry and metalwork fill out the shelves.
Best for Traditional Jordanian crafts, ceramics, olive wood, textiles
Jabal Amman, Amman
Jordan River Designs offers home accessories and craft gifts through the Jordan River Foundation's retail programme. Its catalogue includes cushions and wall hangings as well as baskets and table accessories. The current showroom is listed on Mawloud Mukhles Street in Abdoun, separate from the foundation's headquarters.
Best for Craft gifts and home accessories from Jordan River Designs
The Jordan River Foundation is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation established in 1995. Chaired by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, it works across two stated priorities: child safety and community empowerment. Its official account describes homegrown solutions that allow Jordanians to address local challenges, with children's wellbeing placed at the centre of development work. The showroom belongs to the foundation's Social Enterprises programme, connecting the sale of objects to a wider economic mission. That context distinguishes the merchandise from generic national souvenirs. Products can carry evidence of local skill and community participation, while the foundation provides the institutional framework that supports the work. Reports, media and programme pages document activity beyond retail. They describe training and community initiatives. More than two decades of experience are cited in its own description, giving the showroom a long operating context rather than a temporary charitable campaign. The key facts are therefore structural: a 1995 foundation, leadership by Queen Rania, programmes in child safety and community empowerment, and a social-enterprise channel for locally rooted production. Together they explain why the showroom matters as both a retail surface and part of Jordanian development work.
Jabal Amman, Amman
A showroom selling rugs, cushions, embroidery, baskets, home accessories, and other goods sourced from Jordan River Foundation community-empowerment projects. The Jordan River Foundation was established in 1995 and supports economic opportunities for women and young people.
Best for Rugs, embroidery, and baskets from Jordan River Foundation's women- and youth-empowerment projects
Jabal Amman / Online
It is best known for Handmade paintings, pottery, candles, lamps, woodworks, canvas prints, pillows, rugs and accessories.
Best for Handmade paintings, pottery, candles, lamps, woodworks, canvas prints, pillows, rugs and accessories
Sweifieh, Amman
A social-enterprise boutique selling hand-embroidered keffiyehs, bags, cushion covers, shirts, and fashion accessories made by refugee artists in Jerash camp. Certified B Corporation and identifies each piece with the signature of the artist who embroidered it. Established 2014.
Best for Social-enterprise boutique selling hand-embroidered keffiyehs, bags, cushion covers, shirts
Amsterdam / Online
Rain Couture treats the Amsterdam raincoat as city equipment rather than emergency clothing, designing refined outerwear for cycling and daily weather.
Best for Refined waterproof outerwear created around Amsterdam’s practical weather and bicycle cult
Amsterdam / Online
Smaak Amsterdam makes practical leather handbags, crossbody bags, shoulder bags and work bags from an Amsterdam design studio. The brand says its designs are developed locally and produced with long-term family-run manufacturing partners, with hand-finishing and material sourcing built into its craftsmanship process.
Best for Timeless, modern Amsterdam-designed handbags intended for everyday use
Haarlemmerstraat 110, Amsterdam / Online
A slow-living atelier of linen, wool and paper — everything natural-toned, much of it made upstairs or by friends.
Best for Linen clothing & quiet objects
Kaleici (Old Bazaar), Antalya
Set inside a 600-year-old Ottoman hamam in Antalya's Kaleici old bazaar, this shop trades in traditional Turkish handicrafts. Expect traditional clothing, scented soaps, chandeliers, incense, tablecloths and natural perfumes.
Best for Traditional Turkish handicrafts, soaps and souvenirs in a historic hamam
Antalya / Türkiye
Pin Atelier on Aksu Caddesi in Antalya makes art for living spaces that people can afford.
Best for Art for a room, within reach
Antananarivo
Madagemstones cuts precious and semi-precious stones, including amethyst, citrine, sapphires, tanzanite and emeralds, in its own workshop and ships them from France. The company sources gemstones worldwide, particularly from Madagascar, and offers a satisfied-or-refunded guarantee.
Best for Cut madagascar gemstones
Antananarivo
Maison de couture Tantely R. is a fashion-designer atelier at VA 42 Tsiadana, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar, specializing in made-to-measure creation including wedding, engagement and gala dresses, described on its page as an "atelier de creation sur mesure" with "tailleur d'exception." The page has around 76,000 followers.
Best for Made to measure wedding gowns
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Kakaw Designs works directly with weavers, dyers, embroiderers and leatherworkers across Guatemala to make bags, clothing, home goods and jewellery from handwoven textiles. From its Antigua studio it also runs weaving and natural-dye workshops.
Best for Handwoven Guatemalan textiles and bags
Antwerp / Online
Jan-Jan Van Essche releases one main collection annually, using generous forms, minimal seams and fabric-led drape. The clothing is designed for layered movement, with sizing less rigid than conventional tailored menswear.
Best for Draped artisanal menswear
Arkhangelsk
Established in 1968, Belomorskie Uzory makes traditional Russian North crafts: wooden ware, birch-bark objects, and Mezen and northern-painted decorative pieces. The Arkhangelsk workshop belongs to the Russian Folk Art Crafts association.
Best for Traditional Russian North wooden and painted crafts
Asheville
Poppy handcrafts small-batch gourmet popcorn in Asheville, in sweet and savory flavors that include the local Asheville Mix. The homegrown brand sells from its downtown shop and ships nationally by mail order.
Best for Gourmet small-batch popcorn; Local Asheville Mix flavor; Edible gifts and snacks
Atami / Japan
The shop at the MOA Museum of Art in Atami offers kōgei craftworks made by prominent artists.
Best for Kōgei craftworks by named artists
Sakimi-cho, Atami, Shizuoka
A kamaboko workshop in Atami, this heritage maker turns out steamed and grilled surimi products. They are sold fresh as a local specialty.
Best for Freshly made kamaboko and fish-paste products
Athens, Greece
This contemporary Greek fashion house works with domestic artisans and traditional weaving and embroidery techniques. The result is ready-to-wear and accessories rooted in Greek craft.
Best for Resort wear, Greek
Austin
HELM Boots started in Austin, Texas in 2009 and has remained independent since, making Chelsea boots, chukkas, classic boots, loafers, brogues and the Calistoga sneaker-style line. The company offers a 100 Day Free Worn-In Returns policy and donates meals through Feeding America with each order.
Best for Handmade boots built to last
East Austin / Online
It is best known for Thoughtfully chosen selection of handmade and well-designed objects for the home and person.
Best for Thoughtfully chosen selection of handmade and well-designed objects for the home
South Congress
For years this Austin importer has brought in folk art, handicrafts and textiles from Latin America, Asia and beyond. Its shelves hold milagros, Day of the Dead art, ceramics and other handmade goods.
Best for Milagros, Day of the Dead art and handmade ceramics
Bagru & Sanganer
Mehera Shaw runs production across both Bagru and Sanganer, using AZO-free pigments at its Sanganer facility while working with Bagru artisans who still hand-block print using vegetable dyes and mud-resist techniques. A Craftmark member, the label turns those textiles into cotton, silk, and linen clothing and homeware that sets traditional motifs alongside Mediterranean tile and Japanese origami-inspired patterns.
Best for Hand block-printed cotton and silk clothing
Baku (125 Alovsat Guliyev)
This Baku gift company assembles curated handmade sets made entirely in Azerbaijan by local artists.
Best for Curated Azerbaijani craft gift sets
Baku / Azerbaijan
Folk Art in the Old City of Baku sells handmade arts and crafts by Azerbaijani artisans.
Best for Azerbaijani craft and souvenirs
Harborplace, Baltimore
Made In Baltimore Store, located at 301 Light Street in Harborplace, sells one-of-a-kind gifts made by Baltimore artisans drawn from a network of more than 200 local product-based businesses. It also supports makers through the five-month Home-Run Accelerator entrepreneurship program.
Best for Locally made gifts from baltimore artisans
Avenue de la Victoire, city centre, Bangui
A social-enterprise boutique and workshop in central Bangui, Ndara Ti Beafrika showcases handcrafted Central African goods. Built from handmade mud brick with locally made furniture, it doubles as a safe workspace and community hub, hosting Saturday garden brunches of homemade dishes.
Best for Central African handicrafts, artisan textiles and homeware, supporting local makers
Senegambia Road, Serrekunda (Greater Banjul)
Founded in 1982, Senegambia Craft Market gathers Gambian artisans, makers and traders into one collective. Its stalls sell wood-carved masks, tie-dye, silver jewellery, beadwork, drums, leather goods and African-print textiles, with custom tailoring and woodwork.
Best for Gambian handicrafts, wood carving, tie-dye and jewellery
Barcelona / Spain
Casa Piera opened in 1941, when Vicente Piera Amat and Conchita Domènech Casas took a 60-square-metre shop on Carrer Cardenal Casañas, just off Plaza del Pi in central Barcelona, and began selling to the city's artists, artisans and art students.
Best for Fine-art and design materials from a family-run Barcelona shop trading since 1941
Casa Piera opened in 1941, when Vicente Piera Amat and Conchita Domènech Casas took a 60-square-metre shop on Carrer Cardenal Casañas, just off Plaza del Pi in central Barcelona, and began selling to the city's artists, artisans and art students. The business grew from that single small storefront into a business with locations in Sant Cugat and Vic as well as Barcelona, before consolidating its main premises in 2014 at Carrer del Pintor Fortuny, 21 — a 650-square-metre space large enough to give customers room to exhibit their own work alongside the shop's stock.
The present-day range covers the working needs of painters, illustrators and designers alike: oil, acrylic, watercolour, gouache and tempera paint; pencils, charcoal, pastels and markers; papers and sketchbooks; brushes and palette knives; canvas and stretchers; printmaking tools; and art-instruction books, alongside supplies for design, illustration and school use.
Eighty-plus years on from a couple opening a small shop off the Plaza del Pi, Casa Piera is still a family-founded business trading a few streets from its original address, now serving Barcelona's professional and student artists from a space built specifically to make room for their work.
Barcelona / Online
Born in 1939 Barcelona as a sports-shoe factory, Munich turned its X logo into Spanish sneaker culture — handmade-feel trainers from futsal courts to fashion floors.
Best for The X-marked sneakers of Barcelona
Gothic Quarter (Carrer Ample)
Founded in Barcelona in 2004, Papabubble hand-pulls customizable rock candy and caramels in an open workshop-store. Customers watch the sweets being made in the Gothic Quarter.
Best for Handmade artisan candy
Via dante 369, bari / Italy
Oak Studio hand-sews natural-fiber womenswear, mostly in bamboo viscose Tanboocel fabric, from its independent atelier on Via Dante in Bari, with every skirt, cardigan and bodysuit cut to the customer's own measurements. The brand sells made-to-order pieces through its online shop and welcomes clients to its Bari studio for a free fitting consultation.
Best for Handmade clothing, sustainable fashion, made-to-measure
Spalenberg 14, Basel
Johann Wanner's Basel house makes Christmas baubles and ornaments by hand, and its work has dressed trees at the White House, the Vatican and Buckingham Palace. The shop stays open year-round in the old town.
Best for Handmade Christmas ornaments and festive decorations
Baytown, Texas
Founded in 1991 - industrial engraving alongside plaques, medals, awards and gift work.
Best for Engraved gifts, plaques, medals and industrial marking
Baytown, Texas
Family- and woman-owned since 1996: screen printing, embroidery and promotional products for groups and organizations.
Best for Team apparel customization, embroidery and promotional goods
Beijing
At Liulichang St, Xicheng, Beijing, Daiyuexuan (戴月轩) is an evidence-verified current door for handmade ink brushes.
Best for Handmade ink brushes
Beijing
At Beijing Enamel Factory retail floor, 10 Yongwai Anlelin Rd, Beijing, Jingfa Yiyuan Cloisonne Factory Store (京发益元景泰蓝) is an evidence-verified current door for cloisonne enamelware.
Best for Cloisonne enamelware
Sursock / Online
Kanz by Beit el Baraka brings Lebanese food and craft into the Beit Kanz cultural space on Beirut's Sursock Street. The boutique and restaurant occupy part of a restored heritage house. The project connects artisan products with the organisation's work to create livelihoods, giving visitors a setting to explore Lebanese pantry goods and craft.
Best for Lebanese pantry goods and artisan craft at Beit Kanz
Beit Kanz brings together a restaurant, an épicerie and a design boutique in a 200-year-old Beirut building. It is the social-enterprise arm of Beit el Baraka, and the charity states that all proceeds support its work. The boutique focuses on Lebanese-made objects rather than a generic souvenir mix. Handwoven textiles sit beside ceramics and carved wood. Engraved copper appears with blown-glass objects and candles, while homeware completes the core offer. Its stated purpose is to keep craft knowledge in circulation by working with Lebanese artisans and designers. The épicerie follows the same model through food. Beit el Baraka says more than 1,200 women across 53 villages make its pantry goods using traditional methods and natural ingredients. The range includes olive oil and herbs. Spices sit beside pickles and syrups. Preserves and sweets appear with other forms of mouneh. This is both a craft shop and a food-production network, with the maker communities central to the proposition. The official project page also says the restaurant sources from Beit el Baraka farms, tying the retail shelves to the organisation's wider agricultural programme.
Centre St. Antoine, Gemmayze, Beirut, Lebanon / Beirut / Lebanon
Established 1979 as Lebanon's first social enterprise, created to keep artisans active and give local craftspeople a marketplace.
Best for Lebanese crafts from a social enterprise supporting local artisans.
56 Madrid Street, Beirut, Lebanon / Beirut / Lebanon
Lina Audi developed Liwan in Paris in 1992 and opened the Beirut shop in 2006, collaborating with Middle Eastern artisans on ancestral techniques.
Best for Middle Eastern craft made with artisans using ancestral techniques.
Belgrade / Serbia
Kjara is a Belgrade fashion studio for handmade clothing and accessories, including custom orders.
Best for Handmade and custom fashion
Belgrade / Serbia
Portfolio, in Belgrade’s Dorćol, showcases handmade work by local designers and artists.
Best for Local handmade design
Beppu Onsen district, Beppu
Beppu Brewery is the hot-spring town's first craft-beer brewery, opened in 2022 with an on-site brewhouse and restaurant built for the after-bath drink. The taproom pours beers brewed on the premises alongside local food in the heart of the Beppu onsen quarter.
Best for Beppu-brewed craft beer
Biarritz / France
Calixte is a shop on Rue Gambetta in Biarritz selling art objects and pieces of local craft.
Best for Art objects and local craft
Bishkek
Ethno.Market is a Bishkek gifts and handicraft shop stocking Kyrgyz felt goods, national dress, kalpak hats, and souvenirs drawn from local makers. The store curates traditional crafts for visitors through its own online storefront.
Best for Kyrgyz souvenirs and handicrafts
Bled (Cesta svobode 15)
Mikame is a Bled gallery-shop run by Jakob Ribnikar on Cesta svobode, selling handmade work by Slovenian artisans. Its range spans studio pottery and wooden toys to graphic prints, origami-folded silver earrings, and bow ties.
Best for Handmade Slovenian design and craft
Bogotá
A Colombian textile studio in Bogotá producing handwoven rugs, throws and home pieces in wool and natural fibres. Its designs are woven by Colombian artisans and carried by international design showrooms as well as its own studio.
Best for Handwoven Colombian textiles and rugs
Bologna / via stockists
Bologna's small-atelier luxury shirtmaker (1959) — 13 stitches per centimeter, and the famous 'Iseo' one-piece collar shirt; own e-shop absent, so linked via its Brussels stockist Maison Degand.
Best for The Iseo one-piece collar in Riva cloth.
Bolzano / Italy
DAMA studio on Piazza del Grano in Bolzano shows its own work beside pieces by independent designers and artisans.
Best for Independent designers and artisans
Bordeaux / France
Atelier Animiste restores upholstered seating and sells decorative fabrics from its Bordeaux Bastide workshop.
Best for Upholstery and decorative fabrics
Bordeaux / France
Blue Madone in Bordeaux combines a concept shop with a collective fabrication workshop and tearoom.
Best for Maker-led concept shopping
Bordeaux / France
Goûtu makes artisan pastries and viennoiseries in Bordeaux.
Best for Pastries and viennoiseries
Bordeaux / France
In Bordeaux, Popeline Ateliers offers sewing and styling workshops alongside fabrics, haberdashery, machines, kits and patterns.
Best for Sewing supplies and workshops
Galerie de la Reine (Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert)
One of the few remaining specialist lace houses in central Brussels, Manufacture Belge de Dentelles sells handkerchiefs, table linen, collars and bobbin and needle lace from the Galerie de la Reine. It carries both antique pieces and newly made Belgian lace.
Best for Belgian bobbin and needle lace
Bartók Béla út 30., 1111 Budapest, Hungary / Budapest / Hungary
Budapest shop opened November 2013; European design houses (Alessi) plus unique pieces by Hungarian designers; temporary exhibitions of Hungarian textile art and industrial design.
Best for Hungarian design, textile and industrial-design exhibitions, and Alessi.
Falk Miksa u. 10, 1055 Budapest, Hungary / Budapest / Hungary
20000-square-foot antiques gallery on Falk Miksa (Antiques Street); 1500 sqm / 16 rooms of paintings, furniture and objects, walk-in hours published.
Best for Paintings, furniture and objects across a large Falk Miksa antiques gallery.
1065 Budapest, Hajós utca 25., Hungary / Budapest / Hungary
Goldsmith-sculptor Vladimir Péter founded a jewellery workshop in 1993 and markets the pieces as Wladis; sculptural sterling work combining traditional and new metalworking.
Best for Sculptural sterling jewellery made in a Budapest goldsmith’s studio.
Seneca Street, Buffalo
Oxford Pennant designs and sews wool-felt pennants, flags and banners in a Seneca Street workshop, reviving a keepsake tradition its founders felt had gone cheap and overseas. Started in 2013, the company designs, manufactures and ships American-made pieces under one Buffalo roof.
Best for Wool-felt pennants, flags and banners
Bursa
Bursa Hatirasi packages the city's signatures, from Kafkas candied chestnuts and silk scarves to the looped towels Bursa is known for. The shop works as a one-stop counter for regional specialties rather than a single-craft maker.
Best for Bursa specialty gifts
Bursa
Bursa Ipek weaves and prints silk scarves, foulards and shawls, continuing the Silk Road trade that made Bursa the Ottoman capital of sericulture. Its collections run from plain-dyed twills to art-print foulards, prayer coverings and hijabs.
Best for Silk scarves and foulards
Busan
Stained-glass craft studio in Busan's Hadan-dong neighborhood offering reservation-based one-day classes in mirrors, trays, and suncatchers. The studio also runs tufting workshops using recycled paper.
Best for Stained-glass craft studio in Busan's Hadan-dong neighborhood offering reservation-based one-day classes
Cheongwol Glass is a stained glass studio in Hadan-dong, in the Saha-gu district of Busan, about six minutes on foot from exit 1 of Hadan station on Busan Metro Line 1. The studio has been featured on television several times, and its front room displays finished stained glass pieces and small accessories that visitors can look over before a class. Teaching is the core of the business. The one-day glass craft class is built for beginners and keeps to simple projects. Each session starts with an apron and gloves and sleeves, along with an explanation of how to use the tools safely. The teacher guides students step by step and helps with anything they find difficult, and photographs can be taken during the session. Mirrors and trays and suncatchers are the pieces students make. Alongside the one-day classes the studio runs hobby classes and takes customised requests. Art classes and tufting workshops using recycled paper run beside the glass work. Classes operate on a reservation system, and after booking there is a consultation about the piece a student wants to make, with a pattern prepared in advance where that consultation calls for one. Enquiries go through Instagram messages or Naver Talk rather than a booking form. The studio stands on the first floor at 27 Nakdongnam-ro 1373beon-gil, which the same listing gives as the address for visitors arriving on foot.
Byron Bay
Dead Kooks Surfboards, based at 1/22 Brigantine Street, Byron Bay, makes made-to-order custom surfboards in models including the Riches RF, Toro, Thang, Hellcat and Yin Yang, shaped by Eden Saul. Boards ship worldwide and are described as crafted with attention to functional design and aesthetic detail.
Best for Made-to-order custom surfboards
Byron bay / Australia
McTavish, founded by pioneering surfboard shaper Bob McTavish, sells handcrafted surfboards and apparel from its Byron Bay shop on Centennial Circuit as well as a Brookvale store near Sydney, with a working online shop shipping domestically and internationally. Its board lines include the Dually, Bluebird, Battler, and Fireball models alongside men's and women's clothing.
Best for Surfboards, apparel
Cairo
6901 Cairo designs menswear and womenswear including tops, bottoms, jackets, dresses and accessories, priced in Egyptian pounds. Its collections have included The White Collection, Spring Fling, El Masyaf '26, The Seasonless Edit and The Atelier.
Best for Contemporary egyptian menswear and womenswear
159 26th of July Street, Mohamed Mazhar, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt / Cairo / Egypt
Ateeq Design is adjudicated at house level separately from every physical city door. Production is associated with Egypt, while the range centers on regional craft with a named maker.
Best for Regional craft with a named maker.
Zamalek
Non-profit shop supporting over 2,000 Egyptian artisans, selling handblown glass, pottery, brasswork, and embroidered textiles from across the country.
Best for Handblown glass, pottery, brasswork and embroidered textiles from more than 2,000 fair-trade Egyptian artisans
Islamic Cairo (behind Bab Zuwayla)
Located behind Bab Zuwayla on Cairo's last covered medieval street, this tentmakers' workshop produces khayamiya appliqué, hand-stitched cloth panels and wall hangings whose technique reaches back millennia. With only around twenty shops and a few dozen stitchers left on the street, its master craftsmen sew every piece by hand.
Best for Hand-stitched khayamiya appliqué
14 Kamal El Tawil Street, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt / Cairo / Egypt
Official story: founded 20 years ago by Ghada Abdelhak as a Nile-side boutique of Egyptian artisan textiles, jewelry and pottery. Indagare independently lists the same Zamalek door and describes a regional edit of embroidered bags, scarves, jewelry and linens.
Best for Egyptian artisan textiles, jewellery and pottery from a Nile-side boutique.
Zamalek, Cairo
Safarkhan Art Gallery, whose Instagram handle references 1968, exhibits contemporary and modernist Egyptian art across oil paintings, mixed media, sculpture, lithographs, watercolors and marble mosaics, including a Mosaics of Dahshur marble workshop collaboration. Artists shown include Omar Abdel Zaher, Ibrahim Khatab, Neama El Sanhoury and Katherine Bakhoum.
Best for Modern and contemporary egyptian art
Calgary
Alberta's only western boot manufacturer has cut, lasted, and stitched cowboy boots in Calgary since 1978, in a workshop open to visitors. The range runs from cattleman ropers to exotic ostrich, python, and bison hides, with custom pairs built to a client's measurements.
Best for Handcrafted western boots
Calgary Farmers' Market
Run by Cristina and Sofia at the Calgary Farmers' Market, CRAFTED gathers the work of emerging Canadian makers across jewellery, ceramics, apparel, and bath goods. The storefront acts as a shared shelf for small-batch and handmade producers, with online ordering and pickup.
Best for Locally made handmade goods
Cannes / France
Musae Collection is a shop on rue Notre-Dame in Cannes where design and craft pieces sit side by side.
Best for Design and craft for the home
Cannes / France
Victim of Gold is an atelier on rue des Serbes in Cannes that works with pure 24-carat gold.
Best for Work in 24-carat gold
Muizenberg, Cape Town
The studio at 30 Eastlake Drive, Marina da Gama, Muizenberg, Cape Town produces hand-painted table linen, cushions and fabric by the metre in collections such as Fynbos Garden and Guinea Fowl, designed by founder Carole Nevin. The business employs artisans on site and ships internationally.
Best for Hand-painted table linen and fabric
First Floor, 285 Upper Long Street, Gardens, Cape Town 8001, South Africa / Cape Town / South Africa
Cape Town ETC (22 Jun 2025) visited Jacques Vosloo at 285 Long Street and treats the shop as 25 years in Cape Town and one of South Africa's iconic record stores. Cape Town Magazine (updated 12 Feb 2024) independently gives First Floor, 285 Upper Long Street and the Searching for Sugar Man appearance.
Best for Records from a Cape Town shop at 285 Upper Long Street.
Bo-Kaap / Online
Monkeybiz is a Cape Town house for colourful African beadwork, unique bead art creations made by local township women, community empowerment crafts. Founded in 2000; Hand-beaded in South Africa by women artists.
Best for Colourful African beadwork, unique bead art creations made by local township women
Salt River, Cape Town
The Deckle Edge is an art supplies store at 13 Brickfield Road, Salt River, Cape Town, with a second location in Knysna, stocking brands including Liquitex, Winsor & Newton, Schmincke, Daniel Smith and Faber-Castell. It sells art materials, graphic supplies, paper products and craft/hobby items, and also runs workshops.
Best for Fine art materials and brand-name paint
Centro Histórico, Cartagena
Colombian brand founded by Christian Galvis in 2019, pairing ancestral craft with contemporary design. Colombian artisans, including mothers who head households, make every piece by hand from iraca palm and other natural fibres.
Best for Craft
Centro Histórico, Cartagena
Discover Archipiélago's sustainable luxury fashion, handmade in Colombia. Explore timeless designs in linen, cotton, and embroidered fabrics.
Best for Fashion
Gauthier, Casablanca
L'Atelier 21 is a gallery at 21 rue Abou Mahassine Arrouyani in Casablanca that represents artists including Hassan Hajjaj, Chourouk Hriech, Moustapha Boujemaoui, Said Afifi and M'barek Bouhchichi. Its program includes exhibitions, art fair participation, publications and press materials, with "Habiter l'interstice" by Safaa Erruas showing from 29 September to 7 November.
Best for Contemporary moroccan and african art
Casablanca / Morocco
Dar Al Kaftan is a Casablanca-based house of Moroccan caftans, offering ready-made and made-to-measure pieces across collections like Aswad and Casablanca as well as a dedicated bridal line. Shoppers can buy online or visit its boutiques, including The Eight Concept store in Casablanca and a corner inside Le Casablanca Hôtel.
Best for Kaftans, Moroccan bridal wear, made-to-order couture
Sector 36A, Chandigarh
Jasmine Bains runs a by-appointment luxury studio in Sector 36A known for eco-printed silk carrying botanical imprints, worked into evening gowns, saris, lehengas and bridal wear. The label pairs Indian craftsmanship with minimal, modern silhouettes and also makes satin scarves and accessories.
Best for Eco-printed silk and occasion wear
Charleston City Market
Corey Alston weaves Gullah sweetgrass baskets in Charleston, South Carolina, as a fifth-generation artisan carrying on a tradition dating back to the days of enslavement. He also offers sweetgrass photography, Gullah cuisine, and educational seminars on Gullah culture.
Best for Fifth generation gullah sweetgrass baskets
Cathedral Road, Chennai
This Cathedral Road boutique gathers Indian handloom textiles, block-printed fabric and folk handicrafts from across the country. Its shelves run to brass and wooden decor, cotton and silk apparel and craft-led gifting.
Best for Handloom textiles, handicrafts and home decor
Anna Salai, Chennai
The retail arm of the Tamil Nadu Handicrafts Development Corporation, Poompuhar sells work by state artisans: Swamimalai bronze idols, Thanjavur art plates, wood carving and palm-leaf ware. Its Anna Salai emporium gathers craft from across Tamil Nadu under government pricing.
Best for Tamil Nadu handicrafts and bronze idols
Mylapore & T. Nagar, Chennai
This Chennai silk house specialises in pure Kanchipuram pattu sarees woven from mulberry silk with real-zari borders. Its collections span bridal wedding silks, temple-border weaves and lighter soft-silk drapes sourced from Tamil Nadu's handloom clusters.
Best for Kanchipuram silk sarees
7-3-5 Murasaki, Chikushino-shi, Fukuoka 818-0061, Japan / Chikushino / Japan
Nishimura Orimono is a working Hakata-ori weaver; Gihei Nishimura opened the weaving factory in 1861 after studying under the Shirouzu family (one of the Edo twelve licensed houses); ORIBA at the factory entrance sells obi and accessories.
Best for Nishimura Orimono is the oldest Hakata-ori weaver still operating.
Collioure, France
An art gallery and shop in Collioure trading under the theme of art and material. It shows and sells work by artists in the Catalan coastal town where Matisse and Derain painted.
Best for Art and craft objects
Thimbirigasyaya, Colombo 05
Buddhi Batiks began in Sri Lanka in 1971 when Buddhi and Ranasiri Keerthisena started making batik together. Their early work grew from a shirt into a workshop and shop, with wall art and flags also appearing in the brand's history. A 2023 retrospective account describes their daughter Darshi continuing that work as creative director and chief executive.
Best for Sri Lankan batik with a family workshop history
Buddhi Batiks began almost by accident in 1971: Ranasiri Keerthisena wanted to surprise her journalist husband Buddhi with a batik shirt for his birthday, but the artist she approached fell through. Buddhi, an artist himself, suggested they make it together — and that single shirt became the genesis of the business, first run from a workshop behind their home with a shop out front.
Early tourist success led to invitations to exhibit in Europe, particularly Scandinavia and Germany, with the proceeds funding the business's expansion. Over a career spanning more than 40 years, Buddhi Keerthisena became one of the artisans credited with shaping the modern standard of Sri Lankan batik, helping establish it as part of the country's cultural identity.
His daughter Darshi Keerthisena, who holds a B.A. Hons in Fashion and Textile Design from Birmingham City University, took over the family business in 2005 and has continued developing its hand-drawn batik shirts, dresses, sarongs and accessories in contemporary designs. The brand maintains a public presence primarily through its Facebook page rather than a dedicated e-commerce site.
Colombo 06, Colombo
Caveman Redux began in 2019 with handcrafted herbal bath bombs created by Yasanga Senadeera and Nethmi Hewage. The business expanded into essential oils and hydrosols, plus aromatic diffusers and plant ingredients. These are product categories and parts of its founding story, not evidence of therapeutic benefits or a guarantee that every ingredient is grown in Sri Lanka.
Best for Bath products, essential oils and hydrosols
Caveman Redux was founded in 2019 in Colombo by Yasanga Senadeera, then a law student, and Nethmi Hewage, a chemical engineering student, who started the business as a small-batch project making handcrafted herbal bath bombs. The name fuses "Redux," meaning revival, with "Caveman," a nod to ancestral knowledge, summarized in the brand's own tagline, "Where Lifestyle Meets Nature." The founders built the company around reviving Sri Lankan and broader South Asian wellness traditions — drawing on Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, and Buddhist practice — for a domestic market they judged underserved by genuinely natural, plant-based alternatives. Their catalogue grew from that first bath-bomb batch into steam-distilled essential oils, extracted from botanicals such as Boswellia sacra resin for frankincense oil and Cupressus leaves for cypress oil, alongside carrier oils, herbal powders, and skincare. Caveman Redux describes itself as an early mover in introducing aroma diffusers to the Sri Lankan market and in making hydrosols — the aromatic water co-produced during essential-oil distillation, often discarded elsewhere — available as a retail product in their own right. The shop ships island-wide and internationally from its Colombo 6 storefront, positioning itself less as a boutique gift shop than as a working link between traditional Sri Lankan plant knowledge and a contemporary wellness customer.
Colombo
Handmade batik clothing in silk and cotton with floral artistry and beadwork, made by an all-women design team in Sri Lanka. Collections include Colombo Batik Luxury, Sari, Everyday and Studio lines.
Best for Handmade batik clothing and sarees
Colombo
Led by designer Lonali Rodrigo, House of Lonali is Sri Lanka's pioneering upcycling label, turning textile waste into clothing and accessories through zero-waste, circular methods. The studio pairs its own collections with design-and-manufacture services and reports recovering more than ten thousand kilos of fabric offcuts since 2019.
Best for Upcycled fashion and accessories
Independence Square, Colombo 07
Government-approved handicraft centre offering woodcarvings, brassware, silverware, batik, textiles and gemstones in a heritage setting.
Best for Woodcarvings, brassware, silverware, batik, and gemstones in a government-approved heritage handicraft centre
Colombo 05, Colombo
A fair-trade handloom store selling saris, clothing, accessories, toys, table linen, bed linen, and homeware made from handloom textiles. Sandra Wanduragala founded Selyn in 1991 with 15 women working from her home garage in Kurunegala.
Best for Fair-trade handloom saris, table linen, and homeware
Colombo 05
Retail outlet for the ethical market network offering organic food, natural skincare, handcrafted items and eco-friendly products.
Best for Organic food, natural skincare, and handcrafted eco-friendly products
Como
Larioseta manufactures silk scarves and fashion accessories in the Como textile district. It sells printed foulards and scarves directly through its own online shop.
Best for Silk scarves
Como
Silkpro produces silk fabric in the Lake Como textile district and sells it by the metre through its own site. The company markets its cloth as made in Italy for fashion and accessories.
Best for Silk fabric by the metre
Como / Italy
Ventidue & Cento on Via Cesare Cantù in Como searches out artisanal brands made in Italy.
Best for Artisanal labels made in Italy
Gelsted (near Copenhagen)
Hans J. Wegner's workshop — the exclusive manufacturer of Wegner's Wishbone Chair (Y-stolen), Shell Chair, and other mid-century Danish classics. Handcrafted in oak, walnut, and cherry since 1908.
Best for The Wishbone Chair, the Wegner classics, and the handcrafted quality.
Vesterbro (Vesterbrogade 137)
A workshop and shop on Vesterbrogade where kidney-shaped tables are built on the premises and more than seventy Danish craftspeople supply ceramics, jewellery and glass. The two-floor space keeps the woodworking studio in view of the sales floor.
Best for Made-to-order tables and Danish craft
Copenhagen / Online
Copenhagen fashion label founded in 1981 by designer and former dancer Jan Machenhauer; known for architecturally cut clothing in natural fabrics, produced and sewn locally in Copenhagen for over four decades.
Best for Architectural cuts in washed cottons from a Copenhagen atelier since 1979
Jan Machenhauer founded his eponymous Copenhagen label in 1981, following training at the Royal Danish Academy. His earlier background as a dancer informs the label's design language, centering on the relationship between shape and function; the resulting clothes have a sculptural, architecturally inspired quality. Production has stayed local: for more than 40 years, pieces have been designed and sewn in Copenhagen using natural fabrics. Machenhauer also co-founded the French scarf and knitwear house EPICE Paris with Bess Nielsen in 1999.
Vesterbro, Copenhagen
The global craft beer phenomenon's home base — Mikkel Borg Bjergsø started in a Copenhagen kitchen and built an empire. The Vesterbro bar has 20 rotating taps of experimental, boundary-pushing beer.
Best for The 20 rotating taps, the experimental beers, and the craft beer origin.
Multiple locations, Copenhagen
Copenhagen's boundary-pushing brewery — founded by two Noma alumni, To Øl produces some of Denmark's most innovative craft beers. The Brus brewpub in Nørrebro is their flagship.
Best for The Noma alumni founders, the innovative beers, and the Brus brewpub.
Nørrebro, Copenhagen
Master potter Eric Landon hand-throws stoneware, including a vase collection, at his studio in Nørrebro, Copenhagen. He also runs hands-on throwing workshops in Copenhagen and Bergamo, Italy.
Best for Hand-thrown stoneware vases
Downtown bayfront, Corpus Christi, Texas
A nonprofit gallery and artist co-op on the downtown bayfront showing contemporary work, running classes and stocking a gift shop of local and regional art. An on-site bistro overlooks the marina, and memberships and donations keep the center running.
Best for Local and regional artists' work
Downtown bayfront, Corpus Christi, Texas
A bayfront museum on North Shoreline Boulevard mounting art exhibitions and education programs in its white Philip Johnson-designed building. Its public gift shop carries art and craft goods tied to the collection and regional makers.
Best for Museum store art and craft goods
Ollantaytambo, Sacred Valley (Cusco region)
Awamaki is a fair-trade nonprofit in Ollantaytambo that partners with Quechua women's cooperatives to sell handwoven and hand-knit alpaca accessories through its shop and online store. Revenue funds weaving, business and tourism training for the artisan members in the surrounding Sacred Valley communities.
Best for Hand-knit and handwoven alpaca accessories supporting women's weaving cooperatives
Km 23 Cusco–Pisac road, Sacred Valley (Cusco region)
Awana Kancha, a family-run living museum at Km 23 of the Cusco–Pisac road, keeps alpacas, llamas, vicuñas and guanacos alongside weavers who demonstrate natural dyeing and backstrap looms. Its shop sells textiles made by the highland communities of the surrounding valleys.
Best for Camelid encounters and community textiles
San Blas, Cusco
Hilo is a small clothing atelier in Cusco's San Blas art district, where designer Eibhlin Cassidy reworks cloth that is patched, overdyed, pleated and hand-stitched into one-off garments. The shop sells its reimagined silhouettes directly from a hillside studio open daily above the old city.
Best for Hand-worked, one-off reconstructed garments
Atoqsaykuchi, Cusco San Blas
El mejor Café de Cusco en el corazón de San Blas. Ofrece servicio de desayunos, postres y bebidas calientes. Descubre éste rincón mágico !
Best for Design
Cusco / Online
UNESCO-recognized master weaver Máximo Laura and his Cusco atelier weave Andean cosmology into tapestries of shocking color — collected by museums, visitable in the workshop. Peruvian textile art at its summit.
Best for Museum-grade Andean tapestry
Central Cusco (Calle Santa Catalina Ancha area)
Máximo Laura, recognised by UNESCO as a living human treasure, weaves densely textured tapestries of condors, jaguars and Andean cosmology, shown at his eponymous museum and gallery in central Cusco. The studio sells finished pieces and runs multi-day weaving workshops in Spanish and English.
Best for Contemporary Andean art tapestries
San Blas, Cusco
Gallery and atelier of Maximo Laura, a Peruvian master weaver designated a UNESCO Living Human Treasure. His handwoven tapestries fuse ancient Andean textile traditions with contemporary, color-rich imagery drawing on Andean spirituality and nature; the studio also runs tapestry-weaving workshops.
Best for Maximo Laura's handwoven Andean tapestries and tapestry-weaving workshops
Cusco
The Fair Trade Store sells Peruvian artisan goods through an explicitly ethical retail model in Cusco. Its Facebook profile is the available first-party path for current stock, opening information and contact.
Best for Fair-trade Peruvian artisan goods
Cusco (works with cooperatives across the Cusco region)
Threads of Peru is a Cusco social enterprise that channels sales directly to six Quechua weaving associations across the Sacred Valley, Patacancha, Mapacho and Ausangate areas. Its online shop lists handspun, naturally dyed alpaca and wool pieces credited to the cooperatives and master weavers who make them.
Best for Fair-trade handwoven textiles sourced directly from named highland cooperatives
Cusco
Tukuy works in baby alpaca from the Peruvian Andes, producing undyed scarves, shawls, beanies and blankets in the fleece's own natural colors, named in Quechua. The brand sells its cruelty-free knitwear direct with worldwide shipping, its collections photographed around Cusco.
Best for Undyed baby-alpaca scarves, shawls and blankets
Daejeon / South Korea
SOSOROWA in Daejeon sells illustration goods and handmade products from over two hundred artist teams.
Best for Illustration goods and handmade art
Dakar
Anta Germaine Gaye, a visual artist, founded the workshop in 1999 on avenue Bourguiba in Dakar. The atelier works in iron, wood, glass and gold leaf, and hosts collaborative exhibitions with visiting artists.
Best for Iron and glass art pieces
25 rue Mohamed V & Rue Felix Faure, Plateau / Online
Galerie Adam’s Dakar rooms move between older West African sculpture, ritual objects, furniture and contemporary work. The mix calls for careful provenance questions, since the site presents broad categories more clearly than individual object histories.
Best for African art, ritual objects, sculpture, furniture and contemporary work
Dakar
A contemporary concept house curating African-made goods across four counters: natural cosmetics, fine grocery, artisanal crafts and accessories. The shop presents itself as an editorial retail space built to spotlight African makers rather than a single label.
Best for Curated African design and gifts
Dar es Salaam / Online
Handmade From Tanzania is a maker in Dar es Salaam known for handwoven textiles using 100% Tanzanian-grown cotton, spun and dyed at their workshop.
Best for Handwoven textiles using 100% Tanzanian-grown cotton, spun and dyed at their workshop
Dar es Salaam
Working from a Dar es Salaam studio tied to the movement Edward Tingatinga began in 1968, this artist collective paints the enamel-bright birds, animals and village scenes that define the Tingatinga style. Each canvas is sold under the name of the Tanzanian artist who painted it and shipped directly from the studio.
Best for Original Tingatinga paintings straight from the artists
Dar es Salaam / Online
Tingatinga Art Centre in Dar es Salaam — Authentic Tingatinga paintings and watching artists at work in the tradition founded by Edward Saidi Tingatinga.
Best for Tingatinga Art Centre in Dar es Salaam — Authentic Tingatinga paintings
Oysterbay/Masaki
The Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society, based on Haile Selassie Road near Shrijees Supermarket in Dar es Salaam's Msasani Peninsula, sells Tingatinga-style paintings from its showroom and takes custom work on canvas, mugs, hangers, walls and cars. Its leadership includes chairman Rubuni Rashid, secretary Witness Kimaro and treasurer Akilimali Issa, and its portfolio lists 20 named artists including Mimus and Zuberi.
Best for Tingatinga style paintings
Dedoplistskaro, Kakheti (Georgia)
Georgia's only natural-dye workshop — Nino Bakhutashvili founded Pesvebi ('roots') in 2005 to resurrect Kizikian carpet weaving from museum archives after the craft vanished from living memory. Madder root for crimson, onion skins for brown, wool from Tush shepherds; carpets, bags and home textiles woven by local women at the edge of Vashlovani's semi-desert.
Best for Kizikian carpets in colors pulled from plants, not catalogs.
New Delhi
Founded in 2013, Aikeyah makes handcrafted womenswear to order in its New Delhi workshop, favouring locally sourced fabrics and a recurring rose motif. The line runs to jackets, saris, lehengas, kurtas and coordinated sets built around classic silhouettes.
Best for Made-to-order handcrafted womenswear
D-7, Block D, Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024, India / New Delhi / India
Inside Retail Asia (2024) records CEO Palak Shah as fourth-generation Banarasi textile manufacturers; official stores page lists a Defence Colony walk-in.
Best for Banarasi textiles from a fourth-generation manufacturing family.
Connaught Place, New Delhi
India's heritage brand since 1960 — hand-block printed textiles, organic skincare, furniture and contemporary Indian wear made by rural artisans across 22 states.
Best for Indian craft & textiles.
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