ORBISCRAFT & ATELIERS IN HANOI 9 shops in the atlas.Illustration
Craft & Ateliers in Hanoi
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Chula Fashion cuts and decorates garments in-house in Hanoi, joining Spanish and Vietnamese design influences through work with its local artisan team. Craft Link sells work by Vietnamese artisan groups through a fair-trade social enterprise, with textiles alongside baskets and lacquerware. Hanoia House applies Vietnamese lacquer techniques to home accessories and jewellery, bringing those methods into objects intended for contemporary use.
Spanish artists Diego Cortizas and Laura Fontan founded Chula in Hanoi in 2004, blending Spanish and Vietnamese design; garments are cut, sewn, painted and embroidered in-house, and about 75% of the artisan team has a physical disability.
Best for Colorful, artist-led garments made with local Hanoi teams
Chula Fashion was founded in Hanoi in 2004 by Diego Cortizas and Laura Fontan, who had arrived in Vietnam some years earlier and were drawn into fashion design by the country's fabrics and craft traditions. The brand takes its name from a Spanish word connoting something distinctive, and its design language merges Spanish and Vietnamese influences. Production is kept in-house at every stage - designing, cutting, sewing, painting, stamping and embroidering - carried out by a team of skilled artisans, roughly three-quarters of whom have a physical disability, a detail the brand frames as core to its social mission. Cortizas, previously a photographer, painter and musician engaged with Hanoi's art scene, has also used the boutique as a venue for exhibitions and musical performances.
A lacquerware boutique producing modern home accessories and jewelry through traditional Vietnamese lacquer techniques. Vietnam Tourism says even small pieces require at least 100 days to make.
Best for Modern lacquer home accessories and jewelry, each piece taking at least 100 days to make.
Opened in December 2000 facing Hanoi's Temple of Literature, Indigo Store is a fair-trade shop employing around 120 producers, including disabled artisans and members of seven ethnic minority groups. It sells handmade indigo textiles and offers free custom tailoring plus indigo-dyeing classes.
Best for Fair-trade ethnic-minority textiles and custom tailoring near Hanoi's Temple of Literature
Indigo Store opened in December 2000 directly opposite Hanoi's Temple of Literature, positioning itself from the outset as an organic and fair-trade outlet rather than a standard tourist souvenir shop. The store employs roughly 120 producers, deliberately including disabled workers and artisans from more than seven different ethnic minority communities across Vietnam.
Its stated purpose is preserving and promoting the traditional costume culture and handicraft techniques of those communities, translated into clothing — shirts, skirts, pants and jackets — plus scarves, bags, jewelry and home textiles like bedspreads, made from natural materials including linen, cotton and hemp. Custom tailoring is offered at no extra charge and is frequently completed quickly, a detail repeatedly noted by visitors.
The shop also runs an indigo-dyeing class on-site, giving visitors a hands-on introduction to the traditional Vietnamese indigo-dyeing process rather than only a retail experience.
A Hanoi slow-fashion studio using natural dyes and traditional textile processes. Established 2012.
Best for Vietnamese natural dyes, handwoven cloth and studio-made clothing
Kilomet109 is a Hanoi slow-fashion studio founded in 2012 by designer, artist, and eco-entrepreneur Thao Vu, recognized as one of the figures who helped establish Hanoi's contemporary fashion scene. The label's garments are produced by hand in Vu's Tây Hồ studio using naturally sourced, eco-friendly dyes — including traditional indigo dyeing — alongside hand-spinning, hand-weaving, and hand-stitching carried out in direct collaboration with local artisans rather than industrial manufacturing. Design details such as flexible panels, detachable elements, and convertible hoods allow single pieces to be styled multiple ways, an approach Vu has framed as central to the brand's philosophy: 'the value of our pieces is about more than their design,' she has said, describing garments as carriers of 'the culture of the people who make them and the environmental issues that are so vital to our future.' The label has been featured in Harper's Bazaar and profiled by Channel News Asia's CNA Luxury as part of a story on artisan collaboration and environmental commitment in Vietnamese fashion, shown a runway collection titled Phiêu with ELLE Vietnam, exhibited at the London Design Biennale after debuting the work in Hanoi, and been the subject of a THE KINDCRAFT interview alongside an art installation titled SUI. The brand's flagship operates from 64 Quảng An in Hanoi's Tây Hồ (West Lake) district.
Four generations of mother-to-daughter hand embroidery on Hanoi's silk street since 1969 — begun with wartime handkerchiefs stitched with love words for soldiers, now a 1,000 m² design house at 61 Hang Gai whose double-sided silk needlework is gifted to visiting royalty.
Best for Double-sided Vietnamese silk embroidery from the source.
The shop specialises in hand-painted reproductions of Vietnamese propaganda posters, printed and painted in Hanoi on rice paper across war, peace and Ho Chi Minh themes. Expert copyists recreate the bold two-colour graphics of the wartime originals rather than selling fragile antiques.
Best for Hand-painted propaganda poster reproductions
Vui Studio presents contemporary Vietnamese objects, printed matter and small design-led goods in a studio-shop setting. Its social feed is the clearest current source for releases, workshops and visiting information.
Best for Objects and print showcasing contemporary Vietnamese creativity
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