Most of the artists in Handmade Lookup are in the USA. This page makes it easy for you to find them. Browsing is easy. Just hover your cursor over an image and click to see an excerpt of the artist’s profile, plus links you click to see all the places that artist has products (e.g., Shopping Portal, Etsy, Amazon). Entries are displayed here in alphabetical order. You can scroll through everything, or click Open Categories and make a selection from the category list. Categories display recent entries first.
Custom Art Jewelry and Hand Cut Stones I started making jewelry back in Jr. High for my friends and myself. I mostly made funky punk rock earrings that we could not find in any store. I stopped making jewelry when I started a family and career, but one day when watching the Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah had on this amazing necklace.…
Silver & Gold Hand Forged Artisan Jewelry In the hills of rural northern California, I live way out in an area called the lost coast, and work in an off grid, solar powered studio. Shop practices are eco friendly as are shipping and packaging. A gold and silver smith with over 22 years experience, I make every piece of jewelry in my shop entirely by myself, using the traditional metalsmithing techniques of forging (moving metal with hammers), fabricating (connecting formed metal with solder), and fine stone setting.…
Recycled/Upcycled Hubcap Clocks My name is Wendell Pohl and I live on a farm along a branch of Eight Mile Creek west of Baldwin City, Kansas. My wife, Marsha, and I live just up the road from where I grew up. Our home which was recently remodeled was built before 1890. My father and I worked together on the farm until he passed away in 1996.…
Silver, Gold, and Fine Gemstone Jewelry: Born in Tunisia and now settled in Woodstock, New York, Adel Chefridi creates jewels that cross cultures and time. He often draws on ancient and intricate motifs found in the art and architecture of his native land. Yet he instills a contemporary aesthetic rooted in an understated subtlety and an affinity for light and movement.…
Clothes and Art with Japanese themes (AdAm talking) We met in 2001 shortly after 9/11. Hiromi and some school friends were taking a tour of Boston. I was one of those cheesy tourist trap tour photographers. Fortunately Hiromi and friends were literally the only people taking a tour that day. So I had plenty of time for my sales pitch and to meet Hiromi.…
Upcycled Inner Tube Bags & Accessories While medieval alchemists sought to turn lead into gold, we strive to turn useless stuff like blown-out inner tubes, old seatbelts and advertising banners into useful stuff like bags and wallets. Another word for this is upcycling. Recycling turns stuff into the same thing over and over again. Upcycling turns something of lesser value into something of greater value.
Classic Nostalgic Clothing Alexandra Grecco released her first collection in the Spring of 2010, finding inspiration in the designs of eras past and cinematic landscapes, both real and imaginary. Based in Brooklyn, Grecco creates classic, feminine designs that, while rooted in nostalgia, achieve a sense of timelessness. She proudly produces her clothes in New York's garment district and endeavors to create heirloom quality garments that last.
One-of-a-Kind Eco-Friendly Clothing Armour sans Anguish garments are constructed entirely from recycled and reclaimed materials. We embrace the tattered and disheveled quality of vintage materials and try to imbue each garment with the spirit of using what is already out in the world, creating a sustainable, Eco-conscious approach to wearable couture. If you're cool with unfinished, raw edges, asymmetry, and wearing fabrics that possess a unique history, then we're cool with you!…
Gold, Silver and Stone Jewelry Ananda draws inspiration from natural forms, and the vibrant luminosity of natural gemstones. She strives to capture the precious quality found in ancient jewelry, while creating pieces with a modern sensibility. All of the gems used are hand picked for their unique and exceptional characteristics. Many of her pieces contain an original painting on paper, which is set behind crystal in silver or 22k gold.…
Gold and Silver Jewelry Jewelry artist Andrea Corson takes innovative and fresh approaches to making her collection of handmade jewelry. Andrea uses dramatic sculptural forms along with sterling silver, gold, and gold vermeil, an alloy of sterling silver and 14k gold. Andreas unique jewelry is handmade in New York City
Original Art & Art Prints My name is Anisa Makhoul I’m the daughter of a Lebanese beekeeper, and I recently discovered my love for illustration. After graduating from Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a degree in Printmaking, I launched my own clothing label, Makool. I designed and screen printed clothing and fabric at Makool, for 10 years, in that time I had my own shop in Portland, Oregon and received accolades from major publications like Lucky Magazine, Nylon, and Design Sponge, as well as designing for multiple celebrities.…
Silver and Resin Jewelry From an early age I have been fascinated by Classical and Modern art. I also discovered in my teens that I love to create jewelry, and began honing my skills to become proficient in silversmithing. But it wasn’t until I began working with Carol Baretz of Ann Carol Designs in 1999 that I learned to marry my two favorite things into one.…
Antiques of Tomorrow -- Today! This site features the work of rural Vermont artisans creating exquisite Modern furniture and architectural fixtures and collectible reproduction furniture in Shaker, Colonial, and Mission styles. Most of the artisans who have contributed to this site work primarily on commission. We hope that you will see something you like here and call or email us, asking us to make:
- precisely the piece you see
- a similar piece
- or any kind of piece that you have in mind. …
Art Deco & Pop Art Prints Shano studied Art History at California State University of Northridge and University of Utah, as well as a year of Fashion Illustration at The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Sherman Oaks, California. (Which greatly influences her style of painting) Other influences are: Tamara de Lempicka, Amedeo Modgliani, Gustav Klimt, Franz Marc, and Marc Chagal, Erte, as well as fashion illustrators of past and present.…
After several years of working in the field of architecture, Ashka Dymel began to design jewelry and small objects. Since 1990 she has run her own studio in Brooklyn, New York. Ashka lives with her husband and son in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Ashka’s approach to jewelry making and design is informed by her architectural training and background.…
Custom Made High-Style Shirts, Skirts, Dresses Babooshka graduated fashion school in 2005. After completing design school she opened her first shop later that year. Within the first few months of being open Babooshka earned a lot of respect in the Philadelphia fashion community. Lots of press soon came her way. Babooshka was the first fashion feature on only the second day of DailyCandy.com Philadelphia.…
When I design the leather items that I make, I strive to preserve the simplicity and raw authenticity of the leather itself. I don’t use anything other than genuine leather in my products, and I allow the inside surfaces and stitching on the products to be visible. The intricate rows of stitching and the beautiful natural underside of the leather add character and compliment the aesthetic of the leather goods.…
Socially responsible silver & gold jewelry Ever since I was a young girl, I have enjoyed creating three dimensional art from found objects – whatever is within reach. I’ve fashioned huge sculptures using empty soda cans and suspended them from a ceiling, made stylish outfits using scraps of fabric and a stapler (ouch!) and spent hours “baking” mud pies in my back yard.…
BB Becker Inspirational Jewelry Falling in love prompted my first attempt to make jewelry in the mid-1980s. I found used pieces to deconstruct and reassemble into gifts for my future wife. Today's BB Becker designs are a collaborative effort as the image of my wife's handwriting is individually engraved on each piece. My Tai Chi practice for 35 years (20 a Master) inspires design elements.…
Handmade Leather Shoes Born in Southern California, inspired by the tough and resilient streets of Bedford Stuyvesant NY, we opened for business in a small converted warehouse / design studio a short distance from Downtown Los Angeles nearly twenty years ago in 1995. Over the years we have grown into a diverse, creative, and fiercely independent group of people with shared passion, purpose, and pride in the products we make.…
Handcrafted Pillows & Decor for Children My name is Karen and I am a mom of two beautiful girls, Roni and Dana. Since I can remember I always loved arts and crafts and when Mina came along and I wanted to decorate her room I realized that I had lots of ideas to make her room a friendly, warm and in short an experience that would prompt her to be active and alert. …
Handmade Leather Handbags & Wallets We create Bellorita handbags for women who truly want to own and wear something unique. We are always excited each time we create one of our Bellorita bags. Each is handmade to order, and we make sure that the same attention to detail is used on each bag we create. This shows in the unique designs and high quality of every handbag that comes from Bellorita.…
Raised in rural Indiana, Beth Mueller now lives in Barre, Vermont, where she creates splendid hand-painted ceramic pieces. Beth received a BA from Eckerd College. During here time there, she also worked at Studio Santa Reparata in Florence Italy, learning printmaking. Upon graduation, she served a two-year apprenticeship in the pottery studio of John Glick. Her work is also influenced by the experience she gained before becoming a professional artist.…
Hand-Screened Original Art Tees Hello! I'm Jody, and I'm the designer and illustrator behind Blackbird Tees. Karl, my sweet, bearded boyfriend, helps out behind the scenes with inventory, wholesale, and accounting. We're self-taught in every aspect of the business, and we put an enormous amount of thought into the design, printing, and photography of each item.…
Millefiori Porcelain Jewelry We create our porcelain pieces using an ancient technique known variously as millefiori, neriage, and nerikome. The extreme detail and intense color in our ceramic work results from the use of over 500 different colors of clay to create our carefully designed clay loaves. Next, cross-sections are sliced from the loaves, and these sections are shaped and finished into individual pieces, then glazed and fired twice.…
From the beginning of the design process, people are involved hand and heart. Since 1986, when Jennifer Barclay began making clothing in her parents’ garage, every single piece of the hundreds of thousands of Blue Fish garments that have been made have been printed by an artisan’s hand. The design process begins with concepts and ideas that are sketched by hand then move through many steps and are transformed into the reality of beautiful, collectible garments.…
Elegant Cut Stone Jewelry Hassan Bounkit, a native of Morocco, began his career studying fashion design in Florence, Italy. After finishing his studies, he worked for couture houses Ferragamo and Marella Ferrera. In 1989, he moved to New York and worked for Nicole Miller and Arnold Scaasi, amongst others. Always drawn to jewelry design, Bounkit launched his eponymy’s collection in 2006.…
Kiln-Formed Glass Vessels Brenda Griffith's work is an eclectic mix of functional architectural glass home furnishings (sinks, backsplashes, tiles, lighting fixtures, fountains, vessels) and glass art (one-of-a-kind boxes, sculptures, window and wall panels). She is a two-time NICHE Award finalist in the category Fused Glass. Her work can be found in private collections in Europe and the US and in over 100 galleries from the US Virgin Islands to Canada.…