8 GREAT spots to buy handmade in the Cape

Imiso ceramics
Nothing has quite the appeal of handmade when it comes to gifts and extraordinary products for around your home. Particularly as these days, handmade no longer means your aunt produced it in wool that she had lying around the house. Nowadays, handmade comes very closely associated with terms like ‘green’, ‘ethical’ and ’sophisticated’, and one is surrounded by slogans that include ‘the handmade pledge!’ and ‘I buy handmade’ and indeed, there are now so many different unique gifts and products in the craft world that handmade has taken on a life of its own.
In the Cape, craft shopping for handmade is BIG. There are shops crawling out of the woodwork, many of them boutique-style, upmarket showcases of the diversity, fun and creativity of craft producers in this country, with vibey, sophisticated names that prepare you for select craft objects, rather than the sympathy products that used to pass as handmade craft. Continued
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