People before listings
Meet the people who make it.
A Folkari shop begins with a person: what they make, how they make it, and what they can honestly produce.
Founding market preview. Maker profiles below are prototype inventory until the first approved shops open.
folkari.com/marisolclay
Marisol Vega
Wheel-thrown stoneware · Oakland, California
One kiln load. Forty pieces. Whatever the ash does that week is what you get.
02 piecesfolkari.com/hollowforge
Nnamdi Okafor
Forged kitchen steel · Providence, Rhode Island
Twelve knives a month. That is the honest number, so that is the number.
02 piecesfolkari.com/saltandsilver
Iris Bergström
Hand-fabricated silver · Portland, Maine
Sawn from sheet. Soldered at the bench. Sized to your finger.
02 piecesfolkari.com/verdantglass
Kai Tanaka
Hot-shop glass · Seattle, Washington
One furnace session. Whatever survives the anneal goes up.
01 piecesfolkari.com/boundbyjune
June Alvarez
Hand-bound books · Santa Fe, New Mexico
Sewn by hand, so the spine opens flat and stays that way.
02 piecesfolkari.com/thicketleather
Rowan Byrne
Saddle-stitched leather · Asheville, North Carolina
One hide a month. When it is cut up, the drop is over.
01 piecesMake something yourself?