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Handicraft Markets: A Guide for Shopping Gifts this Festive Season

Handicraft Markets: A Guide for Shopping Gifts this Festive Season

Photo courtesy of 4 Seasons market

The holiday season is coming soon. In Moscow, you can buy gifts not only at the huge shopping malls, but also at local artisan markets where you can find one-of-a-kind items and support small businesses. This weekend, there will be three different markets with handmade ceramics, jewellery, knitted wear, and sweets. Even if you don’t buy anything, they are worth visiting just to take a walk and enjoy the atmosphere.

4-Season Market

On December 10–11, 100 stalls with handmade items from 4-Season Market will welcome visitors to Artplay. Discover Christmas gifts ranging from salted caramel jars and handmade cards to aroma fragrances, gift sets and decorative items. 4-Season Market also invites you to add some color to your wardrobe with designer dresses, woolen mittens, and diverse jewelry. And for those who would like to make a gift with their own hands, there will be a variety of handicraft workshops led by experienced creators and brand owners.

On the second floor of 4-Season, the exhibition-fair ‘Plein Air-Moscow’ will open again. It will present photos, drawings, and paintings of its members, as well as host a school of fine arts where everyone can learn the basics of drawing.

Address: 10 Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya Ulitsa
Ticket price: free entry
Opening hours: 12 pm–8 pm.
How to get there: It is recommended to take exit 5 from metro station Chkalovskaya. Artplay is located 1 km from there.
 

Wool Bazaar

This weekend, the second Wool Bazaar will be held. The bazaar is a meeting space for a variety of knitting masters, fashion designers, artisans, yarn stores and connoisseurs of handmade goods. The event will take place at Flacon Design Factory.

Address: 36 Bolshaya Novodmitrovskaya Ulitsa
Ticket price: free entry
Opening hours: 12 pm–8 pm
How to get there: Design Factory is located 400 meters from the exit 4 of Dmitrovskaya metro station.

ArtFlection CraftMasters Festival

ArtFlection is the biggest craft festival in Russia. Held several times a year at the largest venues in Moscow, it is a meeting place for more than 150 craft masters from Russia and all over the world. This festival this season, 200 craftspeople from across the country will present their handmade items.

Visitors can enjoy looking at all the handmade clothes, sculptures, jewelry, dishes, dolls, Christmas decorations, and postcards—from practical items for everyday use to exhibition and collectible pieces. All are ideal choices for your Christmas gifts.

Address: Amber Plaza, 36 Krasnoproletarskaya Ulitsa
Ticket price: 100–400 roubles. Buy tickets in advance.
Opening hours: 11 pm–8 pm
How to get there: Amber Plaza is located 300 meters from exit 1 of Novoslobodskaya metro statio.

Text by Lý Trang, second-year master’s student of Critical Media Studies, intern at the HSE University English website team