Handicraft & gifts
Kukka-Tuula
Kukka-Tuula is a Christmas vendor with over 30 years of experience, bringing beautiful wreaths, garlands, and decorative balls made from evergreens and moss to the Kuopio Christmas Market. Floral arrangements for the holiday season are especially close to her heart, and all products are crafted primarily from natural materials. Come get inspired and discover the most beautiful details for your own Christmas!
Babadum
Babadum® brings to the Christmas Market felted forest animal-themed finger puppets, Christmas decorations, animal slippers, home décor items, and felt boots. These handmade products are responsibly produced in Nepal, providing employment for women. The recipient, giver, and creators alike will feel joy, thanks to the Kuopio-based Babadum®.
Facebook/ Instagram @babadumshop
Miisku Design
MiiskuDesign is a one-woman business based in Helsinki. MiiskuDesign creates craft supplies, jewelry, and small home decor items made from certified Finnish birch plywood. The selection also includes hand-knitted merino wool beanies. All products are designed and handmade in the Helsinki-based workshop.
Facebook/Instagram @miiskudesign
Lasistudio Jan Torstensson Oy is a family business specializing in the design of recycled glass. The company combines ecological thinking, creativity, and a long family tradition of glassblowing. Jan Torstensson’s ancestors have been glassblowers since at least the early 1600s. Today, this tradition is carried on by his son, Antti Torstensson. Lasistudio Jan Torstensson is committed to preserving and honoring this long-standing glassblowing heritage.
Facebook/Instagram: @lasistudio
Tmi HarjaNi
Tmi Harjani makes a variety of handmade brushes from natural materials under the Annansilmät product line. The selection includes, for example, heart-shaped brushes, vegetable brushes, street brushes, floor brushes, pot scrubbers, cleaning brushes, bottle brushes, sauna brushes, and clothes brushes. The brush handles are made from materials such as birch, and the bristles are crafted from various plant fibers and horsehair.
Facebook @handmadebrushes / Instagram @tmiharjani
teranmäenpaja Oy
Teranmäki workshop has been operating since 2014 and the products have gained a lot of popularity all over Finland. Teranmäki offers unique handmade decorative and utility items as well as larger stuctures. The products are handmade in Jäppilä by blacksmith Tero Vepsäläinen.
Facebook @taontapajaarcturus
Instagram @teranmaen_paja
onnenpussi
“Sweet, popular & gentle handmade salt soaps and string soaps from Onnenpussi’s own soap workshop in North Karelia.
Gentle handmade salt soaps with plenty of sea salt, suitable for all skin types, especially dry, rough and atopic skin. The naturally antiseptic salt neutralizes skin bacteria making you feel fresh. The natural fats and oils contained in salt soaps and the minerals of sea salt help maintain the moisture balance of your skin. Suitable for the face, hands and the whole body.
Vegan, no palm oil, no animal testing, handmade in North Karelia, in Liperi, key flag mark.”
Facebook / Instagram @onnenpussi
You can find Onnenpussi´s products in the Christmas Market deli & gift shop.
luonteva
Luonteva is a small family-owned business from Veteli, Central Ostrobothnia, crafting natural cosmetics for over 10 years — with a kiss from the heart, just for you. Luonteva produces shower soaps, salt soaps, foot bath salts, a variety of hair and beard products, lip balms, and creams — including resin, chaga, shea butter, pain relief, and moisturizing creams.
Facebook /Instagram @luonteva
Maalta Käsin
Maarit Louhenvirta handcrafts candles in Iisalmi. She uses olive and soy wax as raw materials, both of which are biodegradable and vegan. Olive wax stands out for its natural qualities: no genetically modified ingredients are used in the candle-making process, and the products are not tested on animals. Each candle is unique. Variations in color and decoration add a personal touch to every piece. Maalta Käsin candles carry the Key Flag symbol, a mark of Finnish origin. These candles are designed to be not only beautiful but also responsible: they have a small carbon footprint and a meaningful impact. Handmade beauty, guided by nature.
Facebook / Instagram @maaltakasin
Kotokurun Hunaja
Kotokurun Hunaja makes highquality honey and unique handcrafted products in Kuopio. Discover delightful gift items for Santa´s sack or yourself! Kotokurun Hunaja is a small business that also offers customized gifts, such as honey with your desired labels or woodburned products personalized with the recipient’s name.
At the Christmas market, Kotokurun Hunaja will sell honey from Kuopio, soy wax-scented and beeswax candles, hand-tied stone jewellery, Mala necklaces, and bracelets made of genuine stone beads, wood-burned kitchen and decorative items, and hand-knitted hats with Bee Warm bee motifs.
www.kotokurunhunaja.fi
Facebook / Instagram @kotokurunhunaja
Nature art
Nature Art creates floristic products from natural and local resources.
joulupallo
Joulupallo offers handcrafted nostalgic Christmas tree ornaments, including hand-painted baubles. The selection features both glass decorations and ornaments made of plastic.
Facebook/Instagram @joulupallo.fi
Pliide
Pliide offers you personal and cheerful products. The entrepreneur from Savonia has exited over 20 cities and local newspapers and radios with their dialect magnets. They have done a bunch of other topics too and the fun of it is to do things together. They collect sayings in Facebook and the most liked ones are made as magnet series. There are over 400 texts now and naturally it didn’t stop with the magnet – there are other products available too. From Kuopio Christmas Market you can buy magnets, bookmarks and keychains with different text options.
You can find Pliide´s products in the Christmas Market deli & gift shop.
Kaunismaan tila
Kaunismaa farm in Leppävirta is a versatile sheep farm. The farm raises finnish sheep who’s wool comes in different shades and its softness and curl makes great threads and hides. Finnish sheep are a slowly growing breed so their meat is low-fat, mild and tender. Finnish sheep graze the natural fields efficiently and thus take care of natures diversity.
Kaunimaan Tila sells different kinds of handcrafts made from wool and hide like mittens, beanies, slippers and gnomes. They also sell products made from wild herbs like spruce sprout syrup, rowan bud syrup, herbal teas and nettle seeds.
Daiga Daiga Duu
Daiga Daiga Duu collection includes cheerful products made from recycled fabric. Colourful product selection has been growing little by little since the year 2008. Design basis are “happy look” and practicality.
Timo Satuli
Timo Satuli sells honey products, wild herbs and candles. Candles are made from beginning to end at his own estate in Rautalampi. Satuli is known by his handmade, unique patterned candles which don’t spread smoke or trickle. Honey comes from his own bees and wild herbs are handpicked. Satulis selection also includes lip balms and resin lotions etc.
Timo Satuli has been familiar operative at Kuopio Market for the last ten years and also from other events and markets!
