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Makers in Norfolk

10 sourced makers in Norfolk, Virginia — custom furniture, woodworking, metalwork, ceramics, and other commissioned craft, listed alphabetically, never ranked. See how we source claims.

Makers in Norfolk

Larry Hill Sr.

Norfolk

Specializes in Custom Furniture, Woodworking

Owner of Hill Woodworking in Norfolk, personally collecting, milling, and drying reclaimed wood from local trees and old structures to make cutting boards, serving boards, and heirloom furniture without chemical stains.

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Andy Steinberg

Norfolk

Specializes in Custom Furniture

Owner of Indigo Wood Works (formerly Big Drawers Furniture, established 2005) in Norfolk, building custom furniture and built-ins — vanities, dining tables, bookshelves, and kitchen cabinets — in domestic and exotic lumber.

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Angela Tilley

Norfolk

Specializes in Ceramics

Founder of All Hands Pottery, a community ceramics studio in Norfolk offering classes, open studio hours, and commissioned pottery.

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Derek Shaw

Norfolk

Specializes in Leatherwork

Leathersmith and owner of Werther Leather Goods, hand-making bags, belts, wallets, watchbands, and passport holders from a small workshop in Norfolk's Selden Market since 2011.

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Meryl Ann Butler

Norfolk

Specializes in Fiber Arts

Internationally exhibited fiber artist, graphic designer, and longtime art educator running Ocean View Arts, a teaching studio and gallery space in Norfolk's Ocean View neighborhood, offering private art instruction after four decades of teaching.

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Spencer Tinkham

Norfolk

Specializes in Wood Carving, Sculpture

Norfolk-based multidisciplinary artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations explore perception and ecological change; carves wood sculpture — often wildlife subjects — from material salvaged along bay and river shorelines, and has twice won the Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition's youth division.

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Maggie O'Hara Hudson

Norfolk

Specializes in Ceramics

Art teacher with over 29 years of experience who opened The Dragonfly Art Studio in Norfolk's Ghent neighborhood in 2016, teaching pottery-wheel classes and after-school and summer art programs for adults and children.

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Robyn

Norfolk

Specializes in Jewelry

Silversmith and leather/metal worker, a lifelong native of the Norfolk area, working at LORAK Jewelry in Norfolk's Selden Market as the primary in-house production artist for the shop's Samla and Vermeil jewelry collections.

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Hilarie Wakefield Dayton

Norfolk

Specializes in Fashion & Accessory Making

Founder of Little Stitch Studio, a sewing and fashion-design studio in Norfolk's Ghent neighborhood. Trained at the Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design (Kent State University) and Sweet Briar College; holds advanced haute couture dressmaking and sustainable-design certifications. Has designed swimwear, custom bridal wear, and accessories, and is a published author of a purse/tote/clutch pattern-making book.

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Rhashida Bess

Norfolk

Specializes in Jewelry

Norfolk-based jewelry artist and founder of Alodeuri Jewelry (est. 2011), a cold-formed metalsmith working primarily in copper and brass with sustainable, low-waste methods and repurposed materials, creating organic-form, culturally conscious jewelry.

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