ARCHES PAPERS
ARCHES® is the paper mill that offers the most extensive range of fine art papers made on a cylinder mould. ARCHES® Aquarelle paper gelatin sized “to the core” is a reference among papers, chosen by artists all over the world.
ARTEMIO
The Belgian company ARTEMIO specializes in the production and distribution of materials for hobbies, crafts, and decoration. Founded in Belgium, it is well known throughout Europe for its wide range of products: papers, stamps, scrapbooking tools, decoupage supplies, wooden and metal blanks, boxes, frames, and many other items for creative activities.
ARTEMIO aims to provide modern and high-quality solutions that inspire both professional creators and hobby enthusiasts.
CANSON
Canson – Tradition and Quality in Paper Art
With over 450 years of history, Canson is a globally recognized brand, a symbol of quality and innovation in the production of art papers. Preferred by generations of artists, illustrators, designers and art lovers, Canson offers the perfect basis for any creative idea – from sketches to watercolors and calligraphy.
Why choose Canson:
Professional quality – durable, acid-free papers with long life and excellent lightfastness
Wide range of products – for watercolor, graphite, ink, pastel, acrylic, oil paint, calligraphy and more
Eco-friendly production – certified environmental practices and sustainably sourced raw materials
Made in France – a combination of traditional craftsmanship and modern technology
Canson products include:
Sketchbooks and pads
Artistic papers for watercolor, graphics, markers and mixed media
Specialty lines such as Canson XL, Canson Montval, Canson Mi-Teintes, and more
ENCAUSTIC ART
The company ENCAUSTIC ART specializes in the production and distribution of materials for the technique of “encaustic” – an artistic method of painting with colored wax and an iron. This technique has ancient roots, but today ENCAUSTIC ART makes it accessible to modern creators through sets of special irons, wax paints, and accessories.
The company offers products both for beginners and for advanced artists, organizes courses and trainings, and encourages experimentation with forms, colors, and textures. The mission of ENCAUSTIC ART is to expand the possibilities of creative self-expression through the unique beauty of wax paintings.
FILA - LYRA
The company LYRA is one of the oldest and most established brands in the world of writing instruments and art supplies. Founded in 1806 in Germany, it has a long tradition in the production of high-quality pencils, pastels, markers, and other tools for writing and drawing.
LYRA is known for its innovation and the durability of its products, which are preferred both by students and children, as well as by professional artists and designers. Among its most popular series are colored pencils for children, watercolor pencils, artists’ pastels, and specialized tools for creative and educational purposes.
Today, the LYRA brand is part of the international group F.I.L.A. (Fabbrica Italiana Lapis ed Affini), which allows it to continue expanding its markets and maintaining high standards in the field of creative materials.
Fiskars
Fiskars is a Finnish company with over 370 years of history, founded in 1649, known for its innovation and high-quality products in various categories, including hobby and crafts. Their hobby tools are designed with attention to detail and are designed to inspire creativity and facilitate the process of creation.
🧰 Hobby and craft product range
Fiskars offers a variety of tools suitable for various hobby activities, including:
Scissors and knives - for precise cutting of paper, fabric, leather and other materials.
Dies and punches - for creating decorative shapes and details.
Rotary cutters and quilting scissors - for easy and precise cutting of fabrics.
Stencils and stamps - for adding textures and motifs to various surfaces.
Decorating accessories - such as glues, tweezers and other auxiliary tools.
These products are designed with ergonomic handles and blades made of high-quality materials, ensuring durability and comfort during use.
FOLIA BRINGMANN
The company **FOLIA BRINGMANN** is a German enterprise with a long tradition in the production of materials for handicrafts, creative activities, and school needs. Founded in 1965 in Germany, today it is one of the leading European manufacturers in the field of paper and creative products.
The product range of **FOLIA BRINGMANN** includes a wide variety of colored papers and cardboards, crepe paper, foils, pom-poms, beads, decorative materials, children’s craft kits, as well as items for seasonal and festive decorations.
The company is distinguished by its high quality, innovative solutions, and customer-oriented approach. **FOLIA BRINGMANN** exports its products to many countries and is a preferred partner for schools, hobby shops, and creative studios.
FOLK ART USA
Origin and History
FolkArt® is a brand created in 1983 by Plaid Enterprises. It initially offered a small line of acrylic paints, but quickly expanded to include over 1,000 colors and a variety of product categories, including voices, textures, stencils and more
Mission and Values
The brand is inspired by folk art and aims to make creativity accessible to everyone by combining artistic quality with an affordable price
Values:
Creativity - a constant search for new formulas and artistic possibilities
Quality - carefully selected pigments and durable formulas
Affordability - artists and amateurs can create without financial constraints
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Games Workshop
Games Workshop is a British company founded in 1975 and is a world leader in the production of miniatures and board games with fantasy and science fiction themes. Its most famous franchises are Warhammer Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000, which combine collectible figures, strategic tabletop battles and rich fictional universes.
The company designs, manufactures and distributes its products primarily through its own network of Warhammer stores, as well as online. In addition to miniatures and board games, Games Workshop publishes books and fiction through its Black Library imprint.
Today, the brand is a symbol of creativity, community and immersive worlds, uniting millions of fans around the world.
GENERAL Pencil Co USA
History: The company began in 1860 when Edward Weissenborn founded the first pencil factory in the United States in Hudson County, New Jersey. In 1889, he and his son Oscar A. founded the General Pencil Company in Jersey City.
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Family-Owned: The company is sixth-generation family-owned and operated, and is still located in the same factory in Jersey City.
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Products: General Pencil produces a variety of art pencils, including graphite, charcoal, and colored pencils, as well as accessories such as erasers and brushes. Their products have been used to create famous works of art, including presidential portraits.
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Sustainable Manufacturing: The company uses wood from sustainably harvested California cedar forests and strives to reduce its carbon footprint through environmentally friendly practices
NASSAU GRAFIX CCG
Nassau Fine Art, under the Creative Craft Group (CCG) umbrella, is a brand that strives to unlock the inspiring creativity in every artist. The range includes high-quality art materials - acrylic and watercolor paints, canvases, brushes, markers, pencils, pastels and a host of accessories, designed with sustainability, durability and accessibility in mind for everyone - from beginners to experienced artist
The products are developed by their own team of designers and are available globally both in retail and online. The brand believes that quality should not be a privilege and supplies a wide range of art materials comparable to other leading names in the industry
NELLIE SNELLEN
Nellie Snellen is a Dutch designer and founder of the brand Nellie’s Choice, which specializes in the production of innovative hobby materials for card making and other craft arts.
🧵 History and foundation
In 1995, Nellie Snellen founded her company, and in 2000 she began developing new hobby techniques and creating guides to share them with hobbyists around the world. In 2004, she founded Nellie’s Choice BV, which began producing her own hobby products.
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🎨 Product range
Nellie’s Choice offers a variety of craft products, including:
Die-cutters and knives – for cutting out precise shapes and layers.
Stamps – including collections such as Cuties, Fairy Tale, Christmas Time and more.
3D embossing folders – for creating textured effects on paper.
Tools – such as punches, precision stamps and art accessories.
Scrapbooking and decorations – including stencils, embossing powders and stamps.
Nellie’s Choice products are known for their high quality and innovation, and are popular with professionals and craft enthusiasts around the world.
OCENSIDE Glass & Tile
Oceanside Glass & Tile® is the manufacturer of the Oceanside Compatible® family of fusible glass products.
Our product line offers an expansive range of fusible sheet glass and coordinating glass accessories (Frit, Noodles, Stringers, and Rods), as well as blowing Nuggets® and dense color bar for blowing. Our product lines include many extraordinary glasses for a wide range of artistic endeavors, including: stained glass, mosaic arts, kiln forming, and glass blowing. Our products are a steadfast material of choice for architects, designers, and makers of fine lighting, giftware, glass tile, cabinets, and decorative accessories.
Whether you’re a beginner or skilled professional, we look forward to supporting you on your art glass journey and welcome you to the Oceanside family!
Our story begins in the year 1992. Three artists and a young entrepreneur created a game-changing trifecta – Tile, Glass and Sustainability. Forging into uncharted waters to develop handcrafted tile with recycled bottle glass, Oceanside Glasstile was born. Styles change, colors trend, and the Team still embarks every new day to turn your recycled bottle glass into marvelous mosaics.
Four amigos paddled into the uncertain waves that only dreamers can ride. An experimental business centered on craft and sustainability with a healthy dose of California beach mojo, this humble backyard operation grew its roots in Oceanside. These glass makers broadened their horizons of artistic expression inspired by travel, nature and modern design. With customers who shared their vision for a renaissance of art tile, they helped pioneer a new era. The adventure was catalyzed by a boundless spirit of innovation as Oceanside made waves across the design and building industry.
Quickly outgrowing the shop on Cleveland St. in Oceanside, we expanded to a funky factory down Coast Highway in Carlsbad. The old barrio WWII era buildings were perfect for a glass production line. With homegrown equipment and a salvaged conveyor oven (Lehr), the founders could feel the swell picking up. The housing economy, product desirability and design trends all lined up to produce a perfect storm that propelled the team from a small shop to a more sophisticated enterprise. In 2001 with a continued commitment to innovate, the company bought a much larger building in Carlsbad and outfitted a new manufacturing facility with state of the art equipment.
As the market matured and Oceanside wasn’t the only surfer attempting to ride these powerful waves, we faced some important long-term decisions. After 12 plus years of intense work creating a solid product category in our industry, we embraced the opportunity to dominate the high-end glass market and again built a larger factory across the border in Baja California.
The lessons of change and agility were not lost on us as the economy stood still during the radical recession that disrupted so many lives and businesses. We remained true to our vision of tile, art and glass despite pressure from all sides. In 2016, the world of art glass appeared to be the verge of collapse. Renown manufacturers Spectrum Glass® and Uroboros Glass® announce closure resulting in devastation to the art glass community (including Oceanside Glass & Tile who utilized their glass in many product lines). So with fearless creativity and a hunger to keep art glass alive Oceanside Glass & Tile® made a phone call that would change the history of art glass forever …
With serendipity only a Magic 8-Ball might be able to predict, Oceanside Glass & Tile now makes glass for the world its founders pioneered. For the glass blowers, fusers, stained and mosaic artists; for the hobbyists and master craftspeople alike; for the creators, the imaginers, and those who make life a little more colorful. In sometimes unpredictable ways, we all come back to our roots.
In 2017, we purchased the formulas and glass making equipment from Spectrum Glass Company and Uroboros Glass Studios and incorporated those operations into our existing world class art glass tile manufacturing facility in Tijuana, MX. This important acquisition allowed us to continue creating many of the incredibly popular products these two art glass industry leaders developed, including their collaborative tested compatible System 96® fusible product line. System 96 has been rebranded under the Oceanside Compatible™ name and offers an expanded line of sheet glass and accessories.
The Continuous Ribbon (link to info below) process and knowledge we acquired from Spectrum Glass Company allows us to continue producing the smoothest fusible art glass on the market. It also preserved several coveted legacy Spectrum products, such as OpalArt™, Artique®, Baroque™, Waterglass®, Spirit™, and limited Edition Fusers’ Reserve. Many of the items Spectrum produced as stained glass non-fusible items are now produced as Oceanside Compatible fusible sheets. In 2019 we began shipping the resurrected the extremely popular product for glass blowers, Oceanside Compatible Studio Nuggets® and all compatible Accessory products (Frit, Stringers, Noodles, & Rods), in addition to Rack Pack value packs.
PAPAS CLAY
Papa’s Clay is a brand of polymer clay designed for artistic modeling by both children and professionals. The clay attracts with its texture, which is:
soft, elastic and resembles traditional plasticine;
durable and easy to work with even after firing;
dust-free and allergen-free — suitable for sensitive users;
In addition to standard forms, the line also offers specialized products — for example, the “Bake & Bond” glue and softener, which facilitates gluing and stacking models made of unhardened clay.
PENTART
Pentart is a Hungarian brand of Pentacolor Ltd., offering over 2000 quality and innovative products for craft and mixed-media creations — from paints and pastes to spectacular mediums — under strict quality and environmental control (ISO 9001/14001), with a commitment to social responsibility. Suitable for both hobby enthusiasts and professionals, the brand inspires with a wide range and artistic solutions.
POSCA
POSCA is a world-famous marker brand of the Japanese company Uni Mitsubishi Pencil, established in 1983. The markers are filled with high-quality water-based pigment paint, which is dense, opaque, durable and harmless.
POSCA can write on almost any surface – paper, cardboard, wood, glass, metal, textiles, plastic, stone, ceramics – and is therefore preferred by artists, designers, hobbyists, teachers and children.
The markers are available in different tip sizes and a rich palette of colors, making them a universal tool for both professional art and creative projects at home.
RANGR
Ranger Industries, better known in the hobby and craft community as Ranger Ink, is an American company founded in 1929 in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. It originally manufactured specialty inks for the banking industry in the United States. In 1975, the company was purchased by Vincent A. DiLasia, who, along with his wife, Anne Generas, expanded the business by introducing new inks and began to focus on the arts and crafts market. In 1979, Ranger developed its first art printing pads in unique and vibrant colors. By 1998, the company's primary business was the production of private labels for other stamp manufacturers. Ranger then began offering its own product lines, starting with inks and gradually expanding to other media. In 2006, Vincent's sons, Justin Russo and Alain Avrilon, took full control of the company.
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The company is family owned and continues to be owned and operated by the founder's family. Ranger products are manufactured in the USA, at a facility in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. The company is known for its focus on innovation and the quality of its products, which are used by artists and craft enthusiasts around the world.
RGM OLD MASTERS
Origin and beginnings
RGM was founded in 1961 by Mario Rosa Gastaldo in the town of Maniago, known for its metalworking traditions, which has allowed the company to build a high level of expertise in the production of steel tools for artistic needs.
Painting palette knives
Over 200 models, including classic and professional series, with wooden handles (often acacia) and flexible steel blades, designed for even paint application and rich texture
Made in Italy quality
Preserving tradition and handcrafting with modern production methods, RGM is among the leading brands for art instruments worldwide
STABILO
Origin and history
The brand is part of the German family conglomerate Schwan-Stabilo, founded in 1855 in Nuremberg as the pencil factory “Grossberger & Kurz”. In 1865, the company was acquired by the Schwanhäuser family and renamed Schwan Bleistiftfabrik, and the stork symbol (swan) became the logo and emblem of quality
Stabilo brand
In 1925–1927, the “Stabilo” product line was launched - initially as a product name (pencil), and from 1976 - part of the official company name Schwan-Stabilo
Business development
In 1992, the brand was divided into two: Stabilo International GmbH (pens) and Schwan Cosmetics (cosmetics)
Operating production sites
Germany (Weißenburg) - markers and highlighters
Czech Republic (Český Krumlov) - wooden pencils
Malaysia (Johor Bahru) - rollerball and pen instruments
Worldwide presence
STABILO products are available in over 180 countries, and the teams number around 1 500 employees, most working within the Schwan-Stabilo Group
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STAMPERIA
STAMPERIA as a brand was launched in 1995 , at that time the knowledge about the Hobby world was still scarce. The first Collection included stencils, stamps, acrylic paints as well as decoupage papers and rice paper – a sensational novelty at the time as Stamperia was the first company in the world to print on rice paper.
STAMPERIA today is a leader in the Creative Hobby Industry and has distributors in more than 60 countries of the world.
Our philosophy is based on the following basic principles:
Stamperia original designs are created by our internal graphic department and our designers. This gives a distinct character to our collections, recognizable all over the world.
High Quality : the production process and the selection of the best raw materials are carefully followed in order to achieve a high quality product range.
Good quality-price ratio: excellent quality / price ratio for a range of products accessible to a wide target audience around the world..
Techniques
Stamperia offers many technics at the highest quality:
Scrapbooking
Journaling
Decoupage
Mixed Media
TONIC STUDIOS
Under the umbrella of Tonic Studios, several well-known brands have been developed:
Tonic – tools and accessories for cutting and crafting, including scissors, dixies, punch molds, etc. “Tonic” is “for cutting”
.Nuvo – various decorative supplies: glitters, crystal drops, mousses, gel glues, embossing powders, and more. Nuvo is “for finishing”
.Craft Perfect – lines of papers, envelopes, glues, and cardboard. They offer an aesthetic choice and a quality basis for crafting projects
.Cut’ables – a new line for digital cutting, created with the “Tonic handwriting”
.Tim Holtz – a special collaboration with designer Tim Holtz, a long-standing partnership combining quality and ease of use
TSUKINEKO
Tsukineko Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company founded in 1952, specializing in the production of high-quality inks and ink cartridges for hobby and industrial applications. The company is known for its innovations in the world of arts and crafts, offering products that meet the needs of both professionals and amateurs.
Tsukineko offers a wide range of inks and ink cartridges, including:
StazOn: A solvent ink suitable for use on non-greasy and semi-porous surfaces such as plastic, metal, glass and leather.
VersaCraft: A pigment ink designed for textiles, wood and ceramics.
VersaColor: A pigment ink for paper, offering rich and vibrant colours.
Memento: A quick-drying ink suitable for watercolours and stamps.
Brilliance: A pearlescent ink that creates a metallic effect on paper.
The company also offers various printing and art accessories, such as embossing powders, markers and specialist inks for various surfaces.
VCREATIVE
Vaessen Creative is a leading Dutch company specializing in the supply of hobby and craft products. Founded more than 45 years ago as a sole proprietorship, it has established itself as the largest web platform for creative hobby items in the Netherlands and is well known throughout Europe.
