A holiday market of BC art,
craft and design

At Western Front
303 E 8th Ave, Vancouver

Admission by donation

Dec 5 – 7, 2025
2025 Vendors

Ami Sangha


Ami Sangha is a BIPOC artist who hand builds with clay to create everyday objects as well as unique sculptural vessels. This slow hand made process of creating means that each porcelain clay object is filled with care and attention.

AxeWood Inc.

Working primarily with an axe by hand, Jody Lentz of AxeWood Inc allows the wood to guide him as he unveils the form within. Following the grain, he reveals functional wooden spoons and bowls, as well as organically shaped yet practical decor pieces.

Boy Forge

Boy Forge is a carpenter and designer, turned silversmith. Most of his rings are made with the ancient technique of sand casting, using organic forms as his inspiration.

Sat - Sun

Cathy Terepocki Ceramics

Cathy Terepocki’s ceramics practice centres on studio production and more recently, community engagement. She is a graduate of the Alberta University of the Arts, and has exhibited widely, led workshops, and attended residencies. In 2022, she was awarded the BC Achievement Award for Applied Art and Design.

Fri - Sat

Chips Collective

Gracefully and clumsily moving toward the queer and trans eldership they have desired for themselves, Chips Collective is a group of six interdisciplinary artists creating accessories, jewelry, erotic prints, and cards. Their work is rooted in cultivating harmonious inter-species performance spaces and casting habitual inquiry for poetic sensation.

Fri only

Cloth Tone

Cloth Tone centres craft and ecological responsibility within contemporary cloth culture to create unique, timeless, and embodied textiles. Designed and handwoven in the Okanagan, BC, Cloth Tone promotes a deep connection to one’s senses through the use of natural materials, cumulative textures, subtle variations, and nuanced colour.

Cora Hall 

Cora Hall is a Vancouver-based stained glass artist. She applies original contemporary designs to the traditional craft across a range of forms, including suncatchers, window panels, and lighting. Image by Alex Alvarez.

Corbie Fieldwalker

Corbie is a filmmaker, fly fishing guide, and salmon leather artist whose practice is acutely aware of and intertwined with the unceded waters of Xwemelch’stn which nourish it. Each of his pieces are ethically sourced and utilitarian in design, as they seek to introduce audiences to conscious consumption and promote ecological awareness. 

Cracher Dans La Soupe Parfum

Cracher Dans La Soupe Parfum is a botanical perfumery focused on ethically sourcing and harvesting sustainable materials. Started by Megan Hepburn and Alex Muir in 2018, they design their aromas to immerse the senses in the extraordinary and unconventional beauty of local flora and fauna.

Daryn Wright

Daryn Wright is a ceramicist, painter, and installation artist working in Vancouver. Her work primarily involves using the archive as source material for interdisciplinary approaches to installation. Food, folklore, domesticity, and the rituals of the everyday play a major role in her work, subjects which are often explored through the lens of humour and irony.

Domestic Intervention Co. by Corrina Hammond Textiles

Corrina Hammond is a Vancouver-based artist specializing in textile design and handweaving on traditional floor looms. A graduate of Emily Carr University of Art + Design, she founded Domestic Intervention Company, where she creates woven works and teaches. She’s also a founding member of punk trio MAOW and active in Vancouver’s art scene.

Dunbar Pottery

As Dunbar Pottery, Martin Peters and Ron Vallis create utilitarian ware in the Leach/Hamada tradition of handmade pots. They make their own stoneware and porcelain clay, and use traditional Japanese glazes to create rich, organic, and earth-toned ceramics.

DW Leatherworks 

DW Leatherworks is the Vancouver-based, one-man operation of Derrick Wong, who crafts leather goods by hand from start to finish—without the use of any machines. Paying attention to detail and meticulously handcrafted products, Derrick only uses premium materials to create leather goods for everyday use that are made to last.  

erin templeton

Erin Templeton has been hand making leather goods, in recycled and new leathers since 1999, and opened her shop in Chinatown in 2007. Erin’s fascination with the past informs designs that aim to defy trends. She uses minimal hardware and simple, strong construction, which allow people to adjust, change, and make pieces their own. Image by Jennilee Marigomen.

Fri & Sat  

EUDAMONIC

Courtney Lang is a multidisciplinary artist mainly working with textiles. Eudaimonic, her collection of accessories birthed from the guidance of visual and visceral cues, is created with the intention to inspire, play, and invite whimsy into the everyday.

Excelsior Handmade Books

John Atkin draws inspiration from his personal collection of antique sketchbooks and travel journals to design and craft sturdy utilitarian books from his studio in Strathcona. His handcrafted pieces are intended to be travelled with, tucked into a jacket, and scribbled in. 

fancypop

fancypop is a collection of unique jewelry and accessories made by Emily. Made with the everyday girl in mind, Emily uses beads, resin, clay, paint, and more in her designs. Fun, casual, or classic—fancypop pieces are designed to spark joy.

Fortiv

Through her label Fortiv, Michelle Larsen creates one of a kind clothing with reclaimed fabric and shares select designs as sewing patterns. Her ethos is rooted in a desire to create clothing grounded in resourcefulness, play, and experimentation, while inspiring others to connect to the art and craft of making clothes.

Gratitude Wrap

 

Two girls who like to wrap gifts coming together to wrap gifts for you. It’s what’s on the inside that counts but they’ll make the outside look good, too. Get your gifts wrapped by Jennifer and Melanie at the front desk, in the entrance.

Hannah Victoria Locker

Hannah Victoria Locker is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC. She creates hand-painted paper collages that celebrate the beauty of abstract and botanical forms. Her work is a vibrant exploration of colour and texture, driven by a deep love for collecting and curating unique materials.

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Hazel Meyer

Hazel Meyer is an artist who thinks about lesbian-feminists, incontinent-queers, and gender-outlaws in her interdisciplinary practice. Hazel also makes accessories for humans and dogs under the names: GAY LEASHES for BI-CURIOUS DOGS, and DINGDONG.

Heike Royer Art

Heike Royer is a lifelong maker, working in a number of mediums in her career before exploring cross-stitch in 2020. She designs and creates unique mandala style coasters, as well as pictorial interpretations of paintings and other visual art works.

Jordan Lypkie

Jordan Lypkie is a designer based in Vancouver who works with local and bioregional wood species. Using traditional and contemporary woodworking techniques, he is inspired by ecological communities to craft interior objects for connecting people to each other and the worlds outside.

Julia Chirka

Julia makes functional pottery with pizzazz. Inspired by outer space, television, faces, outfits, and movement her pots are all one of a kind. She is the superintendent at Summer Skool, a community studio.

Kajola Morewood 

Kajola Morewood has Inuit ancestry through her birth mother who had ties to Chisasibi and Kuujjuarapik, Nunavik. She holds a BFA in photography from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and incorporates traditional materials into her art practice. This material practice has been a meaningful way for her to connect to her Inuit background and culture.

Karabaza

Yelyzaveta Karabaza’s love for jewelry began in childhood, captivated by her mother’s heirlooms and stories in post-Soviet Ukraine. Inspired by her Ukrainian and Turkish heritage—and her uncle, a classically trained goldsmith—she began making jewelry as a pre-teen. Today, Karabaza handcrafts timeless, comforting pieces in her East Vancouver studio using traditional metalsmithing techniques.

Kerria Gray and Clay

Kerria Gray is a ceramicist making functional work using wood, soda, and gas firings, resulting in a unique surface on each pot. She carefully considers colour, texture, form, and functionality in her processes.

Khan Lee

Glass Glass is a crafty ornamental glass project from Khan Lee Studio. Made with the traditional discipline of glass lampworking, aesthetics and techniques are considered and individually applied to create these unique objects.

Knitbone Ceramics

Seed is a ceramic artist making small batch functional ceramics for the home using a deep red clay body, earthy glazes, and playful surface design. Ever evolving as their curiosity compels them towards new forms, firing methods, and surfaces, Seed is motivated by the land, sea, and their vibrant queer community.

LACAR

LACAR is a Vancouver-based jewelry studio founded in 2013 by partners Shira Laye and Morgan Carrier. Working in sterling silver and gold, they design and handcraft sculptural pieces that fuse traditional techniques with a contemporary point of view.

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Laleh Javaheri Jewelry

Born in Tehran with over forty years in art and design, Laleh Javaheri has explored painting, sculpture, jewelry, and textile arts. In recent years, she has melded her cultural heritage with modern design by reviving khatam, the ancient Persian marquetry technique, and transforming it into contemporary jewelry.

Lisa Beading

Lisa Walker is an Indigenous (x̄á’isla Nation + British) artist who specializes in beadwork. Through her colourful one-of-a-kind beaded earrings she echoes resilience, joy, and human experiences as she lets a range of themes influence her work—from pop culture to West Coast design.

Fri - Sat

Loree Lane

Loree Lane creates unique ceramic pieces influenced by abstract expressionism. Hand-built with coloured clay and Nerikomi techniques, her pieces blend form, colour and texture, living in space as artworks rather than functional pieces.

Louise Reimer

Louise Reimer is a Vancouver-based artist working primarily in drawing and ceramics. She holds a Fine Arts degree from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her work blends sculpture with function, drawing inspiration from nature, symbolism, and classical antiquities.

LUPA Ceramics

Kristine has worked with clay for twenty years, drawing inspiration from her cultural heritage and local materials—a connection reflected in the name of her practice, the Tagalog word LUPA (earth, land). She has exhibited across North America, has participated in residencies in Japan, Mexico, and Canada, and teaches at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

Made by Elliot

Made by Elliot is a collection of buttons and magnets created from original drawings, sketches, and recycled fabrics, as well as art prints and shrink art. Elliot is a fourth-year Arts Umbrella Foundation program student and will be studying visual arts including photography, creative electronics, and clay sculpture.

Mahsa Farzi

Mahsa Farzi is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist with a MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her intricate sculptures and drawings are rooted in experiences of migration and patriarchy, and often employ humour and the absurd to question structures of power. 

Fri - Sat

Maiku Brando

Maiku Brando is a Vancouver-based design lab that brings their experience in architecture, art, film, theatre, textile art, and industrial design into their work. Currently experimenting with soft sewn goods, they curiously create meaningful objects for everyday use—such as three-dimensional down-filled accessories.

Sat - Sun

Maria Ida Designs

Maria Ida Designs is a Vancouver-based blown glass production company. They make colourful objects for the home with a joyful, unpretentious feel. Every piece is hand-blown, melding creativity, danger, science, and molten glass into one-of-a-kind pieces.

MDW Jewelry 

Meghan Weeks is a Woodland Cree/English artist and proud member of the Sucker Creek First Nation. Embracing storytelling through her gender neutral sterling silver jewelry and beadwork, Meghan’s work reflects her Cree culture, childhood memories, and humorous Aunty energy.

Mona Lisa Ali Ceramics

Mona Lisa Ali is a Jordanian-American artist focused on ceramics and labour-intensive material making. Beginning during a communal 420-kilometre artist walk across Jordan, her hand-pinched ceramics incorporate locally foraged stones, plant ashes, and clay slips, creating unreplicable pieces shaped by flame through wood or soda firing.

Moniker Press

Moniker Press is a small risograph print studio in Vancouver and publishing project that works collaboratively with artists to produce small editions of books, zines, and print ephemera. 

Fri - Sat

Moonseed Herbals

Created by herbalist Em Postl, Moonseed Herbals products are made seasonally in small batches from locally organically grown and ethically harvested medicinal herbs. Their current offerings include tincture and glycerite blends, salves, infused vinegars, and whole plant-infused face and scalp oils.

Mother Snake

Find handwoven baskets crafted from Salt Spring Island willow and finished with leather handles, alongside soft merino wool socks dyed in vibrant, natural hues—using plants and flowers, many harvested from her own garden.

OHCE-ECHO

OHCE-ECHO is a 55-square-foot project space at 1469 Venables, organized by Francesca Bennett as a commitment to artists, and an extension of research into independent, parallel, and artist-run spaces. Alongside Anxietees and Work Shirts from Bennett’s project SOFT TOUCH, OHCE-ECHO will have artists’ books, multiples, and ephemera from various artists and curatorial projects for sale.

Olive Rose Studio

Olive Rose Studio is a creative clothing brand showcasing unique pieces by artist Olivia Mansveld. Sewing everything by hand in her studio in the Kootenays, Olivia aims to inspire us to rethink our relationship to clothing. By using all recycled fabrics, she intends to create a positive impact on earth and people. Image by Katarina Riopel.

Paige Jung Art + Illustrations

Paige Jung is a Chinese-Canadian illustrator and muralist, born and based in Vancouver, Canada. Paige’s style is characterized by story-centric scenes, flat shapes, calming colours and organic textures. She has worked on a variety of editorial, commercial, and book illustration projects, as well as large-scale public murals.

Paperbacknote

Paperbacknote is a unique upcycled stationery product made locally, repurposing paperback books and rebinding them into new notebooks. Whether for journaling, sketching, or note-taking, their love for giving used books more life is tangible.

Fri & Sat 

reassembly

reassembly’s scents are alchemic reflections of the world around us, from city rainstorms to mossy-floored forests. Using sustainable, high-quality oils and resins that lucidly recall the organic botanicals from which they were distilled, each fragrance exhibits depth and longevity, melting warmly into the wearer’s skin and lending itself well to layering and experimentation.

Rootine Studio

Inspired by summer travels along the river in Quebec, Rootine Studio soaps are the product of childhood summers, jumping off docks, bathing in lakes and summertime freedom. Through experimental play in the studio, these soaps were created to envelope this nostalgia. 

Sibel Slakov

Sibel Slakov is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in tattoo art. Sibel is interested in playful experimentation with various mediums in her practice such as painting, engraved mirrors and holiday cards. Her work centers around connection with others and with herself.

Sun only

Softserve

Softserve is a severely disabled textile artist living in Vancouver. Softserve prioritizes reclaimed materials in order to bring eco-friendly joy into your home, one quilted item at a time. This “slow practice” allows softserve, who is mainly housebound, the chance to connect with the outside world through the creation of functional art.

Sonja Ahlers

Sonja Ahlers is a visual artist based in Victoria. Since the ’90s, she has worked primarily in craft, zines, and book-adjacent formats. In 2023, a survey of her work, “Classification Crisis,” was co-published by Conundrum Press and the Richmond Art Gallery in conjunction with a thirty-year retrospective of her work.

Taylor Moon Ceramics

Taylor Moon Ceramics is an multidisciplinary artist with a primary focus on ceramics. Processing her inner chaotic word through clay, Taylor creates pieces that are pushed and pulled from her subconscious and often are completed with original text. 

The Woods Spirit Co.

The Woods Spirit Co. crafts their balanced, flavourful spirits in North Vancouver using vacuum distillation to preserve natural flavour. Stop by their table for a tasting and browse their artisan bottle shop.

Tony Dubroy

An annual excursion into shape, Tony Dubroy uses this chance to explore form and function in the arena of bowls, dishes, and platters. Locally sourced and often salvaged wood is used to create (mostly) functional pieces that can stand on form alone.

tuk + milo

tuk + milo creates playful items to comfort your inner child and the little ones in your life. Coining “simple toys for complex play,” this brand focuses on the benefits of play-based learning throughout the early years. Expect to find a collection of their signature soft toys in a variety of colours, textures, and cute designs!

Fri - Sat

Valérie d. Walker

Valérie d. Walker is a neoRenaissance artist, whose deep craft and quotidian actions infuse her studio-centric processes. Indigo’s reverberations along the transatlantic Black diaspora empower her Afro-futuristic tactile time-resonating textures. V’s eco-positive processes take form in unique hand dyed natural Indigo pieces.  

WarmAndDrift

Nellie, a Latvian artist now living on Canada’s West Coast, harnesses the pure essence of natural wool to craft an enchanting world. Her hands, guided by fifteen years of experience, delicately shape animals, spectral apparitions, gnomes, and even whimsical acorns.

We Are Stories

Tracy Fillion is a textile artist based out of Nelson, BC whose practice focuses on weaving and plant dyeing. Drawing inspiration from her natural surroundings, she translates the beauty of the landscape into functional, utilitarian pieces.

Fri - Sat

Willow Avenue

Catherine Langevin is a willow weaver based in Qathet, BC with a focus on creating sustainable, functional pieces like foraging baskets, backpacks, and home decor. Her work is inspired by a deep commitment to living gently with the earth, with each creation reflecting this intention.

Sun only

Yarn Advisor

Yarn Advisor is a mother-daughter fibre and knitwear collaboration between Ali Bosley and Shirley Ulland. Their hand-spun, hand-dyed alpaca/wool blend is made by Shirley on their family farm in northern Alberta. Ali and Shirley then hand knit the wool into original, unique pieces designed to respond to natural variation in the material’s shape and colour.

Yeniyeni.kr

Yeeun Jamie Choi is a ceramist who creates imagined beings, seemingly familiar yet unknown, to expand their worlds into new dimensions. Inspired by nature, her practice transforms organic impressions into an alternative universe, blurring the line between reality and imagination.

About

What is Toque Craft Fair?

Toque Craft Fair is an annual holiday market and community fundraiser hosted by Western Front, a non-profit artist-run centre. Welcoming over 4,000 visitors each year, Toque features a curated selection of BC artists, craftspeople, and designers—showcasing the very best of what's made locally.

What makes Toque Craft Fair special?

Since the 1970s, Western Front has hosted a winter fair celebrating local artists—an enduring tradition carried forward by Toque Craft Fair since 2002. Spread across two floors of Western Front’s heritage building, the fair invites you to shop from over sixty BC-based artists and connect with the creativity rooted in our community.

What is Western Front?

Western Front is one of Canada’s leading centres for multidisciplinary art. It’s a place where artists create and present vital new work at pivotal moments in their practice, and where audiences come together to engage with contemporary art. Learn more at westernfront.ca.

How does Toque support Western Front?

Participating makers generously donate 30% of all sales to support Western Front’s artistic program and the conservation of our heritage building.

Every purchase helps fund new commissions, exhibitions, performances, residencies, and workshops—supporting contemporary artists across disciplines. By shopping at Toque Craft Fair, you’re directly contributing to BC artists and sustaining artist-run culture in Vancouver.

What are the 2025 opening times?

Toque Craft Fair kicks off with an opening party on Friday, December 5, 2025, from 5–9 p.m.

The market continues Saturday and Sunday, December 6 & 7, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

How do I get tickets?

Admission is by donation—pay in advance or at the door. We accept both cash and card. Advance tickets will be available starting in November 2025.

Are you still accepting vendor applications?

Our annual open call for new vendors has closed. We will welcome applications for the next fair in summer 2026.

Is Toque an accessible event?

Toque Craft Fair is held across the ground and second floors of Western Front’s heritage building. The ground floor is wheelchair accessible and features 60% of our vendors. The second floor, which hosts the remaining vendors, is only accessible via a flight of 26 stairs. Learn more about accessibility at Western Front here.

Can I bring my pet?

As Toque can be a crowded and noisy environment, we kindly ask that pets be left at home for the comfort and safety of pets and attendees alike. Service animals are always welcome.

How can I receive updates about Toque?

Follow us on Instagram @toquecraftfair and Facebook to get a sneak peek of the artists’ and designers’ work, and to receive further news about the event.

Contact

Western Front
303 E 8th Ave
Vancouver, BC V5T 1S2

westernfront.ca

On the unceded, ancestral, and occupied, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations.

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