2025 Holiday Market
Pittsburgh’s Biggest Holiday Shopping Event Celebrates 21 Years in 2025!
Named one of “35 Indie Craft Fairs Every Creative Person Needs to Visit” by Buzzfeed in 2014, Handmade Arcade’s Holiday Market is Pittsburgh’s premier handmade holiday shopping event. At the Holiday Market, you can shop from more than 290+ makers selling handcrafted clothing, accessories, art, home decor, jewelry, body products, and more unique items you won’t find anywhere else. Bring your friends and family for a weekend full of shopping, hands-on art-making, incredible live art demos, and more.
When: December 5-6, 2025
Schedule of Events:
December 5 from 4 - 6 PM: Sensory-Friendly & Retailer Shopping*
December 5 from 6 - 8 PM: Friday Night Preview Party (Tickets: $30)
December 6 from 9 - 11 AM: Early Bird Shopping (Tickets: $25)
December 6 from 11 AM - 6 PM: General Admission Shopping*
*indicates Pay-What-You-Can Tickets (free tickets available to those who need them)
Where: David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Downtown Pittsburgh
What to Expect: Shopping, Hands-On Handmade Arcade activities & live art demos, raffle baskets with maker-donated goods, a Personal Shopper Booth, a live DJ, a Gift Wrapping Station, food & drink available for purchase, and more!
We’re seeking event volunteers!
Get Your Tickets
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Sensory-Friendly & Retailer Shopping
Friday, December 5 from 4 - 6 PM
Pay-What-You-Can Tickets
A quiet shopping event for retail buyers and folks needing a sensory-friendly shopping environment
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Friday Night Preview Party
Friday, December 5 from 6 - 8 PM
Tickets: $30
Meet the makers & get first dibs at one-of-a-kind items in an intimate setting at a fundraising event to support Handmade Arcade
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Early Bird Shopping
Saturday, December 6 from 9 - 11 AM
Tickets: $25
Shop for two hours without the crowd to meet all of the makers on your wish list at a fundraising event supporting Handmade Arcade
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General Admission Shopping
Saturday, December 6 from 11 AM - 6 PM
Pay-What-You-Can Tickets
Experience our main shopping event - plus hands-on art activities and live arts demos - with timed ticket admission
Thank you to our Holiday Market sponsors!
Meet the Makers
We are so excited to share the 290+ talented makers, artists, partners, and sponsors who will be part of the 2025 Holiday Market on December 5-6 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Downtown Pittsburgh.
Look out for our Virtual Catalog in November to help you plan your shopping before the Holiday Market!
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* Holiday Market Sponsor
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Rowan Short
Skull Baby
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Hands-On Handmade Arcade
Take a break from your shopping to visit our Hands-On Handmade Arcade are for live artistic demonstrations, hands-on art-making, and collaborative community art projects. All HOHA activities listed below will occur on Saturday, December 6 from 11 AM - 5:30 PM unless indicated by an * symbol.
Artistic Demonstrations
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Take a visit to Union Project’s Wheel Mobile, equipped with clay, tools, a potter’s wheel, and a Raku kiln. This mobile studio extends Union Project’s ceramics programming by bringing clay anywhere there’s a road. Their teaching artists can show up at a playground, neighborhood festival, library, etc., and provide wheel throwing, hand-building, and Raku firing demonstrations and activities.
You will have the opportunity to witness the magic of this beautiful art form up close. Watch as Union Project teaching artists demonstrate their throwing skills on a pottery wheel.
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Join Protohaven for a captivating live demonstration of traditional blacksmithing and woodturning. Watch as a skilled blacksmith heats raw metal in a roaring forge, then shapes it with precision using hand tools, hammer and anvil, transforming simple stock into a striking work of craftsmanship.
Meanwhile, Protohaven’s expert woodturner will brings a block of wood to life on the lathe, carefully carving and refining it into a unique, handcrafted piece before your eyes.
Don’t miss this immersive look at the power, rhythm, and artistry of time-honored trades!
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Let the artists from Pittsburgh Glass Center blow your mind! Hot Wheels, the center’s traveling glass studio, will roll into the market and bring furnace-fired fun and glass-blowing demonstrations to all attendees, creating fiery works of art from molten magma.
Hands-On Art-Making
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Get inspired by the hyper realistic dessert candles of Millennium Scents as you build your very own wax melt “sandwich.” Using a variety of provided colorful wax pieces, fragrance options, and decorative toppings, you’ll layer pieces together to create a one-of-a-kind wax melt masterpiece. Just like building a sandwich, you’ll choose your “bread,” “filling,” and “extras” — only it’s all wax!
You can also put your nose to the test in a Match the Scent game. How well do you know the fragrance oils in your favorite candle scents? Us your memory, scent recognition, and attention-to-detail to match each fragrance oil to a beautifully displayed candle.
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What's that tapping sound? It's a flock of typewriters! Stop by to discover these magical mechanical marvels for yourself. Participants of all ages are invited to test out the BatCat Press vintage machines and design a one-of-a-kind holiday card to take away!
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Take a break during your shopping for a beginner course on crochet. led by Wrath of Aries Workshop. You’ll learn how to create a "chain' and a "single crochet stitch".
Once the course is over, you’ll leave with resources of how to continue your personal crochet journey! .
Class will be from 2:30 - 5:30 PM on Saturday, December 6
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Reimagined Recycling collects difficult to recycled single-use plastics and turns them into home goods, jewelry, and building material. Stop by to try this on your own start with recycled plastic flakes. You’ll use heat to craft beads in an injection molder and make your own friendship bracelet from recycled plastic beads!
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Live button making with collage elements from vintage magazines. Participants can add other original art flourishes to personalize their buttons. Buttons will be pressed on-site while you wait!
Community Arts Projects
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We Are All Connected is an interactive, hands-on community-building activity led by Scrapwerx designed to engage participants of all ages. You will explore shared values and experiences by selecting statements or sayings that resonate with you. Each selected statement is paired with a peg on a large display board. You will tie a string from your unique starting point to the peg that represents your chosen message.
As more people take part, the board gradually transforms into a vibrant web of interconnected threads—visually demonstrating the powerful ways we are all connected through common feelings, ideas, and experiences. The final installation offers a striking, collective portrait of community unity and individual expression.
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Help Troop 9109 to make a large-scale collaborative weaving! Visit their lashed frame, and weave with the frame using colorful rope and yarn. This community weaving needs your handmade touch, so be sure to stop by and contribute!