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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 22 arts, crafts and hobby shops
Best arts, crafts and hobby shops in Bengaluru
The 10 most notable arts, crafts and hobby shops in Bengaluru, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Cauvery Handicrafts Emporium
45, Mahatma Gandhi Rd
153 m from MG Road metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.321, percentile 100 of 22
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2
Selection Textiles
Rangaiah Complex, 16-17 D, BVK Iyengar Rd
363 m from Chickpete metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.207, percentile 95.24 of 22
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3
Manjus Cooking & Baking Classes
181, 9th Cross Road, HMT Layout, RT Nagar
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.205, percentile 90.48 of 22
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4
Seva Puja
# 78 1st Main Santrupti Nagar JP Nagar 7th Phase, Opposite Smart Bazaar ,Kai Ruchi Hotel Lane
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.159, percentile 85.71 of 22
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5
Crystal Alchemy Store
68, 5th Main Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.137, percentile 80.95 of 22
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6
Prachin Art And Crafts
9th Main Rd, 32/33, 27th Cross
423 m from Jayanagar metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.112, percentile 76.19 of 22
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7
Lenskart.com Flagship Store at Chandra Layout
Shop No 106, 1st Main Road, Chandra Layout, Opposite Polar Bear
410 m from Attiguppe metro station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.029, percentile 71.43 of 22
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8
Itsy Bitsy
665, B.Channasandra Main Road, Near Banaswadi B.Chansandra Bus Stop, Ombr Layout, Kasturi Nagar
365 m from Channasandra railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.878, percentile 66.67 of 22
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9
Itsy Bitsy
No. 1213, 22nd "A" Cross, 22nd Cross Road, Sector 3, HSR Layout
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.878, percentile 61.9 of 22
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10
HP BALA Stationery - Stationery Supplies
1300, 25th Main, 41st Cross, Circle, Jaya Nagara 9th Block, Jaya Nagar
489 m from Ragigudda metro station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.859, percentile 57.14 of 22
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).