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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 14 arts, crafts and hobby shops
Best arts, crafts and hobby shops in Dubai
The 10 most notable arts, crafts and hobby shops in Dubai, 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
Yadawei Ceramic Studio
Studio 30, First Al Khail Street - Corner 19 Street - opposite AlSerkal Avenue
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.220, percentile 100 of 14
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2
Hatimi Textiles
Al Fahidi Street - 17th St
582 m from Sharaf DG, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.173, percentile 92.31 of 14
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3
Regal Fabrics Satwa
Satwa big mosque
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.136, percentile 84.62 of 14
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4
Handloom House
50B St - opposite Raymond Showroom, Meena Bazar
246 m from Sharaf DG, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.131, percentile 76.92 of 14
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5
Como Luxury Fabrics
The Binary by OMNIYAT - Unit 707
768 m from Business Bay, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.088, percentile 69.23 of 14
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6
Maknas Trading Co. LLC.
Al Sabkha Rd
598 m from Gold Souq, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.053, percentile 61.54 of 14
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7
Mystique Costumes
Al Barsha 2 - Shop No. 1 - Umm Suqeim St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.002, percentile 53.85 of 14
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8
Hobby Centre
17st, B-Block, Pastalini Building,, Umm Ramool,, Near Liberty Automobiles Service Center
440 m from Emirates, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.865, percentile 46.15 of 14
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9
Crn Art Design Ceramic Studio
Al Wasl Warehouse, Complex - R450 - 13 26th St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.813, percentile 38.46 of 14
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10
Safinat nooh glass
المايا سوبرماركت, 26086 91454, شارع الحضيبة 34
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.765, percentile 30.77 of 14
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).