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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 194 arts, crafts and hobby shops
Best arts, crafts and hobby shops in Istanbul
The 10 most notable arts, crafts and hobby shops in Istanbul, 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
Textile Bektas
Devekaldırımı Cd. No:58
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.297, percentile 100 of 194
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2
Üsküdar Sanat
Eski Mahkeme Sk. No:10
303 m from Üsküdar railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.287, percentile 99.48 of 194
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3
Mitra Kostum
Faik Paşa Cd. No:2A
332 m from Tünel, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.285, percentile 98.96 of 194
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4
UlutaŞ Sanat KirtasİYe Toptan
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Mah, Hasippaşa Cd. No:52 A
571 m from Çamlıca Camii, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.282, percentile 98.45 of 194
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5
Pakra Gloves
İskete Sk. Deniz Apartmanı No:11 A
728 m from Osmanbey, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.279, percentile 97.93 of 194
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6
Hobi Seramik
Gümüşsuyu, Dünya Sağlık Sok. Opera İş Merkezi No:25, 34437 Beyoğlu
158 m from Taksim, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.276, percentile 97.41 of 194
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7
Bağzibağli Nişantaşi
Matbaacı Osmanbey Sok.
71 m from Osmanbey, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.265, percentile 96.89 of 194
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8
Alya Curtain
İkitelli Mahallesi Masko Mobilyacılar Sitesi 20 / A Blok, D:25
72 m from MASKO, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.264, percentile 96.37 of 194
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9
Jmk Tekstil
Cem Plaza, Büyükdere Cd. no:23 kat:8
293 m from Şişli—Mecidiyeköy, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.259, percentile 95.85 of 194
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10
Gergedan Hobby
Köşem Apartmanı, Mühürdar Cd. No:55
178 m from Kadıköy İDO, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.258, percentile 95.34 of 194
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).