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Best arts, crafts and hobby shops in Kolkata
The 10 most notable arts, crafts and hobby shops in Kolkata, 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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Piyush Polytex Industries Private Limited
Diamond Heritage, 16, Strand Road, Fairley Place, BBD Bagh
112 m from B.B.D Bag railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.311, percentile 100 of 16
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2
Kumar's Art Mart and Office Stationeries
2, 5, Bhupendra Bose Ave, opposite metro gate
51 m from Shyambazaar 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 2.251, percentile 93.33 of 16
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3
Ballygunge Variety Store
210A, Rash Behari Avenue, Gariahat Rd
762 m from Ballygunge Junction railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.241, percentile 86.67 of 16
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4
Digital Spinners Academy | Digital Marketing Institute | Digital Marketing Course
55B, Mirza Ghalib Street, Park Street, Saberwal House 6th Floor
363 m from Park Street metro station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.234, percentile 80 of 16
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5
Weavers Studio
5/1, Anil Maitra Rd
706 m from Ballygunge Junction railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.185, percentile 73.33 of 16
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Rare Planet Handicrafts Private Limited
AD 168 Rabindrapally, Kestopur
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.099, percentile 66.67 of 16
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J. S. Mohamedally
Tower House, 2B, Chowringhee Square
158 m from Esplanade 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 2.069, percentile 60 of 16
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Janata Textiles
164, Mahatma Gandhi Rd
705 m from Mahatma Gandhi Road metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.028, percentile 53.33 of 16
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Madras Textiles
26/3, Hindustan Park
707 m from Ballygunge Junction railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.911, percentile 46.67 of 16
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khatu shyam textiles
Ground floor, sadasukh katra, 201/b mg road, middle lane, near Tewari sweets
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.822, percentile 40 of 16
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).