A curated market of BC art,
craft and design

At Western Front
303 E 8th Ave, Vancouver

Fri 5–9 p.m.
Sat & Sun 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

Dec 4 – 6, 2026
Admission

General admission

$5

Supporter ticket

$15, includes a Toque tote bag

Children under 12 enter free

Pre-order your tickets here, or purchase tickets at the door by card

2026 Vendors

69 Candles

69 Candles is a line of handmade beeswax candles for rituals, celebrations, and everyday moments of intention and beauty. Crafted by Alberta Catherine in her kitchen studio, each candle draws inspiration from ironwork, patterns in nature, and the urban landscape.

Amelia Bangs

Amelia Seraph Lane creates home goods that bring together textiles and text. Her crochet work is playful and diaristic, drawing inspiration from everyday experiences of heartbreak, loneliness, and self-reflection.

Sunday only

Ami Sangha

Ami Sangha handbuilds clay into everyday objects and unique sculptural vessels, paying close attention to colour and form. Her signature hand-painted details bring character and personality, elevating the familiar into refined expressions that celebrate the qualities of clay.

AxeWood Inc.

Working primarily with an axe by hand, Jody Lentz allows the wood to guide him as he unveils the form within. Following the grain, he reveals functional wooden spoons and bowls, as well as organically shaped yet practical decor pieces.

Barbara May Alice Montjoy & Ariane Xay Kuyaas

Barbara May Alice Montjoy and Ariane Xay Kuyaas are a Haida mother-daughter duo creating from a shared connection to personal and ancestral histories. Barbara’s lifelong knitting practice draws on Haida weaving traditions, with designs inspired by animals, natural phenomena, and coastal waters. Ariane brings her own artistic expression to pieces inspired by legends and everyday life.

Big Rock Candy Mountain

Big Rock Candy Mountain is an artist-run flavour incubator and tastemaking think tank by Hannah Jickling, Reed H. Reed, guest artists, and elementary school students. Through edible editions, workshops, and installations, they centre sensory experience.

Boy Forge

Boy Forge is a carpenter and designer, turned silversmith. Most of his rings are made with the ancient technique of sand casting, using organic form as his inspiration.

Saturday and Sunday only

Cloth Tone

Cloth Tone is a textile studio by Larissa Beringer. Handwoven organic linen, undyed wool, and alpaca yarns exemplify the timeless craft of these contemporary textiles. The pieces’ subtleties and natural variations evoke the quiet rhythms of being rooted in place and embodied feeling and resonance.

Corbie Fieldwalker

Corbie Fieldwalker creates salmon leather goods informed by his background as a filmmaker and fly fishing guide. Handmade and sustainable, his pieces reflect an acute awareness of the unceded lands and waters that sustain wild salmon, alongside a commitment to conscious consumption.

Cracher Dans La Soupe Parfum

Cracher Dans La Soupe Parfum is an independent perfumery founded in 2018 by Megan Hepburn. Cracher Dans La Soupe celebrates aroma’s anarchic refusal to stay put, behave, or delineate a perfectly rational and identifiable form.

Daryn Wright

Daryn Wright is a ceramic, collage, and installation artist whose work draws on the archive. Food, folklore, domesticity, and the rituals of the everyday are often explored through humour and irony.

Friday only

Dirty Dishes Collective

Dirty Dishes Collective is a curatorial, artistic, and publishing duo formed by dani neira and Cassia Powell. Through their publishing arm, DDC Press, they produce zines, books, and print ephemera focused on artist projects, queer narratives, and critical theory.

Sunday only

Domestic Intervention Co.

Corrina Hammond specializes in textile design, handweaving contemporary cloth on traditional floor looms. Her textiles celebrate individuality, challenge fast fashion, and honour weaving traditions through the use of high-quality natural fibres.

Draw Me A Lion

Draw Me A Lion was created out of illustrator Lisa Cinar’s passion for drawing, making things, and a belief in the importance of creativity and fun. The line includes illustrated cards, prints, and colouring things.

Dunbar Pottery

Martin Peters and Ron Vallis of Dunbar Pottery create utilitarian ware in the Leach and Hamada tradition of handmade ceramics. They make their own stoneware and porcelain clay, as well as traditional Japanese glazes, resulting in rich, organic, and earth-toned pieces.

DW Leatherworks 

DW Leatherworks is the one-man operation of Derrick Wong. With a keen eye for detail, he handcrafts each leather item from start to finish, without machines and with premium materials to create high-quality, long-lasting accessories.

Erin Templeton

Erin Templeton has been handmaking leather goods with new and recycled leathers since 1999. Her fascination with the past informs her designs that defy trends, using minimal hardware and simple, strong construction. Each piece is designed to be adjusted, changed, and made one’s own. Image by Jennilee Marigomen.

Friday and Saturday only

Eudaimonic

Courtney Lang is a multidisciplinary artist and designer. Eudaimonic is her ongoing textile project, where crochet and sewing create pieces that balance utility and fantasy. Her experimental process is guided by instinct, weaving curiosity with desire, and repetition with chance.

Excelsior Handmade Books

John Atkin of Excelsior Handmade Books draws inspiration from his personal collection of antique sketchbooks and travel journals, designed from his studio in Strathcona. His handcrafted pieces are intended to be travelled with, tucked into a jacket, and scribbled in. 

fancypop

fancypop is a collection of jewelry and accessories crafted from beads, resin, clay, paint, and more. Inspired by her time in Japan, Emily Lau designs with the everyday girl in mind, creating pieces that reflect her mood. Her playful designs are made to spark joy and festive cheer, with something for every occasion.

Fredi Rahn

Fredi Rahn is a potter and educator whose practice centres on vessels and tableware as a way to explore form, pattern, surface, and process. Embracing an eclectic range of techniques and unexpected forms, she creates thoughtful objects with distinctive character.

Sunday only

Glass Yuri Glass

Glass Yuri Glass is a crafty ornamental glass project from Khan Lee Studio. Made with the traditional discipline of glass lampworking, aesthetics and techniques are considered and individually applied to create unique glass objects.

gutpunch daydream studio

gutpunch daydream studio is run by Kristi Wong, a queer, non-binary, neurodivergent artist and writer of Chinese-Malay descent. Kristi creates chainmaille jewellery, accessories, ornamental pieces, and zines that explore the tensions within the human experience: big, scary emotions tangling with soft wonder; that contain every colour and muddy the binary.

Hazel Meyer

Hazel Meyer is an artist who thinks about lesbian-feminists, leatherdykes, and gender outlaws in her interdisciplinary practice. Hazel also makes accessories for humans and dogs under the names: GAY LEASHES for BI-CURIOUS DOGS, and DINGDONG.

Heike Royer Art

Heike Royer is a lifelong maker who uses polymer clay to sculpt vibrant, touchable characters that celebrate the strange and delightful edges of human feelings. Her small clay figurines are made to spark joy, curiosity, and sometimes a hint of mischief.

if ceramics

Illana Fonariov is a self-taught potter living and working on Galiano Island. Carefully choosing sustainable and locally sourced supplies, her work is elemental and earthy.

Friday and Saturday only

Jaewoo Kang

Jaewoo Kang is a queer Korean Canadian interdisciplinary artist working across textiles, fashion, film, animation, and performance. His playful, tactile practice includes clothing, accessories, and wearable pieces, often drawing on queer perspectives, Korean cultural references, and the transformation of familiar stories, objects, and forms.

Friday and Saturday only

Jordan Lypkie

Jordan Lypkie creates wooden objects for interior worlds inspired by outdoor environments. Using local and sustainably harvested hardwoods, he adapts traditional turning, carving, and joining techniques to channel natural, ecological forms.

Julia Chirka

Julia makes functional pottery with pizzazz. Her work is influenced by plants, herbalism, astrology, mycology, drawing, and watercolour painting.

Karabaza

Yelyzaveta Karabaza’s love for jewelry began in childhood, captivated by family heirlooms and the stories they carry. Inspired by her Ukrainian and Turkish heritage—and her uncle, a classically trained goldsmith—Karabaza handcrafts timeless, comforting pieces using traditional metalsmithing techniques.

Kerria Gray and Clay

Kerria Gray is a ceramicist making functional work using wood, soda, and gas firings, resulting in a unique surface on each pot. She carefully considers colour, texture, form, and functionality in her process.

Knitbone Ceramics

Seed is a ceramic artist making small batch functional ceramics for the home using deep red clay, earthy glazes, and playful surface design. Ever evolving, their curiosity compels them towards new forms, firing methods, and surfaces, motivated by the land, sea, and their vibrant queer community.

Kyle Parent

Kyle Parent is a teacher, tailor, quilter, and textile artist. His relationship to sewing began at an early age while watching his mother sew. Before shifting his focus to quilting, Kyle worked in menswear with his own line. He uses upcycled and found fabrics for all his work.

Lea Linin

Lea Linin is an illustrator inspired by wandering, nature, nostalgia, and the simple pleasures of everyday life. Her paper goods blend playful illustration with risograph printing and collaborations with Canadian artisan print shops.

Sunday only

Lisa Beading

Lisa Walker is an Indigenous (x̄á’isla Nation + British) artist who specializes in beadwork. Through her colourful one-of-a-kind beaded earrings, she echoes resilience, joy, and human experiences as she lets a range of themes influence her work—from pop culture to West Coast design.

Friday only

Loree Lane

Loree Lane creates unique ceramic pieces influenced by Abstract Expressionism. Hand-built with coloured clay and nerikomi techniques, her pieces blend form, colour, and texture, existing in space as artworks rather than functional objects.

Louise Reimer

Louise Reimer is a queer artist working primarily in drawing and hand-built ceramics. Her work blends sculpture with function, drawing inspiration from nature, surrealism, and classical antiquities.

LUPA Ceramics

Kristine has worked with clay for twenty years, drawing inspiration from her cultural heritage and local materials—a connection reflected in the name of her ceramics, the Tagalog word lupa (earth, land).

Maiku Brando

Maiku Brando is a design lab by Mari Fujita and Michael Barton that reflects their experience in architecture, art, film, theatre, textile art, and industrial design. Currently experimenting with soft sewn goods, they create meaningful objects for everyday use—such as three-dimensional down-filled accessories.

Maria Ida Designs

Maria Ida Designs is a blown glass production company founded by Maria Struk. They make colourful objects for the home with a joyful, unpretentious feel. Every piece is hand-blown, melding creativity, danger, science, and molten glass into one-of-a-kind pieces.

MDW Jewelry 

Meghan Weeks is a Woodland Cree/English artist and proud member of the Sucker Creek First Nation. Embracing storytelling through her gender-neutral sterling silver jewellery and beadwork, her work reflects Cree culture, childhood memories, and humorous auntie energy.

Mona Lisa Ali Ceramics

Mona Lisa Ali is a Jordanian American artist focused on ceramics and labour-intensive material making. Her approach to ceramics began during a communal 420-kilometre artist walk across Jordan. Her hand-pinched pieces incorporate locally foraged stones, plant ashes, and clay slips, creating unreplicable pieces shaped by flame through wood or soda firing.

Moniker Press

Moniker Press is a risograph print studio and publishing project that works collaboratively with artists to produce small editions of books, zines, and print ephemera.

Friday and Saturday only

Moonseed Herbals

Created by herbalist Em Postl, Moonseed Herbals products are seasonal, small-batch, local, organic, with ethically harvested medicinal herbs. Current offerings include tincture and glycerite blends, salves, infused vinegars, and whole plant-infused face and scalp oils.

Mother Snake

Mother Snake combines French and English techniques to craft baskets handwoven from Salt Spring Island willow and finished with leather handles, alongside soft merino wool socks dyed in vibrant, natural hues—using plants and flowers, many harvested from Sophie Slater’s own garden.

Sunday only

Naomi Bourque Jewelry

Naomi Bourque’s Gwich’in and Métis ancestry inspires an earthy, organic approach to her jewelry and textile work. Naomi pays homage to her cultural heritage by blending traditional materials such as antler, horn, and home-tanned hide with contemporary techniques.

Noa Capelle Fine Jewellery

Noa Capelle is a jeweller who creates handmade pieces with traditional goldsmithing techniques, honouring the natural beauty of gold, silver, and gemstones. Her work ranges from a handmade silver collection to one-of-a-kind and commissioned pieces.

OHCE-ECHO

OHCE-ECHO is a 55-square-foot project space at 1469 Venables, organized by Francesca Bennett as a commitment to artists and an extension of research into independent, parallel, and artist-run spaces. Alongside Anxietees and Work Shirts from Bennett’s project SOFT TOUCH, OHCE-ECHO will have various artists’ books, multiples, and ephemera.

Olive Rose Studio

Olive Rose Studio is a creative clothing brand showcasing unique pieces by artist Olivia Mansveld. Sewing everything by hand in her Kootenays studio, she aims to inspire us to rethink our relationship to clothing. Exclusively using recycled fabrics, she strives to create a positive impact. Image by Katarina Riopel.

Pippa Lattey

Pippa Lattey shapes objects from windfall and pruned wood from Vancouver’s urban trees, as well as other found scraps. For Pippa, trees inspire slowness in both making and thinking about the world.

Paige Jung Art + Illustrations

Paige Jung is a Chinese Canadian illustrator and muralist whose style is characterized by story-centric scenes, flat shapes, calming colours, and organic textures. Her work spans editorial, commercial, and book illustration projects, as well as large-scale public murals.

Paperbacknote Stationary Ltd.

Paperbacknote makes unique upcycled stationery by repurposing locally sourced paperback books and rebinding their original covers into new notebooks. Whether for journaling, sketching, or note-taking, they give used books a new life.

reassembly

reassembly’s scents are alchemic reflections of the world, from city rainstorms to mossy forests. Using sustainable, high-quality oils and resins that evoke the organic botanicals from which they were distilled, Josée Gordon’s fragrances exhibit depth and longevity, melting into the skin and lending themselves to layering and experimentation.

S.French Soaps

Inspired by childhood summers along the river in Quebec, S.French Soaps evoke memories of jumping off docks, bathing in lakes, and the freedom of long, warm days. Through experimental play in the studio, these soaps envelope this nostalgia. 

Saturnine

Shayla Bradley is a Vancouver-based metalsmith and jewellery designer and the founder of Saturnine. She creates hand-forged pieces inspired by ancient artefacts, the natural world, and her background in art history. Combining organic textures with contemporary silhouettes, her jewellery is designed to feel timeless, personal, and uniquely connected to its wearer.

Social Dog

Social Dog creates cute, cozy, and ethically-made gear for your pup from deadstock textiles, including jumpers, vests, and beds. Rooted in circular design and a love of fashion and dogs, Social Dog offers a low-waste way to keep Vancouver dogs warm and stylish.

softserve

softserve is a severely disabled textile artist living in Vancouver. They prioritize reclaimed materials in order to bring eco-friendly joy into your home, one quilted item at a time. This “slow practice” allows softserve, who is mainly housebound, the chance to connect with the outside world through the creation of functional art.

Taylor Moon Ceramics

Taylor Moon is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada whose practice focuses on ceramics and poetry. Processing her inner world through clay, she draws on her subconscious to create pieces that are often decorated with original text.

tenderpup

Christa Yeung is a Chinese-Canadian embroidery artist who creates whimsical illustrations with thread and felt. Her work is inspired by nature, friendship, and vibrant colours. Through tenderpup, Christa hopes to create a more patient, connected world one stitch at a time.

The Woods Spirit Co.

The Woods Spirit Co. crafts their balanced, flavourful spirits in North Vancouver using vacuum distillation to preserve natural flavour. Stop by their table for a tasting and browse their artisan bottle shop.

Friday and Saturday only

Toña Bakery & Cafe

Toña, named after Daniel Munoz’s mother, is an exploration of, but not limited to, Latin flavours through the eyes of a Canadian-trained pastry chef. Focusing on seasonal ingredients as much as possible Toña’s handcrafted chocolates, caramels and confections, and pastries are made in Dunbar.

Tony Dubroy

An annual excursion into shape, Tony Dubroy uses this chance to explore form and function in the arena of bowls, dishes, and platters. Locally sourced and often salvaged wood is used to create (mostly) functional pieces that can stand on form alone.

tuk + milo

tuk + milo creates playful items to comfort your inner child and the little ones in your life. Coining “simple toys for complex play,” this brand focuses on the benefits of play-based learning throughout the early years. Expect to find a collection of their signature soft toys in a variety of colours, textures, and cute designs!

Friday and Saturday only

Valérie d. Walker

Valérie d. Walker is a neo-Renaissance artist, whose deep craft and quotidian actions infuse her eco-positive processes that take the form of unique, hand-dyed Indigo pieces. Indigo’s reverberations along the transatlantic Black diaspora empower her Afro-futuristic tactile time-resonating textures.

Friday and Saturday only

WarmAndDrift

Nellija Zi is a Latvian artist who now lives on Canada’s West Coast. Creating under her brand WarmAndDrift, Nellie harnesses the pure essence of natural wool to craft an enchanting world, using her hands to delicately felt animal creatures, spectral apparitions, gnomes, and even whimsical acorns.

Yarn Advisor

Yarn Advisor is a mother-daughter fibre and knitwear collaboration between Ali Bosley and Shirley Ulland. Their hand-spun, hand-dyed alpaca/wool blend is made by Shirley on their family farm in northern Alberta. Ali and Shirley then hand knit the wool into original, unique pieces designed to respond to natural variation in the material’s shape and colour.

Yeniyeni.kr

Yeeun Jamie Choi is a ceramist who creates imagined beings, seemingly familiar yet unknown, to expand their worlds into new dimensions. Inspired by nature, her practice transforms organic impressions into an alternative universe, blurring the line between reality and imagination.

FAQs

What is Toque Craft Fair?

Toque Craft Fair is an annual holiday market and community fundraiser hosted by Western Front, a non-profit artist-run centre. Welcoming over 5,000 visitors each year, Toque features a curated selection of BC artists, craftspeople, and designers—celebrating the creativity and quality of what’s made locally.

What makes Toque Craft Fair special?

Since the 1970s, Western Front has hosted a winter fair celebrating local artists—an enduring tradition carried forward by Toque Craft Fair since 2002. Spread across two floors of Western Front’s heritage building, the fair invites you to shop from over sixty BC-based artists and connect with the creativity rooted in our community.

What is Western Front?

Western Front is one of Canada’s leading centres for multidisciplinary art. It’s a place where artists create and present vital new work at pivotal moments in their practice, and where audiences come together to engage with contemporary art. Learn more at westernfront.ca.

How does Toque support Western Front?

Participating makers generously donate 30% of all sales to support Western Front’s artistic program and the conservation of our heritage building.

Every purchase helps fund new commissions, exhibitions, performances, residencies, and workshops—supporting contemporary artists across disciplines. By shopping at Toque Craft Fair, you’re directly contributing to BC artists and sustaining artist-run culture in Vancouver.

What are the 2026 opening times?

Toque kicks off with an opening party on Friday, Dec 4, from 5–9 p.m.

The fair continues Saturday, Dec 5, and Sunday, Dec 6, from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. each day.

Can I pay with cash?

Toque is cash-free this year. Admission and purchases from makers can be paid by card only. This helps us keep transactions quick and secure throughout the weekend.

Are you still accepting vendor applications?

Our annual open call for new vendors has closed. We will welcome applications for the next fair in the spring of 2027.

Is Toque an accessible event?

Toque Craft Fair is held across the ground and second floors of Western Front’s heritage building. The ground floor is wheelchair accessible and features 60% of our vendors. The second floor, which hosts the remaining vendors, is only accessible via a flight of 26 stairs. Learn more about accessibility at Western Front here.

Can I bring my pet?

As Toque can be a crowded and noisy environment, we kindly ask that pets be left at home for the comfort and safety of pets and attendees alike. Service animals are always welcome.

How can I receive updates about Toque?

Follow us on Instagram @toquecraftfair and Facebook to get a sneak peek of the artists’ and designers’ work, and to receive further news about the event.

Contact

Western Front
303 E 8th Ave
Vancouver, BC V5T 1S2

westernfront.ca

On the unceded, ancestral, and occupied, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations.

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