Beth Bakes Cakes
Come and get ‘The Beth’! Eight layers of indulgent chocolate, with four layers of delicious chocolate fudge cake paired with four layers of hot milk chocolate ganache. A warming sweet treat to enjoy during a festive market visit.
Meet the Traders!
York Christmas Market 2026: Traders List
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Food & Drink
Blueberry Hill Preserves
Blueberry Hill Preserves offers artisan chutneys, jams, marmalades, luxury curds and savoury sauces, alongside waxed cheese truckles. Its range includes gift packages that bring together delicious flavours, offering inspiration for festive hampers, Christmas presents and seasonal food cupboards.
Charlie & Ivy's
Charlie & Ivy’s is a family business with a simple mission: to create the very best artisan products and food gifts that are easy to use and inspire people to enjoy simple, delicious food together every day.
Brew York
Brew York is an independent craft brewery blending creativity with quality. Founded in 2016, it produces bold, flavour-driven beers inspired by pop culture, nostalgia, and innovation. Alongside its York brewery and taproom, Brew York champions community, collaboration, and consistently fresh releases across its core and limited-edition ranges.
Brown & Blond Brownies
Scrumphoric, gobbolicious and unforgettably moist, a B&B Brownie (or blondie) is a beast of a brownie - a succulent slab of perfection ideal for celebrating special moments, making sweet memories, and bringing folk together in appreciation of the be(a)st you'll ever have.
Bullion Chocolate
Bullion Chocolate are award-winning bean-to-bar chocolate makers based in Sheffield, Yorkshire. The team crafts its chocolate from ethically sourced cocoa beans, overseeing every step of the process to create bars with distinctive flavour and exceptional quality.
Caroline's Fudge & Sweets
Caroline’s Fudge & Sweets offers a range of artisan confectionery for festive treats and Christmas presents. Its selection includes gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan options, providing a variety of sweet choices for visitors seeking gifts or something delicious to enjoy themselves.
Casa Mia
Experience the magic of an Italian Christmas with Casa Mia. Discover award-winning Amaretti, decadent Cannoli, and giant Italian doughnuts. From luxury gift boxes and Rhum Truffles to gluten-free and vegan treats, its handcrafted Pasticceria brings the authentic taste of Naples to the heart of York.
Chilli Jam Man
The Chilli Jam Man offers award-winning chilli jams, sauces, oils, rubs, spirits, chocolates and snacks made on the Yorkshire Wolds. Vegan-friendly options, stall tastings and customisable gift sets bring plenty of choice for food lovers and festive gifting.
Cooper King Distillery
Inspired by the wild spirit of Tasmania and rooted in the rugged beauty of Yorkshire, Cooper King brings whisky, gin and vodka distilled with craftsmanship, honesty and a spirit of adventure. Its range offers distinctive choices for festive drinks and gifting.
Cryer & Stott Cheesemongers
Cryer & Stott is a family-run cheesemonger. Sourcing from Yorkshire producers, the team cares about the provenance of its products. Some of its award winning cheeses include 1606 Rebel chilli cheese with Guy Fawkes in mind, Knavesmire with York Rhubarb Gin, and Yorkshire Spirit with Filey Bay Whisky.
Deborah Bakes
Established in 2018, Deborah Bakes is run wholly by husband and wife Deborah and Tim in York. Belgian chocolate brownies, blondies, bombs and yule logs are baked fresh daily in small batches. Favourite flavours plus Christmas specials. All are vegetarian, with vegan options and bakes made with gluten-free ingredients available.
Fairfax Distillery & Chocolatiers
Based on the outskirts of York, Fairfax Distillery & Chocolatiers is a family business producing award-winning spirits and chocolates using the finest local ingredients. Made with passion and care to produce the finest balance of flavours to entice the palate. Vast selection of gift options as well as personal treats.
Florian Poirot
Florian Poirot, UK Pastry Champion, offers premium sweet treats crafted with original French recipes and exceptional skill. The team prioritises quality above all, using the finest ingredients sourced mainly from local producers. Enjoy authentic, high-end pâtisserie that celebrates true French craftsmanship and unforgettable flavour.
Johnson's Toffees
Johnson’s Toffees makes its toffees and fudges by hand in its family-run factory in West Yorkshire. Traditional methods and locally sourced ingredients give the range its premium quality, offering delicious choices for festive treats and Christmas presents.
Kettlesing Distilling Company and Farrah's Harrogate
Farrah’s of Harrogate and Kettlesing Distilling Company bring together heritage toffee and expertly crafted Yorkshire spirits in its luxurious Toffee Vodka Liqueurs. Shop its beautifully embossed tins, exclusive York Viking bottles and ready-made gift sets - the perfect locally made treat for festive sipping and Christmas presents.
Lily-Betts Luxurious Handcrafted Fudge
Indulge in luxurious handcrafted fudge made with double cream and butter from a local dairy, alongside the unique innovative fudge fondue experience. Blending traditional recipes with creative flavours, Lily-Betts offers a unique festive treat that celebrates local produce, artisan quality, and unforgettable Christmas market moments.
Lottie Shaw's
A seriously good small-batch bakery based in the heart of Yorkshire, specialising in traditionally baked treats made with time-honoured recipes and proper ingredients. Proudly championing regional flavours and festive favourites, the team creates authentic, handcrafted bakes that celebrate the true taste of Yorkshire.
MoodyMare Patisserie
MoodyMare Patisserie is an independent confectionery business from York bringing seasonal and exciting tasty treats for the festive period, including Christmas cakes, advent calendars, hot chocolate bombs, chocolate bars and mince pies. Perfect for gifting or indulging during the holidays, with free-from and vegan options widely available throughout the range.
Northern Brownies
Northern Brownies offers artisan chocolate brownies through postal orders and markets across the UK. Its chocolate-filled bakes provide a sweet option for Christmas presents, sharing with friends and family, or enjoying as a treat during a festive market visit.
La Focaccia
La Focaccia is a local second-generation Italian bakery making slow-fermented, topped and freshly baked focaccia with olive oil. Its range includes stuffed calzones and handmade Sicilian mini cannoli, offering delicious treats to enjoy at the market or give as gifts.
Raisthorpe Manor
Raisthorpe Manor Fine Foods is an established family-owned business based near Thixendale in the Yorkshire Wolds. Its craft is producing award-winning spirits and Yorkshire Tonics, a mixer with a difference. The business uses only the finest local ingredients to keep its products premium and full of flavour.
Rhucello
Yorkshire’s answer to limoncello, Rhucello is a handmade rhubarb liqueur made with Yorkshire rhubarb from the Rhubarb Triangle. Combining just rhubarb, sugar and alcohol, it won Supreme Champion at the 2024 Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards.
Filey Bay Yorkshire Single Malt Whisky
Award-winning single malt whisky from Yorkshire's original whisky distillery. Filey Bay Single Malt is made using 100% homegrown barley from its family farm on the wolds, and its Cream Liqueur is rich, luxurious and delicious - the perfect gifts at a range of prices! Proudly made of Yorkshire.
York Cocoa Works
York Cocoa Works celebrates the art of chocolate as an authentic bean-to-bar chocolate manufactory crafting sustainable, single-origin chocolate in the heart of York. From indulgent truffles to signature hot chocolate, its handcrafted treats celebrate the city’s rich confectionery heritage.
The Crusty Pie Company
The Crusty Pie Company offers speciality pies, pasties and gourmet rolls, with a seasonal selection of Christmas pies. Its range also includes the company’s own pork crackling in a variety of flavours, providing savoury treats for festive food lovers.
The Fruity Kitchen
Handmade in small batches just outside York, The Fruity Kitchen produces award-winning jams, chutneys, artisan jellies and an exciting range of candied jalapeños, crafted using traditional methods & techniques. Beautifully presented and bursting with flavour, its products are perfect for gifting, sharing, festive hampers and everyday indulgence.
The Gourmet Scotch Egg Co
Homemade gourmet Scotch eggs, handmade right here in Yorkshire by a small family team. The Gourmet Scotch Egg Co uses locally sourced free-range meat and eggs, supporting nearby farmers while creating delicious savoury treats for festive food lovers and market visitors.
The Hooting Owl Distillery
Artisan spirits produced within the city walls of York. The Hooting Owl Distillery offers a full range of gins, rums and vodka made just a few hundred yards from York Christmas Market, providing locally produced choices for festive gifts.
The Sawley Kitchen
The Sawley Kitchen is a family-run bakery based in Ripon, specialising in award-winning flavoured shortbread. Its collection celebrates traditional baking through a range of flavours, offering sweet treats for Christmas presents, festive sharing and seasonal visits to the market.
The Twisted Curry Co
The Twisted Curry Co offers freshly ground spice blends for creating authentic Indian curries at home, with each blend serving six to eight people. The range contains no oils, sugars, preservatives or additives and is gluten-free and dairy-free.
The Yorkshire Kitchen
Creators of artisan sweet and savoury flavoured butters, handcrafted in Yorkshire using rich local butter and premium ingredients. From indulgent honey & cinnamon to bold garlic & herb and truffle, its small-batch butters elevate toast, baking, cooking and gifts with delicious, high-quality flavour.
Villains Rum
The Villains’ Lair returns! Experience York’s premier rum brand, featuring bold, Yorkshire-bottled spirits inspired by the city’s most infamous rogues. From signature blends to exclusive festive releases, discover a premium, theatrical shopping experience rooted in the heart of York. Perfect for standout Christmas gifting.
Whitby Distillery
Whitby Distillery offers sustainable spirits, including London dry gin, spiced rums, fruit gins and vodka. The team roams the rugged coastline and looks beneath the ocean’s surface for distinctive ingredients, including sugar kelp and North York Moors heather, creating coastal spirits for festive gifting.
Wren & Berry Group
Founded in February 2025, Wren and Berry Group brings together two established British artisan brands, Kin Vodka and Hedgerow Liqueurs and Spirits from Sloemotion Distillery. Its drinks collection spans sloe gin to toffee vodka, offering a varied selection for Christmas gifts and favourite festive tipples.
York Gin
York Gin is an independent York distillery producing award-winning gin and spirits, distilled and bottled in the city. The range includes 70cl and 5cl bottles, gift sets, York-themed up-cycled gifts, Christmas decorations and preserves made with York Gin, all locally made and exclusive!
Yorkshire Heart Vineyard & Brewery
Yorkshire Heart is a local family-run vineyard and brewery. The team nurtures its vines throughout the year, producing grapes that are lovingly made into wine. Alongside the vineyard, the business brews craft beers for a variety of tastes and occasions.
Shambles Kitchen
Shambles Kitchen brings a Viking-themed bratwurst stall to York, inspired by a trip to Sweden. Its menu includes bratwursts in bread and hand-cut chips with Scandinavian toppings and raclette cheese, offering warming street food with a nod to York’s Viking heritage.
The Cut & Craft – Mulled Wine
Warm up with mulled wine from The Cut & Craft, the York restaurant bringing its festive drinks stall to St Sampson’s Square this Christmas. Its seasonal drinks offer a warming accompaniment to a visit around the market.
The Cut & Craft – Steak & Chips
Serving premium British steak street food, its stall brings restaurant-quality comfort to York’s Christmas Market. Enjoy steak and chips, rich house-made sauces, slow-cooked pulled beef, and indulgent truffle chips, all prepared fresh using high-quality local produce and sustainable packaging.
Herbie's
Enjoy hot chocolate, German mulled wine and mulled cider from York’s family-run Herbie’s. Discover festive drinks, including non-alcoholic mulled options, while enjoying the Christmas Market atmosphere.
Tommy's Pie Shop
The range is inspired by award-winning chef Tommy Banks’ Michelin-starred restaurants, The Black Swan at Oldstead and Roots York. Every pie is handmade in small batches using high-welfare, locally sourced meats and seasonal British produce. Delicious pies are served with creamy mash, rich sauces and festive sides.
Lucia Restaurants
Lucia brings Italian comfort food to York’s Christmas Market with fresh pasta finished in a traditional aged Parmesan wheel. Watch it prepared live and enjoy rich, warming flavours made with premium ingredients, a simple, indulgent dish perfect for festive winter days.
Loaded Hash Browns By Ate O'Clock
Ate O’Clock is a family-owned, award-winning independent York restaurant bringing festive comfort food to the Christmas Market. Its "Loaded Hash Browns" are inspired by its in-house menu favourites, made with the same high-quality ingredients, delivering indulgent seasonal flavours and a warm Yorkshire welcome in the heart of York.
The Irish Spice Bag
Millers street food is perfect for the whole family, with quick-serve dishes using locally sourced produce and a distinctive blend of spices and flavours. The Irish Spice Bag, Frites-stnic and Nugs provide savoury choices for a festive market visit.
Crumbles Desserts
Enjoy warming fruit crumbles served with hot custard and a choice of optional toppings. Baked in York by the Shambles Kitchen team, these comforting desserts make a delicious sweet treat during your Christmas Market visit.
Chocolate Circus
Warm up with premium hot chocolate and Baileys, including the popular stacked hot chocolate, from York’s family-run Herbie’s.
Nashville Nuggs (by Mills Chicken)
Nashville Nuggs offers bite-sized pieces of Mills fried chicken, tossed in Nashville oil and finished with Nashville dusting. Featuring pickled gherkins, southern gravy, handmade crinkle chips and house sauces, the range celebrates authentic hot fried chicken.
Gifts
Amber & Orange
Amber & Orange creates colourful, hypoallergenic jewellery in a range of styles and sizes. Made from plant-based Cellulose Acetate and packaged sustainably, its pieces are bold, beautifully made, and gift-ready.
Avorium
Avorium sells personalised, pastel desk accessories and stationery, available in 9 gorgeous, matching pastel colours. From notebooks and diaries to folios and mug and coaster sets, all its products are available to be personalised on the spot, making the perfect gift even more special!
Viking Drinking Horns
Viking Drinking Horns sells an amazing range of real drinking horns, treated with food-safe varnish to prevent unwanted smells or tastes. Metal stands and leather belt holders are also available. Horns are sold by volume, from 50ml shot horns to monster six-litre party horns!
Bags and Gladrags
Bags and Gladrags offers a vibrant collection of seasonal accessories, with an emphasis on quality upcycled materials and eco-friendly packaging. Its range brings colour and character to winter wardrobes, with accessories offering thoughtful options for Christmas gifting.
Beyond the Shelf
Unique literary gifts for every kind of book lover including prints, bookish jewellery, one-of-a-kind enamel pins, bookshelf dividers, stationery and more. Valuing high quality materials and staying true to the book with thoughtful designs, these gifts will cure the post-book blues.
Black Yak
Fair trade brand Black Yak is known for their quality woollen jackets and accessories that offer style with character. Hand-knitted 100% pure new wool hats to suit the most stylish mums to the craziest grandads. Beautiful, delicate patterns for wrist warmers and mitts through to thick, cosy scarves for perfect presents. Sustainable, eco-friendly woolies to make everyone smile this Christmas.
Bowbrook Studios
Cold-cast bronze sculptures from Bowbrook Studios, a small family business founded in 1992. Barrie is the original artist behind 90% of the range, which has attracted collectors worldwide, including royalty and celebrities. Every piece is handmade on site from carefully selected materials.
Colin Williamson Prints
Framed watercolour prints by local artist Colin Williamson, featuring the Lake District, Yorkshire, the Yorkshire Dales, Northumberland and destinations further afield. His artwork is presented in handmade frames, with ceramic and hard-backed coasters featuring the prints also available.
Copper & White
A beautiful collection of accessories sourced or made by hand by Copper & White, with the aim of creating well-coordinated pieces that complement and elevate outfits. The collection offers stylish finishing touches for everyday looks, festive wardrobes and Christmas gifts.
Cosy Cottage
Cosy Cottage’s range of natural skincare, bathing, beauty and homecare products and gifts is developed and made in Yorkshire, using processes which produce no waste. The business has won multiple awards for Best Sensitive Skincare Brand, uses no palm oil and is cruelty-free, with recyclable or biodegradable packaging.
Hop Skip & Flutter
At Hop Skip & Flutter, each piece of jewellery celebrates imagination, craftsmanship and charm. Handcrafted and hand-painted in porcelain and sterling silver, every design is created in small batches to ensure quality and originality. From whimsical carousel animals to elegant florals and modern minimalist silver pieces, each creation is truly unique and made to be treasured.
Hand Turned Pens
Hand Turned Pens makes and sells a selection of fine writing instruments, including fountain pens, rollerball pens, ballpoint pens and pencils. Each piece is handmade in East Yorkshire using native and exotic hardwoods, creating distinctive gifts for those who enjoy writing.
Hollie Tree
Award-winning jewellery and home fragrances made in Yorkshire. Discover sterling silver earrings in jars, hand-poured candles, wax melts and reed diffusers, alongside gift sets and the popular Spirits of York ghost wax melt collection.
ideaPOT
Bring personality to every room with ideaPOT’s curated range of home décor and gifts. Featuring WoodBlock LED Clocks, vintage-inspired Flip Clocks, artisan Leaf Carving Art and more, its items blend thoughtful design with functional charm for stylish living and memorable presents.
Just Be Socks
Just Be Socks is a York-based, family-run business selling high-quality bamboo socks that are soft, breathable and sustainably made. Designed in the UK with eco-friendly materials and plastic-free packaging, its socks combine everyday comfort with thoughtful gifting, supporting local suppliers and a more sustainable way to shop.
Katherine Sheard Designs
Katherine Sheard Designs creates attractive homeware and giftware, including tea towels, mugs, greetings cards and prints. All products feature characterful, hand-drawn animals, full of personality and designed to bring a smile to everyday moments and thoughtful Christmas gifts.
Traditional Wooden Games
Come and discover its traditional wooden games at the York Christmas Market. Handcrafted from solid wood, its chess sets and mind games make beautiful Christmas gifts, perfect for cosy winter evenings at home and special family moments during the festive season.
LukeHorton Art
Celebrate Yorkshire with locally designed art and gifts, from prints, mugs and coasters to clothing, greetings cards and Christmas baubles. Designs champion Yorkshire pride, with the majority of products printed in Yorkshire too.
Luminology
Discover decorative LED lights, from 2D and 3D nightlights to Christmas tree ornaments and innovative magnetic and levitating lamps. USB-powered designs include interchangeable display plates, allowing different looks using the same wooden base.
Lush York
Inventors of the bath bomb! Lush York offers fresh handmade cosmetics made by real people, straight from the kitchen to the bathroom. The brand aims to create a cosmetics revolution and leave the world lusher. Online click-and-collect from Lush Cosmetics York makes Christmas shopping convenient.
Made With A Smile
Made With A Smile handcrafts framed pebble art, engraved wooden boards and York landmark decorations in its Yorkshire workshop. Each piece uses sustainable materials and is finished to a high standard, offering original, ready-to-gift designs exclusive to York Christmas Market and perfect for thoughtful Christmas presents.
M.J. Braithwaite Fine Arts
Prints and paintings by well-known York street artist Mark Braithwaite of The Braithwaite Gallery on Low Petergate and Hidden Studio in Newgate, including York snow scenes and Mark's popular ghost-themed prints, some of which glow!
Mervyn Tay Art
Mervyn Tay Art showcases the Yorkshire artist’s playful sheep paintings, inspired by wordplay, pop culture and everyday humour. Alongside these characterful scenes, the York-based artist creates vibrant abstracts and figurative work exploring human interactions and expressions.
MS Unique Gifts
MS Unique Gifts is a Yorkshire-based artisan brand specialising in handcrafted leather journals, photo albums, and accessories. Its collection features original designs created with a focus on quality, craftsmanship, and timeless style. Each Christmas season, the brand introduces new products and carefully prepared gift sets, offering visitors meaningful and authentic gifts not found in mass retail.
Coaster Corner
All of its wonderful selection of coasters are handmade in Yorkshire and carefully finished, making them not just funny but high quality too. Whether it’s for your own coffee table or as a gift for someone who’s “Yorkshire born and bred,” these coasters are guaranteed to raise a smile and they make the perfect stocking fillers.
Rainbownames
The unique Namemark is big enough for a door and thin enough for a bookmark. Available from the business at York Christmas Market, it offers a distinctive gift with the versatility to be displayed or tucked inside a favourite book.
StavesArt
Artwork for your world! Hand-drawn maps of towns, cities and sporting worlds by architectural artist Ben Staves. These detailed illustrations celebrate favourite places and interests, offering distinctive gifts for those with a special connection to a location or sport.
Sarah Garbutt Accessories
Sarah Garbutt Accessories creates handmade tweed clothing and accessories in Yorkshire, inspired by the surrounding countryside. Its collection includes cosy snoods, cuffs and hairbands, alongside bespoke skirts, capes and tailored coats, celebrating the texture and character of traditional tweed.
Socktopus
Socktopus is a family-owned sock business with a simple mission: to spread joy with every pair worn or gifted. Co-founders Nick and Josie are the designers and socksperts behind the brand, combining their experience of selling socks with a playful approach to everyday comfort and gifting.
Sunny Soap
Sunny Soap offers luxurious, handmade vegan soaps and skincare, crafted in York using the finest quality butters and pure essential oils. Its plastic-free, palm oil-free range includes soaps, body butters, and gift sets, all naturally scented and beautifully packaged. Perfect for ethical gifting, each product captures York's spirit of quality craftsmanship.
That Doggy in the Window
That Doggy in the Window is a proudly independent, family-run shop focused entirely on dogs. Its product range has been hand-picked by dog owners for dog owners. From high-quality pet wear to innovative toys, the shop provides a diverse range designed for dogs of all sizes and needs.
The Cat Gallery
A cornucopia of cats in one chalet! Its Original York Lucky Cats are handmade in York and can be purr-sonalised with a collar and charm of your choice. Maybe pick a gemstone cat in birthstone colours too or a bestselling gift like Bagpuss or Catopoly.
The Library of Flowers
Chris and Becky, the makers behind The Library of Flowers, handcraft jewellery and gifts using flowers collected on their travels. Each piece carries meaning and symbolism, with selected designs accompanied by stories and photographs showing where and when the flowers were collected.
The Vintage Model Company
The Vintage Model Company offers traditional model aircraft kits made from balsa wood and tissue, designed to fly once assembled. Combining hands-on construction with classic model-making materials, its kits provide an engaging gift for those who enjoy building and flying.
The Yorkshire Candle Company
The Yorkshire Candle Company is an independent business creating hand-poured candles and home fragrance in Yorkshire. Using responsibly sourced ingredients, each product is made in small batches and inspired by local landscapes, cosy traditions, and classic scents, bringing warmth, character, and a true taste of Yorkshire.
Redleb Jewellery
Redleb Jewellery creates contemporary silver and gold jewellery by hand in Yorkshire, using entirely recycled precious metals. Its collection combines careful craftsmanship with a considered choice of materials, offering distinctive pieces for Christmas gifts and personal jewellery collections.
Victoria Prints GB
Handmade custom LED neon signs from Victoria Prints GB, created using durable acrylic, LED strips and neon flex. The business offers a range of colours and fonts for bespoke signs, including designs based on business logos. Ready-designed signs also provide plenty of gift inspiration.
Wacky Wax
Stunning hand-dipped taper candles in vibrant dip-dye and marbled designs. York-exclusive ghost collection celebrating the city's haunted heritage with customisable accessories. Traditional advent candles, York-themed tins, and festive gift sets. Handcrafted in Yorkshire using natural, vegan wax. £5-£29.
York Lucky Cats
Original York Lucky Cats, handmade and unique souvenirs from York - City of cats. Personalised cat statues which come in 12 birthstone colours. Feline-themed gifts for cat lovers. Traditional and vintage style handmade glass ornaments.
Indie York
Discover something different at the Indie York chalet this Christmas! With a rotating line-up of local independent businesses, there’s always a new discovery waiting. Browse unique gifts, meet the people behind York’s businesses and find festive inspiration while supporting local talent. Come back throughout the market to see who’s next!
Homeware
Blossom Gifts
Blossom Gifts offers original handmade gifts and DIY kits inspired by York’s culture. Its range includes embroidered accessories, fabric goods, and seasonal designs. The business combines craftsmanship, sustainability, and playful character design, while also curating unique products from independent gift artists and contemporary creative brands.
Luna Resin Wood Art
Luna Resin Wood Art is a local business creating pieces by hand at the maker’s home. Each piece is unique; no two are the same. The marriage of crafted wood and pigmented resin creates timeless gifts and home furnishings suited to both contemporary and traditional interiors.
Marbletree
Marbletree creates slate and marble homeware and personalised gifts in Cumbria’s Lake District. Its collection includes kitchen accessories, serving pieces, engraved boards, house signs and distinctive giftware, combining natural materials with craftsmanship to create practical pieces designed to last.
Rowbert
Artisan home fragrance and wellbeing products, sustainably made in small batches using the highest quality materials. Beautiful scents enhance the small moments in your everyday routines, offering thoughtful gifts and fragrant touches for the home.
The Ambient Company
The Ambient Company creates handmade, eco-friendly soy wax candles and melts using natural ingredients and sustainable materials. With a focus on quality and ethical craftsmanship, its products offer long-lasting fragrance while minimising waste. Stylish accessories and seasonal décor complete the collection, perfect for gifting or enhancing any home.
Wild Wood Gifts
Wild Wood Gifts creates handcrafted wooden gifts using timber selected from local and British FSC suppliers. Its collection includes food presentation pieces finished with Yorkshire rapeseed oil, alongside designs such as Highland cow chopping boards and whisky barrel-top tables.
York Terrariums
York Terrariums creates handmade terrariums in York using recycled glass and local plants. Its low-maintenance designs bring nature indoors, offering sustainable gifts and decorative pieces for homes, with each glass arrangement celebrating the appeal of miniature planted landscapes.
Christmas Decorations
Artifactually
Exquisite individually hand-blown glass Victorian Christmas ornaments, luxuriously gift-boxed and available in a variety of colours, shapes and designs. The collection includes baubles with crystal droplets, reindeer and robins, alongside glass tealight holders and metal display stands. The business brings festive sparkle to York Christmas Market, with customers returning each year to collect new designs.
Crafty Bubble
Handmade wooden Christmas decorations, all personalised while you wait. Over 100 unique designs including baubles featuring reindeer, snowmen, gingerbread, elves and fairies to antler monogram ornaments, plaques and bunting. Every piece is handcrafted by one person in a Yorkshire-based home workshop, offering unique, plastic-free keepsakes made to treasure year after year and keep those traditions alive.
Keepsakes
Keepsakes offers personalised Christmas decorations finished with a handwritten name or message of the customer’s choice. Its collection provides a way to mark festive memories, celebrate loved ones and add an individual detail to the Christmas tree.
Nutty's Emporium
Handmade wooden Christmas decorations and ornaments that have been lovingly designed and created using eco-friendly wood. These unique Christmas decorations are made to the highest quality that will bring joy and charm to your festive abode.
Paper Starlights
Since 1996, Paper Starlights have been bringing people together under the stars. With a warm festive glow, their handmade, fairly traded star lanterns bring light and magic to any location and have shone over celebrations for thirty years.
The Festive House
Christmas decorations lovingly designed by The Festive House, making them unique to York Christmas Market. Its collection includes wooden, plush and ceramic decorations, with York-themed pieces among the range, bringing distinctive festive details to homes and Christmas trees.
Lifestyle
Celtic Knitwear Company
Irish-made knitwear woollen garments in fine merino wool. Warm, soft and excellent quality. Styles suitable for ladies and men. Featuring traditional Irish stitch patterns, from contemporary longer jackets to traditional Aran jumpers and cardigans. Woven tweed capes in soft, durable wool with hats and bags to match. Hats, gloves and scarves in wool. Labelling to show fair trade products.
HempWell
HempWell grows its own hemp plants, extracts the ingredients and makes its finished CBD products in its laboratories in York. This provides control over production from plant to final product, with a range of choices available for customers.
Herd & Hive
Herd & Hive produces premium Yorkshire honey, goat’s milk soap and beeswax products, all handmade using its own hives and goats near Harrogate. The range includes six unique honey varieties, handmade soap for sensitive skin and festive gift sets, offering authentic Yorkshire gifts for Christmas and all year round.
Nox
Located in the heart of York, Nox brings together unique gothic creators from across the globe. Its collection includes jewellery, candles, fragrances, ornaments, furniture, wall art and pins. Founders Oli and Hannah want Nox to feel like a home from home, with distinctive gifts and plenty of individual character.
Shea Alchemy
Family-run business Shea Alchemy offers no-fuss, natural skincare handmade in York. The team blends active botanicals with rich nut butters to help skin hydrate and recover. Its creams are eco-friendly and adventure-proof in recyclable aluminium tins. Vibrant, gender-neutral, and rucksack-ready - come and find the perfect locally made gift at its festive stall!
The Christmas fun doesn't stop there! Visit Shambles Market for more local gifts & goods, just a stone's throw away from the bustling Christmas market. The historic market is open 7 days a week, and offers a diverse range of stalls such as flowers, handbags, jewellery, and arts and crafts. For the foodies, enjoy the Shambles Food Court, located at the heart of the market. Make the most of your visit to York and continue to support local businesses this festive season!
Shambles Market Traders
