3 Best Places to Shop in The Sporades, Greece

Kilims, bags, hand-painted T-shirts, ceramics, and jewelry are among the antique and new wares.

The showroom and store of celebrated local ceramic artist Stamatis Ftoulis is on the beach road from the town towards Molos, and here you'll find a range of hand-painted pots, plates, vases, tiles, and many other delightful little trinkets. Each features the island's traditional and distinctive floral pattern, mastered over some five decades by Stamatis.

The workshop of Lefteris Avgoklouris and Emmanouela Toliou, carpenters with flair, is open to visitors. They will show off their chairs and other pieces and tell you about other master carpenters and craftspeople on the island who make original Skyrian furniture, famous around Greece for its intricate technique. They ship their distinctive pieces abroad.