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    4.8 (102 reviews)
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    Ian M.

    Thank you for yet another year of gift-wrapping artistry (paper complements gifts inside) from Linda, CJ, Hitomi, and Komo, under the watchful supervision of taskmaster Moira. Always so happy with my experience with this wonderful store and superlative staff!

    Super cool origami display!
    Taylor S.

    What a cool place to explore! The staff was super friendly and the origami exhibits all around were incredible to look at. My partner got a lovely set of cards in a Japanese traditional art print.

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    Scarlett H.

    Marvelous place! If you can't go to Japan but want a small glimpse of their exquisite culture and the beauty of paper art, this is the place! PAPER PAPER PAPER! They have every kind of decorative papers from beautiful cards, to envelopes, wrapping papers, to origami materials. Also on display are some amazing works of origami. A great place to browse and enjoy beautiful paper works!

    Great Quality paper.

    My favorite place in San Francisco. Excellent customer service. Store carries a great variety of items for origami and other crafts. They also offer cutting services for all kind of papers which is convenient and reduce time when starting a project.

    Amazing art
    Melissa S.

    I love this place. I go every time I go to japan town. They offer so many different types of paper. They have lots of origami paper and books. What I love is the displayed of origami art experts. It shows you that you can go beyond the basis.

    Joy U.

    A worthy place to visit especially if you are an origami enthusiast. They have a gallery of world class origami from dragons to ethereal trees, frogs on a plant and an abstract picture of Bruce Lee. What blew my brain off is one intricately scaly dragon that was folded from one paper without cuts. I am like; "Wait...what?!?!?" * jaw dropped. The store also has various kinds of paper materials from painting, folding and those buddha boards which my daughter explained to me teaches one of self expression and letting go. (Very zen like) There are intricate designs from their wrappers which looks high quality. I remember buying those handmade papers in the 90's with flowers on them. But these are vibrantly colored and very exquisitely patterned. You can also get the gel pens cheaper here than at the art store that my daughter goes to. To top it off, our yelp check-in got honored and we got a mini folding paper. Sooo cool!

    Mike S.

    Linda- thanks for the help. The piece works great in our bedroom! Look forward to working with you in the future.

    A dragon made with one piece of paper and no cutting.

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    Beautiful and gentle Irish Wolfhound and great place to find unique, local-to-SF gifts.

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    What an amazing origami store, great selection of papers and very helpful staff

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    Unsure on whether i wanted to go through that trouble, Linda informed me that she was also an origami artist.

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    Mai Do - San Francisco - Stationery haul: washi tapes, bullet pen, stickers

    Mai Do - San Francisco

    4.2(328 reviews)
    0.1 miLower Pacific Heights, Japantown
    $$$

    This place is stationary heaven for me. It's also packed with everything I'm into which is…read morejournaling, drawing, and calligraphy. The selection of various Japanese pens, mechanical pencils, brush pens, and notebooks is incredible. I also appreciate I can pretty much try out most of them to make sure I like it. I'm most pleased about their selection of fountain pens and inks. So amazing to be able to see them in person. Prices are either about the same or higher than what you'll find online, but it's well worth it to be able to be in the physical presence of all these tools and get lost in the creative possibilities while browsing through the aisles. The staff here are super friendly and helpful as well. I just wish there were more of them. This place can get crazy busy.

    My family and I are slightly obsessed with Japanese stationery, and few places top Maido in…read moreJapantown. We once spent a long afternoon in Ginza Itoya--the eight floor modern, immaculate stationary superstore in Tokyo with rows of perfectly designed pens, playful stamps, gorgeous hand printed stickers and ephemera we didn't know we needed. Maido is much smaller, a little cluttered, but brings some of that experience with its rows of geometric folders and gorgeous mechanical pencils. I've never met a gel pen or cat stamp here I didn't love. I also like to shop both Maido locations: upstairs they have small cubby packed full with stationary and office supplies, and downstairs, a small shop with gifts and cards. If you fill a basket here with over $40 in items, which is easy to do as its pricey, they offer a parking subsidy --a thoughtful touch that hardly any other Japantown shops offer anymore, which can make a visit slightly easier to justify.

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    Case for Making - color selections + shopping baskets

    Case for Making

    4.0(27 reviews)
    4.5 miOuter Sunset
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    In the past year, I have taken three online watercolor classes and one in-person watercolor class…read moreat Case for Making. So glad I did. I have Case for Making to thank for getting me back into exploring my creativity and artistic side. They are a small shop in the Ocean Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, but they have a great selection of handmade watercolor paints (kinda pricey but worth it for their beautiful colors) that can be shipped anywhere and a terrific selection of online and IRL watercoloring classes (recommend instructors Dave Muller and Anjelika Deogirikar Grossman). I am looking forward to trying out more of their paints and classes for years to come!

    This was a stop I'd been wanting to make for a while, but only found the time today after all of…read morethe holiday rif raff finally calmed down. Around 1pm on a beautiful Saturday, we found parking in Judah and made our way into a small storefront with two doors: one for workshops and one for retail art supplies. I love that they offer workshops here, and I love any sort of community-centered art outreach in San Francisco. My partner is the bigger artist between the two of us and I'm glad I brought him, even though he didn't buy much, he was able to see the selection of amazing quality watercolors and the wide variety of pens, of which I ended up buying a handful because I am a stationary lover if I'm anything at all! The prices were about what one would expect for a small store in the sunset, and I was happy to pay them. Some of the prices were actually much better than I thought they'd be. I purchased a large-ish art clipboard for $18 and I know I'm gonna use the heck out of it! The store was fairly empty when we arrived but filled up quickly with Saturday shoppers, and the cashier was wonderful and kind, and I appreciated their calm demeanor I'll be back here! Really just a great little spot for quality art supplies: watercolor pallets, brushes, notebooks, mixed media notepads and paper, high quality colored pencils and artist pens, etc!

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