Gifts for the woman who gave you everything

Mothers are famously hard to shop for precisely because they've spent years asking for nothing. A handmade piece sidesteps the problem a mall gift can't — it doesn't read as an obligation purchase. Jewellery hand-strung by another woman running her own small business, a crocheted piece she can actually use, or something homemade she didn't have to cook herself for once.

A number of the sellers here are mothers themselves, which shows up in the kind of care that goes into what they make — practical, wearable, meant to be used rather than just displayed.