Salisbury Fall Artisan Market

Handmade goods cover the White Hart lawn in Salisbury, Connecticut, on the same weekend as the town's Fall Festival. Makers bring hand-dyed wooden flowers, bags and totes, hardwood boards, polymer-clay bowls and jewelry, knits, wheel-thrown ceramics, seed-bead jewelry, handwoven cotton and bamboo textiles, wool from local sheep farms, upcycled mittens, gilded wood bowls, lampworked glass, leather goods, paintings, and landscape photographs. The lawn is the whole market, and a short stroll covers the range.

Our take: Start with the lampworked glass and ceramics if you want something harder to find, then circle back for textiles.