Merchants Guild

Buy from monasteries, parishes and Catholic artisans.

Market stalls in Piazza San Marco, Venice

Made in cloisters and workshops.
Gathered in one place.

What you’ll find

Quae invenies

Many monasteries and convents make beautiful items and only sell them at the gate or the gift shop. We want to put them in front of Catholics everywhere.

Example

Rosaries and devotions

A rosary of pearls and gilt beads

Strung and knotted by hand, one decade at a time. The kind of rosary you might find made in a convent or a family workshop.

Example

Textiles

Cloth printed by hand

Throws, altar linens and table cloths, printed and stitched in convent workrooms and family workshops.

Museum pieces shown as examples only. Not for sale.

For sellers

Pro venditoribus

If you’re a monastery, convent, parish or Catholic small business, you can have your own shop on Merchants Guild. You don’t need a website or any technical know-how.

Get in touch
Fill in our short form to tell us who you are and what you make. It takes about five minutes.
We set up your shop
Send us photos and prices and we’ll put your listings together with you.
Start selling
Orders come to you, you post them out, and you get paid.

Sell with us

Why we’re doing this

Cur hoc facimus

As Catholics, whenever we bought gifts, we wanted the money to support the Church in some way: a monastery, a parish, or simply a Catholic family business. But they were hard to find. The things they make are spread across abbey gift shops, convent gates and small websites, and there was nowhere to see them all in one place.

So we’re building one. The Guild brings Catholic makers together on one page, so you can buy for birthdays, feast days, Christmas or any special day, knowing your money is helping a Catholic community or family business.

Questions

Quaestiones

When does it open?

We’re still setting up and talking to our first sellers. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you when the shop opens.

Who can sell?

Monasteries, convents, parishes, Catholic charities and Catholic small businesses and makers.

What does it cost to sell?

We’re working that out with our first sellers. Nobody pays anything before we’ve agreed it together.

Do I need to be good with computers?

No. If you can send an email with a few photos, we can do the rest with you.

Join the waitlist

Mox aperiemus

Be the first to know when the shop opens. We’ll only email you about Merchants Guild, and you can leave at any time.