We built the list we couldn’t find

Why a studio owner built this

I’m Nurullah. I run KraftStories, craft studios in Honolulu, New York and Irvine, and I built the same hand-checked index for those cities and the US West Coast before this one. KraftStories has no studio in Rome, so on this site there is nothing of ours to favour.

Running a workshop space teaches you something uncomfortable: the reason people don’t come to a class usually isn’t price or interest. It’s that they never found out it existed — or found it only through a reseller charging a third more. In Rome that is the rule rather than the exception.

So the rule here is the same as in the other cities: the organiser’s own page, the organiser’s own price, the booking rules spelled out, and every listing checked by a person.

What makes this different from the other lists

Everything here is read off the organiser’s own website by a person. Not scraped from an aggregator, not copied from another blog, not generated, and there are no automated feeds. When a studio prints a date with no year on it, someone works out the year from the printed weekday. When a booking page says a class is full, we say it is full.

That work is unglamorous and it’s the entire product. The editorial standards page spells out the specific rules, including the ones we wrote after getting something wrong.

The obvious conflict

KraftStories has no studio in Rome, but it does run studios in Honolulu, New York and Irvine, and those are listed in their own cities. I own studios like the ones listed here. That’s disclosed on every page of this site, our own workshops are marked as ours, and our competitors are listed in full — including when they’re cheaper. There’s no paid placement and nobody can buy a better position. If you want the longer version of how we handle it, it’s on the standards page.