13 Of The Best Stores For All Your Stationery Needs
Shraddha Extension
Shraddha Extension is possibly one of the oldest stationery stores of Hyderabad, with several branches across the city. Most of your art supplies can be found here — Moleskine papers, charcoal pencils, oil paint colours, canvas papers, pens, and pencils. Discover notebooks of different sizes and patterns. Readers will find particular joy in the pirate bookmarks or bookmarks modelled after cartoon characters. Plus, highlighters, Post-it notes and notepads across budgets. They also have amazing fridge magnets in shapes of cupcake, apples or boots for just INR 25. Check out their gifting and home decor sections. This place is a must-visit for Christmas decor too!
Kitsons Stationery
Kitsons caters to not just stationery lovers but also handicraft fiends. A wide range of pens, board games, puzzles, and travel games are found here. We found journals with boho designs, colourful patterns & minimal decor and plain covers that made making up our mind about which one's the best, harder. Drawing pens, cartridge fountain pens, ball pens and gel pens from various brands, both national and international were neatly arranged here. They cater to all your art needs from canvases (starting with 6x6) to easels, all kinds of paints, paint brushes and art kits for kiddies too.
Padmavathi Traders
For the past 50 years — artists, students, and retailers have been flocking to Padmavathi Stores for basic and extravagant stationery products. Apart from your regular stationery, it is probably the only place in the city where you can get black canvases and canvases in a triangular shape. Also, you can find a wide range of charcoal pencils and pastels, glue guns, art supplies.
Landmark
We always leave a piece of our heart whenever we visit Landmark, and if you're someone who likes minimalistic stationery, Landmark has to be your usual haunt. Whether you're looking for chalkboards or desk accessories and organisers, find them in numbers here. Plus, the collection of pens and artsy notebooks will take you back for more.
The Deccan Pen Stores
If you take your pens seriously, how can The Deccan Pen Store not be your second home? With more than thousands of pens, this iconic store specializes in fountain pens, handmade pens, and it has a dedicated repair section for pens. Deccan has a tremendous collection of pens ranging from INR 3 to 3,50,000. While the newer brands like Cello, ADD Gel have forayed into the store, Deccan’s specialty lies in its handmade unbreakable pens (priced INR 1050 upwards) and a collection of fountain pens and pencils that are imported from Germany, Turkey, the USA, and more.
Miniso
It's almost a sin if we don't include Miniso on the list. Although it's primarily not a stationery store, it has one entire section dedicated to stationery and art supplies. Whether you're looking for highlighters, kawaii notepads, or DIY kits, the store has stocked up on plenty. And the best part? They're all budget.
Itsy Bitsy
At Itsy Bitsy, aisles of stationery, home decor, and DIY products will leave you grinning from ear to ear. In addition to the regular finds like canvas boards, easels, acrylic/water paints and paint brushes of all kinds, we found face, body, metallic and spray paints too. Their collections for sculptors, bakers, artists, and designers is impressive as it has items like wood carving materials, modelling tools, cake decoration sets, quilling kits, and calligraphy sets.
SV August 15th Stationery
SV August 15th is a fine gem in Gachibowli. This stationery and fine arts store is where both beginners and advanced artists can pick their art supplies. Touted as one of the swankiest art supply stores in Kondapur and Gachibowli, we've spotted charcoal drawing pencils, Kohinoor shading pencils, glue pens, acrylic colours, powders like sepia, graphite, charcoal at this store.
Crossword
We love that Crossword stores have gone through a revamp and have now launched bigger sections for children's books and stationery. We found laptop bags, sleeves, office notebooks, journals, planners and of course, a section for the cutest pens and other essentials featuring international brands. We promise you'll be tempted to hoard more!
Himalaya Book World
Aside from having some great office supplies, art supplies, and decor, Himalaya Book World also has a pretty good collection of pens from international brands, notebooks for office use and other supplies. The collection here is pretty straightforward, so it's great if you already have a list of things you'd like to buy.
Begum Bazar
Come start of the academic year, and you'll find scores of parents heading to Begum Bazar to stock up on stationery essentials for their kids. What's interesting about stationery stores in Begum Bazar, is you get to buy notebooks by the kilo as opposed to a per-item basis which significantly brings down the prices. You'll also find a host of other stationery essentials like pens, compass boxes, washi tapes and several other products at wholesale prices. We recommend going with a list of what you'll need, since the place can get crowded especially if you're visiting right before the academic year starts. The Feelkhana road is filled with stationery stores, all with equally good stock.
That Gilded Lining
Priyank Enterprises
Latt Liv
This Swedish brand has some of the cutest home accessories, home decor and stationery to complete your picture-perfect Pinterest work desk. We bet you can't get out without hoarding some cute pens and other stationery from this chain of stores in Hyderabad.