Our Story
Our Story
Wanderfolk Collective was built around the idea that home isn’t always a place. Sometimes it’s a feeling you carry with you.
Founded by Katie and Erik, Wanderfolk grew from a shared love of open roads, meaningful craft, good coffee, late-night ideas, and making things by hand.
What started around a workbench became something bigger: a family-run creative brand built for people who want the things they wear, carry, and keep to feel like part of their story.
Everything we make is created with intention, care, and a road-worn heartbeat.
Some pieces are bold. Some are sentimental. Some are faith-filled. Some are funny. Some are made simply because the idea would not leave us alone.
That mix is part of Wanderfolk.
We make goods for wanderers, homebodies, storytellers, makers, and anyone still figuring out where the road is taking them next.
Whether something travels with you or stays rooted in your favorite corner of home, we hope it becomes part of the life you are actually living.
Made for the Story You’re Living
We believe the best pieces are the ones that become personal...
A hat you reach for without thinking.
A game board that comes out every time everyone is finally in the same room.
A phrase that makes you laugh because it sounds exactly like something you would say.
A piece made for a moment you do not want to forget.
That is what we want Wanderfolk to create. Not just products. Things with a story attached.
Designed Here. Finished by Hand.
Many Wanderfolk pieces begin with quality blanks, natural materials, or thoughtfully selected components. Then we get to work.
We design, engrave, cut, press, layer, assemble, build, and finish our products ourselves in Central Florida.
Natural materials like wood, leather, and hair-on-hide bring their own variations in color, grain, texture, and pattern. We like that.
The goal was never to make thousands of identical things. The goal is to make something worth keeping.
The Wanderfolk Hat Bar
Somewhere along the way, hats became a much bigger part of our story. The Wanderfolk Hat Bar gives you the chance to make one part of yours.
Choose a hat. Choose a patch. We’ll make it yours.
At select markets and events, we finish your hat right there at the booth while you wait.
Our wide-brim hats take that idea even further, combining engraving, hide, fabrics, rhinestones, layered materials, and hand-finished details into statement pieces designed to carry a little more story.
Meet the Makers
Wanderfolk Collective is a family-driven creative business, and every piece reflects the hands, ideas, and care behind it.
The process is rarely neat, usually fueled by coffee and late-night ideas, and almost always involves trying something we have never done before.
That is part of the fun.
Katie & Erik
The founders and makers behind Wanderfolk.
Katie brings storytelling, design, detail, and brand vision to the mix, shaping how Wanderfolk looks, feels, and tells its story.
Erik brings craftsmanship, problem-solving, building, and an artist’s hand, turning ideas into finished pieces with character and purpose.
Together, they take ideas from “what if we made this?” to something real, balancing creativity with care and always choosing quality over quantity.
But Wanderfolk doesn’t stop with us.
Family Built
Wanderfolk is a family-run business, and our family is part of the story too.
Meet Collin
Collin brings a love of technology, design, and figuring out how things work. You may occasionally find him helping around the shop, learning new tools, testing ideas, or joining us at events.
Meet Camryn
Camryn brings creativity in a completely different way, with a love of drawing, crafting, color, and making things by hand. Her imagination has influenced more than one Wanderfolk idea along the way.
Widow & Lucy
And then there are Widow and Lucy, our two German Shepherds and unofficial shop supervisors. They are usually nearby, occasionally underfoot, and big part of the Wanderfolk crew.
Life Lived Wide Open
Wanderfolk is for the people still becoming who they are.
For the ones taking the long way.
For the ones carrying stories they fought hard for.
For the ones making new ones.
For the people who believe the things they wear and keep can say something about where they have been and where they are headed.
Wear the story you’re living in.