Matoska Trading Company

After doing a Unilocal search, there’s nothing like this (except in Laguna Beach and that’s just too far). The location in Old Towne Orange is perfect for Matoska. The smell emanating from the shop as you enter is relaxing. You’ll find tons of jewelry, a whole wall of books, blankets, and of course, dream catchers. They have beads under a giant glass table and threading on the back wall. I was enamored by the dream catchers and crystals, like every basic person who enters this store.
There are so many wonders here that I need to peruse again.

Walked in this weekend to buy sage and we were treated to a spectacle, by the woman behind the counter yelling at a 12 year old boy who was upstairs taking a break and not beading. You’d think having csustomers in the store, she would be more mindful about yelling at the children working there out of respect for those shopping. We grabbed our sage and waited in front of the register while she beaded away. After being what seemed purposely ignored and listening to her grumble at the kid for taking a break, we left the sage on the counter and walked out. Very unpleasant experience when you walk into what should be an establishment that promotes serenity and has flutey music playing, and hear a women screaming at a child for taking a break. Went home, googled «sage wraps» and picked it from my garden. I now know how to make sage wraps and don’t have to spend $ 5.50 on a bundle, so thankful in a way for the bad experience. I will go back to this store because I’m a local who supports local businesses, but I’ll keep on walking by if the grumpy store clerk is behind the counter.

I too love this store! The owner is very easy going and informative on his merchandise and is willing to take time explaining the back story on everything Native American. Ps you can smell his store even when your down the street! Smells like Sage and Horsetail. =p

Very aqwsome. I love all the leathers and colors as well as the lovely stones and things that are for everyday uses as well fresh sages and other herbs and beads. Thank you for your service to the community and the public

This is my favorite place to shop if you’re looking for anything Native American. They have a large abundance of different types of sages. A variety of books and music CDs. And overall the staff is friendly.
Soon as you walk in you could feel the positive energy and the smell is soothing to the soul.

Great shop in the orange circle! I didn’t have time to shop here but I did take the dream catcher class and I was very impressed! The class was fun and upbeat and the instructor was very helpful and playful in teaching us the basics of how to make a dream catcher. He also had a wide variety of feathers and beads for us to use to create our hoop. I would definitely go back and hopefully next time I’ll have the opportunity to look around the shop downstairs!

This place is amazing! I’m Native American (Unangan, First People of Alaska) and I shop at this store, along with several other Natives I know. There is no other place in OC (or SoCal for that matter) where we can get a better deal on items necessary for our PowWow regalia. This Trading Post is the real deal, just like our ancestors dealt with in the 1800’s. Good service, good inventory, good prices! Even the owner frequents PowWows and dances himself, good place! I give it 5 stars, fantastic!

Jewelry, blankets, baskets a zillion tiny beads, beads from glass to bone to turquoise, crafting supplies, powwow gear. Per friendly.

Sweet sage are sold right here
Traved the OC
And the circle of Orange
Everybody is looking sage
Some of them wanna burn some
Some of them dont wanna be burned
Some of them wanna wanna be burned by sage.
Some of them need the sage to cleanse them
Out with the old, in with the new. I“ll admit it. I use sage sticks to clean out the negative energy around my space. I’ll use it as a air freshener, and I’ll use it to get away from negative peeps and as a blessing. A great great selection of California sage sticks in a variety of sizes, and beautiful alabone shells to burn it in, at a price thats hard to beat.
Located in the heart of the Orange Circle on Glassell and its very hard to find, unless you know its there. Once you find it, you“ll be happy you did. Enter the magical world of beautiful native American art, incenses, essential oils, music, jewelry, dream catchers and so much more. Service for me was friendly, but hey, Im friendly.
Even if your not looking for sage kits, this place is good for your soul and is sort of magical in a relaxing way.
Im a fan.

I waited almost a month to write this review hoping to cool off from being so upset, but it’s not happening.
I’m big on trying to shop at local small business. For the past few months I’d seen this shop and kept putting on my list of a place I need to check out, especially because I wanted some dream catchers for some of my bedrooms.
I made my way there on a Friday afternoon and was helped by Randy who was incredibly helpful and friendly. I ended up buying 2 dream catchers. I still wanted 2 more, but I figured I would go back with my husband so we could chose the one for our bedroom and guest room together. He provided 5 star service!
The next day I called and asked that their Sunday hours were and was advised «noon to five. «so the next day (Sunday) my husband and I make our way to this store at around 1210pm, the place is closed. I noticed that the sign said they open «about noon» decided to wait.
So we waited and waited about 3 more groups of people came and the place would not open. So at about 1pm we left and figured we would come back in the early evening.
We came back around 400pm and we found the two additional dream catchers we wanted and few other things. Now this is why what could have been a 5 star review get knocked down.
To check out we were helped by Brent, who is in dire need of some customer service skills. We were trying to make small conversation with him and told him we were there earlier, but had to leave because we got tired of waiting. I asked what time he opened? He advise 145pm. Oh I told him that I had called the day before and was advised they open at noon. Brent advised he opened later because he had some important things to take care of.
Way to make a customer feel unimportant! Not only that, but we were asking questions and his answered were a lot of «I don’t know I don’t make these» and even when we were leaving and my husband stopped to look at something we hear him complaining about so many people coming into the store.
Having a lot of customers is a good thing. It means job security. I don’t know if Brent is the owner/​manager/​employee, but he needs to get a clue.
I don’t know if I will go back. The prices are kind of high, but then again it’s a specialty kind of store. All I know that when I drop over $ 150. At a store over 2 days I expect good customer service.

Liked this place. Very friendly and welcoming. I’ll be back…:). We picked up some sage and looked around a bit. Smelt very good in the store and the clerk was very friendly. If your looking for anything Native American, you can find it here!

We payed a visit to this store yesterday. This was our first visit to the Orange Historic District.
If you ever have a need for anything Native American I would imagine this would be your go to store.
We liked the look and the smell of the store. We picked up some sage incense while we were there. The clerk was friendly and helpful.
Next time we visit this area I’m sure we’ll stop in again.

As always, a pleasure getting our dancing supplies here! We’ve been coming to Matoska for a very long time and the owner is always nice and helpful! This is a perfect place for regalia needs or even Native American gifts!
Bonus; it smells amazing!

Wow… I just walked into this place and was looking for a gift for a friend. The store was great and the smell was amazing. The gentlemen at the desk on the other hand was talking to a customer about me! He was very rude and so was the was the customer. Apparently they didn’t think I belonged in there… at least those were their words. If a customer doesn’t look like they «fit in» then help them out. A little hello or something would be nice to greet a customer. I won’t be back… ever!

Very cool spot for all things Native American.

I’m really trying not to judge but when you walk past the store it looks like one of the Native American stores in the mall that have dream catchers and wolves on tees. The sage and spices caught my eye and I am every thankful that my sweets suggested we go in.
The quality and selection of their glass beads rival those of Michael Levine in LA. The strands vary in pricing but the basic run a little under $ 3; enough to make a decent necklace with multiple strands. There is also leather laces to make necklaces and what not at a dollar something, Pendleton blankets, feathers & furs.
$ 7 bars of soap that smell heavenly; perfumey to musky to manly… we picked up one with Sam Adams in it. :)

Matoska is a little shop that is off of Champan across the street from La Poblana Panaderia. The owners turned a cute craftsman style home into a shop that sells tons of Native American stuff. Everything from books, music, garb, jewelry, to beads to make your own jewelry, botanicals like dried sage, sweet grass… You name it they have it. The shop is owned by a cute couple with two cute little kids that hang out in the store with their parents. I come here just to pick up a sage bundle and homemade soap that has herbs and essential oils in them. The last soap that I bought had sage in it… I could almost compare the soaps that they sell here to the soaps sold at Lather… But, I am more of a fan of the soaps @ Lather… So, yeah. This is a fun place to come and learn a little about Native American history. The owner and his family go to a lot of pow wows and are enthusiast and loves to talk about it… I dig buying the sage b/​c it’s the closest place to me that sells it and for a good deal as well. They do sell stuff here for space clearing as well.