Christkindlmarkt Bethlehem holiday marketplace returns for its 23rd year at SteelStacks weekends Nov. 20 - Dec. 20, with more than 130 artisans and vendors and holiday activities.

Christkindlmarkt, twice recognized as one of the best holiday markets in the United States by Travel + Leisure, offers aisles of handmade works by some of the nation’s finest artisans, Christmas music and food, including the annual Breakfast with St. Nicholas, 9 a.m. Nov. 28 and Dec. 5, 12 and 19.

New this year is the Nazareth Ceramic Center, which will help children create an ornament. Ebru Richsilk Design offers patrons the ability to make their own marbled silk scarves.

Among the many new crafters this year are High Strung Studios, Bradley Beach, N.J., which creates jewelry from guitar strings; Breezy Meadow Farm, which crafts felted holiday items featuring wool from the sheep on their Perkasie, Bucks County, farm; Loophead Duudles, Muir, Schuylkill County, which offers pen and ink drawings on paper and ceramics, and Big Belly Banks, Elizabethtown, N.Y., which makes colorful children’s coin banks.

An annual highlight of Chriskindlmarkt, Germany’s Käthe Wohlfarht, is also back with handmade ornaments, nutcrackers and collectibles.

Christkindlmarkt dates are Nov. 20 - 22, 27 - 29, Dec. 3 - 6, 10 - 13 and 17 - 20. Hours are 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Thursdays and Sundays and 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.