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Artbridge Bookstore Café
Has a small but well-chosen range of titles and a book exchange.
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Macmillan Bookstore
Has a few English-language novels but mostly sells learning materials, including dictionaries.
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Made in Armenia Direct
One of the best selections of crafts and handmade jewellery and religious iconography.
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Salt Sack
Better than average souvenir and handicrafts shop with some maps and books for sale, and a range of jewellery, pottery, items like woven salt sacks, carpets, dolls and T-shirts. Check your change carefully before leaving.
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Treasures of Armenia
Craft gallery run by local designer Nina Hovnanian. Besides unique jewellery, crafts, cushions and clothing there is a tea room where you can break your shopping spree. It's also fun place just to look at the mind-boggling price tags and wonder, will anyone will buy that expensive scarf?
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Tufenkian Carpets
Tufenkian Carpets is owned by James Tufenkian who made his name in Tibetan carpets and is now working to revive Armenian carpet-making tradition which had been collectivised and sucked dry during the Soviet era. There are others sold at the main Vernissage. Carpets range in price for something basic to a first-rate hand-woven carpet. Many shops can arrange to ship your carpet home.
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Vernissage Art Market
Around the Martiros Sarian statue across from Opera Square, this market deals primarily with paintings; you can turn up some real gems here at negotiable prices. Purchases are made from both dealers and the artists themselves.
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Vernissage Market
The main weekend flea market caters to locals shopping for car parts and plumbing fixtures as well as tourists rummaging though piles of antiques and old communist medals. It's also a good place to pick up a chess set and intricately carved jewellery boxes among other locally produced handicrafts.
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