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Alegra
A small space crammed with all sorts of textiles, crafts and jewelry, including beaded bags, leather belts with colorful ceramic-painted buckles and an unusual range of earrings and brooches decorated with tiny pressed flowers.
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Arte Mexicano Para El Mundo
Explore three floors of quality arts and crafts from all over Mexico, including rugs, jewelry, pottery and those delightful shocking-pink papier-mâché dolls with plenty of glitter and attitude. The first floor has an excellent bookshop with coffee-table-style tomes on Mexican design, cookery and architecture. There's a cafeteria on the sixth floor with sweeping Zócalo views.
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Arte Prehispánico
This is the place to pick up your Aztec mask or sculpture; the copies here are excellent, as good as those at any museum. Other artesanías irresistibles include the woven wraps from Chiapas and the reasonably-priced Día de Muertos figures from Michoacán.
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Artesanías Soler Arumi
This hole-in-the wall sells classic and modern designed frames, bowls, plates, teapots, candlesticks - you name it - made out of pewter so shiny you can see your reflection.
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Artesanos De Mexico
Elderly owner Antonio Frausto is a real charmer and will explain the origins of the intriguing items for sale here, which include furniture, masks, lacquered, painted trays, paintings and ceramic pottery. The prices are as good as the markets. Ask Antonio to show you the photo of him with Reagan in the '70s; it will make his day.
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Bazar Sábado
In the southern suburb of San Ángel, this is a showcase for some of Mexico's very best handcrafted jewelry, woodwork, ceramics and textiles. Prices are high but so is the quality. At the same time, artists and artisans also display work in Plaza San Jacinto itself, in surrounding streets and in nearby Plaza del Carmen.
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Casa Azul
Walk up the wide steps to the terrace and grand entrance of this colonial-style grand house, which today creates a fitting showcase for antiques and crafts. There is a beguiling combination of kitsch, historic and current day artesanía items spread over three large creaking rooms.
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Casa Del Coleccionista
A treasure-trove of local crafts, including miniatures, silver jewelry and beaded bags. There are also antiques and collectables here, like gaudily-painted tin trays from '50s cantinas and brightly decorated gourds.
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Casa Del Obispo
Has a divine setting with its hacienda-style courtyard and central fountain. There are mainly jewelry and artesanía stores and prices tend to be comparable or slightly higher than the nearby Bazaar Sábado.
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Chíc By Accident
Featured in stylish wallpaper* magazine, French owner Emmanuel Picault has a fascinating collection of 20th-century furniture and objects here, ranging from a quirky giant walrus to a sumptuous abstractly designed quilt. Picault has published a book on contemporary furniture with Philippe Starck (Book by Accident) . The adjacent showroom, Sex By Accident, concentrates on the erotica in art and sculpture.
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Fonart, Juárez
The well-known government-run handicrafts shop displays beautiful wares from around the country, ranging from Olinalá lacquered boxes to Oaxacan alebrijes and blankets from Teotitlán del Valle. Prices are fixed and higher than you pay in the Ciudadela market around the corner, but the quality is undeniably up there as well.
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Las Artesanías
A large showroom of local crafts, including lacquer ware, woven textiles, leather items and silver jewelry at only marginally higher prices than elsewhere (given the location).
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Las Fábricas De Mexico
The name says it all, except what is so great about these fabrics is that they are 100% cotton. Tablecloths, blankets and, yes, all-cotton underwear can be purchased here, as well as a range of super soft babygros.
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Mercado Insurgentes
Mercado Insurgentes is packed with Mexico's most sought after crafted items - silver, textiles, pottery, leather and carved wooden figures are all here in abundance - but you'll need to bargain to get sensible prices.
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Rinconcito Maya
Stunning brightly-colored hand stitched quilts from Chiapas which all tell a folksy (or frightening) story, plus blankets, shawls, tablecloths and other textiles from Yucatán, Guatemala and Honduras. The prices are up there, but so is the quality.
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