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Amate
Probably the best English-language bookstore in Mexico, stocking almost every Mexico-related title (in print) in English.
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Casa de las Artesanías de Oaxaca
This store sells the work of 80 family workshops and craft organizations from around Oaxaca state. Its patio is surrounded by several rooms full of rugs, ceramics, tinware, alebrijes and other crafts.
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Central de Abastos
The enormous main market is a hive of activity every day, with Saturday the biggest day. If you look long enough, you can find almost anything here. Each type of product has a section to itself, and you can easily get lost in the profusion of household goods, CDs and artesanías and the overwhelming quantities of fruit, vegetables, sugarcane, maize and other produce that's grown from the coast to the mountaintops.
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Étnico
Has a very attractive line in patchwork bedspreads and cushions made from pieces of huipil . There's another branch at Allende 113.
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Instituto Oaxaqueño de las Artesanías
Government-run IAO offers a good variety of beautiful craft items, including ceramics, alebrijes and some gorgeous textiles.
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La Cava
This shop sells particularly high-quality mezcal from Santiago Matatlán (up to around $600 a bottle). Several shops southwest of the Zócalo, on streets such as Aldama, JP García and Trujano, also specialize in mezcal . Around $100 will certainly buy you a decent bottle.
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La Mano Mágica
You'll find some wonderfully original and sophisticated craft products at this shop and gallery, including work by one of its owners, the masterly Teotitlán del Valle weaver Arnulfo Mendoza. Some Mendoza pieces go for tens of thousands of dollars, and when you see them you'll understand why.
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Librería Universitaria
Sells some English-language books about Oaxaca and Mexico, as well as some maps.
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MARO
This rabbit warren of a store offers a big range of good work at good prices, all made by the hundreds of members of the MARO women artisans' cooperative around Oaxaca state. Whether you buy a stamped tin mirror or a woven-to-order rug, you know your money is going direct to the makers.
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Mercado de Artesanías
This indoor crafts market is strong on alebrijes, stamped tin ware, embroidered textiles and tablecloths. As you walk through you're likely to see some of the vendors passing the time by plying their crafts, such as weaving or embroidering.
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Mercado Juárez
This indoor market, a block southwest of the Zócalo, sells a diverse mixture of food, flowers, clothes, hats, sandals and leather belts and bags. Women hawk mounds of grasshoppers on the street outside the Flores Magón entrance.
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Oro de Monte Albán
This firm's metalsmiths craft beautifully worked jewelry in gold, silver and semiprecious stones, including copies of pre-Hispanic jewelry and pieces inspired by colonial-era designs. The interesting free workshop tour (in Spanish) at the Gurrión branch includes a demonstration of the pre-Hispanic lost-wax casting technique. Other branches are along Alcalá.
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