Shopping in Chiapas
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Sna Jolobil
Next to Santo Domingo, Sna Jolobil exhibits and sells some of the very best huipiles, blouses, skirts, rugs and other woven items, with prices ranging from a few dollars for small items to more than M$32,000 for the best huipiles (the fruit of many months’ work). Sna Jolobil is a cooperative of 800 indigenous women weavers from the Chiapas highlands, founded in the 1970s to foster the important indigenous art of backstrap-loom weaving. It has revived many half-forgotten techniques and designs.
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Taller Leñateros
A society of Maya artists, the ‘Woodlanders’ Workshop’ crafts exquisite handmade books, posters and fine art prints from recycled paper infused with local plants, using images inspired by traditional folk art. An open workshop, you can watch the art in progress.
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Museo del Jade
Particularly classy jewelry is sold here, with pre-Hispanic reproductions carved in jade and other precious materials. Inside is a small museum with replicas of ancient Olmec pieces and a full-size replica of Pakal's tomb at Palenque.
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Nemi Zapata
A fair-trade store that sells products made by Zapatista communities: weavings, embroidery, coffee and honey, EZLN cards, posters and books.
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Mercado Municipal
For a closer look at local life – and an assault on the senses – visit San Cristóbal’s busy municipal market. Vendors peer from behind pyramids of tomatoes and mangoes, and you’ll find dozens of varieties of chilies, as well as bloody butchers’ stalls and fly-plagued dried-shrimp stands.
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La Boutique del Café
Selling the aromatic gold of 2000 small-scale chiapeneco farmers, this friendly coffee exchange can make a killer cappuccino or send you packing with bags of heady organic ambrosia. Try the Café Mam (around $90 per kilo), produced by an indigenous cooperative in the remote Motozintla area.
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Tianguis Campesino
The Tianguis Campesino is for the area’s small-scale food producers to sell their goods direct; only women are allowed to trade here, and it’s a colorful sight, with most of the traders in traditional dress.
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Instituto Marca Chiapas
The Chiapas state crafts shop, 2km west of Plaza Cívica, sells a great range of the state’s artesanías (handicrafts), from Amatenango ‘tigers’ and funky Cintalapa ceramic suns to colorful highland textiles.
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Abuelita Books
Snack on homemade cookies and brownies at this new shop stocking a huge and excellent selection of new and used books in English. Limited trades and buybacks, plus children’s titles too.
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Super Más
Self-caterers can stock up at the centrally located Super Más market, plus a handy cluster of fruit and vegetable shops on Dugelay between Madero and MA Flores.
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La Pared
A new location and new owners. Plans are afoot to expand the stock. Carries new and used books in English (and other languages) and a good selection of Lonely Planet guides.
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Crafts Market
Around Santo Domingo and the neighboring Templo de La Caridad (built in 1712), Chamulan women and bohemian types from around Mexico conduct a colorful daily Crafts Market .
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Libros Soluna
Selection includes maps and Lonely Planet guides. There’s a second branch down the road at Real de Guadelupe 31.
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Instituto Marca Chiapas
Branch of the Chiapas state artesanías outlet, with outstanding weaving, toys and locally produced foodstuffs.
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Lágrimas de la Selva
A lovely jewelry store where you can watch jewelers work with amber.
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