Art & Craft shopping in San Francisco
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Polanco
Contemporary folk art by Mexican and Chicano artists mix traditional techniques and new ideas at Polanco, from Artemio Rodriguez’s woodcuts of Day of the Dead skeletons sporting Mohawks to a traditional ex voto painting on tin showing before and after portraits of a transgendered friend by Fernando Guevara. Don’t miss the Oaxacan devil masks embedded with actual goat’s horns and teeth, or the Frida Kahlo–esque earrings of silver hands cupping tiny hearts.
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Encantada Gallery
Build your own Mission-style altarpieces with this motherlode of Mexican folk art. Every self-respecting piano deserves a burnished black ceramic candelabra from Oaxaca, fridges cry out for calendars featuring busty gun-slinging revolutionaries, and even offices can turn festive once bedecked in papel picado (cut-paper streamers). Encantada has it all, plus rotating exhibits of contemporary Latin American artists.
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Flax
People who swear they lack artistic flair suddenly find it at Flax, where an entire room of specialty papers, racks of plump paint tubes in luscious colors, and a wonderland of hot glue guns practically make the collage for you. Kid-art projects start here, and the vast selections of pens and notebooks are novels waiting to happen.
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Noe Knit
So you love handmade sweaters, but could never dream of making one yourself? Noe Knit has heard that old yarn before, and they're out to prove you wrong with friendly service, starter needles, handy pattern books, yummy yarn in a variety of colors and textures, plus classes to get you started.
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Anubis Warpus
Warped and proud, Anubis Warpus has got your alternative lifestyle needs covered. While you wait to get some pendulous part pierced, you can catch up on your 'zines, DIY manuals, vintage smut and comix. They also tattoo, but their piercing rep is stronger.
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