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Handicrafts - Regional Gift Shops
The arts and crafts of Argentina make wonder-
ful gifts. In
artesanía
shops throughout the city
you'll find
facones
, elaborately sheathed dag-
gers used by the
gauchos
, and
rastras,
silver-
studded cummerbunds worn in regional fiestas.
Alpaca ponchos ward off the cold and
woodcarvings from the delta are charming and
inexpensive. Typical handicrafts include tooled
leather book covers, silver mate sets for making
bitter yerba tea and pillboxes decorated with
beautiful rhodochrosite inlays.
LA VITRINA
Marcelo T. de Alvear 566
La Vitrina is purely a labor of love for the pair of
sisters who own and run this lovely shop while
moonlighting as doctors. You'll be charmed by
the marvellous selection of restored antiques,
including farm tools and kitchen utensils, and
beautifully crafted furniture. No less beautiful
are the regional handicrafts including colorful
ponchos, mates,
facones, boleadoras
, and other
típicos
handcrafted in silver and local woods
.
Sipping mate with your hosts, you'll feel as if
you are no longer in the midst of the most cos-
mopolitan city in South America, but rather in
the ample kitchen of an estancia.
At La Vitrina,
you'll find “just
what the doctor
ordered.”
KELLY'S
Paraguay 431
Did you know that you can tell which province
an Argentine is from by the colors of his pon-
cho? This is just one of the many intersting
