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Guatemala
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Guatemala
49 public stores
Hidden Gem · 11
- Caoba Farms 5a Avenida Sur Final #6, Antigua Guatemala
About fifteen minutes' walk from Antigua's centre, Caoba Farms grows organic produce and cooks it farm-to-table. The grounds hold a farm shop, a wood-fired artisan bakery, a plant nursery and a weekend farmers market. store page → · open in the atlas → - Casa del Jade 4ta Calle Oriente No. 10 / Online
Casa del Jade gives Guatemalan jade the full-house treatment: rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, cufflinks, masks and home objects, backed by a museum and workshop in Antigua. Its Nahual collections and two-hour carve-your-own-jade experience make the store as much about learning the material as buying it. store page → · open in the atlas → - Colibrí 4ta Calle Oriente #3B / Online
Colibrí's Antigua store carries woven tableware, accessories and bed-and-corridor textiles in a contemporary presentation. Ordering and shipping information are available through its site. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ecofiltro Antigua Guatemala (founded, based near Antigua)
Ecofiltro is an Antigua-founded Guatemalan social enterprise that designs and manufactures clay water filters. A store and café in the Antigua area sell its filters and other goods. store page → · open in the atlas → - Fernando's Kaffee Antigua Guatemala
Fernando began roasting coffee in a popcorn popper around 1998 and opened this Antigua Guatemala café in 2001. Since 2005 it has also made bean-to-bar chocolate from cacao sourced exclusively in Guatemala. store page → · open in the atlas → - Jade Maya Antigua Guatemala / Online
Jade Maya has mined, cut and polished jadeite in Guatemala since 1974, with Guatemalan craftspeople carrying forward the carving traditions the company set out to revive. Museum replicas, one-of-a-kind pieces and Maya day-sign jewellery create a direct place-to-product connection rooted in local stone and craft. store page → · open in the atlas → - Luna Zorro Studio Antigua Guatemala / Online
Luna Zorro pairs handwoven robes, kaftans and bags with vintage huipiles and blankets, treating textiles as both design objects and carriers of Maya craft. Founded in Antigua in 2015, the studio works with artisan partners through foot-loom weaving, hand dyeing and embroidery while extending its world into workshops and small-group journeys. store page → · open in the atlas → - Maya Cacao Chocolates 6ta Avenida Norte #2 / Online
Maya Cacao Chocolates builds its Antigua shop around low-sugar bars, 100% cacao and hand-painted filled chocolates flavored with fruit, praline, spice and liqueur. Founded in 2018 by pastry chefs trained in Europe, the Guatemalan company buys its cacao from small regional farmers and keeps preservatives and additives out of its fine-chocolate story. store page → · open in the atlas → - Mayan Boutique Antigua Guatemala / Online
Mayan Boutique sells handmade Guatemalan textiles from a family shop near the Arc Street in Antigua Guatemala. Family members weave the cloth using techniques passed down through generations, and women from neighbouring villages also supply designs. Everything is made by hand from 100% cotton and 100% leather, from clothing to bedspreads. store page → · open in the atlas → - Nim Po't Antigua Guatemala / Online
Under one tin roof on 5a Avenida Norte, Nim Po't gathers huipiles, wooden masks, textiles and folk art from weaving villages across the Guatemalan highlands — less a shop than a standing census of the country's craft. Everything is bought outright from the artisans, and the sheer range makes it Antigua's essential first and last stop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Xibalba Antigua Guatemala / Online
Xibalba makes contemporary jewelry in Antigua with a tactile language of jade, metal, texture and deliberate imperfection. Founded in 2012, the studio extends its rings, cuffs and bracelets into custom work and hands-on workshops, while an international storefront keeps the collection accessible abroad. store page → · open in the atlas →
Worth a Detour · 1
- Museo Ixchel Shop Guatemala City, Online
The Ixchel Museum guards the textile art of the Maya, and its tienda sells the real thing — huipiles and weavings sourced ethically from named communities, with the museum's scholarship behind every piece. store page → · open in the atlas →
The Register · 37
- Aguadulce Concept Store Zona 14, Guatemala City
Concept store in Zona 14, Guatemala City: dresses, womenswear and Latin American designer fashion. Exclusive brands from Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Peru. store page → · open in the atlas → - Antigua Books Centro, Antigua
Antigua Books is located at 7 Av Sur #8-A in Antigua and is open 10am-6pm every day. It stocks new and used books in Spanish and English and ships throughout Guatemala. store page → · open in the atlas → - Artesanías Inter Occidente Centro Comercial Municipal, Quetzaltenango
Artesanías Inter Occidente presents pieces handmade in Quetzaltenango by local artisans. The collection connects ancestral techniques with contemporary design through Guatemalan materials, stories, colors and identity, from its shop inside the city’s Centro Comercial Municipal. store page → · open in the atlas → - Asociacion Cojolya (Cojolya Association of Maya Women Weavers) Santiago Atitlan, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Asociacion Cojolya was founded in 1996 by Candis Krummel and Antonio Ramirez Sosof in the aftermath of Guatemala's civil war, when weavers in Santiago Atitlan faced devalued prices for handmade cloth. The association trains and pays Tz'utujil women directly for backstrap-loom weaving, connecting their textiles to buyers abroad through fair-trade principles. store page → · open in the atlas → - Atitlan Arts San Jorge la Laguna, Santiago Atitlan, and neighboring villages, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Atitlan Arts channels handmade keychains and beadwork made by women's beading co-ops in San Jorge la Laguna, Santiago Atitlan, and neighboring lakeside villages, alongside locally taught art classes. Proceeds fund scholarships, tutoring, and medical support for students and families around the lake rather than a conventional profit margin. store page → · open in the atlas → - Cafe Atitlan San Pedro La Laguna, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Cafe Atitlan is a family-run restaurant and coffee roaster in San Pedro La Laguna, where owner Berna's family has grown and roasted coffee for generations before it reaches the cup. The business ships its roasted beans directly to customers in the US and Canada alongside its lakeside restaurant menu. store page → · open in the atlas → - CeciliaDeNadie Studio Guatemala City
Descubre la artesanía guatemalteca con CECILIADENADIE STUDIO, donde el diseño artesanal y la cooperación comunitaria crean productos textiles únicos. store page → · open in the atlas → - ChocoMuseo Antigua 4a Calle Oriente #8, near the main plaza, Antigua Guatemala
This Central American-founded chocolate house runs its Antigua branch as a working demonstration space where guests roast, grind, and temper Guatemalan cacao by hand through bean-to-bar and mini workshops. Beyond the classes, the shop sells bars and drinking-chocolate blocks made from cacao sourced through direct relationships with regional growers. store page → · open in the atlas → - Danta Chocolate Guatemala City, Guatemala
Danta Chocolate has made bean-to-bar chocolate from Guatemalan cacao since 2008, controlling each step from seed to bonbon. It sells bars, filled confections and Maya-figure moulds at kiosks around Guatemala City and through its online shop. store page → · open in the atlas → - De La Gente San Miguel Escobar, near Antigua Guatemala
De La Gente is a Reno-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit working with named smallholder cooperatives near Antigua, Guatemala, including the Coffee Growers of San Miguel Escobar. It runs farm tours and cooperative capacity-building programs alongside its retail and wholesale coffee sales. store page → · open in the atlas → - Diego's Chocolate San Pedro La Laguna, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Diego's Chocolate is a Tz'utujil Maya-owned chocolate maker in San Pedro La Laguna built on a founder's grandmother's recipes, fire-roasting organic, USDA-certified cacao locally since 1990. Each hand-rolled, fudge-textured bar is hand-colored and wrapped, sold plain or flavored with cardamom, chile, or sea salt. store page → · open in the atlas → - Galería El Attico Zona 14, Guatemala City
Guatemala City gallery founded by Luis Humberto Escobar and Guillermo Monsanto on 13 April 1988, presenting established and emerging artists. Its exhibitions now operate virtually, while its public Documentation Centre researches and teaches the history of Guatemalan visual art. store page → · open in the atlas → - Gento Coffee Roasters Guatemala City (Zona 10), Guatemala
Gento Coffee Roasters buys direct from Guatemalan farmers, roasting small batches at its Zona 10 shop and shipping shortly after roasting. It reinvests 10% of profits in producing communities through its Gento Coffee Project. store page → · open in the atlas → - Harmony Centro, Antigua
Armonia-Harmony in Antigua Guatemala makes fashion pieces such as boots, bags and other items in leather. Each piece is made by hand. store page → · open in the atlas → - Hilosophy Antigua
Hilosophy makes handmade textile products meant for the home and for days at the beach. The shop gives its address as 5a Avenida Norte 33 in La Antigua Guatemala. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ico Jade Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Ico Jade is an Antigua workshop that cuts rough Guatemalan jadeite and sets it in sterling silver and 14k gold. It was founded by Guatemalan artisans of Maya descent working from the country's jade deposits. store page → · open in the atlas → - K Marina Designs Antigua
K Marina Designs handcrafts ethical leather goods in Antigua Guatemala, working with skilled artisans in Pastores under the mission of empowering artisans, preserving tradition and designing with purpose. It supports indigenous textile cooperatives with natural dyes and funds microloans and education programs for local communities. store page → · open in the atlas → - Kakaw Designs Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Kakaw Designs works directly with weavers, dyers, embroiderers and leatherworkers across Guatemala to make bags, clothing, home goods and jewellery from handwoven textiles. From its Antigua studio it also runs weaving and natural-dye workshops. store page → · open in the atlas → - KitaPenas Books & Bistro Zona 10, Guatemala City
KitaPenas Books & Bistro is a Guatemalan bookshop and bistro with a broad catalogue spanning Guatemalan authors, art and film, biography and memoir, science fiction, classics, comics and graphic novels, personal development, management and business, poetry, translated and Hispanic-American fiction, children's and young-adult books, crime, horror, romance and historical novels. store page → · open in the atlas → - Librería Loyola Casa del Libro Zona 1, Quetzaltenango
Bookshop in Quetzaltenango identified by Libreria Loyola as Casa del Libro, with a catalogue covering Bibles, books and handicrafts. store page → · open in the atlas → - Librería Sophos Zona 10, Guatemala City
Guatemala City bookshop founded in October 1998 as a meeting place for readers and writers. Alongside a general selection strong in humanities and contemporary fiction, it runs a cafe and a cultural programme of reading clubs, workshops, book launches, screenings, talks and children's activities. store page → · open in the atlas → - Los Colores de la Tierra 4a Calle Oriente 10 and 3a Calle Oriente 22, Antigua Guatemala
This family-run studio has spent over two decades pairing jade and Maya textile fragments with its own hand-fired ceramic beads, working with more than 35 artisans across three rural production groups to make each necklace or pair of earrings. The beads are shaped, kiln-fired, and hand-dyed in small custom-color batches at the Antigua workshop before final assembly at the two shops on Calle Oriente. store page → · open in the atlas → - Love Artisans Antigua
Discover handmade leather bags and ceramics by Guatemalan artisans. Love Artisan is a business built on craft, quality, and partnership. store page → · open in the atlas → - Malva Studio Zona 14, Guatemala City
Malva Studio is an interior design showroom at 4a Avenida A 13-38, Zona 14, Guatemala City. It sells fabrics and European wallpapers as well as ceramics, and offers interior design advice. store page → · open in the atlas → - Mandarina Guatemala City
Mandarina is a Guatemala studio of author jewellery and contemporary handmade pieces inspired by art and nature. It sells slow, handmade work including Huipilitos earrings from reused and restored huipil textile, made in Guatemala. store page → · open in the atlas → - MARIAS (Maria's Bag) Guatemala City, Guatemala
MARIAS makes slow-crafted leather handbags and accessories that pair full-grain leather with panels of hand-woven and embroidered huipil textile. The pieces are finished by Guatemalan artisans, and the brand keeps a flagship in the Fontabella complex in Guatemala City. store page → · open in the atlas → - Museo Casa del Tejido Antiguo San Antonio Aguas Calientes, near Antigua Guatemala
Set in the Kaqchikel-speaking village of San Antonio Aguas Calientes just outside Antigua, this combined museum and workshop teaches backstrap-loom weaving on the same looms used to produce the huipiles and textiles displayed and sold on site. Four-hour sessions walk visitors through warping the loom and reading the brocade patterns that identify a weaver's home community. store page → · open in the atlas → - Nadalini Leather Guatemala City
Nadalini uses traditional Guatemalan techniques and durable materials to make leather goods designed to last. store page → · open in the atlas → - Nim Pot Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Nim Pot is a large store near Antigua's Santa Catalina arch stocking handwoven huipiles, fajas and tzutes alongside masks, pottery, blown glass and leather goods from across Guatemala. It ships its textiles and folk crafts worldwide through its online shop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Orquiholic Plaza Magdalena, Cobán
Orquiholic is a Guatemalan maker of handmade jewellery, clothing and accessories from natural orchids. Founder Jorge Carlos started the Altaverapacense orchid association in 1979, photographed orchids from 1990, and around 2000 developed encapsulated natural orchids. CONAP authorises sustainable use of the species. store page → · open in the atlas → - Por Xibalba Antigua Guatemala
Founded in 2012, this Antigua studio takes its name from the Maya underworld phrase for "the place where stones are born," and its jewelers carve jade alongside gold and silver metalwork for rings, cuffs, and earrings. The workshop deliberately leaves tool marks and irregularities visible in the finished pieces, treating that texture as evidence of the hand behind the work, and also teaches jade-carving classes to visitors. store page → · open in the atlas → - SaviaGuate Guatemala
SaviaGuate is a fair-trade shop selling one-of-a-kind clothing, bags and accessories made by Mayan artisans, including reworked huipiles and hand-woven pieces. It sells online and documents the maker behind each craft. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tanta Dinamita Zona 9, Guatemala City
Tanta Dinamita is a gallery, fine-print laboratory, library, and studio for clubs and courses at 7a avenida 13-01 zona 9, Plaza La Cúpula, local 14, Ciudad de Guatemala. It also offers framing. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tomo Editoriales Zona 10, Guatemala City
Tomo is a bookshop and concept store selling magazines, books and its Houseguest Collection through an online shop based at tomoeditoriales.com. store page → · open in the atlas → - TOPACA Calle Real 1-40, Zona 2, Panajachel, Guatemala
TOPACA Guatemala Handicraft Wholesale. We are a company with more than 30 years of experience designing, producing and exporting our lovely products. store page → · open in the atlas → - Topis Ceramics Antigua Guatemala
Guatemalan artisans hand-shape and hand-paint every tile, vase, and tableware piece at this Antigua ceramics workshop, drawing their palette and motifs straight from the city's colonial facades and cobblestone streets. Production stays small-batch by design, with each piece individually finished before it ships to buyers across the Americas. store page → · open in the atlas → - Trama Textiles Quetzaltenango / Guatemala
Trama Textiles is a women's weaving cooperative in Quetzaltenango where more than 150 Indigenous Guatemalan artisans hand-weave textiles on traditional backstrap looms using natural dyes. Its storefront in Xela sells clothing, home decor and accessories alongside an online shop, and weavers set their own prices under the cooperative's fair-trade model. store page → · open in the atlas →