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Shopping Pondicherry
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Pondicherry is a good place for shopping. Shopping at Pondicherry is very rewarding with low taxes or non-existent.Pondicherry offers inexpensive shopping experience.Pondicherry is known for its traditional doll making, textiles and silks, it is also the origin of several world-class brands in premium-quality leather, pottery, aromatics, fashion and handmade paper,which could be your best buys while shopping in Pondicherry.
The superb décor boutiques and export-quality antique furniture galleries here are also worth a look-through.
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Best to buy
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While shopping in Pondicherry, you may look for:
1.Perfumed candles
2.Pottery
3.Leather products
4.Handmade paper
5.Jams and pickles
6.Dolls
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Textile
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Pondicherry has long been a centre for the production of household linen and garment textiles in satin, twill, corduroy, poplin, chambray, oxford and cambric.There are dozens of different textiles shops with similar and overlapping merchandise. Khadi (a home-spun fabric) comes through as a nice, easy-to-care-for clothing. Crisp, printed cotton fabrics, smelling of fresh dye roll out at great pace from the Anglo-French Textile mill in Pondicherry. With a work-force of 5000, fabric from this l00-year-old company are sold throughout Europe, the US, Australia and the Middle East.
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Pottery
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Excellent ceramic artists and artisans work in Pondicherry and Auroville. They keep a keen eye out for the right kind of clay and glazes and make the kilns appropriate to the local environment. Most of their work is in tableware and decor. Lending their signature an elegant simplicity and a unique decorative flourish. Various studios have evolved distinctive styles, such as "Golden Bridge" and "Rhinestone Art" which are both contemporary and Pondicherrian.
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Leather products
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Pondicherry is a well known centre for leather. Making leather the forgotten way, with exacting attention to details, is what separates the Pondicherry brands from the rest. Leather clothing, belts, bags of all description, carefully finished, innovative products with quality brass and locks come for a steal.
Hidesign company's fresh products of export quality available in their shop located in Jawaharlal Nehru street at resonable price. Leather products of hidesign bit costly but it has that much value. Some other famous leather product shops in pondicherry are, a small underground shop in Nehru street itself near traffic police satation, exactly opposite to richy rich ice cream parlour.
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Pondicherry boutiques
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Shop-hoppers will relish the pleasant ambience the boutiques of Pondy provide. There`s one almost down every street. Upon entering, the fragrant whiff of incense and the glow of perfumed candles draw you further in.
They cater to a wide range of tastes, offering stylish garments, semi-precious stones, perfumes, hand-made incense, candles embossed with real petals, marbled silks and aromatherapy products. With something for everyone, the merchandise begs for ownership. French antique furniture bedazzles. There are also quaint Tibetan handicrafts on offer.
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Antique furniture and curios
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Pondicherry is a very special centre for exclusive antique shops. Looking for Tamil, Keralite, French and British colonial furniture for the tourist - Pondicherry is the best place for tourists.
There are two choices:
1.The first one is to go to a shop where the discovery and recovery work has been done and it remains for tourist to see what they like to buy.
2.The second one, if the tourist really have time, they can dig out in storehouses of furniture and other old things and wait till they are refinished to a form more or less as they expected and thereby can save quite a lot of money.
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Paper products
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Ashram, Auroville and many small scale units produce fine handmade paper.Since 1959, the Aurobindo Ashram factory has popularised the use of handmade paper. These papers have their own beauty of different textures and colours, which makes it Pondicherry's best loved products in markets all over the world.
Even you can visit Aurobindo ashram paper factory after getting permission in advance.
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