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Malagasy crafts of quality, including natural fibre base in the country. Large choice, reasonable price.

The Malagasy association Roses & Baobab opened a gallery to emphasize the art and the craft industry of the country: sculptures, marquetry, precious stones, traditional games... The place, astonishing and terribly eclectic, exposes the works of about 80 artists in about thirty different specialties and aims at promoting the Malagasy artistic talents. It also aims to push Malagasy artists to work together on common works coordinated by Gerard Albin Fiorina, the creator.

Silk shop and home house, Natacha Ré and its children. It will tell you everything about the traditional manufacture of Malagasy silk (Landibe), visit its traditional workshops of traditional weaving and spinning, as well as its magnanerie. You can purchase items on site or order on the website. Home philosophy: ethical and fair trade. Original, you can also sleep in four simple and clean guest rooms. We eat as a family. Another facet of tourism in Mada and an initiative to encourage!

Jean-Pierre organizes folk evenings with small dance groups, twice a week, usually on Wednesday and Saturday evenings. His project for a cultural center will take shape in large houses with movable panels (Japanese art, painting, sculpture, theater, meeting spaces). A second project involves building small modules around this first structure, for workshops and artists-in-residence.

Mahajanga has 3 major markets. At the Tsaramandroso market (vegetables and handicrafts), prices are moderate and haggling takes place for form's sake. It's colorful with the many goods on offer, but what's most fascinating is the elegance of the drapery worn by the sakalavas - midnight blue, dark red, gold... This is the most popular market. The large Mahabibo market, offering mainly fish and shellfish, has also been rehabilitated. Beware of pickpockets, who are notorious. Bazar Be, in the center, offers a diverse selection of handicrafts.

Malagasy crafts, ready-to-wear, jewelry, paréos, swimwear, rum, spices, postcards. A lot of choice, a good address.

Most craft stores in town claim to work with an adjoining workshop, but you often don't see any craftspeople (they'll tell you that the workshop is closed on that particular day, etc.). Not a big deal, if you know what to expect. Prices a little higher than in the surrounding villages, although they've gone up a lot there too. Let's go for small workshops and stray stores, so that our money goes as directly as possible to those who rightfully need it.

On the road to La Digue, a popular place of destination for tourists, who can find zafimaniry artisanat crafts, vanneries, statuettes or masks in ebony, valiha, kabosy, djembés and a thousand things… Do not hesitate to engage in serious bargaining (moreover, we offer you the entrance). This is the quietest market in the capital, the stands are fixed and spacious, avoiding the usual and: if you can only make one, choose that one.

The central market is lively and colorful. Here you'll find a selection of Malagasy handicrafts. You can buy sculptures (pirogues, wooden statuettes), basketry (mats, hats, baskets) and fabrics (embroidered tablecloths). On the beaches, you'll often find embroidered towels, shells, bags or statues. In Island Treasures, you'll find handicrafts such as sheet metal and wooden objects, jewelry and games. Prices almost equivalent to those on the main street, but of rather higher quality (+261 32 02 572 70, rue Passot).

Small family structure, offering a variety of miniature objects (from rickshaws to boats to filanzane) and an embroidery workshop. Mamy explains everything about rickshaws. Then he gives a demonstration on the making of each accessory; a real show of transformation in all kinds... Fascinating. It takes about 1h30 to make a bicycle. Mamy's wife has also created an embroidery workshop. Several embroiderers work there permanently. A workshop of weaving of raw silk appeared.

Real cave of Ali Baba: it's the devil if you don't find what you're looking for!

Small boutique shop where you can find ready-to-wear designers, interior furniture, unique objects, furniture, high-fantasy jewellery… Welcoming and enthusiastic welcome. 

Original creations and crafts, for all budgets. Designer jewelry, leather goods, fabrics, unusual artistic or other discoveries, fashion or decoration accessories, stationery, essential oils and cosmetics... You are bound to find something to make or to please yourself. The articles presented, always of quality, are never the same, Suzy likes to privilege the originality, the rarity and the novelty. Moreover, 5% of the profits of the articles marked with a pink heart finance solidarity projects in Madagascar. To discover.

It is the only company in Mada that is able to do this wonderful work of marquetry: planispheres, globes, world maps of precious wood… and one or two originalités. Really beautiful works to decorate your living room or office. 

The Coum market, also known as the "67 Ha market", slightly eccentric from the city, offers handicraft of all kinds. Manufacturers come from all over the country on Thursday and Friday to sell their creations: raphia, sculptures, precious stones…

Ex-intermittent of the show, Eric Mallet left the tours of Jean Michel Jarre and the Granges burned aside and settled in Madagascar. Fallen in love with the Great South and Lova his wife, he decided in 1993 to resume the weaving workshops in Ampanihy that you are invited to visit. Today they are THE SPECIALISTS of mohair carpet, unique know-how in the world, entirely hand-crafted, 70,000 knots per m ², unique product in the world that uses the wool of Angora goat. The workshop has a stock in France, so it is possible to order on their site and get delivered directly to metropolis, guaranteed delivery in 72 h. 

A training centre for artisanes, which (approximately 300 in 14 workshops) produces superb articles made of raffia and sisal. Embroidery, sewing, weaving, weaving… but also jams (two production centres), breads and cakes.