Chennai - Post Report Question and Answers
Is this a "shopping post"? Are there interesting handicrafts, artwork, antiques, or other items that people typically buy there?
You will quickly tire of the local goods here... after a while it all looks the same no matter where you go. - Aug 2021
You can get high-quality picture frames made for very fair prices. If you have any art you have been waiting to frame, bring it with you. - Apr 2021
Yes, carpets, paintings, Chola bronze sculpture, so many cool things. - May 2019
Yes. textiles, silks, oriental carpets, wooden furniture galore - stock up here! - Aug 2018
People tend to buy textiles, woodwork, etc. There are some beautiful rugs, but they're quite expensive. - May 2018
Puja supplies. - May 2016
If you like to shop, you might as well furnish your whole house while you're here. Fabrics (table cloths, bedspreads, sheets, towels, clothing), hand-made furniture, rugs all cheap. - May 2016
Furniture, fabrics, local arts. - Mar 2015
Lots of crafts and fabrics. - Oct 2014
Fabric, furniture, Indian souvenirs. - Oct 2014
There are antiques and shopping in Pondicherry and Southern Tamil Nadu; we spent a lot of money on travel and were still able to save. - Jun 2014
Silk, cottons - so many beautiful fabrics of any colour you can think of. Scarves - cashmere, embroidered, you name it. Antique wooden furniture. Gold and silver jewellery. Pottery. - May 2014
Rugs, fabric, antique furniture, jewelry, framing. - Aug 2013
Fabric, jewelry and furniture is beautiful and inexpensive. - Jul 2012
Good food. Westerners often come and want to buy local South Indian clothes, though we have tried to resist -- the moment folks leave here, they realize they'll never wear the stuff again. - Aug 2011
24 karat gold everything! - Jun 2010
Textiles, antique furniture from Pondicherri, TRAVEL! - Sep 2009
Carvings, cloth, tailor-made clothes are cheap and good. - Aug 2008
