Tunis - Post Report Question and Answers
Is this a "shopping post"? Are there interesting handicrafts, artwork, antiques, or other items that people typically buy there?
Great time to buy olive-wood decor and utensils, olive oil gifts for family, and mosaic art. - May 2025
YES. Our house is full of carpets, lamps, and other crafts we bought in Tunis. It's nice and cheap. The exhibition center in Le Kram has craft fairs 2-3 times a year and it's a great place to load up on stuff. - Jan 2024
Yes! Great pottery and rugs and baskets. You can get good furniture, there are lots of good local designers or get it made to order. 2x a year there is a giant artisan fair which is wildly popular and a strong recommend. - Jun 2022
Yes, there are great rugs/pottery/handicrafts. There's a large fair (artisans' fair) at Le Kram every year. - May 2022
Yes, the Madina is a great place to pick up Tunisian items. Furniture, rugs, pottery, and silly red hats. - Nov 2020
Carpets and pottery. - May 2020
Carpets are a good buy here, as are custom mosaics. - Nov 2017
Pottery, scarfs, and antiques. - Nov 2015
Pottery. - Nov 2014
Beautiful traditional rugs and pottery. There is an annual artisan fair at Le Kram convention center that you should save your money for! - Jul 2013
Ceramics, rugs (not of my taste). - Jun 2013
Handmade baskets for the market, ceramic dishes, woven cotton blankets, some rugs. - Feb 2012
Pottery, rugs, airline tickets to Europe (one hour to Rome!) - Jul 2010
Olive tree wood, hand-blown glass from Sadika, carpets from Kairouan. - May 2010
Gorgeous rugs, ceramics. - Jan 2010
