San Salvador is packed with small villages which generate their own distinct style of handcrafts. Although you can find identical kind of work in the capital area, it cannot replicate the genuine art of local artists, which can be only found in the rural home workshops and handcrafts markets.
The National Handicraft Market is a recommended place, for purchasing local colorful handcrafts and Petates produced by masterful artisans from San Salvador.
Pictures, hammocks, hats, tablecloths, paintings on turkey feathers, purses, clay, pottery and wood figurines are the numerous things which you can easily come across in this place.
If you want to take home some traditional and rural memories of San Salvador, then you can buy a toy named “Capirucho”. At this prestigious National Handicraft Market, you can explore wood yoyos which have national flag highlighted on them. One of the standard memorable items is indigo-dyed cotton clothing has it has creative traditional look. Hand-embroidered clothing with vivid colors is eye-catching, which allures many visitors at the first glance. The accessories, jewelry, shoes, belts and handbags prepared of leather materials are sure to surprise anybody.
The towns like Tecapan and La Palma are famous for their specific type of handcrafts and petates. All of them are recommended rural destinations, if you are going for sightseeing of the El Salvador country. If you get enough time to visit these towns, then you will realize that quality of handicrafts and petates is exemplary. However, the prices are almost half of what you would have paid in urban part of the San Salvador. It is an antidote for people of Tecapan to cope up with realty and get food, clothes and shelter. The town of Tecapan has fashioned a new way of art in the form of "Petate" which are highlighted with traditional live scenes and it has been a significant part of the Tecapan customs since Mayan times. Today, Petates are used as a bedroll and farmers hold them on the backs while roaming all over the country. Whether it is a marching band, parade or a specific day to honor renowned individual, the people gather on the streets of Tecapan to have an excellent time.
The typical art of rural people of San Salvador can be seen everywhere. In most of the towns you can discover wood carving, miniature pottery, paintings and even weaving by hand various driven looms. Salvadorians love the conventional life which is depicted in arts, petates, crafts, sculptures and paintings which are based on each day living and activities.
