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La Casa del Jade in Antigua Guatemala, with over 30
years of experience offering jewels and recreations of the
highest quality
With our exclusive store in Antigua
Guatemala, and with 30 years of
experience, we have been offering
both our international and national
clients total and complete
satisfaction when acquiring our
jewels and mesoamerican mayan
recreations.
With every day and every year, La
Casa del Jade continues to transform
it self to always stay in the
vanguard of the Jade and jewelry
industry.
For this reason,
on June 15, 1998, La Casa del Jade
moves to its new store located in
‘Casa Antigua El Jaulón’
(building designated a national
monument).
The new store features beautiful
jewelry and recreations of
Pre-Hispanic cultures. Each piece is
exquisitely handcrafted by our
artisans.La Casa del Jade
is proud to work with the highest
standards of quality. Precious
metals and stones serve as a frame
to Jade, celestial stone of the
Mayan, which today is still
extracted from the same route used
by our ancestors.We have the most
diverse and exotic tonalities in
Jade, such as white, over ten
different shades of green, reaching
to the valuable black, among our
exclusivities, we have the Orange
Jade, the Lila or Lavender, Imperial
Jade or Mayan Emerald, which is
extremely rare and therefore
desirable, Princess Jade in dark and
clear tones but with a nice
transparency, Blue Jade and Olmecan
Blue.To guarantee our quality and to
give clients a total security of our
work, we provide with each piece a
certificate of authenticity, granted
by GIA (Gemological Institute of
America) as well as a three-year
warranty certificate for each one of
our valuable pieces.
As we already said
before, every day we want to
innovate and to implement new
products and services, to always be
able to offer something new, for
this reason since 2004, we are
showing an exclusive collection of
Pre-Hispanic pieces in our Meso-American
Museum of Jade.
El Telar 'Loom Tree'
Exclusive and original fabrics.
Take a walk on the wild side, the Fifth Avenida Sur, where you can still feel the atmosphere of the old times. Take a walk to seldom seen San Jose el Viejo, across from Hotel Antigua,
enroute to the ruins, on the corner of 7th Street, take a look at the colors and designs available at Loom Tree / El Telar (featured on: Architectural Digest April 1998). Designs, with bobbles, bangles and natural colors that demand a place at your table, on your couch or in your
bedroom. Craftsmen of tradition; making wonderful creations, taking months of work for each design; carefully elaborated with a high quality material, giving as result beautiful and detailed artistic weavings, such as Carpets, Cushions, Table cloths, and many other accessories a fine decorated home needs. All pieces are done with exclusively selected materials.
DEL ANGEL Jewelry Shop
Representing more than 400 jewelry
designers from around the world. A
unique Jewelry store in Antigua Guatemala
that represents over 300 jewelry
designers from around the world,
glamorous pack able hats, quotable
cards and sunglasses.
Antigua Tabaco Compañia
A cozy place for you to have a nice
chat smoking a cigar ...
The inhabitants of
Europe were unaware of tobacco until
after Columbus epic voyage of 1492.
Never the less, the Mayans depicted
themselves on pottery (dated between
600 to 1000 A.C. excavated recently
from Mayan Ruins in IXMUCHEL
Guatemala), smoking a roll of long
tobacco leaves tied with strings.
Further more, there are suspicions
that the word “CIGAR” is derived
from the Mayan language where “TO
SMOKE”, is “SIK'AR”.
Just like the grapes
in the wine, the tobacco plan will
undergo a process of transformation
called curing before it becomes a
smoking item. But contrary to wine,
cigars will be constructed from a
blend of different crops of tobacco
leaves in order to maintain the flavor
of the brand.
Be aware that once
again like with wine, Cigars offer a
wide variety of flavor, body and
strength. Therefore, when you choose a
cigar make sure you do not limit
yourself only to what marketing wants
you to know!
Cigars are usually
made of 3 components: the filler, the
binder and the wrapper. There are many
different tastes of filler tobacco but
only two very specific types: long
leafs or cuttings. There are many
types of wrappers and binders. Cigars
made of cutting are not consider real
cigars but can definitely be a
pleasant smoke!
The binder holds the filler together
and secures the cigar's tightness.
The wrapper contributes to appearance
(color and feel) and taste.
All components obviously will
contribute to the smoking experience
but the workmanship put in the cigar
will definitely refine the experience.
The appearance and the draw are
attribute that will enhance your
smoking experience.
The size of the cigar
is made of its ring size and its
length. The ring sizes range from 30
to 64 (64 = 1 inch). The length varies
from 4 to 8 inches. Your draw and the
time you have to smoke will define the
size you should select. If you tend to
have a strong draw, pick a larger ring
size.
There are mild, mild to medium,
medium, medium to strong and strong
cigars. The tastes, on the other hand
are numerous: peppery, spicy, earthy,
sweet, leathery, silky, etc.
At Antigua Tobacco Companies, we will
help you select the cigar that will
provide you an enjoyable experience.
You can smoke with us, in our lounge,
or you can get your cigars to go. We
offer a variety of branded and none
branded products from the land of the
Mayans and Cuba. Our friendly staff
can talk to you about cigars and more,
come to enjoy our company!
Art Gallery and Shop!
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Shopping
in Antigua is wonderful - there are
many local handicrafts available and
the goods are well made and cheap.
There are several markets in the city
where women gather during the day to
lay out their wares.
Hand or machine spun cloth,
embroidered purses, pottery, and just
about anything else you can imagine.
Bargaining is essential if you want to
get a good price. Aim to pay about
30-50% lower than what the asking
price is, and you can figure you're
getting a decent deal.
Most
of the local goods sold are Mayan
weavings. The colors will liven up any
room and the weavings are very
intricate.Furthermore they are very
inexpensive.
You can shop for jade, artwork and
other things Guatemalan but the locals
make fine textile goods.Depends,
anywhere from ten dollars and higher.
The
Mayan weavers of Guatemala are world
famous for their distinctive wares. It
was fascinating to see women using a
lap loom, one end tied to a tree and
the other, around their waist. The
articles woven are sold very
reasonably. You are expected to
bargain, but please, not too hard.
MNG
sweaters, ponchos, beautiful and
original tops, skirts, pants for very
reasonable prices. The owner is very
inclined to give "discounts"
as well so a certain degree of
bargaining is fine here.A knit sweater
or pashmina made with llama
fur.Q100-200. There are bins with
items as low as Q50.
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