15 Best Shopping in St. Kitts and Nevis
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Kate Design
As artist Kate Spencer summers in Sicily, you must call ahead for an appointment to visit her studio outside Rawlins Plantation (note that she typically closes from May through October). It's very much worth doing so, though, to shop for her truly unique and brilliantly colored original paintings, serigraphs, note cards, scarves, and other lovely pieces.
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All Kind of Tings
All Kind of Tings, a peppermint-pink edifice on Liverpool Row at College Street Ghaut, functions as a de facto vendors' market, where several booths sell local crafts and cheap T-shirts. Its courtyard frequently hosts folkloric dances, fashion shows, poetry readings, and steel-pan concerts.
Caribelle Batik
Caribelle Batik sells gloriously colored batik wraps, kimonos, caftans, T-shirts, dresses, wall hangings, and the like; you can watch the process in back.
Crafthouse
The Crafthouse is one of the best sources for local dolls, wood carvings, and straw work.
Eva Wilkin Gallery
Nevis has produced one artist of some international repute, the late Dame Eva Wilkin, who for more than 50 years painted island people, flowers, and landscapes in an evocative art naïf style. Her originals are now quite valuable, but prints are available in some local shops. The Eva Wilkin Gallery occupies her former atelier (hours are extremely irregular; you must call ahead for appointments). If the paintings, drawings, and prints are out of your price range, consider buying the lovely note cards based on her designs; the owners are also promoting promising regional artists and craftspeople.
Island Fever
The island's classiest clothing shop carries an excellent selection of everything from bathing suits and dresses to straw bags and jewelry.
Newcastle Pottery
This cooperative has continued the age-old tradition of hand-built red-clay pottery fired over burning coconut husks. It's possible to watch the potters and purchase wares at their small Newcastle factory.
Palms Court Gardens
Talk about multitasking: this little oasis offers a restaurant, an infinity pool and hot tub with bay views, miniature botanical gardens, and the Shell Works atelier and gift shop, where artisans fashion graceful napkin holders, candlesticks, stemware, wall hangings, and jewelry from coral, sea fans, mother-of-pearl, and other marine materials. The $2 admission is refunded with a purchase.
Pelican Mall
This shopping arcade, designed to look like a traditional Caribbean street, has more than 20 stores (purveying mostly resort wear, souvenirs, and liquor), a restaurant, tourism offices, and a bandstand near the cruise-ship pier.
Port Zante Mall
Directly behind Pelican Mall, on the waterfront, is Port Zante, the deepwater cruise-ship pier where a much-delayed upscale shopping–dining complex has become a 50-shop area (including the large, ubiquitous jewelry concerns like Abbott's, Diamonds International, and Kay). If you're looking for inexpensive, local T-shirts, souvenirs, and crafts, check out Amina Market, a series of vendors' huts behind Pelican Mall to the right of Port Zante as you face the sea.
Shoreline Plaza
Shoreline Plaza is next to the Treasury Building, right on Basseterre's waterfront. The shops mainly sell T-shirts and locally made handicrafts and souvenirs.
Spencer Cameron Art Gallery
In addition to a wide selection of exceptional work by regional and local artists and artisans, this gallery sells Caribbean island charts and other historical reproductions, as well as owner Rosey Cameron Smith's popular Carnevale clown prints. It also showcases Glass Island's seductively colored, sinuously shaped, art-glass frames, plates, and other items. In addition, one section is devoted to the Potter's House, the atelier of Carla Astaphan, who celebrates her Afro-Caribbean heritage with beautifully glazed ceramics and masks. Another section houses the NOMAD Chic clothing boutique. Rosey's daughter Leah runs a courtyard café that sells scrumptious baked goods. With so much on offer, it's good to know that the gallery ships worldwide.
TDC Mall
TDC Mall is just off the Circus in downtown, with a few boutiques, selling mostly island wear.