Hand-embroidered Linen Pouch
Small bags featuring fine needlepoint work often seen in traditional bridal sets.
For Cap-Haitien, the strongest pieces are usually the ones with a local use you can explain without stretching the story.
The best finds here live in the details: what is woven, cooked, carved, poured, packed, or sold with a clear link to Cap-Haitien.
Small bags featuring fine needlepoint work often seen in traditional bridal sets.
A clay spice jar is a small ceramic container made to hold dried seasonings, pepper blends, or kitchen staples. In Cap-Haitien, it suits northern Haiti’s food culture, where spice, handmade pottery, and open-market household goods sit close together in daily cooking life.
Lightweight bowls made from layered pulp and painted in bright island hues.
Small chests adorned with vibrant scenes of daily coastal life in the northern port.
Jewelry made from marine glass and shells collected on the northern shore.
Lightweight headwear essential for the tropical humidity, hand-plaited from local swamp grass.
Hand-carved utensils from the native pimento tree, prized for its aromatic quality.
Repurposed metal sheets cut into ornate shapes framing mirrors, a signature northern craft.
Traditional figures crafted entirely from the dried waste fibers of banana trees.
Delicate arrangements of polished local shells that rattle softly in the sea breeze.