10 Best Places to Shop in Taos, New Mexico

This family-run gallery of nearly 6,000 square feet specializes in Native American art and jewelry, Pueblo pottery, Mata Ortiz pottery, Navajo rugs, and fine art. Located in the Ranchos de Taos Plaza next to the San Francisco de Asís Church, its historic architecture has the feel of an old trading post. Inside, you can browse through an astonishing collection of contemporary and traditional regional art that includes gorgeous jewelry, baskets, and Native American beadwork.

Located directly to the left of the church as you walk into the Pueblo's open plaza, this shop of the talented Bernal family frequently updates what is sold, but there is always a beautiful collection of handmade, original pieces of jewelry, turquoise inlay wood wall hangings, and other unique items. In addition, the Dawn Butterfly Cafe serves a full menu of specialty coffees and beverages. Proceeds from the shop's sales go to the Coral Dawn and Paul J. Bernal Center for Arts and Literature.

This is one of the best sources of early Taos art-colony paintings, antiques, and authentic antique Navajo blankets. Inside you'll find originals by such luminaries as Ernest Blumenschein, Bert Geer Phillips, Oscar Berninghaus, Joseph Bakos, and Nicolai Fechin.

This locally owned pottery store features expertly designed glazed plates, bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and more. Handmade and fired in a wood kiln, each piece is a work of art, making this a great place to shop for gifts that are both useful and beautifully one-of-a-kind.

For more than 30 years, this fine handcrafts gallery on the northeast corner of Bent Street has featured exquisite one-of-a-kind pieces by a gifted stable of artists. Here you can find textiles, rugs, wall hangings, fine jewelry, paintings, sculptures, decorative and functional ceramics, and Zuni carvings.

Packed to the rafters with a varied assortment of 1930s linens, handmade quilts, candles, organic soaps, vintage cookware, hand-thrown pottery, decorated crosses, and souvenirs, this colorful shop is a highlight of shopping in the charming village of Arroyo Seco.

Located 2½ miles north of the Taos Plaza, Casa Cristal has a huge stock of stoneware, serapes, clay pots, Native American carvings, fountains, sweaters, ponchos, clay fireplaces, Mexican blankets, tiles, piñatas, and blue glassware from Guadalajara. You’ll feel like you’ve arrived at a Mexican market, and that’s because many of their crafts hail from south of the border (though there are regional New Mexican and Native American crafts to be found, too). Shipping is available for some of the more delicate or larger pieces you don’t want to carry home.

With a great selection of expertly crafted New Mexican, Mexican, and South American folk art, paintings, and block prints, Coyote Moon sells delightful pieces for every budget. The colorful shop also carries unique silver jewelry by owner Luis Garcia and by Pueblo, Zuni, and Navajo artists.

This spacious Taos store carries high-quality sheepskin coats, hats, mittens, accessories, rugs, slippers, and more. The location is the first Overland Sheepskin Co. opened in 1973 in a small adobe near Taos Plaza, and now it is part of a network of 17 stores, mostly in the American West. The gorgeous setting of the current Taos store––in the shadows of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, amid a complex of several other shops and restaurants––is itself a reason for a visit.

Run by the Starr family, this colorful shop has been around since 1974. Walk in and delight your senses with their gorgeous collection of Zapotec Indian rugs and hangings, brightly painted Oaxacan animals and masks, and other folk art and furnishings.