Chennai offers a wide verity of traditional and trendy merchandise for the buyer to take home such as carvings on brass, stone, wood and ivory to leather bikinis, bags and shoes.

Traditional items from allover tamilnadu and other parts of India can be bought from Chennai. Pattamara Mats and the leaf and palmyra-fiber handicrafts from Tirunellveli, bronze and brass castings and traditional jewelry from Kumbakonam, Metal works from Tanjavur, stone carvings from Mamallapuram, Silks from Kanchipuram - all are available in Chennai.

The most popular shopping centers are in Rannganatha Street in T. Nagar and Anna Salai. The Government sponsored Handicraft emporiums are situated in Anna Salai. They display a vast verity of Handicrafts and handloom Fabrics.

One can have best choices from:

• Poompuhar Emporium
  818, Anna Salai
  Tel: +(91) (44) 8520624

• Victoria Technical Institute
  765, Anna Salai
  Tel: +(91) (44) 8523153

• Central Cottage Industries Emporium
  476, Anna Salai

• Kalpa Druma
  61, Cathedral Road

• Handloom House
  7, Rattan Bazaar
  George Town
  Tel: +(91) (44) 5384840

• India Silk House
  Anna Salai

• Nalli Silks
  T. Nagar