Black Iris Handicrafts

Amazing bazaar in Jordan

There is a lot of crap being peddled in Jordan's many antique stores, but this place is the real deal. Their collection of wares contain the most genuine pieces of Jordanian cultural produce that I have found - real Bedouin silver jewellery, beautiful handmade swords, rings with natural gemstones, camel-bone furniture, as well as the low-brow stuff that no Jordanian store would be complete without. On account of the trademark Jordanian pushy sales technique, we left having purchased a couple of trinkets. Due to the quality of some of the objects that I was unable to transport back home, I took the business card with contact details and will seriously consider buying something in the future. The real stuff is expensive but by golly it's beautiful. This is the best antiques shop I've come across so far.

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The store offers a variety of gifts and Dead Sea products. The Uber driver, Abu Yazan, may God bless him, took me there after he praised it to me. However, the store’s prices are very high. I hope they review their prices so that tourists will come back to them several times each time they visit Jordan.