Itauguá
Ñandutí lace
Needle lace worked in wheels that mimic a spider's web: the crown jewel of Paraguayan handicrafts.
Culture
Living culture
A bilingual country where Guaraní is spoken on the street, on the radio and at home. Ñandutí lace, harp, polka and guarania, myths still told and festivals handed down.
Yataity del Guairá
Ao po'i embroidered cotton
Lightweight loom-woven cotton, hand-embroidered: the cool shirt of the Paraguayan summer.
Carapeguá
Encaje ju needle lace
A fine mesh filled in by needle with stars, flowers and jaguar paw prints.
Piribebuy
Sixty-stripe poncho
A hand-woven cotton poncho with ultra-fine stripes from Piribebuy, on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list since 2023.
Luque
Luque filigree jewelry
Openwork jewelry made from ultra-fine silver and gold threads, the specialty of Luque's silversmiths.
Areguá
Areguá pottery
Clay planters, figurines, nativity scenes and saints on the shores of Lake Ypacaraí.
Itá
Ñai'ũpo black-clay pottery
Black-clay jugs and cookware shaped by hand with an ancestral technique, on UNESCO's heritage list since 2025.
Tobatí
Tobatí pottery
Black-clay jugs and monumental figures — black angels, caimans — by the women potters of the 21 de Julio district.
Tobatí
Tobatí woodcarving and religious statues
Saints and figures carved in cedar, lapacho and palo santo, in a style inherited from the Franciscan missions.
Altos
Kamba ra'anga masks
Lightweight, brightly painted wooden masks that take to the streets during the feast of Saints Peter and Paul.
Limpio
Pirí hats and karanda'y palm weaving
Hats, bags, fire fans and baskets braided from the leaves of the karanda'y palm.
Atyrá
Atyrá leatherwork
Handmade leather wallets, purses, belts and briefcases from a town of Franciscan origin.
Carapeguá
Poyvi loom-woven textiles
Cotton blankets, bedspreads, ponchos and hammocks woven on the loom and hung out in the sun along the highway.
San Miguel
San Miguel woolens
Ponchos, blankets, socks and sweaters of sheep's wool in the 'wool capital'.
Pirayú
Pirayú hammocks
Hammocks woven on upright looms with fringes in a variety of stitches, plus a ñandutí lace with its own distinctive patterns.
Filadelfia
Chaco caraguatá bags and palo santo carvings
Plant-fiber bags woven by Indigenous women of the Chaco, and plates and spoons of fragrant palo santo wood.
Mariano Roque Alonso
Maká weavings
Brightly colored blankets, bags and sashes woven by the Maká people, right on Asunción's doorstep.
Comunidades indígenas de la Región Oriental (colección en el Museo del Barro, Asunción)
Mbya basketry and seed necklaces
Ajaka cane baskets with geometric patterns, animal carvings and seed necklaces made by the Guaraní peoples.