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San Bartolo Coyotepec is a town and municipality located in the center of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is in the Centro District of the Valles Centrales region about fifteen km south of the capital of Oaxaca. [2] The town is best known for its Barro negro pottery - black clay pottery. For hundreds of years pottery has been made here with a ...
The State of Mexico has several pottery towns with the best known being Metepec. The center of the town has a number of well-stocked crafts stores featuring local pottery as well as an outdoor market. The best known forms associated with Metepec are its Trees of Life, mermaids and animals such as lions, horses (with or without wings) and ox teams.
High fire ceramic with traditional designs at the Museo Regional de la Ceramica, Tlaquepaque.. Ceramics of Jalisco, Mexico has a history that extends far back in the pre Hispanic period, but modern production is the result of techniques introduced by the Spanish during the colonial period and the introduction of high-fire production in the 1950s and 1960s by Jorge Wilmot and Ken Edwards.
Metepec y su arte en barro [Metepec and its art in clay] (in Spanish and English). Vol. 30. Mexico City: Artes de México. 2001. ISBN 968-6533-99-0. Huitron, Antonio (1999). Metepec: Miseria y Grandeza del Barro [Metepec: Misery and Greatness in Clay] (in Spanish). Toluca: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Mexico. ISBN 968-835-386-8
Map of Mexico. This is a list of municipalities in Mexico which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
Tree of life at the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City, by Oscar Soteno. A Tree of Life (Spanish: Árbol de la vida) is a type of Mexican pottery sculpture traditional in central Mexico, especially in the municipality of State of Mexico. Originally the sculptures depicted the Biblical story of creation, as an aid for teaching it to natives in ...
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Doña Rosa, full name Rosa Real Mateo de Nieto, was a Mexican ceramics artisan from San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. She is noted for inventing a technique to make the local pottery type, barro negro, black and shiny after firing. This created new markets for the ceramics with collectors and tourists.