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Wood and fiber crafts for sale at the municipal market in Pátzcuaro. Dolls made of cartonería from the Miss Lupita project.. Mexican handcrafts and folk art is a complex collection of items made with various materials and fashioned for utilitarian, decorative or other purposes, such as wall hangings, vases, toys and items created for celebrations, festivities and religious rites. [1]
Huichol art broadly groups the most traditional and most recent innovations in the folk art and handcrafts produced by the Huichol people, who live in the states of Jalisco, Durango, Zacatecas and Nayarit in Mexico. The unifying factor of the work is the colorful decoration using symbols and designs which date back centuries.
The most traditional of this pottery dates from the colonial period. Bandera is named for the red and white, sometimes with green painted decorative motifs, the colors of the Mexican flag. It is a speciality of Tonalá. Canelo is named for its cinnamon color. It is porous and often used for water jugs as it keeps liquids cool.
Papel picado for sale at a market in Coyoacán, Mexico City for Day of the Dead. Papel picado coming down from a Mexican church. Papel picado ("perforated paper," "pecked paper") is a traditional Mexican decorative craft made by cutting elaborate designs into sheets of tissue paper. [1]
Despite the support and interest in traditional Mexican ceramics, the number of artisans is dropping. In 1994, there were just over 1.5 million ceramic artisans in the country, which dropped to 50,000 by 2006. This made craftsmen almost non-existent in some states.
One of the display hall of the Museo de las Culturas Populares in Toluca. The Mexican State of Mexico produces various kinds of handcrafted items.While not as well documented as the work of other states, it does produce a number of notable items from the pottery of Metepec, the silverwork of the Mazahua people and various textiles including handwoven serapes and rebozos and knotted rugs.
[1] [3] In El Carmen Tequexquitla and San Pablo del Monte they make images from popotillo, along with objects made of palm fronds and chairs with wicker seats. Santa Anita Nopalucan makes petates from palm and ixtle. [3] [14] In San Juan Ixtenco, they make images by arranging various beans and seeds such as those from corn, lentils, rice and more.
Casta Paintings: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Katzew, Ilona, ed. Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790: Pinxit Mexici. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2017. ISBN 978-3-7913-5677-8; Kubler, George. Mexican Architecture of the Sixteenth Century. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press ...