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Arte Oaxaqueño

Arte Oaxaqueño, a small business run by a hard working Mexican woman, Mariana Reyes. Mariana personally interacts with the artisans in her home state of Oaxaca to preserve and promote the arts and crafts from the indigenous Indians of Oaxaca. Oaxaca is best known for its striking black pottery, colorful glassy pottery, authentic Zapotec wool rugs and weavings, and the whimsical wood carvings called Alebrijes.

 

Alebrijes (Delightful) Wood Carvings-Mexico

Alebrijes (Wood Carvings-Mexico)
Alebrijes

Wood carving, an ancestral Zapotec tradition, comes to its fullest expression through the Alebrijes. These are unreal and magic pieces born out of the imagination of the Oaxaqueño craftsmen.

Alebrijes represent an innovative and unreal spirit of the Oaxaqueño soul through the hand carving and painting of fantastically shaped figures using material like Cedar, Aguacatillo and Palo Torcido. These are made by Mixes tribes and craftsmen from San Martin Tilcajete. The perfect finish makes them unique and are considered as pieces of art.

 

Black Pottery from Oaxaca

Black Pottery from Oaxaca, Mexico
Beautiful Black Pottery

Black pottery available from Arte Oaxaqueño is made following the traditional techniques. The beauty of this pottery is accomplished by a long process of several working days by Zapotec craftsmen, thus giving it the unique final touch. 

   

Glassy Pottery

Glassy Pottery from Oaxaca, Mexico
Glassy Pottery

Santa Maria Atzompa is a village where agriculture and pottery are the two main activities. Craftsmen create the Glassy Pottery through a long and precise process, obeying a primitive technique that does not use any mold. They break with traditional patterns and capture the spirit of their creative soul giving life to sophisticated shapes.

   

Weaving by Zapotec Indians (Oaxaca)

Zapotec Weavings
Zapotec Weavings

The Dominican priests brought the first sheep to the small village Teotitlán del Valle in what is today the State of Oaxaca. That's when the weaving of clothes began. The inhabitants of Teotitlán specialize in the weaving of 100% virgin wool rugs, all of them elaborated with complex designs, frets, and incomparable colors.

 

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