Category: Blog - Mexican Handicrafts

Blog of crafts from Mexico.- It is a proposal to document the different techniques of Mexican crafts. Mexico and its artisans are the ideal combination that will take us on this journey so that we can recognize the origin of Mexican artisan work.

The story of the tree of life

09/12/2022 Por Handicrafts from Mexico Off

In many cultures historically the concept of the tree of life has been used, there is a very particular variant, which is handcrafted in the Municipality of Metepec, State of Mexico. These styles of trees of life were originally based on...

Tonas, nahuales, alebrijes... a sacred link.

09/12/2022 Por Handicrafts from Mexico Off

In Oaxaca the carving of nahuales is done, in the village they are also called "Tonas" which according to the Zapotec cosmovision are animals that mark our life when we are born, in the pre-Hispanic calendar there are twenty tonas: coyote, lizard, armadillo, turtle, snake, rabbit, deer, frog, dog, monkey,...