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Talavera is an ancient ceramic technique that dates back to the 16th century when religious orders started to share their knowledge with local artisans. Today this art style is present in many lovely artworks, like Mexico's Juana Ponce, who handcrafts this set of four ornaments. After painting floral motifs in a cool palette, Juana adds golden nylon strings for hanging the ornaments anywhere.

Talavera is an ancient ceramic technique that dates back to the 16th century when religious orders started to share their knowledge with local artisans. Today this art style is present in many precious artworks, like Mexico's Juana Ponce, who handcrafts this set of four ornaments. After painting floral motifs in a warm palette, Juana adds golden nylon strings for hanging the ornaments anywhere.

Husband and wife duo Zeny and Reyna from Oaxaca grew up with the tradition of carving alebrijes (fantastical figurines of real and imagined animals); both of their parents were master carvers in that region's traditional folk art. Here they create a wildly colorful dragon in a contorted, acrobatic pose. The dragon is carved by hand from copal wood and painted in a rainbow of psychedelic colors.

Small parts are separated for shipping to protect from breakage.It is said that Oaxaca's alebrije tradition descends directly from Mexico City artisan Pedro Linares (1906-1992). When he was 30, he became seriously ill and fell into a sort of coma. While he was unconscious, he had a most fantastic dream. He was caught between the land of the living and the dead; the place looked like a forest and was populated with creatures with body parts belonging to different animals. The beings repeatedly uttered the word alebrije, and when Linares woke up, he recreated these figures in vivid colors using papier mache techniques and called them alebrijes . His work became famous and eventually influenced artisans in the state of Oaxaca who decided to craft alebrijes using traditional wood carving methods and according to that region's world vision.

Grace unfolds in stone with this exquisite marble catchall, where gentle swirls of natural color flow like tides across a shell-shaped form. Carved from solid marble, it seamlessly blends beauty and purpose, offering a timeless space for treasured rings, loose keys, spare change or cherished keepsakes. Crafted by Mexico’s Sierra Family, this refined accent brings quiet order and elegance to any corner it graces.

A small town seems lost to the world when a rainbow comes to visit. And its gift of life, light and color changes the outlook for everyone there. The rainbow's friend is a cloud that understands the need for hope and color in order to be happy in this charming fable. An artist, musician and poet, author Alex Slucki is a dreamer who shares the message in his richly-illustrated children's book. The text appears side by side in English and in Spanish.

Formed of three blue peyote buds, a lighted candle is radiant in this exquisite nierika, or votive beadwork painting by Kupihaute. A butterfly alights on either side in his composition, which takes the shape of a flower with five wide petals.

The artisan, who writes fluently in the Huichol, Nahuatl, Spanish and English languages, talks about this work in his own words. "The nierika is a mirror that is offered to the sea together with the first corn that has been harvested, in order to renew the cycle of rains that will give life to the next crop cycle. As in most of the ancient cultures of our planet, the candle represents our trajectory between being born and returning. For this reason, even today, during the celebration of our birthday, it is customary to light and blow out as many candles as solar cycles have elapsed. The butterflies and spirals are indicating that existence is energy in permanent transformation between arising from and returning to earth."

The intricate images are formed with tiny seed beads. Kupihuate patiently places them one at a time with a needle made of abalone shell onto a huanacaxtle wood backing. Beeswax is used instead of glue.

The process is totally spontaneous, with no previous sketch or design. It is guided by the artist's unconscious to tell the stories that remain in our collective ancestral memory. He signs his work with the symbol of a butterfly on the reverse side of the nierika.