Maque Plate- Martina Navarro skull By award-winning artist

By award-winning artist

These earrings are painted free-hand using the traditional technique and style of laca art

Four handmade clay cups along with a handwoven napkin (on backstrap loom) in a handwoven pine needle basket

Beautiful burnished pottery from the remote Michoacan village of Huancito

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Maque Plate- Martina Navarro skull By award-winning artistThere are fewer than a dozen artists in Michoacn, Mexico still working in the Pre Columbian lacquer art known in the region as maque, also called embutido, or inlay, where a design is cut into the lacquer background on a gourd or wood. There is an elaborate polishing process involved to achieve a shiny colored base for the floral and animal motifs that will later emerge. Insect fat is boiled, and pine resin and then garlic are added. Beautiful colors