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Cuanajo (pop. 8,000) is a village of wood carvers who make brightly painted pine furniture. On the road as you enter, and around the pleasant, tree-shaded main plaza, you'll see storefronts with colorful furniture inside and on the street. Parrots, plants, the sun, the moon, and faces are carved on the furniture. Furniture is also sold at a cooperative on the main plaza. Here you'll also find soft-spoken women who weave tapestries and thin belts on waist looms. Everything is for sale. It is open daily from 9am to 6pm. Festival day in Cuanajo is September 8, which honor their patron saint, La Virgen María (Our Lady of the Nativity)CAN WATCH THIS PRESENTATION IN MUSIC HERE: (You have a link on the first slide) http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/sandamichaela-1293386-mexico-wood-carving/Thank you!
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Cuanajo (pop. 8,000) is a village of wood carvers who make brightly painted pine furniture. On the road as you enter, and around the pleasant, tree-shaded main plaza, you'll see storefronts with colorful furniture inside and on the street.
Wood Carvers of San Antonio Arrazola
Parrots, plants, the sun, the moon, and faces are carved on the furniture. Furniture is also sold at a cooperative on the main plaza. Here you'll also find soft-spoken women who weave tapestries and thin belts on waist looms
Everything is for sale. It is open daily from 9am to 6pm. Festival day in Cuanajo is September 8, which honor their patron saint, La Virgen María (Our Lady of the Nativity)
corner detail of a finely carved and painted dish cupboard from Cuanajo
Colorfully beautiful, whimsical, or elegant, the best of Mexico's crafts
Colorful Mexican themes decorate this queen-size hand-carved and hand-painted headboard
one detailed scene from a Cuanajo-made table top
Monte Alban
Alebrijes (alevriches) are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures. Most Oaxacan artisans simply call them figuras "wooden figures”
Chinanteco produces these whimsical wood carvings (Oaxaca)
Varios Alebrijes en el Museo de las Artesanías, Huatulco, Oaxaca
Sound: Se me olvidó otra vez – Plácido Domingo con Bebu Silvetti
México
Background: Caracol, mexican rug
Pictures: Internet
Sanda Foişoreanu (slide 21,22)
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Background: Caracol, mexican rug
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