Oaxaca is replete with artisan’s markets. Wes and I have enjoyed immensely visiting various markets where indigenous artisans make and sell their craft. Everywhere you go in Oaxaca, you find artisans selling hand-crafted and carved pottery, naturally died and hand-woven rugs, shirts, skirts, dresses, and scarves that are hand-woven and elaborately embroidered, necklaces and bracelets [...]
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14 Oct
Elegant Alebrijes from Arrazola
You have just looked straight into the eyes of an alebrijes, one of the painted animals that is carved out of copal wood in the small village of Arrazola. This particular animal is an armadillo, but they have almost every kind of animal imaginable, from birds to dragons to reptiles. The artisans put incredible details [...]
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