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Mexican Folk Art
Huichol art.- Handmade earrings beautifully ornamented with "microchaquira" microbeads. Beaded earrings made with different colored microbeads strung one by one.
Characteristics:
Handmade by the Huicholes
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Huichol handcrafts
Huichol handcrafts.- With the patience characteristic of the Huichol people, the artist's hands transform microchaquira tiny beads (microbeads) in beautiful and bright motifs, microchaquiras (microbeads) are woven. The result is an explosion of color, full of sacred symbols for the Huichol culture.
Jewelry made with micro beads is an important element of the Huichol clothing, the use both women and men. For the Huichol not engaged in the field or livestock, craft is their way of susbsistir, in this work the whole family works and children start learning the art of jewelry, about five years, starting only enshrining the accounts in the simplest designs of necklaces and earrings, then continue with bracelets and already in adolescence, once the craft dominate can start making necklaces much more complex game with earring and bracelet design that is done with flowers or some other figure, there are those who specialize in doing only certain parts, but the culmination of art, is when you have mastered to perfection the art and can play different designs or make your own creations.
Huichol culture by pre-Columbian traditions linked to shamanic ceremonies at their historical past guide. The Jicuri (peyote) is the centerpiece of Huichol ritualism, revered for its healing properties and its ability to illuminate it involved.
Processing technique: It is weaving one by one the microchaquiras (glass beads) to complete the attachment; in drafting the Huichol artist develops various drawings and representative symbols of their culture and traditions.
Huichol Art.- Discover Art and Culture of Mexico through his works. Handmade authentic works by the Huichol (Wirraritari) magic and color in every detail they give us on the set of his pieces
