Ceramics

Ceramics and the crafts around them. Talavera from Puebla with its own denomination of origin, barro negro from Oaxaca, whose black shine dates from a potter changing her firing in the 1950s rather than from antiquity, and the alebrijes, which began as papier-mâché in Mexico City in 1936 and became Oaxacan woodcarving forty years later.

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184 moments in this segment.

1. 1836 - Las Tortilleras, about 1836. Women making tortillas, a hand-coloured lithograph after Pierre-Frédéric Lehnert. Early nineteenth-century Mexico. Grinding nixtamal on the metate was several hours of a woman's day before mills arrived.
2. 1869 - Rancheros in 1856. A detail of the lithograph of Mexican costume, campesinos or rancheros, from México y sus alrededores. Published 1856. The charro suit as national dress was standardised much later, in the 1930s.
3. 1909 - Sombreros in the market, 1909. Hats stacked at a market stall in the capital. Mexico City, 1909. Straw and palm hat weaving was one of the largest rural crafts in the country.
4. 2009-06-22 - Irmgard Johnson y el estudio de textiles. INAH TV covers Irmgard Johnson and the study of textiles. Johnson documented Mexican weaving techniques over a long research career.
5. 2010-09-14 - Lugares con Historia - Casa de los Azulejos. Canal Once visits the Casa de los Azulejos. The eighteenth century palace is faced entirely in Puebla tile.
6. 2011-06-22 - Registro Desfile y Concurso de Alebrijes Monumentales del MAP. A record of the monumental alebrije parade and competition. The figures reach several metres in height.
7. 2011-10-19 - Quinto Desfile y Concurso de Alebrijes Monumentales del MAP. The fifth monumental alebrije parade and competition. Cartonería is the technique even at monumental scale.
8. 2012 - Maya women at Chichén Itzá. Women at the archaeological site. Yucatán, 2012. Around 800,000 people speak Yucatec Maya today.
9. 2012 - Opening the Gran Museo del Mundo Maya. The inauguration of the museum. Mérida, Yucatán, 21 December 2012. The date was chosen for the end of the thirteenth baktun, which was widely and wrongly reported as a Maya prophecy.
10. 2012 - A northern Yucatán bowl. A Maya ceramic bowl made between 800 and 1000. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Northern Yucatán pottery of this period shows the shift towards Chichén Itzá's influence.
11. 2012 - A second Yucatán bowl. Another Maya vessel of 800 to 1000 from the northern peninsula. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Maya potters worked without the wheel, building up by coil.
12. 2012 - A Classic Maya bowl. A ceramic bowl of the Classic period. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The Classic runs roughly from 250 to 900.
13. 2012 - Bowl with a bird's head. A Classic Maya ceramic bowl carrying a modelled bird head. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Modelled additions were fixed to the wall before the piece dried.
14. 2012 - A cup with carved glyphs. A Classic Maya vessel with its text cut into the clay. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Drinking cups often name their owner and what was to be drunk from them.
15. 2012 - Carved text on a cup. Another Classic Maya cup with incised glyphs. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Many such texts record cacao, which was drunk rather than eaten.
16. 2012 - A Classic Maya pot. A ceramic vessel of the Classic period. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Maya pottery was fired in open pits rather than closed kilns.
17. 2012 - Polychrome ware. A painted Classic Maya ceramic. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Polychrome slips were applied before firing and fixed by the heat.
18. 2012 - Painted Classic ceramic. A polychrome vessel of the Classic Maya. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The best painted vases carry court scenes with named participants.
19. 2012 - Another polychrome piece. A painted Maya ceramic of the Classic period. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Painters signed some vessels, which is rare in ancient art anywhere.
20. 2012 - A polychrome bowl. A painted Classic Maya bowl. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Vessels like this were made as grave goods as well as for use.
21. 2012 - A painted plate. A Classic Maya polychrome plate. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Plates were commonly killed, drilled through, before being placed in a burial.
22. 2012 - Another Classic plate. A polychrome ceramic plate of the Classic Maya. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The rim text on such plates usually runs around the outside edge.
23. 2012 - Plate with glyphs. A Classic Maya polychrome plate carrying a written band. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Around 85 percent of Maya glyphs can now be read.
24. 2012 - An Early Classic dish. A Tzakol-phase polychrome dish, 14 centimetres high. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Tzakol is the Early Classic ceramic phase, roughly 250 to 550.
25. 2012 - A jaguar-head vase. A Late Classic Maya clay vase in the form of a jaguar's head, 23 centimetres tall, from Tabasco. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The jaguar is the animal of night, rulership and the underworld.
26. 2012 - An elite plate, 35 centimetres across. A Late Classic Tepeu polychrome plate made for a Maya elite household. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Tepeu is the Late Classic ceramic phase, roughly 600 to 900.
27. 2012 - A Maya bowl. A ceramic bowl from the Maya collection. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Bowls were used for maize gruel, the daily food.
28. 2012 - Another Maya bowl. A second ceramic bowl in the Maya gallery. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Shape and slip colour are how archaeologists date these pieces.
29. 2012 - A third Maya bowl. A further ceramic bowl from the collection. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Ceramic sequences are the backbone of Maya chronology.
30. 2012 - A Maya cup. A ceramic drinking cup. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Cylindrical vases are the standard form for cacao drinking.
31. 2012 - A high-ranking figure in clay. A Maya ceramic showing a person of rank with hieroglyphs, engraved before firing. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Cutting the design before firing is a different technique from painting it on.
32. 2012 - A tripod jar with a lid. A Maya ceramic vessel standing on three legs, with its cover. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Tripod forms with lids are a Teotihuacan influence in the Maya lowlands.
33. 2012 - A tripod plate. A Maya ceramic plate on three feet. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The feet were sometimes hollow with a pellet inside, so the plate rattled.
34. 2012 - A Classic bowl. A Maya ceramic bowl of the Classic period. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Maya potters used no wheel at any point in their history.
35. 2012 - Bowl, Classic period. Another Classic Maya ceramic bowl. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Clay was tempered with ash, sand or crushed shell depending on the region.
36. 2012 - A further Classic bowl. A Maya ceramic bowl from the Classic gallery. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Pit firing gives an uneven surface colour that is a dating clue in itself.
37. 2012 - Bowl in the Maya gallery. A Classic Maya ceramic bowl. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Most surviving whole vessels come from tombs rather than houses.
38. 2012 - A pot and its lid. A Classic Maya ceramic vessel with its cover. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Lidded pots held offerings and sometimes cremated remains.
39. 2012 - Another lidded pot. A second Classic Maya pot with lid. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Lids were often modelled with an animal or a head as a handle.
40. 2012 - A third pot with lid. A further Classic Maya covered vessel. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Matching a lid to its pot after excavation is not always possible.
41. 2012 - A Classic ceramic pot. A Maya vessel of the Classic period. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Household pottery is far more common in the ground than the painted ware.
42. 2012 - Covered pot. A Classic Maya ceramic pot with lid. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Grave assemblages usually include several vessels of different sizes.
43. 2012 - Polychrome, Classic. A painted Classic Maya ceramic. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Red, orange, cream and black are the standard Maya palette.
44. 2012 - Another painted vessel. A Classic Maya polychrome ceramic. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The pigments are mineral slips, not glazes; the Maya had no true glaze.
45. 2012 - Polychrome ceramic. A further painted Maya vessel of the Classic period. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. A glaze needs a kiln hot enough to melt it, which pit firing cannot reach.
46. 2012 - A painted bowl. A Classic Maya polychrome ceramic bowl. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Bowl interiors carry the painting where plates carry it on the floor.
47. 2012 - Bowl with painted decoration. Another Classic Maya polychrome bowl. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Scenes run continuously around the vessel with no beginning or end.
48. 2012 - A third painted bowl. A polychrome ceramic bowl of the Classic Maya. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Rollout photography was invented to read these continuous scenes flat.
49. 2012 - A polychrome bowl in the gallery. A Classic Maya painted bowl. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Justin Kerr's rollouts from the 1970s onwards made the whole corpus readable.
50. 2012 - A Classic painted plate. A polychrome Maya plate of the Classic period. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Plates were used for tamales, the other staple form of maize.
51. 2012 - Another painted plate. A Classic Maya polychrome plate. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The rim of a plate is where the dedicatory text normally sits.
52. 2012 - A tripod bowl. A Classic Maya polychrome ceramic bowl on three feet. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Three feet lift the vessel clear of an uneven floor.
53. 2012 - A polychrome vase. A painted Classic Maya vase. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Cylinder vases are the format that carries the longest painted texts.
54. 2012 - A bowl showing an enema rite. A Maya polychrome bowl depicting a naked man inserting a cannula. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Maya ritual included intoxicating enemas, which act faster than drinking.
55. 2012 - Polychrome bowl. A painted Maya ceramic bowl. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The same workshops supplied several neighbouring courts.
56. 2012 - A further polychrome bowl. Another painted Maya ceramic bowl. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Chemical sourcing of the clay can place a vessel to its workshop.
57. 2012 - Covered polychrome bowl. A painted Maya bowl with its lid. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Lidded painted bowls are among the rarest survivals.
58. 2012 - Another lidded painted bowl. A second Maya polychrome bowl with cover. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The lid and the bowl were painted as one continuous design.
59. 2012 - A painted lid. A Maya polychrome ceramic cover. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Lids frequently outlast the vessels they belonged to.
60. 2012 - A northern Yucatán plate. A Maya polychrome plate made between 800 and 1000. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. This is the period when the southern lowland cities were already emptying.
61. 2012 - A polychrome plate. A painted Maya ceramic plate. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Plates were fired face down, which leaves a distinctive rim mark.
62. 2012 - Another polychrome plate. A second painted Maya plate. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Painters worked with brushes made from animal hair.
63. 2012 - A third painted plate. A further Maya polychrome ceramic plate. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The best painters were literate, which was unusual in any ancient society.
64. 2012 - A plate from the collection. A painted Maya ceramic plate. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Court scenes on plates show tribute, dance and drinking.
65. 2012 - Painted plate, Maya. Another polychrome Maya plate. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Some vessels name the artist as well as the owner.
66. 2012 - A polychrome dish. A painted Maya ceramic plate. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Dedication texts follow a fixed formula naming the vessel's intended contents.
67. 2012 - Another Maya plate. A further painted ceramic plate. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Cacao and maize gruel are the two contents most often named.
68. 2012 - A painted ceramic plate. A Maya polychrome plate from the collection. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Ceramic outlasts every other Maya material except stone.
69. 2012 - Plate in the Maya gallery. Another polychrome Maya ceramic plate. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The gallery holds one of the largest Maya ceramic collections anywhere.
70. 2012 - Hunters with blowpipes. A Maya polychrome plate showing hunters killing deer with blowpipes. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The blowpipe appears in the Popol Vuh as the weapon of the Hero Twins.
71. 2012 - A Postclassic cup with a bird head. A Maya ceramic cup of the Postclassic carrying a modelled bird. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The Postclassic runs from about 900 to the Spanish arrival.
72. 2012 - An animal cup. A Maya pottery cup in animal form. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Effigy vessels take the shape of the creature rather than carrying its image.
73. 2012 - An animal pot. A Maya pottery vessel modelled as an animal. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Dogs, monkeys, owls and armadillos all appear as effigy forms.
74. 2012 - Another animal vessel. A second Maya pottery pot in animal shape. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Effigy pots were usually offerings rather than tableware.
75. 2012 - A figure with an offering cup. A Maya pottery figure holding a cup. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Figures of this kind come mostly from Jaina island off Campeche.
76. 2012 - Another offering figure. A second Maya pottery figure with a cup. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Jaina figurines were mould-made and then finished by hand, so no two match.
77. 2012 - A Maya pot. A pottery vessel from the Maya collection. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Plain domestic ware makes up the overwhelming bulk of what is excavated.
78. 2012 - Another Maya pot. A second pottery vessel in the gallery. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Sherd counts, not whole pots, are how sites are actually dated.
79. 2012 - A pottery wind instrument. A Maya ceramic wind instrument. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Clay flutes, whistles and ocarinas survive in numbers, and many still play.
80. 2012 - An offering from the sacred cenote. An object dredged from the cenote at Chichén Itzá. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Edward Thompson dredged the cenote between 1904 and 1910 and shipped much of it to Harvard.
81. 2012 - A Postclassic painted pot. A Maya polychrome ceramic of the Postclassic. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Postclassic ware is generally coarser than Classic painted vessels.
82. 2012 - Another Postclassic pot. A second Postclassic Maya polychrome vessel. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The great painted tradition did not survive the ninth-century collapse.
83. 2012 - A third Postclassic vessel. A further Postclassic Maya polychrome pot. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Effigy censers became the dominant fine ceramic of the later period.
84. 2012 - A Preclassic bowl. A Maya pottery bowl of the Preclassic. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The Preclassic runs from roughly 2000 BC to 250.
85. 2012 - Another Preclassic bowl. A second Preclassic Maya pottery bowl. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Early Maya pottery is monochrome and heavily burnished.
86. 2012 - A third Preclassic bowl. A further Preclassic Maya pottery bowl. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Pottery appears in the Maya lowlands around 1000 BC.
87. 2012 - A Preclassic plate. A Maya pottery plate of the Preclassic period. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. The arrival of pottery marks settled village farming in the record.
88. 2012 - Another Preclassic plate. A second Preclassic Maya pottery plate. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 2012. Burnishing with a smooth stone is what gives these pieces their sheen.
89. 2012-09-21 - Manos de artesano - Árbol de la vida. Metepec, Edo. de México (20/09/2012). Canal Once's Manos de artesano covers the tree of life at Metepec. The clay trees are built in sections and assembled after firing.
90. 2013-01-31 - Vidrio soplado Leogar. Canal Once films a blown glass workshop. Recycled glass is the usual raw material in Mexican workshops.
91. 2013-09-23 - dTodo - Museo de Arte Popular (20/09/2013). Canal Once's dTodo visits the Museo de Arte Popular. The museum has run the alebrije parade since 2007.
92. 2014 - Catrina and catrín in cartonería. Paper figures bought at the shop of the Museo de Arte Popular in August 2009, a contemporary reading of the type. Photographed 2014. Cartonería is built up from paper over a clay or wire mould and then painted.
93. 2014 - In Villena's workshop. Pieces at the workshop of the cartonería maker Rodolfo Villena Hernández. Puebla, 2014. Villena works in paper at a scale usually reserved for sculpture.
94. 2015 - Clay toys for children. Miniature kitchen utensils in fired clay, the sort sold on fairground stalls. Photographed 2015. Miniature cooking pots are a training set and a toy at once.
95. 2015 - The independence parade, 2015. The military parade marking 205 years since the start of the independence war. Mexico City, 16 September 2015. The parade has run down Reforma and across the Zócalo since the nineteenth century.
96. 2015 - El Carmen at San Ángel. The front of the Carmelite complex with its tiled domes. San Ángel, Mexico City, 2015. Its three domes are covered in glazed tile and were finished in the 1620s.
97. 2015-10-27 - Desfile y Concurso de Alebrijes Monumentales 2015 Fragmentos. The 2015 monumental alebrije parade and competition. The 2009 edition featured over 130 giant figures.
98. 2015-12-22 - D Todo - Taxco, su parroquia y su plata (21/12/2015). Canal Once's D Todo covers Taxco, its parish church and its silver. Taxco silverwork is a twentieth century revival of a colonial mining town's trade.
99. 2016 - Skeleton trades in sugar. Sugar figures showing the dead at their occupations, made for the Feria del Alfeñique. Toluca, State of Mexico, 2016. Alfeñique is worked like modelling clay and then painted.
100. 2016 - The trades of the dead. More alfeñique figures at the Toluca fair. State of Mexico, 2016. Giving the skeleton a job is the same joke Posada was making in the 1890s.
101. 2016 - Cartonería skulls. Skulls and skeletons modelled in paper. Photographed 2016. Cartonería is recognised as a Mexican folk art and its best-known form is the judas figure burned at Easter.
102. 2016 - The cabeza de cochino. The pig's head tradition kept in parts of the Yucatán peninsula. Tenabo, Campeche, 2016. The decorated head is carried in a dance and given to the person who will host next year's feast.
103. 2016-09-21 - Desfile de Alebrijes Monumentales del MAP. A short film of the museum's monumental alebrije parade. The route runs from the Zócalo along Reforma.
104. 2017-03-28 - D Todo - Teotihuacán y los toltecas (27/03/2017). Canal Once's D Todo covers Teotihuacan and the Toltecs. Craft traditions in the valley long predate the colonial workshops.
105. 2017 - Regional embroidery. Stitched cloth from the collection of the Oaxaca textile museum. 2017. The museum opened in 2008 in a colonial house and holds several thousand pieces.
106. 2017 - Grinding indigo. Añil being ground at a backstrap loom workshop. Milpa Alta, Mexico City, 2017. Indigo was one of New Spain's major exports and is still used by dyers who want the real colour.
107. 2017 - The backstrap loom. Older people teaching at a workshop, the main source of knowledge for the traditional techniques. Milpa Alta, Mexico City, 2017. The backstrap loom has not changed in form since before the conquest.
108. 2017 - Regional dress. Costumes photographed at the Textile Museum of Oaxaca. 2017. Oaxaca has sixteen recognised indigenous peoples, and the dress differs by town, not by state.
109. 2017 - Mounting the warp. Setting up the threads at a backstrap loom workshop. Milpa Alta, Mexico City, 2017. The warp is stretched between a fixed point and a strap around the weaver's back.
110. 2017 - Ribbons for the hair. Woven bands worn in the hair, specifically in plaits, and made in pairs. Milpa Alta, Mexico City, 2017. Hair ribbons are a small-format weaving that beginners learn on.
111. 2017 - The weaver's tools. Implements at the backstrap loom workshop. Milpa Alta, Mexico City, 2017. The whole loom packs down to a bundle of sticks and a strap.
112. 2017 - Smoothing a cazuela. A potter using a piece of wood and a scrap of denim to polish and smooth the vessel. Metepec, State of Mexico, 2017. Metepec is best known for its tree of life figures, but it makes cooking ware in quantity.
113. 2017 - Cazuelas waiting for glaze. Unglazed Metepec cooking pots before the second firing. State of Mexico, 2017. Lead glazes on cooking ware became a public health issue in Mexico and are being phased out.
114. 2017-07-21 - D Todo - Vidrio soplado (18/07/2017). Canal Once's D Todo covers blown glass. Glassblowing arrived with the Spanish and settled in Jalisco and Puebla.
115. 2017-08-31 - Galería: Conjunto de rebozos de Santa María del Río (Información Básica). A museum gallery of rebozos from Santa María del Río. The San Luis Potosí town styles itself the cradle of the rebozo and works in fine silk and rayon.
116. 2017-09-22 - Creación y Oficio - Telar de misterios (20/09/2017). Canal Once's Creación y Oficio covers weaving. The rebozo's origin is colonial rather than pre-Hispanic, and the tell is technical: pre-Hispanic cloths did not have woven fringes.
117. 2017-10-17 - Decimoprimer Desfile y Concurso de Alebrijes Monumentales 2017. A short record of the eleventh monumental alebrije parade. The figures are built on wheeled frames and pushed through the streets.
118. 2017-11-10 - Décimo primer Desfile y Concurso de Alebrijes Monumentales del MAP. The Museo de Arte Popular stages its eleventh monumental alebrije parade and competition. The museum has run the parade since 2007.
119. 2017-11-27 - Charla inaugural: Sheila Hicks: Hilos libres. El textil y sus raíces prehispánicas, 1954-2017. The Museo Amparo opens an exhibition on free threads and textile art. Contemporary art has drawn heavily on Mexican textile technique.
120. 2018-01-09 - Restauran en la ENCRyM el cuadro Nierika, atribuido al artista huichol José Benítez Sánchez. INAH TV covers the restoration of a nierika at the national conservation school. The ceremonial nierika tablets recorded peyote visions and preceded the commercial boards.
121. 2018-01-19 - D Todo - Fábrica de veladoras (18/01/2018). Canal Once's D Todo visits a candle factory. Votive candle making supplies the country's shrines and altars.
122. 2018-06-01 - Conferencia magistral: "Textil e historia..." - Amalia Ramírez. The Museo Textil de Oaxaca hosts a keynote on textiles and history. Oaxaca holds the country's principal textile museum.
123. 2018 - Yucatecan embroidery. A sample worked by a woman of Dzitnup who has embroidered all her life. Yucatán, 2018. The Yucatecan hipil carries a band of flowers around the neck and hem and nowhere else.
124. 2018 - A rainbow of cloth. Textile souvenirs made by people from Chiapas. 2018. Chiapas weaving centres on the highland Tzotzil and Tzeltal towns around San Cristóbal.
125. 2019-03-06 - D Todo - Árboles de la vida (26/02/2019). Canal Once's D Todo covers trees of life. Metepec in the State of Mexico is the centre of the craft.
126. 2019 - Traditional indigenous dress. Long skirts, hand-embroidered blouses in strong colours and a woven shawl. Photographed 2019. The rebozo is worn as a wrap, a sling and a carrying cloth.
127. 2019 - Giant alebrijes at Amealco. Large painted sculptures at the entrance of a cultural centre. Amealco, Querétaro, 2019. The wooden Oaxacan alebrije is a craft of the 1970s to 1990s that borrowed its name from a papier-mâché figure made in Mexico City in 1936.
128. 2019 - Months of work on one piece. Alebrije carving is detailed work that takes many months for a single figure. Photographed 2019. The carvers are from the Oaxaca valley towns of San Martín Tilcajete and Arrazola.
129. 2019 - Sweets and piñatas. A stall in the Mercado de Jamaica selling traditional sweets, piñatas and shopping bags. Mexico City, 2019. The seven-pointed piñata stands for the deadly sins and was used by friars as a teaching device.
130. 2019-08-12 - TVUAT | Documental: Alfarería Mexicana - Artesanía Ancestral. A documentary on Mexican pottery as ancestral craft. Guild ordinances of 1653 regulated who could work in talavera, the quality grades and the decoration.
131. 2019-08-30 - Textiles y moda mexicana. Observatorio con Anel Pérez y Marta Turok. TV UNAM discusses Mexican textiles and fashion. Commercial appropriation of indigenous designs has become a recurring legal dispute.
132. 2019-10-31 - Estudiantes de la UNAM crean plataforma digital para comercializar arte textil indígena. UNAM students create a digital platform for artisans. Direct sale online bypasses the intermediaries who take most of the margin.
133. 2019-12-11 - Artisanal talavera of Puebla and Tlaxcala (Mexico). UNESCO presents the artisanal talavera of Puebla and Tlaxcala. The 2019 inscription is a joint Mexico and Spain listing covering the making process on both sides of the Atlantic.
134. 2019-12-11 - Talavera pottery, a Mexican and Spanish pottery tradition, listed by UNESCO | AFP. AFP reports on talavera as a shared Mexican and Spanish pottery tradition. The craft descends from the pottery of Talavera de la Reina in Castile, which itself carried Moorish technique.
135. 2020 - The wrestling club at Dolores Hidalgo. A lucha libre club in the town. Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, 2020. Dolores is where Hidalgo rang the bell in September 1810.
136. 2020 - Feeding the pigeons in Mérida. A Maya woman with the birds on the central square. Mérida, Yucatán, 2020. Mérida was built on the Maya city of Tho, using its stones.
137. 2020-10-01 - #ComunidadContigo: El barro de Atzompa 1/3. The culture ministry covers the clay of Atzompa in Oaxaca. Santa María Atzompa works a green-glazed ware distinct from Puebla talavera.
138. 2020-11-25 - Niérika. The Museo de la Luz presents nierika. Wixárika yarn paintings pressed into wax on board developed around 1962 and are a commercial form rather than an ancient one.
139. 2020-12-29 - #HechoEnEdoméx: Telar de cintura. The State of Mexico culture department presents the backstrap loom. The loom is tensioned against the weaver's own body and has been used for millennia.
140. 2021-02-02 - Visita guiada virtual Rebozo. The Museo de Arte Popular gives a virtual tour of its rebozo holdings. The de bolitas style comes from little knots tied onto groups of threads before dyeing.
141. 2021-02-27 - #02 Museo de Arte Popular (CDMX). A museum series visits the Museo de Arte Popular. Its collection covers every craft region in the country.
142. 2021 - Tanalosúchitl petals in cloth. An Amuzgo textile design of the tanalosúchitl flower, woven on a backstrap loom. Xochistlahuaca, Guerrero, 2021. Amuzgo brocade is worked into the cloth as it is woven, not embroidered afterwards.
143. 2021 - Wild flowers in Amuzgo weaving. A backstrap loom design of wild flowers from the Amuzgo tradition. Xochistlahuaca, Guerrero, 2021. A single brocaded huipil can take several months on the loom.
144. 2021 - The Festival del Quinto Sol. The festival at Acambay, run jointly by public institutions under the state culture ministry. State of Mexico, 2021. Acambay sits on an active fault and was badly damaged by an earthquake in 1912.
145. 2021-07-22 - Concurso Nacional de Cobre Martillado 2021 y la Feria Nacional del Cobre -Gobierno de Michoacán. The Michoacán government marks the national hammered copper competition. Santa Clara del Cobre has worked copper since the pre-Hispanic period.
146. 2021-09-21 - D Todo - Nuestros artesanos (21/09/2021). Canal Once's D Todo covers Mexican artisans. Craft work supports millions of households and is largely unregulated.
147. 2021-09-24 - La lucha de las tejedoras indígenas mexicanas en defensa de sus creaciones | AFP. AFP covers indigenous Mexican weavers defending their designs. Several international fashion houses have been challenged over copied patterns.
148. 2021-10-08 - Itinerario - Luis Piña. Artesano de hojalata. Canal Once's Itinerario profiles the tinsmith Luis Piña. Punched and painted tin is a colonial craft still worked in several states.
149. 2021-10-18 - D Todo - Obsidiana de Teotihuacán (18/10/2021). Canal Once's D Todo covers the obsidian of Teotihuacan. Obsidian working is among the oldest continuous crafts in the region.
150. 2021-10-27 - The Story of Cartoneria Tradicional / La historia de la cartonería tradicional. The Smithsonian presents the story of traditional cartonería. Pedro Linares invented the alebrije in papier-mâché in Mexico City in 1936 after hallucinating during a high fever.
151. 2021-11-12 - Itinerario - ‘Jeros’ Martínez, Artesano del barro. Canal Once's Itinerario profiles the clay artisan Jeros Martínez. Potters throw, dry, fire, glaze and fire again over several weeks.
152. 2021-11-26 - María Pineda: pionera en el oficio de la platería. A programme on María Pineda, a pioneer in the silversmith's trade. Women entered the Taxco workshops earlier than in most Mexican crafts.
153. 2022-02-17 - Aprender a envejecer - Visitas guiadas al Museo de Arte Popular (17/02/2022). Canal Once covers guided visits to the Museo de Arte Popular. The museum occupies a restored art deco fire station.
154. 2022-02-18 - Artesanía de vidrio soplado de Jalisco. The Jalisco government presents blown glass craft. Tlaquepaque and Tonalá are the state's glass centres.
155. 2022-06-22 - Artesanos de México - Armando Martínez. Canal Once profiles the artisan Armando Martínez. The series treats craft as a profession rather than a folk survival.
156. 2022-06-22 - Artesanos de México - Angélica Reyes. Canal Once profiles the artisan Angélica Reyes. The Artesanos de México series documents makers individually.
157. 2022-06-22 - Artesanos de México - Familia Linares. Canal Once profiles the Linares family. Pedro Linares received the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in 1990, two years before he died.
158. 2022-06-22 - Artesanos de México - Familia García. Canal Once profiles the García family of artisans. Craft knowledge passes within families rather than through schools.
159. 2022-06-22 - Artesanos de México - Flor Hernández. Canal Once profiles the artisan Flor Hernández. Women make up the majority of workers in several craft trades.
160. 2022-06-22 - Artesanos de México - René Ángeles. Canal Once profiles the artisan René Ángeles. Individual attribution matters because contemporary craft pieces are original works.
161. 2022-07-07 - #HechoEnEdoméx. Escuela de Rebozo.. The State of Mexico culture department presents a rebozo school. Tenancingo works in cotton and carries the rebozo on its municipal seal.
162. 2022-08-13 - ALFARERÍA tradicional, bastión de nuestra tierra... REPORTAJE especial desde Guanajuato.. A report on traditional pottery as a bastion of the land. The Consejo Regulador de la Talavera certifies workshops and only nine hold certification.
163. 2022-11-01 - Recorrido virtual: Grandes Maestros del Arte Popular Mexicano. The Museo Amparo gives a virtual tour of great masters of Mexican popular art. The grandes maestros designation recognises individual makers by name.
164. 2022-12-01 - Cátedra Ignacio Manuel Altamirano: “Origen y evolución de las lacas de Olinalá, Guerrero.”. INAH TV hosts a lecture on the origin and evolution of a craft tradition. Cobalt blue dominated early talavera because it was the most expensive pigment and its use signalled quality.
165. 2023-01-03 - D Todo - Cartonería (03/01/2023). Canal Once's D Todo covers cartonería. The craft makes judas figures, skeletons and piñatas as well as alebrijes.
166. 2023-03-23 - Artesanos de México - José Luis y Rigoberto Romano. Canal Once profiles José Luis and Rigoberto Romano. Workshops are commonly run by pairs of brothers.
167. 2023-03-23 - Artesanos de México - Familia Torres. Canal Once profiles the Torres family. Family workshops divide the stages of production between members.
168. 2023-03-23 - Artesanos de México - Pedro Ortega. Canal Once profiles the artisan Pedro Ortega. Each maker's work is signed and identifiable.
169. 2023-03-23 - Artesanos de México - Frida y Blanca. Canal Once profiles the artisans Frida and Blanca. Younger makers are adapting traditional forms to new markets.
170. 2023-03-23 - Artesanos de México - Una conversación con Marta Turok. Canal Once hosts a conversation with Marta Turok. Turok is among the foremost scholars of Mexican popular art.
171. 2023-06-08 - EL PUEBLO DE PLATA Historia y Problemática Actual de la Platería en Taxco. A UNAM faculty programme on the silver town and its current problems. Silver prices and tourism both shape the workshops' survival.
172. 2023 - Tlacolula market. The Sunday market in the town, officially the Mercado Municipal Martes. Tlacolula, Oaxaca, 2023. The Oaxaca valley market rotates through the towns by day of the week, as it did before the conquest.
173. 2023 - Escaramuza riders. A group of Michoacán charras riding in the oil expropriation parade. Jiquilpan, Michoacán, 18 March 2023. The escaramuza is the women's event in charrería and is ridden side-saddle.
174. 2023 - A charro at Jiquilpan. A rider in a parade marking the 85th anniversary of the oil expropriation. Jiquilpan, Michoacán, 18 March 2023. Cárdenas, who expropriated the oil in 1938, was born in Jiquilpan.
175. 2023-08-29 - Encuentro de arte textil. La trama que nos une. A textile art gathering hosted by a Chilean pre-Columbian museum. Andean and Mesoamerican weaving traditions are studied comparatively.
176. 2023-10-03 - ALEBRIJES MONUMENTALES 2023. The 2023 monumental alebrijes. The parade has become one of the capital's fixed autumn events.
177. 2024-10-09 - Desfile de Alebrijes Monumentales 2024. The 2024 monumental alebrije parade. Workshops and collectives compete for prizes each October.
178. 2025-07-04 - 119 años de Pedro Linares: Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares celebra al creador de los alebrijes. The culture ministry marks 119 years since Pedro Linares was born. The national popular cultures museum holds work by the family.
179. 2025-08-01 - Creación y Oficio - Cocoyol. Canal Once's Creación y Oficio covers cocoyol. The palm nut is carved into small ornaments and jewellery.
180. 2025-10-23 - Manos de artesano - Árbol de la vida. Metepec, Edo. de México. A later Canal Once programme on the tree of life at Metepec. The form began as a religious subject and now covers secular themes.
181. 2025-11-06 - Manos de artesano - Textiles. Siete Regiones, Oaxaca. Canal Once's Manos de artesano covers textiles from the seven regions of Oaxaca. Each region carries its own patterns, dyes and garment forms.
182. 2026-03-27 - Tonazilahuales, alebrijes de San Martín Tilcajete | México profundo. INAH TV covers the tonazilahuales and alebrijes of San Martín Tilcajete. The carved copal animals of Oaxaca are a separate and later craft that borrowed the name from Linares.
183. 2026-05-12 - Carnaval de Tilcajete: eco de los Cencerros | México profundo. INAH TV covers the carnival of Tilcajete. The village's carving trade grew alongside its masked carnival traditions.
184. 2026 - The Casa de los Muñecos. The upper facade of the house in Puebla, its tiles showing the labours of Hercules. 2026. Puebla builds its house fronts in glazed talavera tile set into red brick, which no other Mexican city does.