Handcrafted Mexican Amate Bark Paintings

We're producer of decoration products. chimineas & pottery.

We know that by offering art work that can not be found in regular craft shops, we can provide our customers with unique articles not available anywhere else. These unique Mexican Handcrafts can then be showcased with pride to friends and relatives. One popular category of Mexican handcrafts provided here in our online store is that of the Amate bark painting, a folk art tradition dating back centuries that can show daily scenes of the Mexican countryside such as weddings, wild animals and flowers.

Amate paper has been used by since ancient times by the Mexica and other cultures. They used amate and other substrates like animal skin to record historical events (codices). Nowadays, artisans do amate painting using commercially available acrylic paints, and it is not rare to find that even the children of the artists have an active role in this beautiful tradition of producing their own artwork.

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