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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

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