Mexican indigenous crafts and kitchen items for your home.
Black clay vessel, brought directly from San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico.
San Bartolo is a town very close to the city of Oaxaca that is known for the production of black clay. Currently, some 600 Zapotec and Mixtec families dedicate their workshops to the creation of all kinds of crafts, some of them of great artistic value, including the popular jugs for fermenting and storing mezcal in the different distilleries.
The black color of the clay is due to properties of the clay itself and not to artificial coloring.The soil used to extract the mud is cleaned to remove all impurities, which can take up to a month of soaking and settling the mud apart from the rest of the soil.
The designs on these vessels are representative of the area, Decorations such as clay flowers or dotted patterns are unique and unrepeatable and are made with any object that the artisans consider useful: soft drink caps, pens, empty glue containers, etc. After this process, each piece takes around twenty days to be finished, so the production of each object is truly a complex and ancient artisanal process.
Measurements: 10 cm high x 9 cm top diameter.
