CREADORES ARTESANOS

Juan (Michoacan), Artisan creator of glazed clay

Juan represents constant innovation. Based on what he learned from his parents, he created new shapes and colors, while improving the technique for developing glazed clay pineapples.

He is proud to be a craftsman and that his pieces can travel to other countries.

She loves to continue learning new things about the technique so she can evolve and develop this family tradition beyond what she was taught.

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"It is a pleasure and a pride to be an artisan, what our parents taught us."

Juan (Michoacan)

así elabora las piezas

Lo que empezó siendo un juego de niña, es lo que ahora le da de comer.

This technique, specifically glazed clay pineapples, emerged in the 1960s in San José de Gracia. In Juan's workshop, clay is extracted from the village's clay mine.

The container is moulded and each of the leaves and pine cone pellets are added by hand. The colours are extracted from the stones, which are crushed until a powder is created with which the pieces are glazed.

The oven technique is somewhat complicated to get the color you want, because the temperature varies depending on the tone you want to obtain.

You can get several different shades of each of the color pigments, but you have to be an expert to get them right, like in Juan's workshop.