Tlaquepaque

The municipality of Tlaquepaque is located in the State of Jalisco 20 ° 38'18 "latitude and 103 ° 18'38" longitude. Bordered on the north by the towns of Tonala, Guadalajara and Zapopan, on the south by Falls and Tlajomulco.

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San Pedro Tlaquepaque is now the largest craft center of Mexico prestigious worldwide, where you can find the best handcraft products in the country.
In Tlaquepaque you can do several tours from the historic district where there are several points of interest such as the regional museum of ceramics, the municipal palace, the church of St. Peter, and can also make crafts tours
Pottery is the oldest of all crafts, the baked clay of this area may be the same in essence as that of other potters in the world, but especially finish and decoration, which distinguishes and gives value to this art.
The Indians produce crafts of different kinds: domestic gods and community offerings and funerary objects , however, the missionaries were ordered to seize the natural ability to produce christian pottery .
In the late eighteenth century pottery see the work extended from this place towards the development of ceramics: the development of objects such as bricks for flooring and roofs, plumbing pipes and tiles, a facet of pottery that today many continue.
Also in these years the local potter begins to manufacture objects to finish the magnificent architecture of the houses in and around Guadalajara, balustrades decorated with gargoyles, and medallions of great vases manufacturing.
It is from 1850 when the potter-ceramist sculptor becomes to produce perfect works of sculpture such as statues, reliefs, busts, figurines, etc.. Getting your art into areas such as Europe and Northern America, being the pioneer and highest exponent Don Pantaleon Panduro.
From the second half of the nineteenth century, is beginning to make clay sculptures of great quality, highlighting the busts, reliefs, statues, portraits and so-called "Mexican types, which are representations of scenes from a costume vendor street, up a typical holiday village.
With the emergence of the sculptures in clay, are beginning to develop births over time were spreading throughout the country, highlighting the work of Dionisio Martínez Rosales who began marketing his figures in Mexico City in 1903. It was in December of this year when I first settled in the Plaza de Santo Domingo. The success of the figures in the City of Mexico by the family of Don Dionisio, encouraged others to follow his example so go to this huge market with Christmas merchandise of all sizes and qualities, a tradition that continues to the present days and artisans committed to working families throughout the model year, drying, burning, decorating and packing figures like sheep, shepherds, mules, oxen, the holy family and the devils, brocal wells, chicken eggs, caves with hermit hell up and inside, roosters and other animals.
It currently produces ceramics of different techniques and subjects, either at high temperature or in cold polychromed.
Tlaquepaque is excellent not only in the manufacture of ceramics, but also figures and tableware made of glass, lead crystal, iron decorative pieces, using rod and sheet arise where beautiful sculptures of different sizes.
There are silver and are beautiful pieces of silver, copper and brass embossing system or chiseled. There are many workshops that are dedicated to the manufacture of wooden furniture, with typical tule and woven palm , in rustic pine, also there are fabrics for tablecloths, clothing, etc..