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Handcrafts and folk art in Mexico City is a microcosm of handcraft production in most of the rest of country. One reason for this is that the city has attracted migration from other parts of Mexico, bringing these crafts. The most important handcraft in the city is the working of a hard paper mache called cartonería, used to make piñata ==History== Historically, the Valley of Mexico became a center for goods produced in Mesoamerica with the rise of the Aztec Empire, bringing worked goods into the area both through trade and tribute. After the fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521, this system of tribute continued, with Spanish systems added, such as the rise of guilds to produce a number of items. However, many of the indigenous crafts survived.〔 〕 In 1529 Pedro de Gante founded the first handcraft school in the city, at the Chapel of San Jose de los Naturales of the San Francisco monastery. This began the process of mixing native and European influences in these trades, especially in aesthetics. The school did not last long because native artisans had a well-developed handcraft tradition that allowed them to adapt European technologies such as the potters wheel and the pedal loom, quickly.〔 Handcrafts continued to be produced in the Valley of Mexico, although some, like basketry, essentially disappeared as raw materials did. The Mexican Revolution prompted a migration into the city, which continues to this day, bringing craftsmen with new products and/or techniques.〔 For this reason, the capital is a kind of microcosm of the various handcrafts of the country.〔 〕 While workshops used to be organized in the city according to type, for example the old Plateros (silversmiths) Street (now Madero), today, shops and workshops are dispersed throughout the city in no systematic fashion〔 with artisan families in eight of the city’s boroughs.〔 〕 However, according to Museo de Arte Popular director Walther Boelsterly, the working of crafts is disappearing in the capital as the pay is too low for many to continue, and raw materials becoming scarce or too expensive.〔 Federal, city and private organization have worked to preserve and promote handcraft making of various types for both cultural and economic reasons.〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 One private initiative was the Miss Lupita project, with the aim of revitalizing a type of doll making that has all but disappeared. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Handcrafts and folk art in Mexico City」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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