Carved Wood Hand Painted Armadillo Alebrije

Our Alebrijes are made from a Copal wood. When the artisan designate or imagine what he is going to design, selects the wood with which he is going to work and remove the shell, at the beginning of the first cuts being carved to give shape they are given with a machete, later with gurbias to empty the spaces and with a knife the parts are rounded.

At the end of giving its shape, that is, having the figure sculpted, the piece will be left in the sun for a week or two depending on the figure, after this time it will be sanded and again it will be left in the sun for months or years, this is known as drying. This causes the wood to crack and must be cured, using gasoline and insecticide, guaranteeing that it does not have moths, it would be discarded when the wood was carved, it is reused to fill the cracks.

At the end, happy and vibrant natural dyes will be applied (With materials from the same tree, such as the shell, the powder and incense, Edible lime, Great cochineal, honey, lemon, etc.) with Zapotec Iconography (codices and frets). Alebrijes elaboration takes months and in some 3 years. Unique and unrepeatable, collectible piece. Keten works fairly with his artisans. We look forward to the support of our clients who value their work.

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