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Add the beauty of the desert to your home decor with this wonderful sculpture from Mexico. Designed by Juana Ponce, this cactus is crafted from ceramic, featuring colorful floral motifs that are hand-painted in the tradition of Talavera handicrafts.

Carrying on the Zarate family tradition, Bertha and Ubaldo design this amazing ceramic vase, making a wonderful addition to your home. They handcraft the vase of ceramic, its exterior elaborated with different sized holes using recycled tools. Inspired by themes of transparency, this piece of home decor is given an alabaster finish.

Calling to mind the colorful markets of Mexico, this flower pot makes a wonderful addition to indoor or outdoor decor. Mexico's Armando Sobreyra creates the planter, working in the style of traditional Talavera ceramics. The pot is crafted by hand and painted with meticulous detail in a process that can take as many as 21 days.

Calling to mind the colorful markets of Mexico, this flower pot makes a wonderful addition to indoor or outdoor decor. Mexico's Armando Sobreyra creates the planter, working in the style of traditional Talavera ceramics. The pot is crafted by hand and painted with meticulous detail in a process that can take as many as 21 days.

Working in copper, Mexican artisans Rosy and Daniel create a delightful vase that will go wonderfully in any home. To create the vase's form, the artisans heat the copper to a red-hot temperature and diligently strike it with a hammer to craft it into the desired shape. This intensive process takes between three and six artisans to complete. Once complete, the vase is given an antiqued finish that highlights each individual hammer stroke. The round vase is given a textured surface that flows like waves. This home accessory is perfect for simple decor or for displaying flowers.

Working in the traditional Oaxacan art form known as barro negro, Fernando and Magali Pedro create this wonderful small ceramic wall accent. The unique dark colour and slightly metallic sheen of barro negro are obtained by polishing the clay's surface with a quartz stone before the piece is fired in the kiln.

Adding an artisanal touch to your home decor, this candle holder celebrates the handicraft traditions of Mexico. Magdaleno Fierro designs the sculpture, which is handcrafted of ceramic. Small flowers, leaves, and butterflies are attached with wire, floating around the candle holder like a magnificent garden. It features four spaces for candles.

A myriad shades of blue conjure a cool and soothing universe in this elegant nierika, or votive beadwork painting by Kupihaute. Scorpions scuttle purposefully around the center of the composition, which takes the shape of a flower with five wide petals.

The artist, who writes fluently in the Huichol, Nahuatl and English languages, talks about this work in his own words. "From the focal center of the nierika, the precious flower arises in spiral movement as the culminating expression of the deepest roots. The blossom is keeping in its entrails the seed that will disseminate the power of creative energy. This is symbolized by the scorpions that, in their wonderful body symmetry, show the essence of the power itself, since any imbalance in its mating dance, any missing the target, will cause its own poisoning and thus its own death. Therefore the symbol of cosmos, of order is shown in their mouths and the tails."

The intricate images are formed with tiny seed beads. Kupihuate patiently places them one at a time with a needle made of abalone shell onto a huanacaxtle wood backing. Beeswax is used instead of glue.

The process is totally spontaneous, with no previous sketch or design. It is guided by the artist's unconscious to tell the stories that remain in our collective ancestral memory. He signs his work with the symbol of a butterfly on the reverse side of the nierika.

Store your keys, jewellery, spare change or anything you can think of in this amazing basket handwoven from palm fibers in Mexico. The blue and beige basket features a lid and zigzag motifs in a design by artisan Cecilia Jimenez that is also a wonderful decorative accent in itself.

Half diamonds are the theme for this hand-carved oval mini flower pot made from barro negro or "black clay" which has been used in the Mexican state of Oaxaca for centuries. You can display small flowers and plants in this wonderful ceramic pot designed, crafted and carved by Fernando and Magali Pedro in Mexico.

Mexican artisans Fernando and Magali Pedro design, hand-craft and hand-carve this wonderful black ceramic mini flower pot that will both contrast and complement the colour of your plants or flowers. The pot (made with barro negro or "black clay" traditionally used in Oaxaca for centuries) has decorative and utilitarian purposes as it allows for drainage.

This small, yet splendid wood wall art handmade by Mexican artisan Jaime Hernandez features beautiful embedded metal and aluminium flowers. The hand-carved wall art shows exceptional craftsmanship and is a wonderful decorative accent for any space.