Talavera pottery is the product of several craft and artistic trends from various regions of the world marrorquí Andalusian and Spanish pottery, glass Arab Persian mesh, figures and Chinese characters (Mongols) and stylized drawings of ancient Mexico.

It's so "poblana" as the mole, chiles in walnut sauce, "camotes" and the angels of the cathedral of Puebla, but summarizes the cultural traditions of four continents.

The technical definition of Talavera-registered at the Institute of Copyright (IDA) is: "pottery belonging to the area of Puebla, made with clay and made up of a glazed ceramic body coated with tin, decorated with metallic colors and worked manually on site. "

The original Talavera pieces do not break easily. They can withstand shocks and very high temperatures.

The Talavera pottery production targeted six different processes of meticulous technical implementation that last about six months. Each stage is covered with two or three steps with care. Overall, fifteen paces sum integral process, not including commercial packaging. On average, each process is done in two or three steps.

The first process is to prepare the mixture of the two clays, and second, dehydration and kneading; third molding pieces by hand, round kick and molds, and the fourth refers to baked jahuete or first, fifth, decoration, design and painting, and sixth, second batch, which is a thousand 50 degrees Celsius. Painting and drawing of each piece is crafted with fine brushes of hair and feathers. buscar

To give an idea of the care required of Talavera pottery, one can say that once mixed black and white clays, kneading be poured to remove grit, then remove excess water by decantation and then is dried in dark rooms and no ventilation to prevent drying out. The air and light are the worst enemies for the mud. Only this process takes one month to six weeks.

The development also includes specific actions desairación, kneading, storage of blocks and balls, dried in special chambers, stew or sahueteado and enamel or glaze. The stew (Spanish word) or jahuete (Aztec word) is done at an average temperature of 800 degrees Celsius for seven or eight hours.

The paintings that decorate the pieces are made from mineral products or industrial waste. For example, the cobalt blue is made with tequesquite (cobalt oxide) and grit. This mixture is placed in pots that serve as molds. The yellow is obtained with antimony, sand and red mullet, the orange stone in kidney and tequesquite Mazacote. The green crushed glass and copper dandruff.

The term tile, applied specifically to the tiles that decorate floors and walls, not from the emblematic blue Talavera pottery, but the azulisch Arabic word which means cover walls. The contribution of Chinese figures in the design came from Talavera de la Nao de China: poblanos craftsmen took it from the drawings of the porcelain coming from the Far East.

Hundreds of models of plates, jars, vases, salt cellars and covering slabs are produced in only thirteen workshops settled in the 30 municipalities in four political districts of the valley of Puebla: Puebla de los Angeles, Cholula, Atlixco and Tecali. The white clay is removed from the southeastern region of the valley and the black is equally in the four districts.

Source: http://sic.conaculta.gob.mx/