Private Pottery and Alebrijes Workshop by Car in Oaxaca
A private journey into Oaxaca’s living traditions awaits you!
Clay feels cool and smooth as you shape it into form. You breathe deeply as artisans guide your movements with quiet rhythm. The atmosphere slows your thoughts and invites calm focus. Your hands remember what tools cannot replace. Shadows and sunlight shift gently across the pottery workshop floor. Each sound of shaping clay blends with the warmth of conversation. After lunch, color fills your eyes as surreal figures appear in paint. Alebrijes wait as blank shapes until your brush wakes them alive. Bright pigments flow across wood as dreamlike patterns take shape. Each detail carries story and memory from this land. What vision will your hand reveal on wood? End the day surrounded by textures, colors, and timeless craft.
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José García's Workshop
Feel the weight of clay as it yields beneath your palms. Listen to the soft scrape of tools while forming your own piece.
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Alebrijes Autóctonos
Bright pigments spill across carved figures as you paint their forms. Wooden animals seem to shift as brushstrokes bring them alive.
My kids loved to paint alebrijes!!! The history was really interesting. I admire locals’ patience to do the crafts and keep their traditions.
Firstly, it was really nice that the guide picked us up on time. If you been in Mexico more than a week, you would notice that they are not the most punktual people in the word 😀 The trip was great!
I loved to touch the real clay and to make my own flower vase. It was like a meditation.