Green Vineyard Collectible Striped Mayan Hammock (Double) _artisan--novica-artisan-3477 underscored by contrasting textures

underscored by contrasting textures

Mexican artisan Sergio Ponce designs this pair of Talavera-style wall sculptures

from the Sukhothai period of the 13th and 14th centuries

their families

executed in silver and centered with a turquoise as blue as the sky

Green Vineyard Collectible Striped Mayan Hammock (Double) _artisan--novica-artisan-3477 underscored by contrasting texturesEvoking ripe sea grapes, the Maya Artists of the Yucatn select purple and green for this colorful hammock. They weave it by hand in the same way they have for centuries. Long before the Spanish arrived upon the coasts of the Yucatan Peninsula, the Maya preferred to sleep and rest in hammocks. They considered the hammock to be like the loving embrace of a mother, due to the comfortable manner in which the body is held and swung within its cradle. Maya