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Amantolli is Launching a New Jewelry Designer Line - High Quality and Unique Designs Gold Filled twice with 14 K and 18 K Gold.

Partnering with Tumbiko; a company that blends new trends and craft techniques to create unique jewelry pieces.

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Mexican Embroidered History

 The pendant loom

In the first stage of Mesoamerican textile arts, weaving was using the hanging loom and woven with fingers. However, this presented some difficulties to weave cotton, so it was gradually replaced by the back strap loom.

The back strap loom

The waist loom originates and characterizes the Pre-Hispanic stage. It is also known by the name of two bars loom or loom sticks. It is a very simple instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars, a rope and a band or back strap to hold the loom weaver. To provide tension, the top bar is attached to a fixed support and the bottom bar is tied to the waist of the weaver.

One of its main advantages is that it allows the knitter full control over the work you are doing. Small changes in the body can achieve variations in the texture of the fabric. An expert weaver can combine techniques in a way that would be difficult or impossible to obtain in a loom otherwise.

The foot loom

Use set foot loom from Spanish rule. Its implementation brought about a change in Guatemalan textiles because it was used to produce products for the colonizers. The Spanish established workshops to produce textiles on an industrial level, where Mayan men were forced to work under appalling conditions. Due to the historical mechanism of its implementation, technical complexity and cost of construction, as well as for its fixed location, the foot loom was initially handled by men. Today it is an instrument used by men and women.

The most outstanding advantage of using this loom is the speed with which it can work and the ability to weave larger. Fabrics woven on looms standing can reach up to 150 meters in length without brocades and textiles can be produced in less than five percent of the time required on a back strap loom.

Standing on the loom, however, the canvases for a piece of clothing are not left weave to the exact size, or can be incorporated significant changes in the tissue structure.

 Different type of looms are used to product the ART fabrics in Mexico. The back strap loom is a very simple device that can achieve complex and beautiful fabrics. Perform stripes, pictures or any design always depends on the arrangement of the warp and weft. Mexican Art textiles keep a deep relationship and respect for the Pre-Hispanic techniques. Some of them are used today:

·         Plain weave. It is the simplest; crisscrossing equal number of vertical threads and horizontal.

·         Brocade .Technique used to form decorative designs, which are achieved by adding additional frames, while the fabric is woven .

·         Jasper technique. It consists of knotting segments of yarn and then immersed in a dye solution. After untie the knots designs with parts of the thread in which the dye did not penetrate to weave the fabric are obtained.

·         Velvet fabric. It is achieved with the supplementary frame, which is not stretched along its length. Partially loose threads, which is what allows the particular texture of the fabric left.

 At Amantolli we love Mexican Textile Art and we select the best quality handmade products supporting Mexican Artisans and preserving their traditions.

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Hammocks ... the ancient art of sleeping in comfort by www.Amantolli.com

In Yucatan, Mexico it is a tradition to use the hammock to rest during the day to nap or sleep overnight; It is present in virtually all homes. This is because it is fresh and very comfortable; work it is an art and an essential part of daily life.

Its name comes from Haiti, Hamac, which means tree and despite its West Indian origin was quickly adopted in Yucatan after the conquest and since its construction has been perfected.

At first hammocks they were made using thick sisal twine and then other fibers such as hemp were used to reach the hammock row; It is the finest that is woven in Yucatan; It is woven with a thread of cotton or linen.

For making them first hammock is woven on a frame consisting of two long wooden sticks placed parallel to a distance meter and a half or two meters, depending on the size you want to give to the hammock.

Later these sticks around in a skein, a needle carved in hard wood or bone and begins to cross-link it with the threads of the warp and gradually builds up the plot is taken, an edge is woven to form the shore hammock.

Upon completion of knitting the hammock with all its edges, they will put the arms, which consist of a number of threads that are knotted at the ends with the same thread becoming a kind of pear-shaped ring.

Today you can find beautiful works in markets and specialty stores throughout the state, they are concocted by hand by women and men working weaving hammocks as a tradition.

Hammocks are an excellent choice www.Amantolli.com, a company located in Canada partnered with a Rada Company in Yucatan which employs more than 500 Mayan families of small towns. The work they do is 100% homemade, so you can care for their children while they work and help complete the household expenses. Whatever the place where you buy your hammock, which can guarantee is that you'll fall in love to the degree that it will become an important part of your moments of rest and a must-have item in your home.

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One of the most important manifestations of beauty and tradition at Christmas are the Nativity Scenes," Nacimientos " or " Belenes " , as they are also known in Mexico, Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries . Starting point while completion December festivities, Nativity Scenes are the group of figures, usually sculptures that reproduce the Holy Family at the time of Christmas.

Since its inception , Nativity Scenes , are created with a variety of materials, shapes and colours , have had a number of essential characters ; the Virgin and baby Jesus , ox, mule, sheep , the Angel , the star, the Three Wise Men and the Shepherds. These are the figures that are a must, but people's creativity, boasting of the imagination, has added other elements that serve to decorate. Sometimes the number of figures is limited to the baby Jesus, St. Joseph, the Virgin Mary, the ox, the mule and eventually the Angel, to represent the " Mystery " . In the Nativity scenes there is a representation of particularly to three topics : a) the birth and the adoration of the shepherds ( on the site ) ; b ) the annunciation of the Angel of the , and c ) the journey and adoration of the Three Wise Men (who is depicted as a white man and elderly , another young and blond and Afro third) . If we consider the above, remember that the first Christmas celebrations (those being made by Christians for centuries IV to XII) did not include the placement of birth, for it was not until the year 1223 that St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, starts the tradition that continues until today. In Mexico, since the mid-sixteenth century, in the town of Tlajomulco , Jalisco,Christmas representation is performed live . It appreciated the Virgin Mary, Joseph, the baby Jesus, the ox and mule classical as well as a choir of angels, shepherds, Herod and the Three Wise Men. All the characters were placed under a dense grove and cooed with indigenous, including Bible verses related to the Nativity, in the form of sweet carols. Thus, the Mexican tradition began exactly like Italian: with vivid characters having as teachers the same Franciscan friars.

Nativity found various manifestations of art, since the sixteenth century New Spain painters were dedicated to the theme of the Nativity. Proof of this are the series of paintings that are preserved in the Museum of San Carlos Mexico City and two master pieces that we can still admire one in the convent of San Miguel Archangel , in Huexotzingo ( Puebla) , and the other decorates the walls of the church of San Bernardino of Siena in Xochimilco ( Mexico City ) . During the nineteenth century exquisite wax figures were created in Michoacan and Guanajuato; but if money allowed more sumptuous pieces were created with silver and gold. Today clay figures are more common for Native Scenes. The tradition states that the Native Scenes should be placed at the beginning of the first “Posada”. Immediately all the above characters, minus the baby Jesus, who, as noted be incorporated on December 24 at midnight.  Amantolli... ART, TRADITION, HISTORY, AND HIGH QUALITY  

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Sunglasses have passed from several stages in the history, from round, invisible frames, crystal lenses, or more eccentric and colorful frames. Since 2014, there is a significant trend for the wood sunglasses.

There are several reasons about why Wood Sunglasses have been trend since 2014. In one hand, of course, the style and design, since the wood sunglasses are an attractive that has captivate fashion designers; in the other hand wood sunglasses are perfect for summer, beaches, and outdoor activities since they are related with nature.  

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