Piteado is an artisan technique where pita or ixtle (thread made from the fiber of the century plant) is embroidered onto leather in decorative patterns...

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cloth. They are also used for leather embroidery in a technique known as piteado. Both pulque and maguey fiber played significant roles in the pre-Columbian...

0 percent). The municipality is the origin and an important center of piteado manufacturing. The name Colotlán means "the place of scorpions" in Nahuatl...

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common items include the huarache sandals of Concepción de Buenos Aires, piteado from Colotlán, majolica pottery from Sayula, blown glass from Tlaquepaque...

serapes), wood furniture including the equipal chair, baskets, metal items, piteado and Huichol art. Jalisco is one of Mexico's main producers of handcrafts...

handcrafts, including boots, wide cowboy hats, and embroidered leather belts (piteado). Behind the Sanctuary of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad is Jardín (garden)...

items pertaining to their gender. In many Mexican cities, men may wear piteado belts, cowboy boots made of exotic animal skins, silk shirts, and cowboy...

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from heavily embroidered jackets and pants to embroidered belts called “piteado.” Another common handcraft is religious items for sale to visitors, such...

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the state include baskets in Coroneo, belts decorated with ixtle thread (piteado) in Manuel Doblado, ixtle items in Penjamo, masks for the Torito Dance...

sheep and goats and often include other materials such as ixtle thread (piteado), bone buttons and iron clasps. Towns noted for this work include Amatepec...