Skeleton Skier Mug Cards including Needles and Pins: Textiles

including Needles and Pins: Textiles and Tools

The group--including cartographer Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco

illustrator

The Earth Shall Weep is a powerful

cypress and nutmeg – imparts a gentle

Skeleton Skier Mug Cards including Needles and Pins: TextilesThese skeletons are inspired by Latin American Day of the Dead folk art, and the works of the great Mexican graphic artist, Jose Guadalupe Posada. Posada was best known for his calaveras, skeletons that actively engage in everyday activities and, with humor and irony, show the absurdity of the human condition. His work was based on the traditional art of All Souls Day, however Posada made his skeletons both more lively and more political. Folk art in