Margot de Taxco Jewelry Margot van Voorhies Carr arrived in Taxco from America in 1937. Here she met, and not long thereafter, got married to Antonio Castillo. She became the very first designer of the Los Castillo, newly formed at the time and it is thus hardly surprising that many of the Los Castillo firm’s [ Read More ]
Archive for July, 2010
For the most part, when we talk of Mexican jewelry we mean silver jewelry made in Taxco, a town with a rich silver history located about an hour’s drive from Mexico City. It is from this town where many of the important names in silversmithing history either came from or has at some point been. [ Read More ]
Categories: Featured, Vintage Taxco Jewelry
The Story of Taxco Silver weaves between fact and legend back to the time of the Aztecs. Known in those times as a Tlacho, or place of the ballgame, this Mexican city lies in the hills between Mexico City and Acapulco and is one of the oldest mining sites of the Americas. A natural wealth [ Read More ]
Categories: Featured, Taxco Silver
Taxco Jewelry, the best known Mexican silver jewelry, is highly prized around the world for a variety of reasons. Firstly, silver jewelry from Taxco is for the most part handcrafted by artisans who have learnt their trade through it traditional apprenticeship programs and have a great love for their art. Also, Taxco – known as [ Read More ]
Categories: Featured, Taxco Jewelry
