Silver Sun Pottery Page

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" background="main_images/stucco-400B.gif"> <p> </p>  <div align="center"><center> <table border="1" width="100%" style="text-align: center" height="30"> <tr> <td width="7%" align="center" height="38"><p align="center"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF"><a href="index.html" target="_top" style="text-decoration: none"><big>Home</big></a></font></strong></td> <td width="19%" align="center" height="38"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF"><a href="custom.htm" target="_top" style="text-decoration: none">One-of-a-Kind</a><small><br> </small>Jewelry<big> </big></font></strong></td> <td width="12%" align="center" height="38"><a href="jewelry.htm" target="_top" style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#FFFFFF"><big><strong>Jewelry</strong> </big></font></a></td> <td width="14%" align="center" height="38"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF"><a href="holiday/holiday.htm" target="_top" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255,255,255)">Holiday</a><br> <a href="pawn.htm" target="_top" style="text-decoration: none">Pins</a></font></strong></td> <td width="12%" align="center" height="38"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF"><a href="pottery.htm" target="_top" style="text-decoration: none"><big>Pottery</big></a></font></strong></td> <td width="12%" align="center" height="38"><strong><a target="_top" style="text-decoration: none" href="copper.htm"><big><font color="#FFFFFF">Copper</font></big></a></strong></td> <td width="15%" align="center" height="38"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF"><a href="weavings.htm" target="_top" style="text-decoration: none">Pendleton</a><br> Blankets</font></strong></td> <td width="17%" align="center" height="38"><a target="_top" style="text-decoration: none" href="carvings.htm"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF">Fetish<small><br> </small>Carvings</font></strong></a></td> <td width="13%" align="center" height="38"><strong><a target="_top" style="text-decoration: none" href="artist.htm"><font color="#FFFFFF"><big>Artists</big></font></a></strong></td> <td width="19%" align="center" height="38"><a href="catalog_main.htm" target="_top" style="text-decoration: none"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF"><big>Catalog</big></font></strong></a></td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p align="center"> </p>   <p align="center"><img src="main_images/Eclipse-SF-small.gif" width="481" height="92"></p> <p align="center"><big><big><font color="#FFFFFF">Pottery</font></big></big></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF"><big>     The potters of the village of Mata Ortiz in the Casas Grandes area of Mexico, about 100 miles south of the border with New Mexico, have established a potting community that is very creative.  Potters seem to vie with each other for the next innovation or the next level of excellence in quality.</big><br> <big>     The original Casas Grandes people had a tradition of pottery making beginning about 1060 A.D.   The art was lost after 1340 A.D.  until a Mata Ortiz resident, Juan Quezada, figured out the old way of making pottery from pot fragments he found and taught the people of his village.  He has spent his life training the young people there how to mix the clay, shape the bowls and jars, decorate them, and fire them outside in homemade kilns using wood and cow dung.</big></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF"><big><a href="pottery/pottery_info.htm" target="_self">Click here for an explanation of how the pottery is made</a>.</big><br> <big><a href="pottery/potter_bio.htm" target="_self">Potter biographies</a> may be accessed from this location or directly from individual pottery pages.</big><br> <big>Click on any picture for more detailed information.</big></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF"><big> </big></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF"><big>We've run out!  </big><br> <big>Our buyer is busy and we expect to have more soon.  </big><br> <big>Please check back at the end of the April.  </big></font></p> <p align="right"> </p> <hr> <p align="center"><big><font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>Silver Sun     656 Canyon Road      Santa Fe, New Mexico  87501       800/562-2036</strong></font></big></p> <p align="center"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF">Email:</font> <a href="mailto:silver@cybermesa.com" target="_self">info@SilverSun-SF.com</a></strong></p> <p align="center"><br> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p>  </body>