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Folk Pottery

can someone re-word this please?

Mexico is world famous for its folk art traditions, mostly from native handicrafts and Spanish. Pre-Columbian art thrived over a set timescale, from 1800 BC to the year 1500. Some artistic characteristics were repeated throughout the region, namely a preference for angular, linear patterns, and three-dimensional ceramics. Crafts notables include pottery clay from the valley of Oaxaca and figures of animals from the village of Tonala. Colorfully embroidered cotton garments, cotton or wool shawls and outer garments, and baskets and colorful rugs are visible everywhere. Mexico is also known for its pre-Columbian architecture, especially for public buildings, ceremonial and urban monumental structures.

Mexico is world famous for its traditional folk art. Such art is both the roots of indigenous crafts and Spanish. Some artistic features are found repeatedly throughout the region, including angular and linear models, and styles in the three dimensions of the ceramic. Valley of Oaxaca, there are remarkable pottery clay, and in the village of Tonala, animal figures. Highly embroidered cotton and wool clothes as shawls and outer garments are also sold prominently throughout the region, in partnership with baskets and colorful rugs. (Your second sentence and the last sentence does not fit into your theme. In this that you speak only indigenous art, not Spanish. The rest paragraph talks about the combination of two cultures in an art form. Maybe start a new paragraph like this:) Apart from the influence Spanish, pre-Columbian art thrived on the time scale set from 1800 BC to AD 1500. For these styles, Mexico is known for its indigenous architecture, particularly for public structures, ceremonies, urban and monumental. (And possibly give an example of such use, and references may be Aztec art to support more information in pre-Columbian art styles)

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