Editing Lacquerware (section)

==Americas==
===Barniz de Pasto technique===
Barniz de Pasto ([[:es:Barniz de Pasto|es]]) is a lacquer-like varnish technique originating in the [[Pre-Columbian era]] that is a specialty of [[Pasto, Colombia]]. It is made by chewing the resin of the Andean mopa-mopa shrub (''[[Elaeagia|Elaeagia pastoensis]]'') into thin layers, and then painting it and applying it to a wood, metal, clay or glass surface using heated stones.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spanishincolombia.gov.co/pagina/vida-urbana_pasto_artesanias |title=Crafts of Pasto |website=Spanish in Colombia |publisher=[[Ministry of Culture (Colombia)|MinCultura]] |access-date=27 February 2017 |last1=Software |first1=Ito }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Brown|first1=Michael A.|last2=Frick|first2=Julie Wilson|title=Exhibit Explores Prized Functional Items in Spanish America|url=http://www.denverartmuseum.org/article/staff-blogs/exhibit-explores-prized-functional-items-spanish-america|website=Denver Art Museum|date=18 May 2012 |access-date=22 July 2014}}</ref> Historically, the technique was applied to wooden ''[[wikt:qiru|kero]]s'', drinking vessels.

===Mexican lacquerware===
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[[File:GasparWorkshop046.jpg|thumb|A decorative lacquered gourd with gold details at a shop in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán]]
Known in [[Mexican Spanish]] as ''laca'' or ''maque'' (from Japanese ''[[maki-e]]''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Roberts|first1=Edward A.|title=A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots|date=2014|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=9781493191130|page=170|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y4tvAwAAQBAJ&q=lacquer+makie+maque&pg=PA170|access-date=19 May 2017|language=en}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=December 2017}}), Mexican lacquer has independent origins from Asian lacquer. In the pre-Hispanic period, a substance from the larvae of [[Coccus (insect)|aje]] scale insects and/or oil from the [[chia seed]] were mixed with powdered minerals to create protective coatings and decorative designs. During this period, the process was almost always applied to dried gourds, especially to make the cups that [[Mesoamerica]]n nobility drank chocolate from.

After the [[Conquest of Mexico|Conquest]], the Spanish had indigenous craftsmen apply the technique to European style furniture and other items, changing the decorative motifs and color schemes, but the process and materials remained mostly the same. Asian lacquerware and artisans brought by the ''[[Nao de China]]'' also had an influence on the style and motifs of colonial Mexican lacquerware. Today, workshops creating lacquerware are limited to [[Olinalá]], Temalacatzingo and [[Acapetlahuaya]] in the state of Guerrero, [[Uruapan]] and [[Pátzcuaro]] in Michoacán and [[Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas|Chiapa de Corzo]] in Chiapas. The most popular modern lacquerware are small boxes, sometimes known as ''cajitas de Olinalá''.