Blue Talavera tiles

Pueblan Talavera, the queen of Pueblan handicraft, has remote origins. During the twelfth century, the Arabs introduced tin-glazed white chinaware in Spain. Around 1550, Dominican friars from Talavera de la Reina established the first ware workshops in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles. Since then, Pueblan Talavera enriches Mexican everyday life in the form of multicolored ornaments or, as here, of particular tiles that endow our baths with the old-fashioned coziness of Casa María.