View Single Post
  #10   Report Post  
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
Larry Jaques Larry Jaques is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 5,154
Default Blacksmithing content:Decorative ironwork on Isla Mujeres, Mexico

On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:14:32 -0500, the infamous Wes
scrawled the following:

spaco wrote:

We spend some time in Mexico and I did a survey of decorative ironwork
on Isla Mujeres, the "Women's Island" which is a few miles off shore
from Cancun, Mexico. This page shows how widely the work varies, in
age, style, attention to detail, etc.

http://www.spaco.org/Blacksmithing/P...esIronWork.htm



A number of those gates looked like they were designed for security and ventilation. The
art part of it conceals one of the practical purposes.


I really liked Gate 15.

Gate 17 looked like something I'd see in Tijuana.

--
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves
after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
-- Marcel Proust