Ancient lacquering technique lives on in hands of Mexican women

Chiapa de Corzo, Mexico, Jan 24 (EFE).- "A good piece of lacquer endures over time. That's why I tell my students to make their pieces good," Martha Vargas, an acknowledged master of pre-Columbian lacquering, told Efe at her studio in this town in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas
(CAMERA: Mitzi Fuentes)