What are the characteristics of Aztec handicrafts?

Where Aztecs live, they produce minerals such as clay, flint and obsidian, and almost every household can make pottery, textile cotton yarn and cloth. With the formation and expansion of the market, some people specialize in hand-making, and the goods they make are used as commodities for market exchange. The division of labor among agriculture, fisheries and handicrafts has gradually taken shape. The goddess Trazetott produces statues, and her contradictory character contains the Aztecs' contradictory attitude towards women. They are regarded as creators of life, but they are also regarded as destroyers and lawless things.

The Aztecs polished flint, chalcedony and obsidian into knives, then wrapped rubber around the handle and dried it to make the handle. Obsidian can also be ground into scraper, arrow cluster and spear point; They also ground obsidian into thin blades and embedded it in wood blade, making very sharp weapons. Even all kinds of stone axes have been carefully polished. They also polished obsidian into a mirror that can shine on people, and installed a wooden handle on the stone knife, which was inlaid with turquoise and shells for sacrifice. The Aztecs have learned to smelt copper, add tin to smelt it into bronze, and forge copper shafts, pots and spears with copper. They began to know how to make jewelry with gold and use it as decorations.

Aztec pottery has reached a fairly high technical level. Both the pottery wheel and the pottery blank are made by hand, and there are different patterns on the surface of the pottery. The black pattern on the brown background is the main feature of Aztec pottery. At first, most of their pottery was carved with various geometric figures, and later it became more and more colorful, with flowers, birds, fish and insects in different shapes and extremely vivid. Aztec painted pottery, most notably Tlaxcala and Chilula, can be exported to southern Nositi and most parts of Central America.

Women use cotton and agastaches as raw materials for textile and embroidery. They use minerals and plants to make dyes for dyeing cloth and painting. One of them is red pigment, which is made of cochineal insects. This kind of cochineal insect parasitized on cactus, and they began to cultivate cactus in large quantities. They use precious and gorgeous feathers, carefully designed, pasted and inlaid into decorations for various ceremonies, sacrifices and ceremonies; They also wear it on their heads as decoration, or use it to decorate weapons to show their preciousness and luxury. Ornaments made of gorgeous feathers are very strong and well made. Although it has gone through hundreds of years, it is still brilliant. There is a busy street in Tran, Nositi, which is filled with all kinds of feather products. It is colorful, dazzling and famous.