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It is the technique used to work the leather or skin, transforming it and giving it a useful and beautiful sense, tracing, cutting and sewing the already tanned leather, making garments that are mainly directed to the field, or combining it with other materials such as wood or fibers, other types of handcrafted products are made such as equipales as well as huaraches, hides, harnesses and other garments for personal use.

It is from the viceregal era when saddlery emerged as a Spanish heritage, taking its own style linked to the charrería and rural activities.
In the 19th century, together with the muleteer’s trade, the main means of transportation and land commerce, it had a great impulse, focused on the creation of accessories for the transportation of merchandise and other needs of the muleteer.

In Michoacán, since then, the production of saddles, embroidered belts, saddlebags, huaraches and “cueras”, which are pieces used as protection by the ranchers of Tierra Caliente, stands out.