All started from one used book we bought from Strand bookstore in New York 2012. We stumbled upon this book called ’Mexican Folk Toys: Festival Decorations and Ritual Objects’ made in 1976 by Florence H. and Robert M. Petit. 

It was filled with endless amazing pictures and stories about the Mexican toy world. After we studied and researched, we found out that some grand children of those toy masters were still making these objects in Mexico. We had an urgent fever to meet them. But at the same time, we were in love with Peruvian retablo, a very special folk art form from Peru