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This necklace matters because it carries a distinctly Mexican animal motif, the armadillo, into the silver jewelry of Hector Aguilar's Taller Borda. The choice of native fauna as a design subject ties the piece to the regional idiom that gave Taxco silver its identity, translating a familiar creature into worked metal worn on the body.
Aguilar founded the Taller Borda in Taxco and built it into one of the defining workshops of the Mexican silver revival, producing jewelry that joined local imagery to rigorous craftsmanship. An armadillo necklace belongs squarely to that tradition of figural, distinctly Mexican design.
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