William Spratling, the Man Who Made Taxco Jewelry Famous

William Spratling, the man who made Taxco jewelry famous, was an unlikely father of Mexican silver. He wasn’t Mexican, and he had not studied jewelry making.  The celebrated jewelry artist grew up in Auburn, Ala. and studied architecture at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, which later became Auburn University where he would go on to teach. How he came | Continue reading…