“If you’ll go there to the showroom, I have there a pile of all the cut-outs. I can show you…” Speaking to me is Elvira “Vivian” Machuca, wife of Luisito Machuca Sr. “Whenever I see papers, magazines, ...

Not everybody’s taking the easy way out. Look at Machuca Baldozas, a 100-year-old tile business that still relies on traditional methods of cement tile-making and old-fashioned, meticulous techniques.