Mexican hojalata — "the poor man's silver" — is the pre-1900 folk craft of piercing and embossing sheet tin into mirrors, frames, and ornaments, practised in Oaxaca and San Miguel de Allende. Bright reflective tin reads as cool silver; punched dots and recessed grounds read as dark shadow.

This design system translates that metalwork to screen: a dark oxidized-tin ground the pierced pattern reads against, bright tin-silver highlights, dotted repousse borders, and translucent chili, cobalt, and marigold lacquers laid over reflective metal.