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CRAFTS

Rosette of Vilaflor One of the workings more appreciated by the visitor is the openwork and the rosette . First it is a task of embroidering based on a consisting of technique being deshilando a subject fabric tensely to a wood frame, that requires taste, patience and precision. The result usually is applied, mainly, to mantelería and is of a great plastic beauty. The rosette is elaborated mainly in the zone of Vilaflor , and consists of forming drawings with threads that are crossed between pins put in a resentment-small almost spherical support realizao in rag. With the union of these small pieces individual cloth and compositions of great beauty are obtained.

The tourist and the visitor can see themselves boarded, in the centric streets of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the tourist centers where she resides, by traveling salesmen who offer to them to very interesting prices, “ mantelerías the artisan Canary Islands ”. Everyone is very owner to buy souvenirs that it prefers; but it is necessary to notice that, in no case, these products supplied by street salesmen are authentic, but games of made table cloths in series, by industrial, originating procedures, generally of Hong Kong or other Asian countries.

In this brief chapter dedicated to the crafts the Realejos is necessary to emphasize the historical habitalidad of the carpenters of the north of Tenerife-La Orotava , mainly, masterful in the stature and the accomplishment of doors, lattice windows, balconies, windows, and a moving personal that is the ideal inner complement of the mansions of purely island architectonic style.

Cestería isleña also has its own characteristics and the craftsmen of this especiliadad usually make their works, at sight of the public, in the artisan fairs that usually are celebrated with occasion of the fiestasmayores of the towns, cities and villas of the Island.

Pottery and Ceramics

It exists, in Tenerife , like in the rest of the Canary Islands , all a tradition craftswoman of the mud that is derived from the primitive ceramics made by old guanches , that did not know the winch. The works ceramists of their continuators, continue ignoring it. The clay works with the hands and produces results of enormous authenticity, or in the objects primitively destined to utillería domestic, like the gánigos and spits, or in the merely decorative ones and of personal adornment: necklaces of cuendas or the famous pintaderas, a species of symbol, that is repeated, with the spiral, in the iconography guanche : an interlace of triangles within another common triangle.

Pottery