{"id":16083,"date":"2021-09-02T17:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T15:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/?p=16083"},"modified":"2021-09-03T09:31:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T07:31:50","slug":"master-esparto-weavers-give-workshop-in-mojacar-to-demonstrate-this-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/master-esparto-weavers-give-workshop-in-mojacar-to-demonstrate-this-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"Master esparto weavers give a workshop in Moj\u00e1car to demonstrate this craft."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As part of the Moj\u00e1car Local Council-organised cultural activities related to the \u201cMoj\u00e1car La Vieja\u201d excavation campaign, the first meeting of the Esparto Grass Workshop took place in the locality\u2019s Multi-Uses Centre was, which as for the last occasion in 2019, was greatly looked forward to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\tDue to the high demand from students and the nice experience of the last workshop, Moj\u00e1car Council managed to bring together seven master esparto weavers from the local area to demonstrate and to teach this trade, now almost forgotten, to people with an interest in it.<br \/>\n\tThe fact of having been able to gather in one place so many master esparto weavers, an activity which is hardly practiced anymore and the secrets of which remain only in the hands of our elderly, made it a unique treat.<br \/>\n\tMar\u00eda Carrillo, Bartolom\u00e9 Flores, Jos\u00e9 Gallardo, Mart\u00edn Flores Sarda\u00f1a, Ram\u00f3n Porreras, Juan Zamora and Paco Santiago were the master esparto weavers who shared their good work with a large group keen to take up the baton of this ancient activity.<br \/>\n\tChildren, teenagers and adults of all ages closely followed the instructions in an afternoon packed with learning on how to work with esparto, but also, and again thanks to the elderly people, about the ways of life of not so very long ago, in which esparto weaving was one of the daily activities. Nor was it so long ago that it was one of the most important local industries in the region and in many Spanish towns.<br \/>\n\tThe masters brought to the class the tools with which they worked the esparto, as well as some of the everyday items, such as baskets and espadrilles, and those used for working on the land: implements for horses, baskets for storing food or to transport small animals, etc.<br \/>\n\tIts connection to the Moj\u00e1car excavations is related to the work methodology of the University of Granada\u2019s MemoLab bio-cultural archaeology laboratory.<br \/>\n\t MemoLab works in the area of investigation and dissemination within medieval archaeology, but providing a social perspective: combining archaeology and the environment. Specifically, the recognition of historical processes involving natural resources and on the strategies for exploiting them which have given rise to different landscapes and forms of cultural expression.<br \/>\n\tKnowledge of this heritage allows for increasing and passing on knowledge about it to the benefit of today\u2019s society and the sustainability of rural areas.<br \/>\n\tThis Esparto Weaving Workshop will continue next Tuesday 7th September at 6pm in the locality\u2019s Multi-Uses Centre.<br \/>\n\tThere is also another workshop planned, Ceramic Washing, which will be on Friday 3rd and Wednesday 8th, also at 6pm, in the Moj\u00e1car Multi-Uses Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Moj\u00e1car Local Council-organised cultural activities related to the \u201cMoj\u00e1car La Vieja\u201d excavation campaign, the first meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}