Tours of Craft in Andalusia
Jaén
The history of culture and art in Jaén is conditionated
by its situation on the frontier between Moors and Christians.
some of the crafts that distinguished this province have disappeared,
as is the case of silk. At the present time, the best known
craft here is the pottery of Andújar, known
for its grotesque jugs and objects in white and blue. The
pottery of Úbeda is very well known, the handsome ewer
being one of its most representative objects, and so are items
decorated with white oxide. Pottery of Bailén is known
for its water ewers, jars and large bowls.
Jaén is a place renown for its vegetables fibre
crafts. There is record of traditional fibre crafts in
the 11th c. at Úbeda, and nowadays wicker and other
fibres are used at Los Villares.
Metal crafts have sevral representatives. Artistic
wrought iron work is done at Alcalá la Real, Bélmez
de la Moraleda, Jaén, Martos, Mengíbar, Úbeda
and Torredonjimeno, the latter is specially outstanding for
its traditional work, such as handrails, lamps and grilles,
apart from some brilliant embossing. Among the carious trades
that have made Úbeda known are the lamp-makers, who
make lanterns with tinplate an glass - either transparent
or coloured - in many different shapes. Lastly, the guitars of Marmolejo are widely known and so are the leather goods
from Andújar and Porcuna, made for farmers and hunters...
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seville to osuna (seville-Marchena,
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