The Straw Hat Scarf

Historically, Huancavilcas, Blankets & Faces, Aborigines who lived in the territory quehoy corresponds to the provinces of Guayas, Manabi, have been considered habilísimostejedores and workers in the textile art, of which probably inherited the qualities today quehasta mid mantienen.A 19th century, gold prospectors on their way to California, passing through the isthmus dePanamá, where straw hats were bought toquilla.Estos “prospectors”, popularized the use of the hat, since it is known comoPANAMA HAT.

The hats were imported from Ecuador and sold in the canal.En 1855 in Paris, opens a world exhibition which was attended by Panama to aCollection of straw hats, prepared by the French who lived endicha Philip Raimondi city. This collection favorably impressed by the smoothness European inhabitant deltejido. For the years 1880 and 1881, the French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps construccióndel undertakes the Panama Canal, to link the Pacific with the Atlantic Ocean, people pouring in grandescantidades to Panama hat spread the use of Ecuador as the most suitable climatic theTerms the type of work in that place.

In the 20th century the hat became popular following the emergence in the international press unafotografía U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, wearing a stylish Ecuador fino.En the places where this hat is woven are Manabi and Azuay consuming lapaja shawl the coast.

Process:

Raw Material .- The basic raw material for the preparation of the straw hats Esla “Carludovica Palmata”, commonly known as the “straw shawl.” Grown in the mountainous parts of the coast and orienteecuatorianos in the provinces of Manabi, Guayas, Morona Santiago Esmeraldasy in the sector Gualaquiza.La toquilla is a kind of trunk palm with a fan whose hojasen out from the ground, each plant tienehojas wide reaching two to three feet long, exterior Lapart leaf is green, the center of lasmismas is ivory white or pearl white and the dela is obtained for the manufacture of straw hats.

A. Process and Technology .- Removal of buds or shawl straw wrappers: b. Treatment dela fiber. c. Posted on sale buds ready for the preparation of the hat. d. – Fabric delsombrero. The hat template consists of three parts, glass, and skirt. The tissue begins laplantilla and has at its center a circular shape. To weave the template and the skirt is not required deinstrumento some, but it is essential to use the mold to shape alsombrero.

The process of tissue lasts thirty days depending on the thickness of the straw and the degree dedificultad. Usually this work is done when the temperature cools because, otherwise, the artisan is forced to continuously soak the material causing it Negrea ypierda quality. (Vasquez, 1989). For the dyeing or coloring the hats, there is a wide range of hues, which are interlaced: white, ivory, honey, different shades of brown, pastels, among otros.Tomado of: Knitting Life “The crafts Toquilla in Ecuador” Maria Leonor Aguilar de Tamariz, CIDAP.Centro American Craft and Folk Art. Popular Culture in Ecuador Manabi Volume IX, Marcelo Naranjo Coordinadorde research.

CIDAP Inter-American Arts and Crafts Populares.Posteriormente proceed to finish the skirt delsombrero manually. Sometimes the “crowning” is done by other personasespecializadas for that purpose, although this is not always sends the tissue regla.El artisan workshops of the city, where the hat is made elacabado. This garment is washed and topped and sesahúma and this same process used in the tratamientode fiber. Then a mold is accommodated in the crown of the hat and leather uncintillo around it, and will spread “water” rubber, it will dadoque “give form”.

Finally, covered with a blanket of fine linen clean, sela passing an iron quemarel taking care not material, it draws from the last, is put back azufrepara that “a little bleach,” and brushes it. Parade applies the final form water again laplantilla rubber was redesigned and wished dependeráademás creativity of the artisan.