Section 04
What the land supports
Palm-leaf work, sobrassada, almonds, siurells.
- 01Palm leaf worked into everythingArtà's llata basketry uses dwarf-palm leaf and is the town's oldest documented trade, worked at home rather than in workshops.
- 02A cured sausage with a protected nameSobrassada de Mallorca carries a protected geographical indication, which fixes what may be in it and where it may be made.
- 03A crop that flowers in FebruaryMallorca's almond groves flower in midwinter, and the crop's decline and partial recovery track a plant disease rather than a market.
- 04A whistle in white and greenThe siurell is a whitewashed clay figure with a whistle, made in a handful of workshops and older than the tourist trade it now serves.
Drawn
The plait: strips of dwarf-palm leaf carried over and under in a fixed sequence, which is what gives llata its stiffness.
Elsewhere