Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. This cookie helps keep user sessions open while they are visiting a website, and help them make orders and many more operations such as: cookie add date, selected language, used currency, last product category visited, last seen products, client identification, name, first name, encrypted password, email linked to the account, shopping cart identification.Įsta cookie permite conservar abiertas las sesiones del usuario durante su visita y le permite pasar un pedido o toda una serie de funcionamientos como: fecha de adición de la cookie, idioma seleccionado, divisa utilizada, última categoría de producto visitado, productos recientemente vistos, acuerdo de utilización de servicios del sitio, identificador del cliente, identificador de conexión, apellido, nombre, estado conectado, su contraseña cifrada, e-mail relacionado con la cuenta del cliente y el identificador del carrito. La página web no puede funcionar adecuadamente sin estas cookies. Las cookies necesarias ayudan a hacer una página web utilizable activando funciones básicas como la navegación en la página y el acceso a áreas seguras de la página web. The range of good has expanded but the family, now counting the 4 th generation, are justifiable proud of the quality of their products which visitors now buy and take to the four corners of the Earth. No doubt the famous bandit, Jose María el Tempranillo (whose exploits are currently re-enacted in the village in early October) had a good selection of Grazalema blankets long before his wedding night. Wool ponchos and blankets have to be delivered by mule train, and the muleteers had to contend with not only the weather, but highway robbery. However, in the early days transport through these rugged sierras was a constant problem. For instance, teasels are still collected which are made by hand.įor decades the most cherished wedding gift for the newly betrothed was a Grazalema wool Blanket. The present, and last remaining mill, in Grazalema is now powered by electricity but many of the old skills and technical processes are preserved. Given that it has one of the highest rainfalls in Spain this must has been an advantage in the development of the industry as most of the mills of this epoc were water powered. In the C18 and C19 Grazalema was a good purveyor of wool blankets and ponchos. Interestingly, the similarity between the wooden looms used in North Africa and those used, until recently, in Grazalema has been noted, so it may have developed under the Arabs, when Grazalema as known as Ben - Zulema. Sounds familiar?įortunately enough and thanks only to the perseverance of some families through the years, the merino breed itself did not disappear and they are once again producing the same high quality wool products as they once did.No one knows the exact date of the beginning of the textile industry in Grazalema, some historians based on ancient writings or their own intuition point to the sixteenth or seventeenth century.
Spain and specially the Sierra of Cadiz, was for centuries the place to be if you wanted to find the best available wools in the old continent, however, during the 1870s these towns witnessed a rapid decline which took them to the verge of disappearance due to the effects of the "improved" industrial manufacturing techniques and a massive shift on efficiency driven patterns. Here it´s known to be the point in Spain where it rains the most, making sure that their wool arrives clean and intact to the factories, not needing excessive temperature washes or chemical treatments. 100% natural merino wool traditional poncho with hand-rolled fringes.Įl Solitario Ponchos are handmade using only 100% natural wool crafted in a small family factory which still uses water driven machinery, in the Sierra of Cadiz.
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