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Handicraft and
Hospitality
If you have already made experience of the availability
of the craftsmen to satisfy the curiosity of the customers and visitors,
also to cost to interrupt the job, of the pleasure to describe with
particular wealth it makes more complex of the production processes
putting in here and here the echo loaded with humanity of the lived
experience, of all that you will have confirmation stopping to you near
artisan shops that you will meet in your routes in this area of
the Sicily, renowned for the courtesy of its inhabitants in entertaining
the hosts, for the gentility of the ways and the jovial frankness of
the conversation.
In the last few decades the handicraft has endured here
like elsewhere in Sicily deep transformations, tied to the progressive one
to disappear of that agricultural-pastorale productive world which many of
the artisan activities were in function tied. Therefore it is as an
example of the handicraft of the wrought iron that one of its more
important centers has had to Tortorici.
In such field the artistic member has had the windward
with disintegrating itself of the traditional agricultural world, and the
production nuclei are move to you towards the zones of intense tourist
traffic where the manufactured articles ones find a market space, while in the inside
the handicraft of the wrought iron not is more being present an activity
of working of the rougher iron that uses the welding.
Beyond to the handicraft of the iron, a signal to part
deserves the handicraft of the ceramics. It figure between the more active
voices of the handicraft isolates, is because it has been innovated
technologically passing to shapes seed-manufacturers or manufacturers of
production, is because the craftsmen have headed at productions of pregio
that they have conquered wide spaces to the inside of the market of the
artistic manufatto one. To Santo Stefano di Camastra one cracked of the
various productions and the various degrees of adaptation of this
handicraft to the challenge of the modern technologies and the markets can
be had; this competitiveness has made that always greater search of cure
in the refinement of the products was one mails on the market for one
requirement of authenticity of origin brand. In the Province of Messina a
long pause to Santo Stefano di Camastra is of obligation if fundamental
member of the ceramics production of the Island wants itself to be made us
an idea of one. Risen in the 1683 this center it has quickly supplanted by
the neighbour Patti in the production of baked clay and ceramics, favorite
also from the geographic position and the fact to be crossed from the SS.
113 (Palermo-Messina).
The traditional colors of the ceramics to Stefano Saint
are the green branch, the yellow honey, the red one, the blue cobalt, the
white man. In the reasons decorated to you it has been an evolution that
has seen the reasons geometric to take the windward on those most
traditional ones of the animals, the flowers and yields tropical
emphasizes you in the great plates from circles concentrates to us to the
edges. Other reasons decorated to you are obtained during the working to
the lathe and with the application of cordoncini of clay and floreali
reasons.
Traditional models of the plastic of Stefano Saint are
lucerna to four flames and two or three handles the heralding and between
these those to shape of pigne, the plates, giare for the conservation of
the oil or other products and finally bummuli and quartare for the
transport and the conservation of the water. Numerous they are the
ceramist masters who use traditional techniques are in the working of the
clay that in the decoration with typical reasons. Their laboratory is
visitabile and the artisan shops they are opened also Sunday. They are
specializes to you in the production of plates for domestic use and dinner
services, for coffee or tea.
Particular and characteristic handicraft, of large
value for the fineness and the ability of execution of the masters, is
the inlay of the wood that practical to Castelmola and generally in all
the localities are mounted some.
In the zone of the Nebrodi, the creation of the musical
instruments to plettro and breath.
It's from to signal, in this area of the messinese, the
handicraft of the "sicilian pupi" of
various measure you execute yourself with the system of traditional
construction.
The stage of the life is, ready here to accommodate
messinesi legends and true sicilian, history, epic storys, theatrical
commedies and dramas. Great interpreters recite: the marionettes skillfully
maneuvered from expert hands. Hard and laborious job for the operating
ones of this art of the rappresentazione of the human vicissitudes in the
millenia... to the end, but, gains much satisfaction for the happiness,
the participation and the curiosity that "the pupi" provoke,
above all, in the children.
The Unesco has proclaimed the Pupis Siciliani "Masterpieces of the Oral and Immaterial Patrimony of the humanity", this big recognition has been assigned to few other cultural and traditional expressions all over the world. The organization of the United Nations for the education, the science and the culture, has wanted finally to not give a recognition to statues, to monuments or to historical sites, but to cultural creations and tradition
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