Casa dos Artesans – Ribeira Sacra

Holiday cottage in rural Galicia (sleeps 2 - 5). Experience spectacular scenery, rural life, wine, art and Spanish craft. Learn basketry or textile weaving on holiday or visit the nearby craft workshops. "Lovely furnishings, colours ... and comfy beds" (client comment).

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High quality north Spanish craft from Galicia - How to purchase from us

paño facial de lino de AC Estudio Textilpaño de lino - facecloth de lino

  • Ref.                                                              Linen “SPA”  Facecloth / Paño facial de lino “SPA”
  • Apuntes:                                                 Linen is both exfoliant and wonderfully absorbent, making it an excellent fibre for both flannels and towels.  Our facebloth can be used for cleansing or drying the skin.  It is quick-dry and can be machine-washed at 40ºC.
  • Materials:                                              Just 100% pure linen
  • Medidas:                                                  Aprox. 40cm x 40cm
  • Designer-maker:                              Anna Champeney Estudio Textil (Galicia).
  • Price:                                                         22,50€

bolsos artesanales para teléfonos móviles

  • Ref.                        Mini textile bag
  • Description:     Mini Galician Spanish drawstring sack/ mobile phone bag with tissues / lavender (please specify which variation you would like when you order)
  • Note:                    Please note colourways of these bags varies  depending on the natural-dyed yarns available at any one time in the studio.
  • Materials:        Linen and local Spanish wool with natural dyes
  • Process:              Each one of the 100 or more rows of the fabric in this miniature bag has been introduced manually by the weaver on the loom.
  • Price:                 15,50€

cesto de mimbre y madera gallego por luis grau sorocesto gallego para fruta

  • Ref.                                           Galician basket MIXTA
  • Notes:                                     A very characteristic basket of Galica, north Spain.  Each area of Spain has its own baketry forms and techniques and this, with its combination of darker, finer willow, and the pale wood strips, is traditionally made in some parts of Galicia region.  Please note colours and species of wood used may vary according to local availability.
  • Materials:                           Willow and split wood
  • Measurements:               30cm iameter x 8 cm H
  • Elaboración:                    Hand-woven in Galicia by basketmaker Lluis Grau
  • Price:                                     23€

salvamantel de mimbre por lluis grau cestero en galicia

  • Ref.                                          Willow table mats
  • Notes                                    Useful and practical, each table mat is individually hand-woven with different designs and combinations of naturally-coloured willows.  Washable with                                                                          washing-up liquid and brush.
  • Materials:                         Willow
  • Measurements:            30cm de diametro
  • Elaboración:                   Tejido a mano en  Galicia por Lluis Grau, cestero
  • Precio:                                  18,50€

saquito tisana con hierba luisa, de lino y tinte natural por Anna Champeney Estudio Textil

  • Ref.                           Mini Galician farm sack with herbal tissane
  • Apuntes:                           A mini version of the traditional grain and sweet chestnut sacks of Ourense province of Galicia in north Spain.  Each sack is hand-woven  with rustic linen and                                                            wool yarns, hand-dyed in the studio itself, using natural dyes.  The sack comes with a bag of dried lemon verbena which makes a delicious lemony herbal tea.
  • Materiales:                       75% linen, 25% natural-dyed wool
  • Measurements:            Approx. 17cm x 24cm
  • Maker info:                     Design, dyeing and weaving by  Anna Champeney Estudio Textil. (Galicia)
  • Precio:                                 24,50€ (o,without the tissane, 23,50€)

certifitcate

  • Ref.                Gift Token - available for 25 euros or pounds and any other amount.
  • Notes:                   Our gift tokens can be used to buy any of our baskets and textiles, to commission something special, to pay for a course, weaving equipment, tools, yarns, kits – in fact,                                              everything!  You can also redeem them against a stay at our holiday cottage, Casa dos Artesans holiday cottage, or a craft course.  We can insert personalised text on the                                          token, on your  instructions.
  • Price:                    Just the value of the gift token + 1,5 euros

lana con tintes más ecológicos

  • Product:      2-ply lambswool with natural dyes
  • Ref.             2/14 lambswool skeins with natural dyes
  • Notes:               Approx. 7,000m / k.  This soft lambswool is easy to use and suitable for scarves, baby blankets and many other textile craft projects.
  • Price:               14,75€ / skein (approx. 90g per skein)
  • Stock:             Consult colours in stock

Suave hilo de angora alpaca y lana

  • Ref.                                       “Suave” (125g)
  • Apuntes:                        A soft 2-ply yarn which we have used for wonderfully warm and luxurious winter scarves.  Delicate fibre so take care when washing by hand in cold or tepid water                                                      and do  not wring.  Best dried flat.
  • Materiales:                  50% angora, 30% lana y 20% alpaca.
  • Precio:                          11.50€ per skein

Fish Kit

  • Ref.                Kit Pececitos para niños
  • Apuntes:            Instrucciones y materiales para hacer un pececito de mimbre.  Para realizar bajo supervisión de un adulto.
  • Materiales:        75% lino, 25% lana de país con tinte natural de extracción propia
  • Medidas:            Aproximadamente 17cm x 24cm
  • Elaboración:     Diseño y elaboración artesanal por Anna Champeney Estudio Textil. (Galicia)
  • Precio:                   8,50€


lanas con tintes naturales

  • Ref.                  4 ply lambswool with cochineal natural dye
  • Apuntes:                An easy-to-use, soft lambswool with the glorious colours of cochineal natural dye.  A double-rinse means that almost all the excess dye has been washed away, however                                          a small amount may still remain in the wool so be prepared for some run-off the first time you wash the yarn.  Each skein weighs between 95-100g and has                                                                        approximately 35m of yarn.
  • Elaboración:      Diseño y elaboración artesanal por Anna Champeney Estudio Textil. (Galicia)
  • Precio:                    14,85€