For those of us who live in Catalonia, the pattern of brown and black squares, unchanging through the ages, is very familiar, just as the tartan can be for a Scotsman or the madràs squares for an Indian.
The traditional mocador de fer farcells was an object of daily use among the country people, who, when they had to travel to the most populated areas to go to the markets, adopted this stripline as the most practical way to, with a bus here and a bus there, bag and transport small parcels, in the same way that, thousands of kilometres away, the Japanese had been doing for centuries with the technique of the furoshiki... Sembla mentida!
Nowadays, when lifestyles and commercial relations have changed drastically, the application of this fabric in all types of modern clothing (dresses, aprons, kitchen cloths, stovalles, etc.) by Made in Cire Since 2004, it has succeeded in highlighting its extraordinary functionality while recovering a good tradition.
CIRE (Centre d'Iniciatives per a la Reinserció), is a public undertaking attached to the Department of Justice which has as its fundamental objective to give visibility to the work carried out by the interns in the workshops of the penitentiary centres of Cataloniathus fostering their labour reinsertion.
You can purchase some of the products manufactured by Made in Cire at Monapart Living.
