These cylindrical baskets with lids are made from reed found in the Fúquene Lagoon in Cundinamarca, Colombia. The lid is completed with a crochet-woven ball.
Height 55 cm
Width 50 cm
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Dora Flor Alba Briceño
- Artesanías El Laurel
- Basketweaver
- Fúquene, Colombia
- Master Artisan
- Recommended by Artesanías de Colombia
Contact
Spanish
Hours:
Daily 8:00 - 17:00
Daily 8:00 - 17:00
Phone:
+57 3138070464
+57 3138070464
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For the love of her lagoon
- • Dora Flor Alba won the Lápiz de Oro award
- • Her discipline has enabled her to perfect her technique
- • Fúquene Lagoon is her source of inspiration and provision
Her laughter echoes all throughout Fúquene. Dora Flor Alba Briceño lives for and thanks to the lagoon. She understands it, walks around it, caresses its waters. She knows when she can harvest its reeds because she asks for permission, just as every member of her family has always done. She has a distant memory of her great-grandmother Cristo, her grandmother Ángela, and her parents sitting on the floor and weaving the mats they sold for a living. They affectionately called her gurrioncita. At the age of eight, she was already riding on the boat, and learning both to cut bundles of reeds through waist-deep water, and to make beautiful baskets, mats, and vessels.
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Baskets
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Paper bin
This cone-shaped paper bin is made with reed. It is woven using the bulk technique. It has the natural colour of the reed, and its moorings are made with different coloured threads.
Length 39 cm
Width 29 cm
Height 18 cm
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Round basket
This round basket with a lid is made with reed using the roll technique of the basketry craft. It has the natural colour of the reed and the moorings are made with white acrylic thread.
Height 24 cm
Width 45 cm
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Flat reed table mats
These round table mats are made with reed using the roll technique of the basketry craft. Their moorings are done with white acrylic thread.
Height 1 cm
Width 38 cm
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Rectangular boxes
These rectangular shaped boxes, made for household or offices, are handcrafted using the roll technique. They have the natural colour of the reed and their moorings are done with acrylic thread.
Length 39 cm
Width 29 cm
Height 18 cm
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