Ibiza’s artisans have a new tool to promote their work, as well as facilitate their marketing and make contact with all those interested in their work, through a new website launched by the Department of Economic and Business Promotion of the Consell de Ibiza. The head of the department, Maria Fajarnés, has valued this Friday the momentum experienced by this sector in recent years on the island, which has resulted in an increase from 54 officially accredited professionals in 2016 to 163 today.
Fajarnés and the island director of Commerce, Industry and Crafts, Irene Torres, have presented this initiative, which is part of a promotional campaign “to give the final boost that this sector needed on the island”. “We are giving value and enhancing the good work of so many artisans who also keep our traditions alive,” stressed the councilor.
45 artisan profiles
This tool has just been launched at the address artesania.conselldeivissa.es this week and includes, for the moment, the files of 45 professionals. However, the Consell’s intention is to expand the catalog with all those who have the official letter of craftsmanship, which the institution itself manages.
At present, the census in Ibiza includes 143 artisans, 14 master craftsmen and six honorary masters. In addition, 11 other artisan charters and two master craftsmen charters have been requested, which are pending technical evaluation.
The website details the characteristics of the work of each artisan, where to find their products for sale or the location of their workshops, as well as contact information. It also includes the promotional video of some of the most iconic crafts of this sector.
Pep Ramis, ‘Esidro’, in a frame from the promotional video of the crafts of Eivissa.E.C.
Precisely, Fajarnés and Torres have recalled that this summer the Consell had to present statements so that the new Repertorio de Oficios Artesanales (ROA) of the Balearic Islands, recently approved by the Balearic Govern, took into account the lexicon and the characteristics of Ibiza (“it was completely Mallorquinized”). Thus, the elaboration of traditional instruments also includes the castanyoles or flüta eivissenques, that of espardenyes includes the pitra or esparto among its materials or the word trull [oil press] is included and not only the Mallorcan tafona, among other accepted references.
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