The Association of Women "Cuarzo Rosa" of Oliva de Plasencia has filled the most emblematic streets of the small town with Christmas objects made of crochet and wool
Oliva de Plasencia, on December 6, 2021.
The 'Cuarzo Rosa' Women's Association of Oliva de Plasencia has turned the small cattle town, with less than 300 inhabitants, into an authentic work of textile art, created by its women in their spare time. These women have used the creations of cross stitch and wool in grandiose and colorful Christmas decorations that has led this population to obtain several important recognitions and awards from the Public Administrations.
One of them was the III Edition of the San Pedro de Alcántara Awards for Local Innovation, convened by the Cáceres Provincial Council: TEJIENDO VIDA won the award in the category: Actions that favor equality and the importance of women in the rural world, with which they earned 4,000 euros, money that they use to make these handmade jewels that beautify the town.
A great job is a sign of illusion, dedication, creativity, coordination and union between them. What is evident is that no one who crosses the town will remain indifferent. In each season of the year they use different themes to decorate the town, they allude in their works to famous painters, renowned artists and decorators, they are an example of the survival of the rural world and of how art can be created with just a few needles and a ball of yarn. woolen.
But now Christmas is coming and their wives don't want these festivities to be left behind and that is why they have used the day of the Constitutional festivity to place the decorations that they have been weaving in their homes and in the kitchen for the last few weeks. headquarters of the association to beautify the streets and squares of the town with the works of "Tejiendo Vida". And what better than recreating a crochet nativity scene with all the figures of the nativity of the Nativity scene of Jesus of Nazareth: Joseph, Mary, Baby Jesus, the mule, the ox, the sheep, the Magi, the shepherds... and even a couple of grandparents who from the door of their house sitting in the heat of the coal brazier watch over the entire staging of this work of art.
A job that does not go unnoticed by the hundreds of drivers who daily pass through the Oliva de Plasencia crossing to go to the towns of the Trasierra region and the towns of Las Hurdes. It will be an example of the textile art that our grandmothers used to make in the past to make numerous household items and that these women have now used their technique to decorate the streets of this small town near the city of Plasencia.
The Junta de Extremadura paid homage, on the International Day of Rural Women, to the women of the "Cuarzo Rosa" Association of Oliva de Plasencia, with the aim of giving visibility to the talent and social work they carry out through the "Weaving Life" project, which is what you can see in this report that we finished doing this morning in the streets and squares of the town.
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This initiative encourages social participation and values traditions and customs through creativity, which in turn represents a tourist attraction.
Among his creations, which decorate parks, squares and streets of the town each season, stand out Velázquez's Meninas, Van Gogho's sunflowers, and garlands turned into awnings to protect passers-by from the sun in summer.
Equality is a strategic objective of the Government of the Junta de Extremadura. Only from the transversality of a shared objective in the whole of the governmental action will equality be able to transform the reality of Extremadura, in such a way that it allows a more just society to be achieved in which the necessary gender perspective is applied in all areas of society and taking into account the aspect of rurality.
Currently, rural women are also entrepreneurs, self-employed, artisans and co-owners of farms.
The rural world today has an incalculable value, as the Covid 19 pandemic has shown, as it is an environment full of opportunities. For this reason, the social participation of women is of the utmost importance, which allows them to remain active and committed to the life of their municipalities, remarked the Councilor for Culture of the Oliva de Plasencia City Council, Julia Gutiérrez Mateos.
This important project unquestionably has the essential support of the town council and some public institutions.
