Bóta congrenyada i quartí

What is

• Bóta congrenyada (Mall.): large capacity barrel, held by four congrenys (strong wooden rings), with an opening in the bottom through which a man enters to clean it (DCVB).
• Quartí (cortí): Mallorcan measure of liquids of 26.67 liters and the container that contains it (DCVB, Mall.).
• Quarteró (Mall.): oval section wooden boot, quarter of the quartí (DCVB).

How is

• Congreny (Mall.): each of the wooden hoops, made of several curved pieces, that embrace the staves (DCVB).
• The boot has a cleaning mouth at the bottom.
• The quartí is divided into six and a half quarters, or the wine quarter into 26 quartes (DCVB).

How is fa

• Cooperage with local wood (imported oak, olive tree in olive barrel: "bóta de oliuera"; to verify species).
• Congreny is also the curved piece of the sinia wheel and the ring of the windmill tower (DCVB, Mall.): same knowledge of curved carpentry.

Com s'usa

• In the cellar it is filled from the cup with the xeta.
• Quartí and quarteró: sales and transportation measures.

Vocabulary

• bóta: barrel.
• bóta congrenyada: with wooden rings (Mall.).
• congreny: wooden hoop; sinia wheel piece; mill hoop (Mall.).
• quartí / cortí: 26.67 l (Mall.).
• quarteró: small oval boot, ¼ of a quartí (Mall.).
• «Bóta dolenta no fa bon vi»; «A bóta buidada no hi ha que punyir»: proverbs (Mall.).

History

• 1434: "un cortí ab sércols de ferre" (BSAL, DCVB).
• 1455: «a bóta de oliuera buyda congrenyada de quatre congrenys» (BSAL, DCVB).
• 1521: "un quartí de vi" (Bordoy, Hist. Felanitx, DCVB).
• 1590: fine “for not having pejellats dos cortins” (Hist. Sóller, DCVB): verified measures.

On veure'n

• Cellers de Inca, Sineu, Binissalem with large jars visible (to verify which ones are congrenyades).

Why is it design

• Wooden hoop instead of iron: material from the island, repairable by the carpenter.
• Planned maintenance: the mouth for a man to enter.
• Family of measurements: quartí, quarter, quarteró, quarta.

For the project

• The congreny as a common piece to bóta, sinia and mill: visual file "the wooden curve".

Sources

• dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=b%F3ta
• dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=congreny
• dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=quart%ED
• dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=quarter%F3

Working text from the Disseny Indígena knowledge base, machine-translated from Spanish.

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