What is
Two rigid warp baskets, not sewn like the senalla.
- Cove (in Mallorca, also covo): large basket, wider at the top than at the bottom, made of vímet or canya. For laundry clothes, fruit, transportation.
- Paner: smaller basket, with a single handle from side to side. For bread, fruit, olives.
How is
- Cove: trunk of an inverted cone, more or less deep; Normally two handles or grips on the edge (verify on Majorcan pieces).
- Paner: truncated inverted cone; in the Balearic Islands “quite higher than wide” and much smaller than the cove (DCVB); single arc handle.
- Material: vímet (wicker), canya esquerdes (split cane) or jonc.
- Parts: cul (base), costelles (warp rods), teixit (weft), vora, ansa.
How is fa
Cisteller 's office. The base is assembled, the costelles are nailed and the alternating weave is woven with soaked wicker or split cane. General technique, without a verified active Mallorcan workshop. See espart i cistellería .
Com s'usa
- Paner coitor (or collitor): it is hung or carried by hand to pour the olives while they are collected from the ground (DCVB, Mall.). They are then emptied into bags or signs.
- Cove bugader: carries clothes to be washed or already washed (see cossi-i-bugada ).
- Paner of bread, fruit, offering.
Vocabulary
- cove / covo: large vímet or canya basket, wider at the top.
- cove bugader: the one with laundry clothes.
- paner: basket with a single side-to-side handle.
- paner coitor / collitor: that of picking olives (Mall.).
- paner d'oferir: the one who brings the bread of the offering to mass.
- cisteller: basket maker.
- vímet: wicker.
- esquerda de canya: strip of split cane.
- «És com un covo»: is said of what rolls down the slope (Alcover, cit. DCVB).
History
- 1410: «un cove de canyes plen de cànyem» (doc., DCVB).
- 1434: "un paner de verduchs" in a document published in the BSAL (DCVB).
- 1493: «two paners per dar pa als morts» (BSAL, cit. DCVB).
- 20th century: plastic buckets and boxes replace paners in the collita d'oliva (to verify date).
On veure'n
- Museum of Mallorca, ethnological section (Wall) : rural implements (specific pieces to be verified).
- For sale (imported or not, to verify): Mimbreria Vidal , Esparteria Beltran .
Why is it design
- Structure and skin in one: the rigid warp is both a skeleton and a wall; no mold needed.
- Unique arc handle on the paner: the load hangs from the center and does not tip over.
- Flared shape: they are stacked one inside another empty.
- Riverbank material: reed (Arundo donax) that grows in torrents and streams.
For the project
- Search for active canya basket maker on the island (torrentes, sa Pobla, Muro): if it exists, workshop record.
- Piece: paner coitor redesigned for the current collita d'oliva (lighter, stackable), with a Tramuntana possessió.
Frequently asked questions
What is Cove (covo) i paner?
Two rigid warp baskets, not sewn like the senalla.
What are the traditional words for Cove (covo) i paner?
Some words: cisteller, cove / covo, cove bugader, esquerda de canya, paner, paner coitor / collitor, paner d'oferir, vímet.
Sources
Working text from the Disseny Indígena knowledge base, machine-translated from Spanish.