Sequer and canyissos (drying racks) — Traditional Mallorcan object

What is

The fruit drying room in the sun.

Canyís: framework of reeds or poles tied in parallel and reinforced with crossed sticks; It is used, among other things, to put fruit to dry (DCVB).
Sequer: the era where the canyissos are placed; in Mallorca, also the set of canyissos full of fruit and the shed where they are sheltered if it rains (DCVB, Mall.).

Canyís: rectangle of parallel shafts, light, that is carried between two people (measurements, to be verified).
Sequer: a sunny plain, often next to the figueral, with a porch or shed next to it.

Figs: two or three days on the tree; they are crushed (xafar); 4 to 6 days in the sun depending on its strength (ARCUFI workshop, Lloret, 2020).
Acop: the large fig opens from the eye to the peduncle, dries open and closes at the end at the fleshy part (DCVB, Mall.). Also: two figs pressed together that dry together (Lloret).
If a cloud comes, run: «He is poor figueraler / he spends his life in pain; / en veure una ennigulada / ja pot correrer enter es sequer» (gloss, DCVB).

canyís — wattle of reeds.
canyís (Mall.) — also the floor of boards over the cup where the grapes are stepped on (see cup ).
sequer — drying room; the canyissos full; your shed (Mall.).
acop — open and closed fig after drying (Mall.); acop flower (Sant Llorenç).
figues de sol / figues forneres — sun-dried / oven-dried (Pons).
secallona - ripe fig with already aged skin; rutló — the one who falls alone (Pons).

1546: “dues liures de fil de canyissos” (DCVB).
1772: free export of dried figs (Pons).
20th century: the fig becomes pig food and the sequer is abandoned (Pons).
Today: Festa des Sequer in Lloret; ARCUFI teaches how to dry with figueralers aged 87 and 91 (2020).

Breathing surface: air passes underneath between reed and reed.
Mobile landscape furniture: it is entered and taken out according to the sky.
The acop: a folding of the fruit itself to preserve it.

The fruit drying room in the sun.

Some words: acop, canyís, figues de sol** / **figues forneres, secallona, sequer.

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