# Disseny Indígena

> An atlas of Mallorca's indigenous design: traditional crafts, objects, festivals and vernacular architecture, with entries, a glossary, a timeline, a photo archive and a register of 1,300 artisans. Available in Catalan (https://dissenyindigena.org/), Spanish (https://dissenyindigena.org/es/) and English (https://dissenyindigena.org/en/). Author: Manuel Bauzà Ramis (Mallorca).

Disseny Indígena documents the traditional crafts (oficis), objects, festivals and vernacular architecture of Mallorca, and the artisans who practise them today. Each entry has a summary, history, technique, vocabulary, timeline, sources and links to the Balearic Islands Crafts Register. Please cite entries by their URL.

## Key pages
- [About the project](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/about/): who is behind it, method and sources
- [All entries](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entries/): index of 392 entries
- [Glossary](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/glossary/): words of Mallorcan crafts
- [Timeline](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/timeline/): history of crafts and architecture
- [Artisans by town](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/artisans/) and [by craft](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/artisans/ofici/): Balearic Crafts Register
- [Full text for LLMs](https://dissenyindigena.org/llms-full.txt)

## Crafts
- [Adobacossis and cordadors d'olles (pot menders)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/adobacossis-i-cordadors-d-olles/): The adobacossis (woodcutter) fixed cossis, gibrells, ribelles and other broken pieces of clay: he joined the pieces with wire passed…
- [Alambiners and herbes de Mallorca (herbal liqueur)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/alambiners-i-herbes/): Distillation of aniseed brandy and production of herbes: aniseed spirit drink flavored by maceration or distillation of plants from the…
- [Barbers and surgeons](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/barbers-i-cirurgians/): Until the 18th century, the barber shaved, cut hair, bled and performed minor surgery; the surgeon with studies did the major. In Mallorca…
- [Basters and selleters (saddlers)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/basters-i-selleters/): The baster made and repaired basts, seals and other garrisons for the beasts. In Mallorca they specialized in the bast: the tackle that…
- [Bell founders and bell ringers](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/campaners-i-fonedors/): Two trades united: the ringer casts bronze bells; The bell ringer rings them by hand and takes care of the bell tower. The bell was the…
- [Blanquers and assaonadors (tanners)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/blanquers-i-assaonadors/): Tanning of skins: the bleacher and the assaonador converted the raw skin into leather (adoberia) for shoemakers, basters, sellers and…
- [Boters](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/boters/): The boater makes wooden boats (barrels): curved, pressure-fit staves, held in place by cèrcols (hoops). They were used for wine, oil…
- [Brodats i calats](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/brodats/): Hand embroidered on linen or cotton. Documented traditional stitches: creueta, replè, matisat and the Mallorcan punt (combination of chain…
- [Cadiraires and cordat de cadires (bova and palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cadiraires-i-boga/): Make or remake the woven seat of the traditional Mallorcan chair: a wooden frame (pine, sometimes olive) with the cordat (stringed) seat…
- [Calciners and lime kilns](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/calciners-i-forns-de-calc/): The forn de calç cooks limestone at more than 1,000 °C for days. The stone turns into quicklime. With water it is quenched and gives lime…
- [Calderers and courers (coppersmiths)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/calderers-i-courers/): The calderer made or repaired calderes (boilers) and hammered copper vessels (aram). The courer works copper. They supplied kitchens…
- [Capellers and barreters (hat makers)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/capellers-i-barreters/): Manufacture and sale of hats. In Mallorca, the capell (with a brim that goes all the way around the head) and the barret or bonet (without…
- [Carassers and dimonis (festive mask makers)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/carassers-i-dimonis/): Manufacture of dimoni caretes (masks) and other festive figures, especially for Sant Antoni (January 16-17). They are worked in cardboard…
- [Carboners and sitges (charcoal burners)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/carboners-i-sitges/): The coaler converted oak wood into charcoal. He did it in the sitja: a pile of firewood covered in earth that burns slowly, with very…
- [Cart and wheel makers](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/mestres-de-carros-i-roders/): Construction of carts and, above all, wheels: hub (boixa), spokes (bréndoles), wooden corbes and the iron rim that embraces them. In…
- [Cereria (candle makers)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cereria/): Manufacture of ciris (candles) and wax espelmes by immersion: cotton wicks hanging from a wheel are immersed again and again in molten wax…
- [Confiters and pastissers (confectioners)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/confiters-i-pastissers/): The confectioner made confits, candied fruit and sugar candies; the pastisser, cakes and pastries. In Mallorca, both crafts rely on…
- [Coralers](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/coralers/): Fishing and working red coral (Corallium rubrum). In Mallorca there was the llaüt coraler, a boat dedicated to coralling. In the 19th…
- [Corderia: rope making (hemp, esparto, palm)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/corderia/): Corder 's craft: spinning and twisting fibers to make ropes, cords and ropes. In Mallorca three materials were used: cànem (hemp, the…
- [Esmoladors (knife grinders)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/esmoladors/): The grinder (or esmolet) sharpens knives, scissors, razors and tools on a mola: a stone disc that rotates quickly. The traveling grinder…
- [Espardenyes i calçat (Inca)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/espardenyes-i-calcat-inca/): Two traditions:
- [Esparto and basketry](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/espart-i-cistelleria/): - Espart: Stipa tenacissima fiber. It is braided or chopped to make ropes, soles, esportins, carrycots.
- [Estampers and popular printing (Impremta Guasp)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/estampers-i-impremta-popular/): Popular printing with woodcuts (wood engravings) and movable types: religious prints, goigs (songs to saints), auques (hallelujahs in…
- [Ferradors and manescals (farriers and vets)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ferradors-i-manescals/): The ferrador shod the beasts: he trimmed the hoof and nailed the iron. The manescal cured animal diseases (the ancient veterinarian); Often…
- [Ferro forjat (wrought iron)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ferro-forjat/): The ferrer heats the iron in the forge and shapes it with a hammer blow on the anvil. Pieces: reixes (bars), railings, portals, lanterns…
- [Fideuers (noodle makers)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/fideuers/): Manufacture of dry pasta: noodles, burballó and other flour soups. The DCVB describes the rudimentary machines of the trade: a grinder and…
- [Flassades (Mallorcan wool blankets)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/flassades-i-mantes-de-llana/): The flassada is a quadrangular piece woven of wool (or cotton), usually with colored stripes, to cover the bed (DCVB). Behind it is the…
- [Forners](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/forners/): Bread, cokes and ensaïmades cooked in a wood oven. Until the 20th century, many houses kneaded dough and took the bread to the neighborhood…
- [Fusta d'olivera (olive wood)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/fusta-d-olivera/): Olive wood: hard, dense, veined. We work on a lathe (torner) and carve: spoons, mortars, boards, bowls, knife handles, furniture. You have…
- [Ganiveteria (knife making)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ganiveteria/): Knife for rural and kitchen use: steel blade and olive wood (or antler) handle. Forging or cutting the blade, tempering, sharpening and…
- [Guixers and emblanquinadors (plasterers and whitewashers)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/guixers-i-emblanquinadors/): The guixer or guixaire manufactured, sold or worked guix (gypsum): calcined and ground calcium sulfate stone that, kneaded with water, sets…
- [Llauners and estanyers (tinsmiths)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/llauners-i-estanyers/): The llauner made and repaired objects from llauna (tin: thin iron sheet tinned on both sides): lamps, funnels, watering cans, cans…
- [Mallorcan cabinetmaking and furniture](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ebenisteria-i-moble-mallorqui/): The cabinetmaker makes fine furniture: veneers, inlays, moldings. Mallorcan home furniture mixes two worlds: the stately furniture from…
- [Mallorcan joinery (doors, windows, shutters)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/fusteria-mallorquina/): The fuster makes the wood of the house: doors, windows, Majorcan blinds, beams, stairs, cupboards. Work to measure each wall hole. The most…
- [Mallorcan pottery and gerreria (Pòrtol, Sa Cabaneta, Felanitx)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ceramica-i-gerreria/): Two families:
- [Marxandos and mercers (pedlars)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/marxandos-i-mercers/): The Marxando is the traveling salesman of Mallorca and Menorca: he went from town to town with his load of offal, ribbons, needles, soap…
- [Marès stone and picapedrers (stonemasons)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/mares-i-picapedrers/): Marès is a sandstone formed by consolidated marine sands (Quaternary). Soft when cut, hardens over time; The quality varies greatly…
- [Moliners](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/moliners/): The miller ground grain in water or windmills. He adjusted the moles, chopped them when they lost bite, regulated the flow of the tremuja…
- [Obra de palma: llata and garballó (palm weaving)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/obra-de-palma-llata/): Braiding the leaf of the garballó (Chamaerops humilis), the only native palm tree in the Balearic Islands. It is also called pauma, llatra…
- [Olleria de Felanitx and the gerreta felanitxera](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/olleria-de-felanitx/): Felanitx was a pottery center with its own clay, very white, fine and light. From there came a unique piece in Mallorca: the felanitxera…
- [Paraires and draperia (wool cloth making)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/paraires-i-draperia/): The paraire prepared the wool for weaving and finished the cloth: he combed, carded and perxed it. It also organized the work of spinners…
- [Pedra en sec (dry-stone walling) and margers](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/pedra-en-sec/): Construction with stone without mortar: each stone is chosen and fitted so that the wall is supported by weight and friction. It makes…
- [Perles de Manacor (Manacor pearls)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/perles-de-manacor/): Artificial pearl: core (glass or other material) covered with layers of a pearly essence, polished between layers. Majorica patented an…
- [Rajoles hidràuliques (hydraulic cement tiles)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/rajoles-hidrauliques/): Uncooked cement tile. The color layer (cement, marble powder, pigments) is poured into a metal mold with climbers that separate the colors…
- [Roba de llengües (Mallorcan ikat)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/roba-de-llengues/): Fabric with drawings of blurred edges, like tongues of fire: hence the name. It is made with ikat: the threads are tied and dyed before…
- [Sabó (Mallorcan artisan soap)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sabo-artesa/): Manufacture of soap from oil and an alkali (lye of soda or potash) cooked in a boiler. In the 19th century, Mallorca was one of the great…
- [Siurells](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/siurells/): Clay figurine with a built-in whistle (from siular, to whistle). It is modeled by hand, fired, whitewashed and painted with strokes of red…
- [Tailors and hosiery](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sastres-i-calceters/): Making custom clothing (tailor) and leggings and stockings (calceter). In the villages, the pagès tailor sewed the peasant's festive dress…
- [Teules (roof tiles) and teuleres](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/teules/): Curved clay tile. In the teulera (rural workshop) the clay was ground, kneaded with water in a raft, molded into shape and fired in a wood…
- [Tintorers (dyers)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/tintorers/): Dyeing of wool, cloth and other fibers in kettles over fire with dyes. Key trade of medieval Mallorcan drapery, along with paraires and…
- [Torners (wood turners)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/torners/): The turner shapes the wood by turning it on the lathe while cutting with gouges and chisels. He makes revolutionary pieces: mortars, bowls…
- [Traditional instruments and luthiers (xeremies, flabiols, guitars)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/instruments-tradicionals/): - Xeremies: Majorcan bagpipe. Wineskin (leather or synthetic), grall (pointer) and usually three staffs. The xeremiers play in pairs with…
- [Traditional jewelry and Mallorcan buttons](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/joieria-i-botons-mallorquins/): Gold and silver pieces of the traditional dress: the buttoned (row of buttons on sleeves and golla), chains, female medallions (rostrillo…
- [Traginers and carreters (muleteers and carters)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/traginers-i-carreters/): The traginer transported goods from one place to another, on horseback or in a cart; The carter was the one who guided the car (and, in…
- [Vela llatina (lateen sail) and mestres d'aixa (shipwrights)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/vela-llatina-i-mestres-d-aixa/): The llatina sail (triangular, aerial) and the boats that use it: llaüt, bot, etc. The mestres d'aixa (riverside carpenters) build the hull…
- [Velluters (velvet weavers) and silk](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/velluters-i-seda/): Complete silk chain in Mallorca: breeding the worm in a mulberry leaf, obtaining the cocoon, twisting the thread and weaving. Velluters…
- [Vidre bufat (Mallorcan blown glass)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/vidre-bufat/): An iron rod is inserted into the molten glass; The teacher blows at the other end and the glass swells. It is turned, cut, shaped with…
- [Wood carving and sculpture (altarpieces, imagery)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/talla-i-escultura-en-fusta/): The carver carves wood in relief or in bulk: retaules (altarpieces), images of devotion, eaves, frames and furniture. The altarpiece unites…
- [Xocolaters](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/xocolaters/): Making chocolate from cocoa: roasting, hulling, grinding on a hot stone with sugar and spices, and molding into bars to make xocolata…

## Objects and tools
- [Aixada i xapeta (aixadell)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/aixada-i-aixadell/): Digging tools with the iron at an acute angle to the handle. In Mallorca the aixada (or xada) is a double tool: one side with a horizontal…
- [Aixeta (tap)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/aixeta-xeta/): Tap. In Mallorca they say xeta. In the agricultural world the word names several pieces of liquid passage: that of the wine cup, that of…
- [Alambí (still)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/alambi/): Apparatus for distilling. In Mallorca, the brandy and herbes machine. At the end of the 18th century there were 177 stills on the island.
- [Alfàbia, gerra and gerricó (Mallorcan earthenware jars)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/alfabia-gerra-i-gerrico/): The three pieces of the gerrer to store and carry liquids:
- [Almadrava](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/almadrava/): Large fixed net to catch tuna and large fish. In Mallorca the word designates above all a small almadrava (in Spanish, almadrabilla): a…
- [Arquibanc](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/arquibanc/): Bench-chest: long bench, with or without backrest, with one or several boxes underneath; the seat is the cover (DCVB). Key furniture of the…
- [Avarques (varques)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/avarques/): Rustic footwear: a leather sole held to the foot with straps and cords. In Mallorca they also say varques. According to the DCVB (first…
- [Balancí and tibulet (rocking chair)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/balanci-i-tibulet/): - Rocker: rocking chair. Chair with two wooden arches under the legs that make it balance (DCVB, with the Mallorca brand among other areas).
- [Baldufa](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/baldufa/): Top. Pear-shaped piece of wood with an iron tip. A rope is wound, thrown with force to the ground and rotated on the tip (DCVB). In…
- [Barral (wine flask)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/barral/): In Mallorca, a multi-liter glass bottle lined with straw, reeds or verducs (thin sticks) to protect it from knocks (DCVB, Mall.). The…
- [Betlem](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/betlem/): The Christmas nativity scene. In Mallorca, the domestic nativity scene (clay figures, also nativity scene siurells) and the courtly…
- [Bres (bressol)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/bres/): The newborn's crib. In Mallorca they say bres [bɾə́s], not bressol (DCVB). Bressol is the general Catalan form, without a Mallorcan brand.
- [Bóta and cooper's tools](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/bota-i-eines-de-boter/): See also bóta congrenyada i quartí . The bóta (barrel) is the wooden container for wine, oil and spirits. His tools are those of the boat …
- [Bóta congrenyada i quartí](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/bota-congrenyada-i-quarti/): - Bóta congrenyada (Mall.): large capacity barrel, held by four congrenys (strong wooden rings), with an opening in the bottom through…
- [Cadira de bova (rush chair) and bench](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cadira-de-boga-i-banc/): The seats of the Mallorcan house: the wooden cadira (chair) with the cordat (woven) seat of bova (enea) or palm rope, and the family of…
- [Cadira de repòs and llit de repòs (daybed)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cadira-de-repos/): - Cadira de repòs: in Mallorca, the armchair (armchair) (DCVB, Mall.). Respectful seat in the room.
- [Cadira paridora (birthing chair)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cadira-paridora/): Birthing chair: the woman gave birth sitting, with the midwife in front of her. Home birth furniture, prior to the hospital bed.
- [Cadiram de la Seu (cathedral choir stalls) and church furniture](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cadiram-de-la-seu/): The cadiram (choir stalls) of the Cathedral of Mallorca and, around it, the furniture of the town churches: benches, faristols, sacristy…
- [Caixa de núvia (bridal chest)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/caixa-de-nuvia/): The chest where the bride carried her trousseau (aixovar) from her parents' house to her husband's. The DCVB defines it as "the large box…
- [Calaixera](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/calaixera/): Furniture with stacked drawers that occupy its entire width, crowned by a horizontal board: the chest of drawers. In Mallorca calaixera…
- [Canapè (Mallorcan settee)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/canape/): Multi-seater sofa with backrest and arms. In Mallorca also ganapè (DCVB, with Mallorcan pronunciation).
- [Canterano (chest of drawers with desk)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/canterano/): The Majorcan chest of drawers: a piece of furniture with stacked drawers with a board on top. In the Balearic Islands it is the household…
- [Caparrots and gegants (big heads and giants)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/caparrots-i-gegants/): Party figures: gegants (giants carried by a person inside) and caparrots (cabezudos: enormous head on the dancer). In Mallorca, caparrot is…
- [Capell de palma (palm hat)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/capell-de-palma/): Hat made of braided palm leaves (garballó), with a very wide brim. They were carried by men and women to work in the fields (DCVB, Mall…
- [Capirot and confraternity robe](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/capirot-i-vesta/): Conical hood (capirot) and tunic (vesta) of the penitents of the Holy Week brotherhoods. In Mallorca they are also called carapunats.
- [Cardes and tisores d'abaixar (carding and cloth shears)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cardes-i-tisores-d-abaixar/): The tools of the paraire : the cardes comb the wool and lift the hair from the cloth; the d'abaixar tisores cut it. Together they form the…
- [Carpenter's tools (eines de fuster)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/eines-de-fuster/): The hand tools of the fuster (carpenter): sawing, planing, drilling, hollowing out and assembling wood. In Mallorca the trade was divided…
- [Carretó de batre (threshing sledge)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/trill/): > Note: the DCVB does not register trill in Mallorca. In Mallorca and Menorca the threshing tool is the cart (batre). The slug remains.
- [Carro mallorquí (Mallorcan cart)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/carro-mallorqui/): The two-wheeled vehicle and animal draft of rural Mallorca. There were "thousands" until the 1960s (Nicolau Cañellas). The thesis…
- [Carro triomfal de la Beata (triumphal float)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/carro-triomfal-de-la-beata/): The main carriage of the Blessed's parade: rolling throne for the Blessed, the girl who represents Saint Catherine Thomàs, with her court…
- [Casera d'abelles (traditional beehive)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/casera-d-abelles/): The traditional Mallorcan beehive. It is said homemade, caera or caiera (DCVB, Mall.). In Catalonia it is said arna or rusc; In Mallorca…
- [Castanyetes](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/castanyetes/): Castanets. In Mallorca they say castanyetes (DCVB, pl., Mall.), not castanyoles (in Mallorca castanyola is a plant or a fish). They are…
- [Caulker's tools (eines de calafat)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/eines-de-calafat/): Caulking tools: put oakum and glue in the joints of the boards so that water does not enter. Trade linked to the mestres d'aixa and the…
- [Cavallet (cavall cotoner)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cavallet/): Little cloth horse that the dancer carries around his waist, so that he appears to be riding it. Heir to the Cavalls Cotoners of Corpus…
- [Cofí and esportí (esparto baskets)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cofi/): Round and very flat espart bag where the olive paste is placed to press it in the tafona. In Mallorca the usual name is esportí; cofí is a…
- [Coll de tords (thrush net-hunting)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/coll-de-tords-i-filats/): The hunting of the coll thrush, typical of Mallorca.
- [Cornucòpia i mirall](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cornucopia/): Cornucòpia: carved and gilded wooden frame with mirror and arms for candles. Majorcan pronunciation [koɾnukɔ́pi] (DCVB). It multiplied the…
- [Corriola i politja](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/corriola-i-politja/): Pulley. Corriola (or curriola): low cylinder that rotates on an axis, with a slot through which the rope passes (DCVB). Politja is a…
- [Cossi i bugada](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cossi-i-bugada/): The cossi is the large container with a hole at the bottom where the bugada was made: the bleaching of clothing with a lleixiu of ash and…
- [Cossier and Dama costume](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/vestit-de-cossier/): The costume of the cossiers dancers: white masculine base with many "feminine" pieces (skirt, lace, ribbons, flocs). Scholars read the…
- [Cossiol](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cossiol/): Container smaller than the cossi , made of clay, wood or zinc (DCVB). In Mallorca, above all, the clay pot for garden plants, and other…
- [Costume and jewels of the Àguiles (Pollença)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/vestit-i-joies-de-les-aguiles/): Crown and cape of the two Eagles of the Corpus Christi of Pollença, covered with ancient jewels lent by the town's families and by the…
- [Cove (covo) i paner](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/covo-i-paner/): Two rigid warp baskets, not sewn like the senalla.
- [Cuixals, manegots and didals (reaper's gear)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cuixals-manegots-i-didals-de-segador/): The protective equipment of the Majorcan reaper. Alcover describes it in its entirety in a rondalla: the man "poses es cuxals, es manegots…
- [Cup i canyís (trepitjar el raïm)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cup-i-canyis/): - Cup: large container, generally made of stone, with crossed horizontal boards, where the grapes are stepped on and the wine is allowed to…
- [Càntir and botilla (water jugs)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cantir/): The càntir (in Palma it is said cànti) is the botijo: a closed vessel to have fresh water and drink from galet, without touching the spout…
- [Càvec](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cavec/): Hoe with a wide blade at the back and narrow at the front, trapezoidal or triangular in shape. It is used for digging (DCVB). Variants…
- [Destral i picassó](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/destral-i-picasso/): - Hatchet: axe. Wide steel iron blade, almost trapezoidal, with a more or less curved edge; the handle follows the same plane as the blade…
- [Dimoni mask and costume](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/careta-i-vestit-de-dimoni/): The mask (careta) and the costume of the Mallorcan dimoni: the mocking devil of Sant Antoni and the cossiers. He is not the terrible devil…
- [Dry-stone waller's tools (eines de marger)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/eines-de-marger/): The marger tool kit, the one that builds margins (terrace walls) and dry stone walls, without mortar. Few pieces, almost all made of…
- [Empelt i navalla d'empeltar](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/empelt/): Empelting: inserting a part of another tree with buds into a branch or trunk so that they join together and produce another fruit (DCVB)…
- [Enclusa i manxa](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/enclusa-i-manxa/): The heart of the forge: the fornal (forge) where the iron is heated, the manxa (bellows) that stokes the fire and the enclusa (anvil) where…
- [Ensaïmada](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ensaimada/): Piece of pastry made of fermented dough with saïm (lard), in a spiral, sprinkled with sugar. The most recognizable edible object in…
- [Esca i encenalls](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/esca-i-encenall/): What it takes to light a fire without matches.
- [Escala de figueraler (fig-picker's ladder)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/escala-de-figueraler/): Peu ladder that the figueralers use to climb the fig trees to pick figs (DCVB). Ladder with one or two articulated sticks that serve as…
- [Esco](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/esco/): Long high-back bench next to the kitchen fire, cutting through the cold air. From Latin scamnum, "bank" (DCVB).
- [Escriptori and arquella (writing desk and casket)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/escriptori/): - Escriptori: furniture with small drawers to store papers and valuables, with lid or doors; often on a table or stand. The DCVB gives…
- [Escudeller](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/escudeller/): Stone or wooden shelf fixed high on the kitchen wall for bowls, plates and pots (DCVB, also Mall.). Synonyms: antosta, enfila, lleixa…
- [Escudelles and plates from Pòrtol](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/escudelles-i-plats-de-portol/): The glazed clay tableware from the Marratxí olleries. The escudella is the hemispherical bowl for broth, soups or milk; the plat, the dish…
- [Escuts dels gremis de Mallorca](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/escuts-dels-gremis/): The emblems of the col·legis d'oficis of Palma. Almost all of them are built with the tools or the product of the trade: a system of…
- [Espardenyes](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/espardenyes/): Footwear with espart or braided and sewn canem sole, and fabric upper. It was the light footwear of pagesia. Today it is party shoes…
- [Esquella i picarol](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/esquella-i-picarol/): The cattle bells.
- [Estel](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/estel/): The kite: sheet of paper or fabric stretched over reeds, tied to a long thread, which rises with the wind. Children's game of Catalonia and…
- [Estisores de tondre (shearing scissors)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/estisores-de-tondre/): Sheep shearing shears. Tondre: to cut the hair or wool close (DCVB). The word estisores comes from the Latin tonsorias, "tool for shearing…
- [Estora (palm mat)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/estora/): Mat. Woven or sewn piece of palm llata, espart, jonc or bova to cover floors, walls or the railing of the car (DCVB). In the Mallorcan…
- [Falç i falçó](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/falc-i-falco/): - Falç: sickle for reaping cereal. Curved iron blade with short wooden handle.
- [Ferradura](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ferradura/): Arc-shaped piece of iron of more than half a circumference that is nailed under the hoof of the horse, mule or donkey to protect it (DCVB).
- [Fitora and torchlight fishing (encesa)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/fitora-i-encesa/): The fitora is an iron harpoon with several prongs for spearing large fish and mollusks. It was used in a l'encesa fishing: at night, with…
- [Flabiol and tamborino (pipe and tabor)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/flabiol-i-tamborino/): A pair of instruments played by a single person, the flabioler: a one-handed flute (flabiol) and a small drum (tamborí, tumbarino variant)…
- [Foganya (hearth) and fire tools](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/foganya-i-estris-del-foc/): The wood fire of Mallorcan cuisine and its tools. The foganya (also fogaina) is a work hole open at the top, with a side opening at ground…
- [Foguero](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/foguero/): The bonfire of Sant Antoni (and Sant Sebastià): pile of firewood that is lit the day before in streets and squares. Around it you eat, you…
- [Fona](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/fona/): The sling: two cords with a bag (bossa or mà) in the middle to throw stones. Weapon of the Balearic foners of Antiquity; today a federated…
- [Forca, rampí and ganxo (pitchfork, rake and hook)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/forca-rampi-i-ganxo/): Tools era and collect:
- [Formatgera (cheese mould)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/formatgera/): Mold where the curd is placed, squeezed, drained and the cheese takes shape (DCVB). In Spanish, encella. The word encella has no entry in…
- [Furniture of the possessió, village house and Palma townhouse](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/mobiliari-de-possessio-poble-i-casal/): Three houses, three sets of furniture. Synthesis card that connects the other pieces.
- [Gaiato](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/gaiato/): Staff: staff with a curved upper end (DCVB, or., occ., mall.). Tool of the shepherd and the pilgrim.
- [Garba, garbera and vencís (sheaves and stacks)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/garba-i-garbera/): Three pieces of the step between mowing and beating.
- [Garbell, porgador and sedàs (sieves)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/garbell-porgador-i-sedas/): Three sieves, from coarsest to finest:
- [Gerrer](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/gerrer/): Shelf or support fixed to the wall, almost always in the kitchen, where the gerres (water jugs) are left (DCVB, Mall., Men., Eiv.; cast…
- [Gipó and Mallorcan peasant dress](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/gipo-i-vestit-de-pages/): The vestit de pagès is the traditional clothing of the Majorcan countryside, for men and women. Today he dresses at parties. The gipó is…
- [Goigs](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/goigs/): Popular songs in honor of the Virgin, Christ or a saint, and the printed page that bears them. In Mallorca they are sung, for example, at…
- [Grain measures: quartera, barcella and almud](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/mesures-de-gra/): The family of capacity measures for Mallorca grain. Each name is both a quantity and the wooden or metal container that contains it (DCVB).
- [Graneres and graneretes](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/graneres/): The granera is the Majorcan broom made of garballó palm with a cane handle. The granereta is the palm brush for whitewashing (whitewashing)…
- [Greixonera](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/greixonera/): The Mallorcan clay pot. In Mallorca greixonera is the name of the cassola de terra (DCVB, Mall.) and also the stew that is cooked inside…
- [Gàbia enganadora (decoy cage)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/gabia-enganadora/): Cage prepared so that birds enter attracted by the bait or lure inside and then cannot leave (DCVB, Mall., Men.).
- [Gànguil i xarxes](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ganguil-i-xarxes/): - Gànguil (Mall., Eiv.): long, conical net bag, opened by an iron ring, which a boat drags along the bottom to catch shrimp and small fish…
- [Harness: collera, bast and aubarda](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/guarniments-collera-bast-i-aubarda/): > Note: in Mallorca they do not say albarda or aubarda, but rather aubardà (DCVB). The slug remains.
- [Harvesting carobs and almonds (canya de prendre)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/tomar-garroves-i-ametles/): Take is a Mallorcan verb: to make something fall by hitting or pushing (DCVB, Mall.). Take garroves, ametles: make them fall from the tree…
- [Jou (yoke) and Mallorcan ploughing](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/jou-i-arada-mallorquina/): - Plow: instrument to remove and turn the earth before sowing. One piece carries the rella (grid) and another, the spear to which the…
- [Livestock ear marks (senyal de bestiar)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/senyal-de-bestiar/): Cut, notch or hole made in the ear of a head of cattle to recognize it and so that it does not mix with that of another herd (DCVB). It is…
- [Llaüt (com a objecte)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/llaut-com-a-objecte/): The quintessential Mallorcan work boat: wooden hull, two rodes (pointed bow and stern), flat sail. Fishing and cabotage. This sheet looks…
- [Llit](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/llit/): The bed. In the old inventories, llit names mainly the textiles (mattresses, curtains, covers) rather than the wooden structure, until the…
- [Llosa (stone trap)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/llosa/): Stone trap to catch birds (thrushes, partridges), rabbits and rats. A flat stone, resting on sticks, falls and encloses the animal (DCVB)…
- [Llum de cresol (llum de cruia)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ressol-i-cresol/): > Slug note: ressol is not a lamp (in Catalan it is the reflection of the sun or the residue of a liquid). The object is the llum de…
- [Mallorcan neoclassical furniture and Isern workshop](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/moble-neoclassic-i-isern/): The golden age of Palma furniture: neoclassical marquetry between the years 1770 and 1820 (Pou Amengual, 2016). Workshops that exported to…
- [Manacor furniture industry](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/industria-del-moble-de-manacor/): Manacor, city of furniture: the largest center of carpentry and furniture factories in the Balearic Islands in the 20th century. From the…
- [Mariner's box](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/caixa-de-mariner/): The sailor's chest: his only furniture on board. He kept clothes, tools and personal items on the journey. Mallorca has an important…
- [Matraques (wooden rattles)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/matraques/): Wooden instrument that makes a dry, repeated noise. It replaces the bells on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, when they are silent.
- [Morral (shoulder bag)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/morral/): Two objects with the same name (DCVB):
- [Morter (mortar) and maça](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/morter/): Thick-walled glass where garlic, spices, salt, nuts, sauces are crushed and mixed. In Mallorca the pestle is called maça (DCVB: "he who…
- [Nansa](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/nansa/): Pot. Bell-shaped fishing trap, woven with jonc, vímet or canya mesh. The fish enters through a funnel mouth and does not know how to get…
- [Olla, cassola and perol (cooking pots)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/olla-cassola-i-perol/): The cooking vessels of Majorcan cuisine:
- [Omplidor and matances (pig slaughter) tools](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/omplidor-i-estris-de-matances/): The slaughters are the slaughter of the pig and the preparation of its sausages (DCVB). Its most typical tool is the omplidor (Mall.): a…
- [Palangre (longline)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/palangre/): Fishing art with hooks: a long anchored line (the main llença) from which thinner and shorter lines hang, each with its ham. It is used…
- [Palm fans (ventall and ventador)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ventall-i-ventador-de-palma/): The vendedor is the blow to fan the fire: "a rotllana d'espart or palm with a mànec" (DCVB, Balearic Islands). The houses made it for their…
- [Pastera (kneading trough) and oven peel](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/pastera-i-pala-de-forn/): The two tools of homemade bread and forner.
- [Pepa (rag doll)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/pepa/): In Mallorca, pepa is the doll that girls play with (DCVB: Empordà and Mallorca).
- [Plater](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/plater/): Dish drainer: support where the washed dishes drain and dry on their edges (DCVB, Mall., Eiv.). In other areas it is called sideboard…
- [Poal and cadufos (well bucket and waterwheel pots)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/poal-i-cadufos/): The two containers that draw water from the well.
- [Podadora and tallant (pruning hooks)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/podall-i-tallant/): > Note: podall is not registered in Mallorca in the DCVB (it is from Catalonia and Valencia). In Mallorca the curved pruning knife is the…
- [Porqueres (Mallorcan work shoes)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sabata-porquera/): Low work shoe from the Mallorcan pagès. It is called Porquera (plural, Porqueres). Today it is also a street shoe, in colors. The program…
- [Portadora (grape-carrying tub)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/portadora/): Container made of wooden staves to carry grapes or wine from the vineyard to the cup; also fruit, water or land (DCVB, or., occ., val…
- [Potera (squid jig)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/potera/): Lure for fishing squid: a sinker shaped like a minnow and a crown of hooks bent upwards. Word collected in Mallorca (DCVB).
- [Premsa de biga (olive-mill beam press)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/premsa-de-biga/): The oil press of the Mallorcan tafona: a huge wooden beam that acts as a lever on the pile of esportins with olive paste. Tafona (from the…
- [Premsa de fideus (noodle press)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/premsa-de-fideus/): The fideuer machine: a press that pushes dough through a perforated bottom to form noodles or burballó. The DCVB describes it with drawings.
- [Rebosillo and mocador (traditional headscarves)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/rebosillo-i-mocador/): The two ways of covering the head of the Mallorcan pagesa. The rebosillo is the party piece, fine, white. The mocador is the daily and work…
- [Rems (oars) and escàlems](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/rems/): The oar: a long piece of wood with a handle at one end and a blade at the other that beats the water from inside the boat (DCVB). In…
- [Ribella i ribell](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ribella/): Two sister pieces that should not be confused:
- [Roda d'esmolar (mola)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/roda-d-esmolar/): The grinder 's tool: a rapidly rotating stone disc for sharpening cutting tools. The DCVB simply calls it mola ("arncava un raig d'espurnes…
- [Romana (steelyard balance)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/romana/): Unequal arms balance. What is weighed hangs from the short arm; a weight, the piló, runs along the long arm until it balances (DCVB). The…
- [Rosari ensucrat from Tots Sants](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/rosari-ensucrat/): Rosary-shaped candy necklace given to children for Tots Sants (November 1). A religious object turned into a candy.
- [Safareig](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/safareig/): In Mallorca, the safareig is an uncovered water tank for irrigation: stone or, later, cement, which collects water from a siquia, sinia…
- [Sailors' ex-votos and altarpieces](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/exvots-i-retaules-mariners/): Offerings of thanks for a favor received, often paintings of ships in storm or attacks by privateers. In Mallorca, the marine altarpieces…
- [Salabre](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/salabre/): Net bag on the tip of a stick or cane: the salabardo. It is used to remove the fish from the water or collect it from another net.
- [Sembradora (sowing basket)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sembradora/): Small sign where the sower carries the seed that he is going to spread to eixam (broadcast) (DCVB). Before the machine, the seeder was a…
- [Senalla (palm basket)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/senalla/): Palm or espart basket with two handles. It is the universal container of the house and the Majorcan countryside: earth, manure, food…
- [Sequer and canyissos (drying racks)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sequer-i-canyissos/): The fruit drying room in the sun.
- [Shoemaker's tools (eines de sabater)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/eines-de-sabater/): The sabater (shoemaker's) bench: the tools to cut the leather, sew it by hand and assemble the shoe on the last. It is the basis of the…
- [Siurell](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/siurell/): White clay figurine with red and green stripes that has a whistle at the base. Toy, party object and today a graphic icon of Mallorca. The…
- [Stonemason's tools (eines de picapedrer)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/eines-de-picapedrer/): In Mallorca stonecutter has two meanings. The general: who cuts and carves the stone. And the Balearic: bricklayer, who builds houses…
- [Sàrria i sarrió](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sarria-i-sarrio/): - Sàrria: double espart or palm tree that is placed across the pack animal. A bag on each side.
- [Taula and bufet (table and sideboard)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/taula-i-bufet/): - Taula: table. To eat, work, play.
- [Tinell](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/tinell/): Furniture with tiered shelves to display crockery and bottles in the living room: the predecessor of the sideboard (DCVB). In Mallorca it…
- [Torn de gerrer](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/torn-de-gerrer/): The potter's wheel: a platform that rotates and on which the gerrer or oller lifts the pieces of clay. It is the central machine of the…
- [Tremuja and moles (miller's tools)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/tremuja-i-moles/): The working parts of the miller : the tremuja (hopper) that doses the grain and the moles (stones) that grind it.
- [Trinxet (Mallorcan pocket knife)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/trinxet/): In Mallorca, the trinxet is a pocket knife with a highly curved blade, with a handle that is also curved and rotating. The handle rotates…
- [Trull de tafona (olive mill)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/trull-de-tafona/): The tafona olive mill. In Mallorca trull names the entire mill (DCVB, Mall.) and, in Mancor, the truncated conical stone that rotates and…
- [Vestit de Sant Joan Pelós](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/vestit-de-sant-joan-pelos/): The costume of the dancer that represents Saint John the Baptist. He was called pelos because he was dressed in untanned sheepskin; today…
- [Vestit i espasa de la Sibil·la](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/vestit-i-espasa-de-la-sibil-la/): The clothing and ritual weapon of the one who sings the Sibyl on Christmas Eve. The final gesture of the song is marked with the sword.
- [Winnowing shovel and threshing-floor hut](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/pala-de-ventar-i-barraca-d-era/): Two elements of the era after beating.
- [Wood saws: serra de cadastre and verduc](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/serra-de-bracet/): > Note: «serra de bracet» does not appear in the DCVB or in the sources consulted (please verify with oral sources). In the DCVB, bracet in…
- [Woodcuts of the Impremta Guasp](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/xilografies-impremta-guasp/): The background of engraved wooden blocks (about 1,590) and the press from 1622 of the Impremta Guasp of Palma (1576-1958). A bank of images…
- [Xeremies](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/xeremies/): The Majorcan bagpipe. It is said in plural, les xeremies: a single instrument with several pipes. It always sounds in pairs with the…
- [Ximbomba](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ximbomba/): Friction drum. A taut skin over the mouth of a container, crossed in the center by a canya. When you rub the cane with your wet hand, the…

## Architecture and engineering
- [Aljubs and cisterns](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/aljubs-i-cisternes/): Tanks to store rainwater. On an island without rivers, each house, farm or road needed its reservation. The aljub is a wide, shallow…
- [Barraques de roter (dry-stone field huts)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/barraques-de-roter/): Dry stone cabins where the roter lived: a landless peasant who cultivated a rota, a piece of plowed forest within a possessió, in exchange…
- [Camins empedrats (cobbled and bridle paths)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/camins-empedrats/): Mountain roads built of stone for people and pack animals. They linked towns, farms, sanctuaries and workplaces (coal, snow, lime). Base of…
- [Casa de possessió (Mallorcan country estate house)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/casa-de-possessio/): The possessió is the great Majorcan rural estate. Its houses of possession are the small built nucleus that governs it: housing…
- [Cases de neu (snow houses)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cases-de-neu/): Snow pits of the Serra de Tramuntana. They were filled in winter and emptied in summer: refrigerators without electricity. The snow went to…
- [Clastra (estate courtyard)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/clastra/): Patio of the Mallorcan farmhouse. The DCVB defines it as a patio located in the front or central part of a pagès house (marked Mall.). It…
- [Defence towers and talaies (watchtowers)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/torres-de-defensa/): Network of surveillance towers along the entire coast of Mallorca. They warned of enemy ships—Barbary corsairs above all—and of ships that…
- [Dry Stone Route (GR 221)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ruta-de-pedra-en-sec-gr-221/): Long-distance path that crosses the Serra de Tramuntana, from Port d'Andratx to Pollença, on the network of old paths restored by the…
- [Escars and boathouses (varadors)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/escars-i-casetes-de-vorera/): Stone huts by the sea to store fishing boats, especially wooden llaüts. With their pier (ramp) they form groups of coves such as Cala…
- [Forns de calç (lime kilns)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/forns-de-calc/): Kilns where limestone was baked to make lime. The Serra de Tramuntana is almost all limestone: there was plenty of stone and holm oak…
- [Marjades (dry-stone terraces)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/marjades-i-bancals/): Cultivation terraces supported by dry stone walls. They turn a hillside into steps of flat land. They are the greatest exponent of dry…
- [Molins de vent (flour and water-pumping windmills)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/molins-de-vent/): Two families. Fariner mills have been grinding grain since the Middle Ages. The treure water mills (aiguaders) pump groundwater for…
- [Persianes mallorquines (Mallorcan shutters)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/persianes-mallorquines/): Exterior wooden shutter, with swing leaves, with horizontal slats that allow air to pass through and block the sun. In Spanish, "Mallorca…
- [Salines (salt pans of s'Avall and Es Trenc)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/salines/): Seawater evaporation fields in the south of Mallorca, between Ses Salines and Campos. A flat engineered landscape: canals, ponds and white…
- [Sitges and charcoal burners' huts](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sitges-i-barraques-de-carboner/): The traces of charcoaling: converting forest firewood into charcoal. The sitja is the circular platform where the wood oven was mounted…
- [Sínies and molins de sang (animal-driven wheels and mills)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sinies-i-molins-de-sang/): Machines moved by an animal. The sinia raises water from a shallow well to water the garden. The molí de sang grinds grain (or olive) with…
- [Síquies, qanats and water mills](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/siquies-qanats-i-molins-d-aigua/): The water network inherited from the Islamic era. The qanat (or mine fountain) captures water from the aquifer with a gently sloping…
- [Talaiots](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/talaiots/): Prehistoric stone towers from the Talayotic culture, exclusive to Mallorca and Menorca. They are the zero point of dry stone construction…
- [Teulades i ràfecs (roofs and eaves)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/teulades-i-rafecs/): The Mallorcan Arab tile roof and its eaves, the ràfec. Sloped roof that protects, provides shade and collects water.
- [Village house](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/casa-de-poble/): The house between party walls of the towns of Mallorca. Facade facing the street, corral behind, porxo under the roof. House of a peasant…

## Festivals
- [Ball de bot and gloses (folk dance and improvised verse)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ball-de-bot-i-gloses/): The popular dance of Mallorca and the improvised poetry that accompanies it in foguerons, matances and festivals. It is not a festival with…
- [Beneïdes of Sant Antoni de Muro](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/beneides-de-sant-antoni-muro/): Parade and blessing of animals, cars and carriages on January 17 in Muro. It is the "daytime" part of Sant Antoni: the one that celebrates…
- [Cant de la Sibil·la (Song of the Sibyl)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cant-de-la-sibil-la/): Medieval song of the Last Judgment that is performed in the churches of Mallorca on Christmas night. Mallorca preserved it when the…
- [Cavallets of Felanitx](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cavallets-de-felanitx/): Six children with a horse around their waist and a Lady who guides them with an embroidered handkerchief. They descend from the cavalls…
- [Corpus of Pollença: Àguiles and Sant Joan Pelós](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/corpus-de-pollenca/): The only place in Mallorca that preserves the ball de les Àguiles: two girls with a crown and cape covered in antique jewels lent by the…
- [Correbou of Fornalutx](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/correbou-de-fornalutx/): Running of a tied bull through the streets of Fornalutx in September. Party in conflict: the Balearic law of 2017 changed its form.
- [Cossiers d'Alaró](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cossiers-d-alaro/): Ball of six cossiers, a Lady and a dimoni, recovered in 1992. Its own feature: a unique granadillo flabiol and a dress covered in white…
- [Cossiers d'Algaida, Pollença, Inca and others](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cossiers-d-algaida-i-altres/): The rest of the map of cossiers of Mallorca, outside the three declared BICIM ( Montuïri , Alaró , Manacor ).
- [Cossiers de Montuïri](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cossiers-de-montuiri/): The only ball de cossiers in Mallorca that has remained without interruption in its space, time and objects. Six cossiers, a Lady and the…
- [Cossiers of Manacor](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cossiers-de-manacor/): Ball with six cossiers and Dama recovered in 1981 without bells, out of fidelity to the memory of those who had seen it. It has its own…
- [Dijous Bo (Inca)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/dijous-bo-inca/): The largest fair in Mallorca: the Thursday of the third Inca autumn fair. Livestock, machinery, crafts and footwear.
- [Festes de la Beata (Palma, Valldemossa, Santa Margalida)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/festes-de-la-beata/): Car parades in honor of Saint Catherine Thomàs (Valldemossa 1531-Palma 1574), the Blessed. A girl, the Beateta, rides in a triumphal…
- [Firó de Sóller (Moros i Cristians)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/firo-de-soller/): Reenactment of the victory of Sóller over the pirates in 1561. It is not a parade of Valencian-style troupes: it is a theatrical battle…
- [Holy Week: the Sang de Palma and the Davallament of Pollença](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/setmana-santa-i-davallament/): The two strongest images of Majorcan Holy Week: the procession of Sant Crist de la Sang in Palma (Holy Thursday) and the Davallament de…
- [Matances](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/matances/): The slaughter of the pig: domestic winter ritual that brings the family together and produces the sausages of the year (sobrassada…
- [Moros i Cristians of Pollença (la Patrona)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/moros-i-cristians-de-pollenca/): Simulacrum of the battle of 1550 against Dragut 's corsairs, within the festivities of the Mare de Déu dels Àngels, the Patroness…
- [Pi de Sant Antoni de Pollença](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/pi-de-sant-antoni-pollenca/): A pine tree is cut down on the Ternelles property, it is dragged to the town, it is planted in the Plaça Vella and the young people climb…
- [Sant Antoni d'Artà](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sant-antoni-arta/): The Sant Antoni rises earlier and is more "at home": the dimonis leave the worker's house at dawn and tour the town in La Capta. Very…
- [Sant Antoni de Manacor](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sant-antoni-manacor/): Sant Antoni danced and sung: the dimonis represent the temptations of Sant Antoni in the streets for two days. The Dimoni Gros is the…
- [Sant Antoni de sa Pobla](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sant-antoni-sa-pobla/): The most emblematic winter festival in Mallorca in its most complete version. Fire, dimonis and beneïdes in honor of Sant Antoni Abat…
- [Sant Joan Pelós de Felanitx](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sant-joan-pelos-de-felanitx/): A single masked dancer representing Saint John the Baptist and dancing without choreography, to make people laugh, on Saint Joan's Day…
- [Sant Marçal and the Fira del Fang (Marratxí)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sant-marcal-i-fira-del-fang/): Pilgrimage of the patron saint of Marratxí in Sa Cabaneta, the town of the siurells. Mud festival: ceramic and siurell stalls, smell of…
- [Sant Sebastià (Palma i Pollença)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sant-sebastia/): Patron saint of Palma since the plague of 1523. Revetla of foguerons and concerts in the squares on the night of January 19. In Pollença…
- [Sermó de l'Enganalla (Llucmajor)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sermo-de-l-enganalla-llucmajor/): An Easter sermon that is a duel of deception: the preacher tries to end when the organist does not expect it, and the organist tries to cut…
- [Sineu Fair](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/fira-de-sineu/): The spring agricultural and livestock fair in the center of Mallorca. Sineu also has the oldest weekly market on the island (Wednesdays).

## Workshops and shops
- [ABCO Pottery Studio (Pollença)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/abco-pottery-studio-pollenca/): - What it does: handmade ceramic workshop-store: tableware, kitchen pieces, stoneware and porcelain; Finishes with carved texture and…
- [Alfredo Joyeros (Palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/alfredo-joyeros-palma/): - What it does: classic jewelry with an open workshop (ground floor and basement): own creation, especially wedding rings and engagement…
- [ArteArtesania (Sóller)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/arteartesania-soller/): - What it does: “signature crafts” store-gallery founded by jeweler Carlos Tellechea. Contemporary jewelry, ceramics (Yukiko Kitahara, Rosa…
- [Artesania la Palma / Son Poca Palla](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/artesania-la-palma-son-poca-palla/): Job: llata
- [Audali Mallorca (Inca)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/audali-mallorca-inca/): - What it does: bags, carrycots and accessories of its own design, handmade in its workshop in Inca, in leather and natural fibers ("bosses…
- [BAL Ceramics (Sant Joan)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/bal-ceramics-sant-joan/): - What it does: “creative laboratory” of contemporary ceramics by Balbina Fullana: vases, glasses, cups, soap dishes; slow and minimalist…
- [BaleArt Fair](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/fira-baleart/): Job:
- [Bauç Artesania – Ramon Canyelles (Santanyí)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/bauc-artesania-santanyi/): - What it does: Handmade ceramics workshop (bowls, platters, plates) and some wood work.
- [Bestard Footwear (Lloseta)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/calzados-bestard/): - Who: family mountain footwear company from Lloseta, founded in 1940 according to its own "who we are" (data from secondary source…
- [BFC art. – Olive Wood Crafts (Consell)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/bfc-art-olivera-consell/): Job: whip-d-olivera
- [Brodats of Sant Llorenç des Cardassar (Son Carrió)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/brodats-sant-llorenc-son-carrio/): > Context sheet: brodat was an industry in the municipality; Today there is only one open workshop, in Son Carrió, whose name has not been…
- [Bujosa Textile Crafts](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/artesania-textil-bujosa/): Job: llengue-stealer
- [Ca Madò Bet dels Siurells (Pòrtol)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ca-mado-bet-dels-siurells/): Job: siurells
- [Ca'n Llull (Palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/can-llull-restauracio-palma/): - What it does: antique and period furniture restoration workshop: marquetry and inlays, woodworm treatment, turning and carving, gilding…
- [Call Vermell, ceramic workshop (Felanitx)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/call-vermell-felanitx/): - What it does: handmade high-temperature stoneware: everyday tableware, unique custom-made pieces and own glazes. Shop with ceramics from…
- [Carmina Shoemaker (Inca)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/carmina-shoemaker/): - Who: brand created in 1997 by José Albaladejo Pujadas based on a shoe saga from Inca: in 1866 Matías Pujadas opened a custom shoe…
- [Ceramics Mallorca (Felanitx)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ceramiques-mallorca-felanitx/): - Who: factory-workshop founded in 1947 by Pere Bennàsar Montserrat; Today her daughter Francisca Bennàsar wears it.
- [Ceràmica Serra – Can Cadufa (Santa Maria del Camí)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ceramica-serra-santa-maria/): - What it does: ceramics and clay, from traditional to modern pieces; commissions such as clay lamps. Also known as Gerreria Serra, Can…
- [Eines Mallorquines (Sineu)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/eines-mallorquines-sineu/): - What it does: artisanal forging of traditional Majorcan iron and wood tools: household (esmolles, pales, stoves, cauldrons), field…
- [Embroidery Valldemossa (Palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/bordados-valldemossa-palma/): Job: robo-de-llengues · brodats
- [Espartería Beltrán (Palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/esparteria-beltran/): Job: espart-i-cistelleria
- [Espartería Ca'n Toni Blancos (Inca)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/esparteria-can-toni-blancos/): Job: espart-i-cistelleria
- [Eugenio – Wood craft shop (Sóller)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/eugenio-olivera-soller/): Job: whip-d-olivera
- [Fet a Sóller](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/fet-a-soller/): Job:
- [Fiol Stained Glass (Palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/vitrales-fiol-palma/): - What it does: custom leaded stained glass and antique stained glass restoration; also Tiffany, fusing and grisaille, mirrors and handmade…
- [Francisca Truyol, siurellera d'Inca](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/francisca-truyol-siurells-inca/): Job: siurells
- [Fusteria Can Pou (Santa Maria del Camí)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/fusteria-can-pou-santa-maria/): Job: fusteria-mallorquina
- [Fusteria Ebenisteria Tomeu Mestre (Sineu)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/fusteria-tomeu-mestre-sineu/): - What it does: family workshop of fusters and ebenistes: Mallorcan blinds, finestres (classic and European style), entrance and interior…
- [Fusteria Miquel Mestre (Felanitx)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/fusteria-miquel-mestre-felanitx/): Job: fusteria-mallorquina
- [Ganiveteria Ordinas (Llucmajor)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/cuchilleria-ordinas-llucmajor/): Job: Ganiveteria
- [Ganivets Campins](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ganivets-campins/): Job: ferro · whip-olivera
- [Gordiola Art Glass](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/vidrios-gordiola/): Job: vidre-bufat
- [Guild of Margers of Mallorca (Serra de Tramuntana)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/gremi-de-margers-mallorca/): Job: pedra-en-sec
- [Guillem and Ignasi Cassellas, llata d'Artà](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/guillem-cassellas-llata-arta/): Job: llata
- [Guillem Horrach, flabiol maker](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/guillem-horrach-flabiols/): Job: xeremies
- [Guitarras Morales (Palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/guitarras-morales/): - What it does: classical and flamenco guitars by hand.
- [Huguet (Campos)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/huguet/): Job: rajoles-hydrauliques
- [Joieria Fill de Jaume Segura (sa Pobla)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/joieria-jaume-segura/): - What it does: gold and silver jewelry with its own workshop, watchmaking and repairs.
- [Joies Forteza](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/joies-forteza/): Job: jewelry-i-buttons
- [Jordi Ribas Ros (Colonia de Sant Pere)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/jordi-ribas-ros-colonia-sant-pere/): - What it does: traditional hand carpentry and teaching: 24-hour course in which a traditional frame is built (marking, sawing, planing…
- [La Palmesana](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/la-palmesana/): Job: jewelry-i-buttons
- [Ladrillerías Mallorquinas (Felanitx)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ladrillerias-mallorquinas-felanitx/): - What it does: factory of natural clay pieces from Mallorca: bricks, boards, steps and pavements, special pieces and a handmade line…
- [Lafiore (S'Esgleieta, Esporles)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/lafiore/): Job: vidre-bufat
- [Laura Micheletti, llatera (Artà)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/laura-micheletti-llatera-arta/): - What it does: palmetto llata work (margalló), the emblematic craft of Artà and Capdepera.
- [Lottusse (Inca)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/lottusse/): - What it does: men's and women's leather footwear, accessories and leather garments.
- [Magdalena Riera, chair caner (Manacor)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/magdalena-riera-cordadora-manacor/): - What it does: handmade cording of chairs and armchairs with plant fiber.
- [Majorica (Manacor)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/majorica/): Job: perles-de-manacor
- [Mallorcraft](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/mallorcraft/): - What it is: online commerce (Instagram) with a showroom in Palma (C/ Martí Boneo, by appointment) that sells handmade glass and ceramics…
- [Mamalula (Palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/mamalula-palma/): - What it does: designer jewelry handmade in 925 silver (textured, enameled, gold or oxidized), with minerals, stones and coral; alliances…
- [Margers School of Raixa (Bunyola)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/escola-de-margers-raixa-bunyola/): Job: pedra-en-sec
- [MD Fusteria – Miquel Duran (Manacor)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/md-fusteria-manacor/): - What it does: exterior and interior fusery (ports, blinds, finestres, stained glass), custom furniture for homes, shops and restaurants…
- [Olleria Can Bernadí (Pòrtol)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/olleria-can-bernadi/): - Who: olleria from the Amengual saga of Pòrtol, a historical branch from which Sa Penya and Cas Canonge (Jornades de Marratxí) emerge. The…
- [Olleria Can Vent (Pòrtol)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/olleria-can-vent/): - What it does: Pòrtol olleria (traditional kitchen ceramics: pots, greixoneres); unverified specific catalogue.
- [Olleria Cas Canonge (Pòrtol)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/olleria-cas-canonge/): - Who: olleria founded in 1981 by brothers Bartomeu and Bernat Amengual Reynés, third and fourth generation master craftsmen (Can Bernadí…
- [Pere Coll, potter of Pòrtol](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/pere-coll-gerrer/): - Who: master ceramist from Pòrtol. Twenty years in the Sa Penya olleria and thirty in his own workshop (opened in 1996) in C/ Cals Ollers…
- [Perlas Orquídea (Montuïri)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/perlas-orquidea-montuiri/): Job: perles-de-manacor
- [Pradas Art (Palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/pradas-art-palma/): - What it does: hand forging iron on an anvil: ornamental railings, bars and doors, stairs, pergolas, furniture and lamps, custom windows.
- [Rialto Living](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/rialto-living/): Job: llengue-stealer
- [Sa Posada de l'Artesà (Port de Sóller)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sa-posada-de-l-artesa-port-de-soller/): - What it does: Mallorcan crafts and objects store: handmade baskets and bags, Majorcan ceramics, tableware, knives, Balearic footwear…
- [Sebastián Caldentey, Santanyí stone](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sebastian-caldentey-pedra-santanyi/): Job: mares-i-stonebreakers
- [Ses Madones de Capdepera](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ses-madones-capdepera/): Job: llata
- [Sonia Restaura (Inca)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/sonia-restaura-inca/): - What it does: artisan furniture restoration, from old boxes and trunks to updating shelves; upcycling (giving new function to the…
- [Teixits Riera](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/teixits-riera/): Job: llengue-stealer
- [Teixits Vicens](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/teixits-vicens/): Job: llengue-stealer
- [TerraCuita Ceramics (Palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ceramica-terracuita-palma/): - What it is: Mallorcan ceramics store (pieces from a workshop in Pòrtol with local motifs and colors: fish, oil pots, plates and bowls) at…
- [Teulera Can Benito (Campos)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/teulera-can-benito/): Job: teules
- [The artisan school (Llubí)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/escola-artesana-llubi/): Job: llata
- [TLB Mallorca (Inca)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/tlb-mallorca-inca/): - What it does: handmade men's footwear sewn Goodyear in its own factory in Inca: boots, moccasins and lace-up shoes (Artista, Kiowa…
- [Trobada de Xeremiers and luthiers' fair (sa Pobla)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/trobada-xeremiers-fira-lutiers-sa-pobla/): Job: xeremies
- [Típika (Palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/tipika-palma/): - What it is: gift shop in the old town specializing in local and artisan products: ceramics, siurells, baskets, salts, oil and…
- [Vidal Wickerwork](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/mimbreria-vidal/): Job: cistellery

## Design today
- [2 Micos (Nicoletta Mantoan and Alejandro Dumon)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/2-monos/): Design and manufacturing studio founded in 2010 by Nicoletta Mantoan and Alejandro Dumon (architecture, sculpture and art). Workshop in…
- [30+8 homes Josep Togores (Vivas Arquitectos)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/vivas-arquitectos-josep-togores/): Complex of 38 homes in two buildings in Palma, promoted by IBAVI and designed by Vivas Arquitectos (individual authors to be verified)…
- [48 homes in Magaluf (LLOC architects)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/lloc-arquitectes-48-viviendas-magaluf/): Project by LLOC architects (Itziar Lafuente Antón and Adrià Talens Mateu, Mallorca) for IBAVI and the Calvià City Council. Two enclosures…
- [Adriane Escarfullery](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/adriane-escarfullery/): Chair designer born in the Dominican Republic (35 years old in 2026), in Mallorca since he was 16. He works in Palma with local carpenters…
- [Amarar](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/amarar/): Small furniture manufacturer from Palma (C. Sant Feliu 17, local 15) that wants to recover Mallorcan pine as furniture wood. Fusteria…
- [Antic Mallorca (Araceli Iranzo)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/antic-mallorca/): Brand of handbags and llata (palmito) objects founded by Araceli Iranzo, who arrived from Madrid and learned with Ses Madones de sa Llata…
- [Artisan Fashion from Mallorca (Consell seal)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/moda-artesana-de-mallorca/): Guarantee seal created and regulated by the Consell de Mallorca (Department of Culture) that certifies 100% Mallorcan origin, quality and…
- [Aulets architects](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/aulets-arquitectes/): Study by Francisco Cifuentes Utrero, Sebastià Martorell Mateo and Maria Razumova, based in Palma (some sources place it in Barcelona…
- [Bastidas Architecture](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/bastidas-arquitectura/): Mallorcan studio of Sergi Bastidas and his sons Gerard and Boris Bastidas, known for rehabilitating historic buildings and possessions…
- [Biennial B (Es Baluard + Consell de Mallorca)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/biennal-b/): Es Baluard Museu initiative with the Consell de Mallorca that brings together interdisciplinary collaborative projects between contemporary…
- [Ca n'Uli (Vicenç Mulet)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/vicenc-mulet-ca-nuli/): Patio house of about 110 m² in Son Serra de Marina (Santa Margalida), by Vicenç Mulet (VMA Projectes), with an executive project by Miquel…
- [Camper (Inca)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/camper/): Footwear brand founded in 1975 in Inca by Lorenzo Fluxà Rosselló. Root: his great-grandfather Antoni Fluxà traveled to England and in 1877…
- [Can Lis (Jørn Utzon, Portopetro)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/can-lis-utzon/): House that Jørn Utzon (author of the Sydney Opera House) built for his family on a cliff in Porto Petro (Santanyí), completed around…
- [Carmen Oropesa](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/carmen-oropesa/): Jewelry and accessories workshop that works with traditional Mallorcan fabrics and motifs (roba de llengües). Founder registered as a…
- [Casa Planas (image and tourism archive, Palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/casa-planas/): Non-profit cultural center in Es Fortí (Av. Sant Ferran 21, Palma), founded in 2015 by the artist Marina Planas on the archive of her…
- [Catalina Lamp (Antoni Martorell Pascual)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/catalina-lampara-antoni-martorell/): Table lamp concept by designer Antoni Martorell Pascual (probable Mallorcan origin by name and theme; please verify). It combines standard…
- [Coderch in Mallorca: Hotel de Mar (Illetes)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/coderch-hotel-de-mar/): Only work by José Antonio Coderch in Mallorca: the Hotel de Mar de Illetes, inaugurated in 1964 (hotel no. 1,000 in the Balearic Islands)…
- [Contain Mallorca](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/contain-mallorca/): Product design studio ("slow design") that produces furniture and lighting with artisans from the island: brass, terrazzo and blown glass…
- [Crafts of Mallorca Awards (Consell de Mallorca)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/premis-artesania-de-mallorca/): Annual awards from the Department of Culture and Heritage of the Consell de Mallorca (island competition in crafts, art. 70 of the…
- [Enrique Presa](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/enrique-presa/): Graphic designer with studio in Palma (c/ Cotoner 43A). Branding, naming, art direction, editorial, packaging, web and signage.
- [Feel Mallorca (Joana Borràs)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/feel-mallorca/): Fashion brand with workshop in Alaró: pattern, cutting and sewing at home, especially cotton and linen. Whenever possible she uses fabrics…
- [Flores & Prats: Casal Balaguer (Palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/flores-prats-casal-balaguer/): Rehabilitation of the Casal Balaguer palace (Palma; phases 14th–18th centuries) as a cultural center, by Flores & Prats (Barcelona) with…
- [Fly House (BEEF architekti)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/beef-casa-fly/): Hillside house facing the sea in Mallorca (municipality not stated; please verify) by the Slovak studio BEEF architekti (Bratislava…
- [Huguet: hydraulic tile and architects](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/huguet-colaboraciones/): Hydraulic tile factory founded in 1933 in Campos. Of more than 100 workshops on the island, she was almost alone; manufactured cement…
- [IBAVI and Carles Oliver](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ibavi-carles-oliver/): The Institut Balear de l'Habitatge (IBAVI) promotes public housing and, from its technical department, has turned marès into material for…
- [Isabel Guarch](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/isabel-guarch/): Palma Jewelry. It was founded in 1957 by the mother of the current Isabel Guarch in a small atelier in an apartment in Palma. Since 2005…
- [Joan Aguilo](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/joan-aguilo/): Illustrator and muralist (Palma, 1983), trained in Illustration at the Escola Superior de Disseny de les Illes Balears and in Fine Arts in…
- [Joan Pere Català Roig](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/joan-pere-catala-roig/): Ceramist (Palma, 1973). He learned in the family workshop Es Retall (Palma), studied at the Escola d'Art de Palma (since 1994) and directed…
- [La Peixera (Marlene Albadalejo)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/la-pecera-marlene-albadalejo/): Interior design and product study. First collection piece: the Saturn stool with a Mallorcan palmetto seat, in whose manufacture four…
- [Living in Lime (Peris+Toral)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/peris-toral-living-in-lime/): Block of 42 public housing units promoted by IBAVI in Son Servera, designed by Marta Peris and José Manuel Toral (Peris+Toral Arquitectes…
- [Llanatura](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/llanatura/): “Circular wool factory” in an old Inca shoe factory (C. Ramon Llull 74). It was founded in 2020 by Eugenia Marcote (wool artisan since…
- [LOOP Design and Circularitat (IDI / ADR Balears)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/loop-disseny-i-circularitat/): Program of the Balearic Government (Conselleria d'Empresa, Ocupació i Energia), first from the IDI and later from ADR Balears, which pairs…
- [Mallorca Design Day](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/mallorca-design-day/): Mallorca's biennial multidisciplinary design festival, with fashion as its flagship, created and directed by Raquel Arañón. International…
- [Marc Sanz Pey](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/marc-sanz-pey/): Fashion designer trained at IED Barcelona. Origin: to be verified (the sources do not say that it is Mallorcan). Its Hyères 2023 collection…
- [Marés House (Twobo architecture)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/twobo-casa-mares/): House of about 300 m² in Pollença (Yatzer places it in Cala Sant Vicenç; please verify), by Twobo architecture (Luis and Pablo Twose)…
- [MM House (Salvà Ortín Arquitectes)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/salva-ortin-casa-mm/): Single-family home in the countryside between Pina and Algaida (Pla de Mallorca), by Catalina Salvà Matas and Héctor Ortín Isern (Salvà…
- [OHLAB](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ohlab/): Palma studio of Paloma Hernaiz and Jaime Oliver, architecture and interior design, very active in hotels in the old town. He often works…
- [Pablo Erroz](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/pablo-erroz/): Mallorcan fashion designer (own brand, genderless, timeless, sustainable), regular at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid. She has used…
- [Paparkone (Roberto Paparcone)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/paparkone/): Ceramic studio and concept store in Palma (C. Sant Feliu 17). It is directed by Roberto Paparcone Branchini (southern Italy, 1971), an…
- [Portella (hotel, Palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/portella-palma/): 14-room hotel in a 16th century palace. XVII of the old town of Palma, next to the Arab Baths, which was the house-museum of the painter…
- [Resmes](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/resmes/): Furniture and product studio from Palma, by the couple Joan Morell and Elena García. It was born around 2023 as a side project. The name…
- [RipollTizon](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ripolltizon/): Study by Pep Ripoll and Juan Miguel Tizón (Palma). Reference work: 19 social housing in Sa Pobla (IBAVI, ~2012), a modular system of pieces…
- [Sert Workshop (Miró Foundation, Cala Major)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/taller-sert-miro/): Workshop that Josep Lluís Sert designed for Joan Miró in Son Abrines (Cala Major), where Miró lived since 1956. Double height, concrete…
- [Setfonts — Palma Graphic Design and Typography Week](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/setfonts/): Palma's first festival dedicated to graphic design and typography. Founded by Damià Rotger (type designer, Ferreries 1981; Glíglifo…
- [Studio Jaia (Anna Lena Kortmann)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/studio-jaia/): Furniture and pattern studio in Palma (workshop and showroom in Pere Garau from 2022). It is directed by Anna Lena Kortmann (Mainz…
- [StudioRoses (Rafa Roses)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/studio-roses/): Branding and graphic design studio in Palma (c/ Temple 11), directed by Rafa Roses (founder and creative director). Motto: «We design to…
- [Tatiana Marieta / Open Studio 79](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/tatiana-sarasa-open-studio-79/): Textile artist and natural dyer in Palma. She runs Open Studio 79 (Santa Catalina), her workshop also open to other artisans: weaver…
- [TEd'A architects](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/ted-a-arquitectes/): Palma studio founded in 2006 by Irene Pérez and Jaume Mayol. They practice “proximity architecture”: context, local materials and…
- [Tonia Fuster / Studio Illes](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/tonia-fuster-studio-islas/): Mallorcan industrial designer (30 years old in 2018). He started Architecture in Barcelona and moved on to Design at the Escola Superior de…
- [XTANT (heritage textiles meeting, Palma)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/xtant-mallorca/): Platform and annual meeting of heritage textiles founded by curators Kavita Parmar (designer, IOU Project) and Marcella Echavarría. Its…
- [“Made in Mallorca” exhibition (IDI, Es Baluard)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/made-in-mallorca-idi/): Collective exhibition promoted by the IDI (Institut d'Innovació Empresarial, Government) to promote contemporary artisan design brands on…

## Institutions
- [Arxiu del So i de la Imatge de Mallorca (sound and image archive)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/arxiu-so-imatge-mallorca/): Audiovisual archive of the Consell de Mallorca (1999) to gather materials on the history, heritage and ethnography of the island; includes…
- [Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny de les Illes Balears (EASDIB)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/easdib/): Public school in Palma (Institut Balear 5). Higher design studies in Interiors, Fashion, Graphics and Product, plastic arts cycles and an…
- [Escola de Margers and Gremi de Margers (dry-stone wallers' school and guild)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/escola-de-margers-gremi/): - UNESCO: "Dry stone art: knowledge and techniques", registered on 11/28/2018 (multinational candidacy; Spain with several Autonomous…
- [Fira del Fang (Marratxí pottery fair)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/fira-del-fang-marratxi/): The only fair in Mallorca dedicated exclusively to pottery and ceramics; every beginning of March in Marratxí, organized by the City…
- [Gremi d'Oficis Artesans i Artistes (PIMEM)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/gremi-oficis-artesans-pimem/): Association of professional artisans integrated into PIMEM (small and medium-sized company in Mallorca). Demands: a new BaleArt- type fair…
- [Insular Directorate of Crafts (Consell de Mallorca)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/direccio-insular-artesania/): Body of the Department of Culture and Heritage of the Consell de Mallorca with exclusive competence in crafts (transferred by Decree…
- [Museu de Mallorca — Ethnological Section (Muro)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/museu-de-mallorca-etnologic-muro/): Ethnological section of the Museum of Mallorca in the Alomar de Muro house (c/ Major 15), regulated in 1965; European Museum of the Year…
- [Museu del Calçat i de la Indústria (Inca footwear museum)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/museu-calcat-industria-inca/): Before the Calçat i de la Pell Museum; municipal (Ajuntament d'Inca), ~2010. The only museum in the Balearic Islands dedicated entirely to…
- [Museu del Fang (Marratxí pottery museum)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/museu-del-fang-marratxi/): Municipal museum in an old flour mill (early 19th century) in Sa Cabaneta, bought by the City Council in 1977 and opened as a museum in…

## Concepts
- [Appropriation and souvenir](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/apropiacion-y-souvenir/): Two opposite risks of indigenous design on a tourist island: 1) imported industrial souvenir that imitates the local (stamped llengües…
- [Crafts vs. design](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/artesania-vs-diseno/): Classical tension: the artisan masters process and material; the designer projects and often signs. In Mallorca today collaborations…
- [Guarantee marks, DO and BICIM](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/marca-de-garantia-y-patrimonio/): Three different tools that are confused: DO/IGP (quality of origin; in Mallorca only agri-food products: sobrassada, wine...), guarantee…
- [Reterritorialising design](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/reterritorialitzar-el-disseny/): Aulets reterritorializes construction: building again with the earth, stone and wood of the island. Indigenous Disseny can reterritorialize…
- [Vernacular design / indigenous design](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/diseño-vernaculo/): Vernacular: form, object or technique that is born from a place, without a known author, adjusted to the climate, materials and local uses…
- [Zero kilometer (applied to design)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/kilometro-cero/): Transfer of food to the object: close material, hand and use (marès from local quarry, palmetto from Artà, fang from Pòrtol). Advantages…

## Sources
- [Aulets — «From site to site / Earth, stone and wood» (April 2025)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/aulets-from-site-to-site/): What it is: presentation (46 slides, April 2025) of the Aulets Arquitectes studio (Palma; Francisco Cifuentes and Sebastián Martorell)…
- [Balearic Islands Crafts Register (Government)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/registre-artesania-govern/): Main source to know who does each job today (Manuel, 10/14/2026: "the registry of artisans is the good one").
- [BICIM declaration of obra de palma (palm weaving), 2026](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/bicim-obra-de-palma/): File/declaration from the Consell (BOIB 2026) of the palm work (Chamaerops humilis, garballó leaves) as BICIM: the entire process, from…
- [BICIM declaration of tela de llengües (Mallorcan ikat), 2026](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/bicim-tela-de-llengues/): The Consell de Mallorca declared the traditional technique of llengües cloth an Asset of Intangible Cultural Interest (ARA Balears…
- [Die Balearen (Arxiduc Lluís Salvador)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/die-balearen-arxiduc/): Encyclopedic work of Archduke Luis Salvador of Austria (1867–1891 approx.), 9 volumes (6 dedicated to Mallorca): geography, ethnology…
- [Inventory of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mallorca (Consell)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/inventari-patrimoni-immaterial-mallorca/): Commissioned by the Consell (2023, Labrit company, ~€300,000) to catalog ~600 events: festivals, music, crafts, gastronomy... with files…
- [The dry stone: work, landscape and heritage (Consell, 1997)](https://dissenyindigena.org/en/entry/pedra-en-sec-obra-paisatge-patrimoni/): Proceedings of the IV International Congress of Dry Stone Construction (Palma, 1994), edited by the Consell de Mallorca (1997). Basic…

## Optional
- [Versión en castellano](https://dissenyindigena.org/es/fichas/)
- [Versió en català](https://dissenyindigena.org/fitxes/)