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Index of the 392 Disseny Indígena entries: crafts, objects, festivals, architecture, workshops and contemporary design in Mallorca.
Crafts
- Adobacossis and cordadors d'olles (pot menders)
- Alambiners and herbes de Mallorca (herbal liqueur)
- Barbers and surgeons
- Basters and selleters (saddlers)
- Bell founders and bell ringers
- Blanquers and assaonadors (tanners)
- Boters
- Brodats i calats
- Cadiraires and cordat de cadires (bova and palma)
- Calciners and lime kilns
- Calderers and courers (coppersmiths)
- Capellers and barreters (hat makers)
- Carassers and dimonis (festive mask makers)
- Carboners and sitges (charcoal burners)
- Cart and wheel makers
- Cereria (candle makers)
- Confiters and pastissers (confectioners)
- Coralers
- Corderia: rope making (hemp, esparto, palm)
- Esmoladors (knife grinders)
- Espardenyes i calçat (Inca)
- Esparto and basketry
- Estampers and popular printing (Impremta Guasp)
- Ferradors and manescals (farriers and vets)
- Ferro forjat (wrought iron)
- Fideuers (noodle makers)
- Flassades (Mallorcan wool blankets)
- Forners
- Fusta d'olivera (olive wood)
- Ganiveteria (knife making)
- Guixers and emblanquinadors (plasterers and whitewashers)
- Llauners and estanyers (tinsmiths)
- Mallorcan cabinetmaking and furniture
- Mallorcan joinery (doors, windows, shutters)
- Mallorcan pottery and gerreria (Pòrtol, Sa Cabaneta, Felanitx)
- Marxandos and mercers (pedlars)
- Marès stone and picapedrers (stonemasons)
- Moliners
- Obra de palma: llata and garballó (palm weaving)
- Olleria de Felanitx and the gerreta felanitxera
- Paraires and draperia (wool cloth making)
- Pedra en sec (dry-stone walling) and margers
- Perles de Manacor (Manacor pearls)
- Rajoles hidràuliques (hydraulic cement tiles)
- Roba de llengües (Mallorcan ikat)
- Sabó (Mallorcan artisan soap)
- Siurells
- Tailors and hosiery
- Teules (roof tiles) and teuleres
- Tintorers (dyers)
- Torners (wood turners)
- Traditional instruments and luthiers (xeremies, flabiols, guitars)
- Traditional jewelry and Mallorcan buttons
- Traginers and carreters (muleteers and carters)
- Vela llatina (lateen sail) and mestres d'aixa (shipwrights)
- Velluters (velvet weavers) and silk
- Vidre bufat (Mallorcan blown glass)
- Wood carving and sculpture (altarpieces, imagery)
- Xocolaters
Objects and tools
- Aixada i xapeta (aixadell)
- Aixeta (tap)
- Alambí (still)
- Alfàbia, gerra and gerricó (Mallorcan earthenware jars)
- Almadrava
- Arquibanc
- Avarques (varques)
- Balancí and tibulet (rocking chair)
- Baldufa
- Barral (wine flask)
- Betlem
- Bres (bressol)
- Bóta and cooper's tools
- Bóta congrenyada i quartí
- Cadira de bova (rush chair) and bench
- Cadira de repòs and llit de repòs (daybed)
- Cadira paridora (birthing chair)
- Cadiram de la Seu (cathedral choir stalls) and church furniture
- Caixa de núvia (bridal chest)
- Calaixera
- Canapè (Mallorcan settee)
- Canterano (chest of drawers with desk)
- Caparrots and gegants (big heads and giants)
- Capell de palma (palm hat)
- Capirot and confraternity robe
- Cardes and tisores d'abaixar (carding and cloth shears)
- Carpenter's tools (eines de fuster)
- Carretó de batre (threshing sledge)
- Carro mallorquí (Mallorcan cart)
- Carro triomfal de la Beata (triumphal float)
- Casera d'abelles (traditional beehive)
- Castanyetes
- Caulker's tools (eines de calafat)
- Cavallet (cavall cotoner)
- Cofí and esportí (esparto baskets)
- Coll de tords (thrush net-hunting)
- Cornucòpia i mirall
- Corriola i politja
- Cossi i bugada
- Cossier and Dama costume
- Cossiol
- Costume and jewels of the Àguiles (Pollença)
- Cove (covo) i paner
- Cuixals, manegots and didals (reaper's gear)
- Cup i canyís (trepitjar el raïm)
- Càntir and botilla (water jugs)
- Càvec
- Destral i picassó
- Dimoni mask and costume
- Dry-stone waller's tools (eines de marger)
- Empelt i navalla d'empeltar
- Enclusa i manxa
- Ensaïmada
- Esca i encenalls
- Escala de figueraler (fig-picker's ladder)
- Esco
- Escriptori and arquella (writing desk and casket)
- Escudeller
- Escudelles and plates from Pòrtol
- Escuts dels gremis de Mallorca
- Espardenyes
- Esquella i picarol
- Estel
- Estisores de tondre (shearing scissors)
- Estora (palm mat)
- Falç i falçó
- Ferradura
- Fitora and torchlight fishing (encesa)
- Flabiol and tamborino (pipe and tabor)
- Foganya (hearth) and fire tools
- Foguero
- Fona
- Forca, rampí and ganxo (pitchfork, rake and hook)
- Formatgera (cheese mould)
- Furniture of the possessió, village house and Palma townhouse
- Gaiato
- Garba, garbera and vencís (sheaves and stacks)
- Garbell, porgador and sedàs (sieves)
- Gerrer
- Gipó and Mallorcan peasant dress
- Goigs
- Grain measures: quartera, barcella and almud
- Graneres and graneretes
- Greixonera
- Gàbia enganadora (decoy cage)
- Gànguil i xarxes
- Harness: collera, bast and aubarda
- Harvesting carobs and almonds (canya de prendre)
- Jou (yoke) and Mallorcan ploughing
- Livestock ear marks (senyal de bestiar)
- Llaüt (com a objecte)
- Llit
- Llosa (stone trap)
- Llum de cresol (llum de cruia)
- Mallorcan neoclassical furniture and Isern workshop
- Manacor furniture industry
- Mariner's box
- Matraques (wooden rattles)
- Morral (shoulder bag)
- Morter (mortar) and maça
- Nansa
- Olla, cassola and perol (cooking pots)
- Omplidor and matances (pig slaughter) tools
- Palangre (longline)
- Palm fans (ventall and ventador)
- Pastera (kneading trough) and oven peel
- Pepa (rag doll)
- Plater
- Poal and cadufos (well bucket and waterwheel pots)
- Podadora and tallant (pruning hooks)
- Porqueres (Mallorcan work shoes)
- Portadora (grape-carrying tub)
- Potera (squid jig)
- Premsa de biga (olive-mill beam press)
- Premsa de fideus (noodle press)
- Rebosillo and mocador (traditional headscarves)
- Rems (oars) and escàlems
- Ribella i ribell
- Roda d'esmolar (mola)
- Romana (steelyard balance)
- Rosari ensucrat from Tots Sants
- Safareig
- Sailors' ex-votos and altarpieces
- Salabre
- Sembradora (sowing basket)
- Senalla (palm basket)
- Sequer and canyissos (drying racks)
- Shoemaker's tools (eines de sabater)
- Siurell
- Stonemason's tools (eines de picapedrer)
- Sàrria i sarrió
- Taula and bufet (table and sideboard)
- Tinell
- Torn de gerrer
- Tremuja and moles (miller's tools)
- Trinxet (Mallorcan pocket knife)
- Trull de tafona (olive mill)
- Vestit de Sant Joan Pelós
- Vestit i espasa de la Sibil·la
- Winnowing shovel and threshing-floor hut
- Wood saws: serra de cadastre and verduc
- Woodcuts of the Impremta Guasp
- Xeremies
- Ximbomba
Architecture and engineering
- Aljubs and cisterns
- Barraques de roter (dry-stone field huts)
- Camins empedrats (cobbled and bridle paths)
- Casa de possessió (Mallorcan country estate house)
- Cases de neu (snow houses)
- Clastra (estate courtyard)
- Defence towers and talaies (watchtowers)
- Dry Stone Route (GR 221)
- Escars and boathouses (varadors)
- Forns de calç (lime kilns)
- Marjades (dry-stone terraces)
- Molins de vent (flour and water-pumping windmills)
- Persianes mallorquines (Mallorcan shutters)
- Salines (salt pans of s'Avall and Es Trenc)
- Sitges and charcoal burners' huts
- Sínies and molins de sang (animal-driven wheels and mills)
- Síquies, qanats and water mills
- Talaiots
- Teulades i ràfecs (roofs and eaves)
- Village house
Festivals
- Ball de bot and gloses (folk dance and improvised verse)
- Beneïdes of Sant Antoni de Muro
- Cant de la Sibil·la (Song of the Sibyl)
- Cavallets of Felanitx
- Corpus of Pollença: Àguiles and Sant Joan Pelós
- Correbou of Fornalutx
- Cossiers d'Alaró
- Cossiers d'Algaida, Pollença, Inca and others
- Cossiers de Montuïri
- Cossiers of Manacor
- Dijous Bo (Inca)
- Festes de la Beata (Palma, Valldemossa, Santa Margalida)
- Firó de Sóller (Moros i Cristians)
- Holy Week: the Sang de Palma and the Davallament of Pollença
- Matances
- Moros i Cristians of Pollença (la Patrona)
- Pi de Sant Antoni de Pollença
- Sant Antoni d'Artà
- Sant Antoni de Manacor
- Sant Antoni de sa Pobla
- Sant Joan Pelós de Felanitx
- Sant Marçal and the Fira del Fang (Marratxí)
- Sant Sebastià (Palma i Pollença)
- Sermó de l'Enganalla (Llucmajor)
- Sineu Fair
Workshops and shops
- ABCO Pottery Studio (Pollença)
- Alfredo Joyeros (Palma)
- ArteArtesania (Sóller)
- Artesania la Palma / Son Poca Palla
- Audali Mallorca (Inca)
- BAL Ceramics (Sant Joan)
- BaleArt Fair
- Bauç Artesania – Ramon Canyelles (Santanyí)
- Bestard Footwear (Lloseta)
- BFC art. – Olive Wood Crafts (Consell)
- Brodats of Sant Llorenç des Cardassar (Son Carrió)
- Bujosa Textile Crafts
- Ca Madò Bet dels Siurells (Pòrtol)
- Ca'n Llull (Palma)
- Call Vermell, ceramic workshop (Felanitx)
- Carmina Shoemaker (Inca)
- Ceramics Mallorca (Felanitx)
- Ceràmica Serra – Can Cadufa (Santa Maria del Camí)
- Eines Mallorquines (Sineu)
- Embroidery Valldemossa (Palma)
- Espartería Beltrán (Palma)
- Espartería Ca'n Toni Blancos (Inca)
- Eugenio – Wood craft shop (Sóller)
- Fet a Sóller
- Fiol Stained Glass (Palma)
- Francisca Truyol, siurellera d'Inca
- Fusteria Can Pou (Santa Maria del Camí)
- Fusteria Ebenisteria Tomeu Mestre (Sineu)
- Fusteria Miquel Mestre (Felanitx)
- Ganiveteria Ordinas (Llucmajor)
- Ganivets Campins
- Gordiola Art Glass
- Guild of Margers of Mallorca (Serra de Tramuntana)
- Guillem and Ignasi Cassellas, llata d'Artà
- Guillem Horrach, flabiol maker
- Guitarras Morales (Palma)
- Huguet (Campos)
- Joieria Fill de Jaume Segura (sa Pobla)
- Joies Forteza
- Jordi Ribas Ros (Colonia de Sant Pere)
- La Palmesana
- Ladrillerías Mallorquinas (Felanitx)
- Lafiore (S'Esgleieta, Esporles)
- Laura Micheletti, llatera (Artà)
- Lottusse (Inca)
- Magdalena Riera, chair caner (Manacor)
- Majorica (Manacor)
- Mallorcraft
- Mamalula (Palma)
- Margers School of Raixa (Bunyola)
- MD Fusteria – Miquel Duran (Manacor)
- Olleria Can Bernadí (Pòrtol)
- Olleria Can Vent (Pòrtol)
- Olleria Cas Canonge (Pòrtol)
- Pere Coll, potter of Pòrtol
- Perlas Orquídea (Montuïri)
- Pradas Art (Palma)
- Rialto Living
- Sa Posada de l'Artesà (Port de Sóller)
- Sebastián Caldentey, Santanyí stone
- Ses Madones de Capdepera
- Sonia Restaura (Inca)
- Teixits Riera
- Teixits Vicens
- TerraCuita Ceramics (Palma)
- Teulera Can Benito (Campos)
- The artisan school (Llubí)
- TLB Mallorca (Inca)
- Trobada de Xeremiers and luthiers' fair (sa Pobla)
- Típika (Palma)
- Vidal Wickerwork
Design today
- 2 Micos (Nicoletta Mantoan and Alejandro Dumon)
- 30+8 homes Josep Togores (Vivas Arquitectos)
- 48 homes in Magaluf (LLOC architects)
- Adriane Escarfullery
- Amarar
- Antic Mallorca (Araceli Iranzo)
- Artisan Fashion from Mallorca (Consell seal)
- Aulets architects
- Bastidas Architecture
- Biennial B (Es Baluard + Consell de Mallorca)
- Ca n'Uli (Vicenç Mulet)
- Camper (Inca)
- Can Lis (Jørn Utzon, Portopetro)
- Carmen Oropesa
- Casa Planas (image and tourism archive, Palma)
- Catalina Lamp (Antoni Martorell Pascual)
- Coderch in Mallorca: Hotel de Mar (Illetes)
- Contain Mallorca
- Crafts of Mallorca Awards (Consell de Mallorca)
- Enrique Presa
- Feel Mallorca (Joana Borràs)
- Flores & Prats: Casal Balaguer (Palma)
- Fly House (BEEF architekti)
- Huguet: hydraulic tile and architects
- IBAVI and Carles Oliver
- Isabel Guarch
- Joan Aguilo
- Joan Pere Català Roig
- La Peixera (Marlene Albadalejo)
- Living in Lime (Peris+Toral)
- Llanatura
- LOOP Design and Circularitat (IDI / ADR Balears)
- Mallorca Design Day
- Marc Sanz Pey
- Marés House (Twobo architecture)
- MM House (Salvà Ortín Arquitectes)
- OHLAB
- Pablo Erroz
- Paparkone (Roberto Paparcone)
- Portella (hotel, Palma)
- Resmes
- RipollTizon
- Sert Workshop (Miró Foundation, Cala Major)
- Setfonts — Palma Graphic Design and Typography Week
- Studio Jaia (Anna Lena Kortmann)
- StudioRoses (Rafa Roses)
- Tatiana Marieta / Open Studio 79
- TEd'A architects
- Tonia Fuster / Studio Illes
- XTANT (heritage textiles meeting, Palma)
- “Made in Mallorca” exhibition (IDI, Es Baluard)
Institutions
- Arxiu del So i de la Imatge de Mallorca (sound and image archive)
- Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny de les Illes Balears (EASDIB)
- Escola de Margers and Gremi de Margers (dry-stone wallers' school and guild)
- Fira del Fang (Marratxí pottery fair)
- Gremi d'Oficis Artesans i Artistes (PIMEM)
- Insular Directorate of Crafts (Consell de Mallorca)
- Museu de Mallorca — Ethnological Section (Muro)
- Museu del Calçat i de la Indústria (Inca footwear museum)
- Museu del Fang (Marratxí pottery museum)
Concepts
- Appropriation and souvenir
- Crafts vs. design
- Guarantee marks, DO and BICIM
- Reterritorialising design
- Vernacular design / indigenous design
- Zero kilometer (applied to design)
Sources
- Aulets — «From site to site / Earth, stone and wood» (April 2025)
- Balearic Islands Crafts Register (Government)
- BICIM declaration of obra de palma (palm weaving), 2026
- BICIM declaration of tela de llengües (Mallorcan ikat), 2026
- Die Balearen (Arxiduc Lluís Salvador)
- Inventory of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mallorca (Consell)
- The dry stone: work, landscape and heritage (Consell, 1997)