Cossiol

#Cossiol

What is

Container smaller than the cossi , made of clay, wood or zinc (DCVB). In Mallorca, above all, the clay pot for garden plants, and other pieces of the house and the corral.

How is

• Cossiol de plantes (Mall.): fired clay, bell-shaped (DCVB).
• Cossiol de calç / de fems (Mall.): also flared; for whitewashing lime or the garbage collected by the femeter.
• Cossiol de sabater (Mall., Men.): very low, with water to soak the sole.
• Cossiol (Mall.): also the basin for washing dishes.

How is fa

• Work of ollers and gerrers (see ceramics and gerreria ; Museum of Fang ).

Com s'usa

• On windows, patios and steps: basil in cossiol.
• Alcover: «una grandiose aufabeguera a sa finestra des sòtil dins un cossiol» (Rondaies VII, 269).
• Small watering trough: "cociols per dar de beure a la mule" (1517, DCVB).

Vocabulary

• cossiol: pot (Mall.); basin; low vessel.
• aufabeguera: basil bush.
• «Negar-se dins un cossiol»: drown in a glass of water (Mall.).
• «Es brot més apreciat / d'es teu cossiol voldria...»: Majorcan popular song (DCVB).

History

• 1517: "cociols per dar de beure a la mule" (BSCC, DCVB).
• 20th century: plastic pot; The clay cossiol continues in Marratxí and Pòrtol.

On veure'n

• Ollerías de Pòrtol and Marratxí; Fair of the Fang .
• Patios of any town.

Why is it design

• One form, many jobs: the clay bell serves the plant, the bricklayer and the shoemaker.
• Clay that breathes: the plant does not rot.
• Living object: it continues to be manufactured and used.

For the project

• Current product with Pòrtol: flared cossiol as a piece of Indigenous Design.
• The aufabeguera in the cossiol as an image of the Mallorcan house.

Sources

• dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=cossiol

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

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