What is
The granera is the Majorcan broom made of garballó palm with a cane handle. The granereta is the palm brush for whitewashing (whitewashing) walls. Both take advantage of what is left over from the palm work: the oversized leaves and the sporgins.
How is
- Granera: bundle of open palms (the garballó windows) and sporgins, tied to a cane that acts as a handle (BIC file, BOIB 101/2026).
- Before there were three varieties: fina, gruixada (depending on the thickness of the palm) and esteranyinador, with a longer handle to reach ceilings and roofs. Today only one type is made.
- Granereta: palms with eight brins or crown brins (the central ones of the leaf, wider, with the stem that joins them to the plant) and thin and thick sporgins.
- Tied: before with palm brin and rope of two brins; today with raffia and pita rope.
How is fa
- The graneretes were made in small specialized family workshops; In Artà there were even a dozen. They bought the palm from the arrabassadors and the esporgins from the women of the llata (BOIB 101/2026).
- The graneres, with open palms that today the few arrabassadors hardly collect.
- Process of the palm (plucking, drying, sulfuring): see work-of-palma-llata .
Com s'usa
- Granera: sweep house, patio and street (agranar). The steranyinator, remove cobwebs from the ceiling.
- Granereta: soak in lime and paint walls, patios and cisterns; part of the annual cleaning of the traditional house.
Vocabulary
- granera: broom.
- granereta: palm brush for whitewashing.
- agranar: sweep.
- esteranyinador: long-handled broom for cobwebs.
- esporgins: fine palm remains when leveling the brins.
- ventall: in the palm, the already open leaf of the garballó.
- brins de corona: central and wider brins of the leaf.
- emblanquinar: whitewash.
- granera nova agrana net: saying: new things work well (mall., men.).
- fer tant de paper com sa granera: do not paint anything (mall.).
History
- 13th century: "graneres, la dotzena grossa, diner" in a tariff cited by the DCVB.
- 1523: «una pastera ab sa granera e rasora» (DCVB).
- 1787: José Vargas Ponce writes that from the palm works "a lot is taken in brooms for Marseille" (BOIB 101/2026).
- 20th century: Artà had a dozen graneretes workshops.
- 2026: the Consell launches the BIC Immaterial of palm works, which includes barns and barns (07/28/2026).
On veure'n
- Museu de sa Llata (Capdepera castle) and demonstrations by the Associació Art de la Pauma (see document).
- Palm workshops: Guillem Cassellas (Artà) , Ses Madones (Capdepera) , Son Poca Palla (who makes graneres today: check).
- Museum of Mallorca, Etnològica Section (Wall) .
Why is it design
- Zero waste: the broom is made with what basketry does not use.
- Three tools, one material: fine, thick and roof; They only change the thickness and the handle.
- Kilometer zero: wild palm and torrent cane.
- House maintenance: the granereta goes with lime, the material that whitens and disinfects.
For the project
- Piece: broom and palm brush with current design (handle, hanger) with artisans from Artà/Capdepera.
- Workshop: whitewashing with granereta and traditional kiln lime.
- Trades: palma-llata work · calciners-i-forns-de-calc · espart-i-cistelleria . Files: ventall-i-ventador-de-palma , senalla , estora .
Frequently asked questions
What is Graneres and graneretes?
The granera is the Majorcan broom made of garballó palm with a cane handle. The granereta is the palm brush for whitewashing (whitewashing) walls. Both take…
What are the traditional words for Graneres and graneretes?
Some words: agranar, brins de corona, emblanquinar, esporgins, esteranyinador, fer tant de paper com sa granera, granera, granera nova agrana net.
Sources
Working text from the Disseny Indígena knowledge base, machine-translated from Spanish.