ARTESANIA

 The crafts in Extremadura very are varied. From pottery and ceramics to cork works happening through carpets, statures, utensils in mud, pottery, wicker, etc.

In Extremadura, the crafts have come to be determined by the necessities of the daily life. The utensils that commonly we required and todavia now we continued using, are those that have established the artisan line in our lives. Thus the skins, ceramics, baskets, embroiders... manufactured by tanned and skillful hands are the most representative products.

At the moment distributed by all the towns of the zone, many stores exist where they are possible to be acquired anyone of them. In fact Tuesdays in the Greater Seat of Plasencia, in the market, can become. In these stores the residents and the turísta acquire works in cork, skin, leather, receive, ceramics, weaves, embroiderings, embroiders, alfareria, ebanisteria, etc.

Between alfareria and ceramics they emphasize, stews, earthenware pitchers, pots... and marmol, the alabaster and the stone. In orfebrería, grates, knives, knives, bells, cowbells... of mainly Guadalupe, To marry of Caceres, Plasencia, Montehermoso and Torrejoncillo. In weave, the embroiders and embroiderings the looms of Torrejoncillo, Olive of Plasencia, Moral...
In extremadura muchola wood in materials like chestnut tree works, walnuts, oak, ash and brezo in places like Torrejoncillo, Guadalupe, Garrovillas... If we want to buy material of basketwork, worked with wicker we must approach to us places like Guadalupe, Jaraiz of the Side, Montehermoso, etc. Finally the skin and the leather like the cork, in Plasencia and Malpartida de Plasencia.