The great family of the Musical Cultural Association Timbayba de Tinajo presented the new clothing called Weaving of Identity on Thursday night in the surroundings of the Plaza de Los Dolores in Mancha Blanca. This is a heartfelt tribute to the peasants of Lanzarote in the 19th century, women and men who with calloused hands and firm souls, sowed life in a difficult but beloved land. People who with humility and courage, knew how to dress with dignity for the task, the promise, the mass or the pilgrimage. People who sang and danced, even when the future seemed uncertain.
With Weaving of Identity, Timbayba reaffirms its commitment to the conservation of culture, folklore and traditional music of Lanzarote. To carry out this arduous work, the great Timbayba family had the advice of the professor, researcher and expert in Lanzarote clothing, Ricardo Reguera Ramírez.
There are many years that support him in the field of research while gathering very heterogeneous information from various fields, always contrasting testimonies, data and historical documents with those collected through interviews and field work and, by extension, unraveling legends of any kind.
Also for this project, Timbayba counted on two expert artisan seamstresses, Rosa María Ruíz Ortega and Violeta Santos Morales. For them, not everything is valid when carrying out such a laborious work where the smallest detail is looked at with a magnifying glass and taken care of, respecting the patterns, fabrics and colors and thus achieving the set objectives.
Another very important part to complete the clothing were the hats, a fundamental piece especially in Lanzarote, where the peasant woman, the peasant and the sailor used it and currently use it to protect themselves from the sun's rays. This laborious artisan work was carried out by Carmelo Bernal with his hands, inch by inch he was braiding each of them, giving them shape, soul and meaning.
Without a doubt, for the family of the Musical Cultural Association Timbayba the night of this Thursday will go down in history, not only for carrying out the presentation of their new clothing, but for having felt so supported by family, friends and lovers of traditions who filled the Plaza de Los Dolores with their presence and supported them with their applause in each of the songs and dances directed by Professor Clotildo Martín, where they performed folías, isas, seguidillas and malagueñas during the presentation.
And supervising every movement there were before and after: Ricardo Reguera Ramírez, Rosa María Ruíz Ortega, Violeta Santos Morales, Carmelo Bernal and the institutional representatives Jesús Machín Tavío, Minister of Culture of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, and Yurena Cuba, Councilor of the City Council of Tinajo. Weaving of Identity is the soul of the earth made clothing.