New expo of Manual Arts in Museum Native House of Ignacio Agramonte

Camagüey - Domain of the technique, beauty and elegance together with the utilitarian function are the characteristics of those more than 30 pieces, knitted by hand, exposed in Ignacio Agramonte `s Native House, since October 27 until the month of November.

Their authors belong to the community cultural Project, directed by the artisan Reyna Casamayor, began two years ago and resides in this central museum of the city of Camagüey, some 30 members meet every Wednesday, in hours of the morning, to give loose rein to a popular art practiced by our grandmothers, but abandoned, for the modern technologies.

"We have begun this project in the House Fifth Amalia Simoni almost for two years, but it was decaying. For luck, the museologist Maritza Walls, of the Native House, welcomed us and here we are working, with a lot of enthusiasm, due to what one is knowing the group and are no longer retired only, but workers and young.

"We have the objective of carrying out personal and collective exhibitions where our works can be appreciated with the techniques from the fabric to the crochet, with two needles and the miñardi.

"In September we made a presentation in Television Camagüey, with an exhibition of fashions and we knew that it liked a lot, from then on the applications to integrate our Project have increased.

"Another reason to feel happy is that a member of the group, Raquel Ching, obtained a mention in the specialty of fabric of handbags in the exhibition of the Living room of the Cuban Association of Artisans Artists (ACAA), here in the city.

"We aspire to consolidate the Project and although the limitations are undeniable to consent with profusion to the matter prevails, something is always gotten without stopping, stamen, or another fabric type.(María Socarrás)