Handmade
100% acrylic
1 to 4 persons (3 adults and 1 child)
300kg
2,60 m
5 m
Le “Hamac Wayúu7,” également connu sous le nom de “Chinchorro,” est l’indispensable compagnon de l’Indien Wayúu, une communauté indigène située dans la région semi-désertique de la péninsule de la Guajira, au nord-est de la Colombie. Ce hamac, qui signifie littéralement “filet,” est bien plus qu’un simple lit ; c’est un endroit où le Wayúu dort, échange, se repose, discute et accueille des visiteurs. C’est le lieu de naissance et le lieu de repos ultime.
Avec une créativité et un savoir-faire exceptionnels, le chinchorro est devenu un emblème culturel colombien, rayonnant à travers le monde pour partager la richesse de la tradition wayúu. Découvrez notre article : Les hamacs les plus chers au Monde : Les hamacs Wayúu
Origin of Wayúu weaving
One of the Wayúu legends tells that in an unidentified place of the desert peninsula of Guajija, Irunuu, a young Wayúu hunter found an orphan girl, abandoned to her fate. He took her home, handing her over to her sisters to take care of her and teach her the female professions. Rejected from the start by her sisters, he was obliged to take care of her, but when Irunuu had to leave, the girl was insulted and mistreated.
One night when she was alone, she transformed herself into a beautiful young girl and took out of her mouth the threads with which she wove wonderful colored hammocks. Upon discovering these fabrics, the sisters told their brother that they had made the hammocks themselves. However, Irunuu soon discovered the qualities of the girl, and punished the sisters by turning them into bats; Irunuu, in love with the girl, wanted to hold her, but when he tried to hug her, a piece of spider web remained in his hands. The beautiful girl had turned into a spider and disappeared among the branches of a tree.
Affected by his disappearance, Irunuu returned home to recover the fabrics and store them so that the new Wayuu generations could learn the art of weaving. In this way, the varied expression of the fabric began to spread throughout the peninsula.
Le tissage Wayúu
Les hamacs Wayúu, sont tissées sur un métier rudimentaire en bois, appelé Anütpala. Le métier à tisser est assemblé au moyen de deux troncs fourchus (añiruwi) qui ancrés verticalement au sol. Ces troncs de bois contiennent à leur tour deux barres transversales, positionnées horizontalement.
