Vegueta turns white with the Las Mantillas procession

A large group of women dressed of white advances in front of the public, turning the mantilla, carefully kept for many years, into the main protagonist of the morning.

The funds of the Foundation for Ethnography and the Development of Canarian Crafts (Fedac) They place the mantilla as one of the most traditional garments of typical female costumes.a piece originally made of wool, more or less triangular in shape and with two angles at the base cut in a straight line that fall at the front and a rounded angle at the back, on which in some cases a canary puppy was placed.

The mantilla was an element imported from the area of ​​Castillaalthough it is possible to find very similar garments in the homes of Arab women who lived in Spain, in cities such as Naples or Venice and in some Mediterranean countries.

The shape of the blanket It is, more or less, like a huge triangle, and the angle that falls on the back takes on a rounded shape. The sides that go from the base to the apex are slightly cut inwards and thus, the hands have the ease of holding the blanket, according to Fedac.