This documentary was realised in Autumn 2009 in the Aurunci Mountains, Italy.
The authors are Vanessa Forte (Film Making, La Sapienza University) and Andrea Zupancich (Film Making, La Sapienza University). The documentary is edited by A.T.P.G. Society.
In the documentary the authors documented 3 kinds of manufacture of the Ampelodesmos mauritanicus (a mediterranean plant of the Graminae family):
1. Rope: Stramma leaves are plaited to make a basic plaiting (funincieglio); these are used like ropes to to tie toghether wooden bandles or like parts in the making of the trezza or iettola plaiting, used to obtain several kinds of basketry vessels.
2. Broom: a stramma sheaf (fasc' de stramma ) and a rope (funincieglio) have been utilised to make a little broom..
3. Plait and "sette fila": the documentary shows the manufacture of a plait (trezza o iettola ) "a sette fila" (seven sheaves), used in the making of different kind of basketry vessels. Every plait is sewed on the margins of another one by a funincieglio tie with an iron needle.
By these techniques can be manufactured the following basketry vessels:
* bags ( sporte ) to put on the donkeys back;
* little plain and rectangular vessels (spaselle) in green stramma to contain fish;
* bags and little baskets;
* covers for ceramic jars;
* carpets and mats;
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