Uruguay · Combined wood, leather, and ceramic object design
No single standardized term documented
Handmade objects combining turned and carved wood, leather and ceramic (turned bowls, carved kitchen utensils, leather-clad utensil holders, studded leather mate carriers and thermos holders, bags and belts) made from native raw materials with the stated aim of reviving old trades and national traditions in a clean aesthetic 'librada de excesos' (free of excess). The documented workshop, Buró Studio (Verónica Bueno and Pedro Castillo, since 2016), works under Fair Trade, chosen, they say, 'como misión de nuestro desarrollo' (as a mission of our development) rather than as marketing.
Risk level: Vulnerable · Not Applicable — no UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage inscription exists for this craft at time of writing
Guasquería — the plaiting of rawhide into reins, whips, hobbles, and finely worked horse tack — is documented by oral tradition, in the absence of written record, as having arrived in the Río de la Plata region with Spanish conquistadors,…
Wool yarn hand-dyed in large iron kettles over wood fires, then hand-knitted and woven by rural women in Uruguay's village cooperatives.
The working of cow horn into the guampa, the traditional Rioplatense vessel for drinking yerba mate.
Stoneware (gres) thrown on the wheel for functional ware and built into sculptural volumes assembled with iron, using clay the maker collects himself or sources from Uruguayan deposits; the sculptural series refer to Uruguayan territory…
Leaded stained-glass windows for buildings, which in Montevideo flourished in a documented boom of 1920–1940, when a prosperous city favored interior courtyards crowned with glass.
Mixed-media ceramics that combine Raku-fired clay with welded and hand-forged iron and, later, kiln-fused glass (vitrofusión).
The uni (уни) are the bent roof poles that radiate from the toono crown wheel to the top of the khana lattice wall, forming the conical roof structure of the ger.
The Swedish träskor (wooden clog) tradition — the making of the distinctive Swedish wooden-soled, leather-upper clog that differs from the Dutch all-wood klompen (CRAFT-1382) by using an alder wood sole with a leather upper, producing a…
A steam-bent bentwood box tradition developed by the Shaker religious community in New York and New England, refining the older New England round pantry box into a distinctive oval form joined with a functional 'swallowtail' finger joint…
The haus tambaran (spirit house) of the Sepik River region of PNG is the most elaborately carved architectural structure in Melanesia — its facade, posts, and internal elements covered in carved and painted spirit figures (tambarans),…
The making of Cognac aging barrels from Limousin oak — a distinct cooperage tradition from both Bordeaux (CRAFT-0916) and Loire (CRAFT-0890) in its use of wide-grain Limousin oak (tannins extract more rapidly; producing more rounded Cognac…
Relief and in-the-round wood carving in Vosges pine and oak, producing the distinctive Alsatian motif vocabulary — stylized flowers (particularly the Alsatian rose), vines, birds, and geometric interlace — used in winstub (wine tavern)…