The work of weaver in La Iglesuela del Cid told by Fernando and Adelaida Puig Izquierdo, has been an eminently masculine work for the enormous effort that is required to do with the arms to work with the "shuttle", especially if you work on the loom Of 2.10 m. The boys were learning "seeing", beginning their learning between the ages of five and seven, playing the brothers, one on each side of the
Loom, throwing and returning the "shuttle".
First they were taught to "pass" without yarn, then showed them how to "step on the decals," then to make the "passes" of the comb with several plots ..., until at age 14 they worked hard helping their father. The daughters and the mother, on the other hand, did other work: they threaded, wound up, prepared the quills, sewed bags, sacks, saddlebags, and all those pieces that had to be worked separately into two parts and stitched together.
It used to work up to 15 hours a day taking advantage of sunlight, although its looms are in a building, in the Barrio de las Eras, with three floors: in the lower is installed the "warp" and in the other looms " To fly "and other utensils to make balls, quills, etc.
The Puig Izquierdo retains their family tree that refers to 1746, the first date of which they have a record that their ancestor was already a weaver, an occupation that was transmitted through men until the union of Eusebio Pallarés Gargallo and Joaquina Pallarés were born Two daughters interrupting the trade. But one of them,
Florencia Pallarés Pallarés, married with the Puig family, marrying Jose Puig García, who was not a weaver, of whom he had a son, José Puig Pallarés, who again learned the trade with his grandfather Eusebio, re-starting the weaving and remaining to the present.