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Falagan Mantas Artesanas

Val de San Lorenzo, León, Spain

Mantas maragatas wool blankets

What you’ll find

What Falagan Mantas Artesanas is known for

Falagan weaves wool blankets, scarves and ponchos in Val de San Lorenzo, a Maragatería village that counted eighty-one cloth makers in the mid-1700s and once sent its mantas across Spain with muleteer traders. The workshop still uses natural dyes and pure sheep's wool, and its output sits alongside a village textile museum that documents the centuries-old process.