SEASON 2015 \ 2016

We are ready for the new season 2015 - 2016, with many new features and lots of information to help you make your trip to Las Galeras, Samanà in the Caribbean!

Looking for information, tips and tricks to better enjoy the Dominican Republic?
Or looking for souvenirs, arts and crafts, cigars, rum or Mamajuana,
beach towels, pareos, jewelery, silver, amber or larimar?

Come visit us, we're expecting you

CARIFESTA XII

The Caribbean Festival of the Arts, commonly known as CARIFESTA, is a multicultural event, organized by the Caribbean countries, changing place every year.

                 This 12th edition takes place in Haiti from Friday 21 to Sunday, August 30.
                                            The 11th edition, in 2014 was held in Suriname

The Caribbean area, is an area culturally "different" and the meeting of this diversity gives Carifesta, a heterogeneous mixture that captivate the minds incredulous.

What unites all the Caribbean area are its culture and its art, through his songs, his drums, his stories, in all its forms

Carifesta brings together 22 delegations, in representation of different countries, which are received in the capital Port-au-Prince and in the citys of Cap-Haitien, Les Cayes, Gonaives and Jacmel.

During this event, all lovers of culture and art of the Caribbean, will be satisfied!
In the Festival, will be presented film screenings, panel discussions with writers, musical performances, art exhibitions, crafts, cooking and more.

                                            Carifesta XII opens the soul of the Caribbean,
                                             not only in the Caribbean, but for the world!

 The specialties of Haiti, as its hospitality, music, literature, crafts and cuisine will be known and appreciated by many international visitors.

                                            An open window on Haiti
                                                   

                                                          "The Caribbean is our roots
                                                      Our culture is our common future "

If you are already in Haiti or in the Dominican Republic, do not miss these ten days!

If you plan to finish your summer vacation to the Caribbean, Carifesta is a good opportunity to visit this beautiful country!

                                                                         Haitianarts

                                                     Las Galeras-Santa Barbara di Samanà

                                                                 Dominican Republic

NECKLACE MACRAME'

 
                                                     
                                Here Franco(Faudelin) at work, in our gift shop at
                        Las Galeras Santa Barbara Samana

As previously promised, in this post we will show you, step by step, how to make a necklace macramé.

First you have to calculate the amount and the length of the wires needed to be able to cut.

Then you do the first lap around the stone to tighten it.

Following these basic steps, begins the real work to tie the threads, depending on the design you want to achieve.

And here is the final result!

           

MACRAME'

When talking about macramé, we immediately think in lace, the thin fringe of antique linen towels, white tablecloths to old grandmothers, but is not quite correct!

The art of macramé has Arabic origins.

It 'a technique in which, a series of wires are knotted to achieve geometric designs, but can be used different types of wires or ropes.

The Macramè was exported worldwide by sailors, who are traveling from one continent to another, during long crossings, deceiving time creating coarse canvases for various uses, belts and other objects, with any type of thread orropes had to provision, which then used as trade goods.

Now we are creating earrings, bracelets and necklaces, knotting meticulously wire diameter of 1 mm and collaring stones of larimar, amber, black coral, and even pieces of shells.

          

Coming soon we will show you, step by step, the development of a necklace.