The island of the Palm has received throughout the innumerable centuries influences and influences of different cultures and mentalities. The palm has known to conserve until the present time many of these ancestral treasures and the essence of its ancestors. the crafts are one of its historical and artistic values that cause that the island conserves its peculiar idiosyncrasy.

The palmero is loving of the small things, the obtained thing by work made with its hands,
of beautiful and the functional thing, artistic and the daily thing and has conserved the artistic tradition to the present time.

The crafts of the Palm are a discovery for which it arrives at this island. Wool, linen and silk are used for the clothes, stoneware for utensils of the house, wood in places setting and buckets, recycled tin metal for lights, cantaros and empletas of cheese. With the palm leaves they make ceretas, mats and hats. The cabrito skin is the raw material for chaffs
and drums and bovine for the chairs

The textile silk and its products had great height in century XVI were 3,000 looms, at the single present time are left a hundred of these rustic tea wood looms, distributed by all the island. The Step is the only place where the silk of the Canary Islands is even conserved.

The tobacco

the returned emigrants of Cuba in century XIX brought the culture of the tobacco
and the art to make pure

The basketwork

It is the activity primitive craftswoman but of the island, the products but trādicionales they are the purses, baskets hats and fans elaborated with palmito

The Pottery

The black palmero mud, of full but incredibly delicate tact thanks to the techniques that made the production possible benahorita potter conserves in the reproduction of these pieces, specially in the decoration incisa and the color black, characteristic of the burned one.