Antonio Jiménez, 75 Years Old in an Almost Extinct Trade: "I Was the Last Spartero of Jerez"

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For more than a century and a half, the family of Antonio Jiménez Gallego was dedicated in Jerez to the espartería, cordelería, albardonería and the handcrafted supply of materials also of esparto to the estates of the area. “My father, my grandfather, my great-grandfather and my great-great-grandfather had an industry,” he says. The workshop began on Zaragoza Street and then moved to the slope of the Palenque, where his father built a building …