Espadrille Family Business
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Basque: Innovation by Culture / 2.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 01
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0701_Basque_Euskaldunak_Dialogues_0004
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Mastaime Uriarle Atxikallende (presenter); Jean Pierre Errerant; Sandrine Lassarre (participants) Since 1977, the Errecart family at La Maison Prodiso has been hand-making espartinak (also called abarketak), or espadrille shoes. Director Sandrine Lasserre learned the craft from her father, Jean-Pierre Errecart. Worn by both men and women, espadrille are comfortable, flat, rope-soled shoes traditional to Basque outerwear. Espadrilles have been made in the Basque region since the fourteenth century, growing in popularity as they have been adapted into the fashion industry. Come join a discussion on the espadrille industry with members of the Errecart family.