Botiga Son Poca Palla

In the 1940s, Gabriel Flaquer Alzina, together with his wife Antònia Melis, opened a business selling fabrics on the ground floor of their house. It was a complement to his usual activity, which was that of a muleteer working with palm leaves: the llata.
The llata is a basic plait, which, from a certain number of strands, forms a ribbon that, sewn in a spiral, gives rise to almost all the pieces of palm basketry.

While Gabriel was collecting the raw material (the palm leaves), Antònia exchanged for cloth the vouchers that the craftswomen brought her and which they had received from her husband in exchange for their work braiding the llata. This system of exchange lasted until 2010, when the shop closed.

After a year, a new activity was started in the shop, directly related to the above and which is still going on: the sale of Capdepera llata.

The business is currently run by the fourth generation of the Flaquer family. Son Poca Palla offers a wide variety of products, as well as other handcrafted articles, generally from Mallorca, all of them handmade. Apart from llata, we can find ceramics, knives, baskets, cloth made from tongues, costume jewellery, glass, food products and footwear.

The shop is part of the village´s history because it was where the women who made llata exchanged the vouchers they received for their work for clothes. It also conserves the hydraulic tiling and a high ceiling with mouldings.