Manel and Jordi come from a family with a long tradition of working with cane, preserved through the transmission of knowledge from parents to children.

They make wattle roofing and cane fruit containers, processing the cane themselves at every stage. Their first task is to cut… wild cane on nights with a waning moon in December, January and February in valley beds near their village of Els Guiamets. They stand the cane sticks up against trees to dry and by mid-spring the cane is ready to be worked. Wattle roofing is formed with cane pillars supporting a roof surface made of woven canes. Canes to be woven are opened lengthways and divided into two with the help of a badador splitter. Before they are woven, the canes are wetted to make them workable; then once the wattle has been woven, it is left in the sun to dry. Finally it is finished with strips of cane at both ends forming a cross to prevent the wattle from coming apart.

The tools used by Jordi and Manel are an axe for cutting cane and a sickle for trimming it along with other manual implements such as shears or splitters. The only innovation that Manel has experienced is iron splitters, as splitters were previously made of wood.