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The mayor of Culture, María Ángeles Mazuecos has detailed that "the state of conservation of this textile piece was deficient, since it presented numerous alterations both in the embroidered surface and in the original support".

The Councilor for Culture of the City of Lorca, María Ángeles Mazuecos has presented, this morning, together with the president of the Brotherhood of the Virgen de las Huertas, Isabel Giménez, the president of the Brotherhood of Labradors, José María Miñarro and the artistic director del Paso Azul, Miguel García Peñarrubia.

The Councilor for Culture has pointed out that "in order to preserve the historical-artistic values ​​of this textile piece, it was decided to carry out an exhaustive conservation and restoration process that has been carried out in the embroidery workshop of the Brotherhood of Labradors, Blue step. "

Mazuecos has detailed that "the state of conservation of the mantle was deficient, since it presented numerous alterations both in the embroidered surface, as in the original textile support. So in the first place it was decided to transfer the original embroidery to a new support of similar characteristics in more than 90%, both in thread composition and in ornamental brocade ".

For his part, the artistic director of the Paso Azul, Miguel García Peñarrubia, explained that "it has been an extremely delicate work, which has required great skill and skill, since the support had to house the original composition perfectly of embroidery, and it must be aligned in weft and warp. "

García Peñarrubia has affirmed that "for the fixation of gold a canutillo with similar characteristics to the original has been used, both in thickness and in tonality, in such a way that in those small gaps that required it, they are perfectly reintegrated with the original."

In addition, for the central medallion, silk thread of the same characteristics as the original one has been used, this time the technique of the 'lost point' has been used, which consists of filling in those lost areas and of which there is documentation, with the same shades than the original.

It is a technique very similar to that used in the restoration of painting and sculpture, through pointillism.

The ornamental shields have also been restored and preserved, introducing a new synthetic fiber filling, to avoid the appearance of xylophagous insects that could damage the original support, and finally the lace was introduced in the same way and technique as it originally came out.

The president of the Paso Azul, José María Miñarro, has expressed his gratitude to the Brotherhood of La Virgen de las Huertas, to his directive through its president, "for the trust placed in the Workshop of the Paso Azul, for the realization of this process that has been carried out between the months of May and October of this year and in which five embroidery machines have worked that have invested a total of 2,200 hours of work ".

The dressmaker in charge of the restoration has been María del Carmen Hernández, and the embroiderers Lola López, Antonia Abellaneda, Josefa Sánchez, and María Miñarro, under the direction of Joaquín Bastida Gil and Miguel García Peñarrubia.

For the president of the Brotherhood of the Virgen de las Huertas, Isabel Giménez, it is a magnificent work that will allow "the cloak that Emilio Felices will design and direct in 1944, to regain its splendor so that Our Lady the Real de las Huertas, can wear it again as conceived. "

Giménez has added that the mantle will be worn by the patron on Saturday, November 16, at the 75th anniversary of the coronation of the Virgen de las Huertas that is scheduled to take place in the Plaza de España.

Finally, the Councilor for Culture of the City Council has congratulated the group of embroiderers who have carried out this work in an extraordinary way, as well as the directors who have shown their interest and support for this project, and whose magnificent result we can now check, making larger, if possible, the Lorca embroidery, whose excellence is a letter of introduction of this art for the rest of Spain and the world and as such we should be proud to be the precursors of something unique and unmatched. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca