Food transported in the baskets realized in the whole area of Arborea

San Vero Milis and Santa Giusta (both in the region of Arborea) are the localities in which very important is the tradition in the production of baskets and hampers of several sizes, with or without cover. These containers were employed in order to conserve or to transport food (bread, cakes, fruit) and objects (like for example balls of wool, needles, pins, thread).

The flour-sifters were also realized with the use of this material.A more specific production regards the baskets for fish and crustaceans, realized in the areas rich in lagoons, like Cabras. And even more specialistic is the production of the “fassonis”, the typical boats constructed with the interlace of swamp rushes (“feu” or “tifa”), employed by the fishermen of Santa Giusta (and by those of Cabras, in Sinis penisnsula): they are particularly fit to sail in low waters rich in aquatic plants. Similar boats are represented in many findings of the Ancient Egypt and of the Mesopotamia.