{"id":13468,"date":"2025-02-20T11:37:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ana-francis-tejedores1.c.wetopi.com\/awards-and-recognition\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T17:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:50:52","slug":"awards-and-recognition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anayfrancistejedores.com\/en\/awards-and-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Distinctions that endorse our craft, design and professional journey<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Awards and recognition for excellence in craft, the preservation of a trade and rural development<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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This page brings together the awards and recognition we have received throughout our journey as handweavers working on manual floor looms. They distinguish the sustained work we have developed over the years: excellence in craft, the recovery of a trade at risk of disappearing, and our commitment to the rural environment.<\/p>

From our workshop at Casa Forestal El Pilarillo, in the Sierra de Segura, we have consolidated a project that brings together craft, contemporary design and textile art. With deep respect for our surroundings, we keep the craft alive and give visibility to the Sierra de Segura as a territory connected to the most contemporary forms of craftsmanship and to the cultural heritage of Andalusia.<\/p>

For us, these awards and distinctions are letters of introduction. They endorse our journey and our way of developing the craft, while also acknowledging the quality of our pieces, aligned with the values of quiet luxury and excellence.<\/p>

We share this list of awards and recognition with deep gratitude to the public and private institutions that have granted them, and also to all the people who trust our work and make it possible.<\/p>

Below, you can consult each distinction, with its year, the institution that granted it and the reason for which it was awarded.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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In 2024, the Regional Government of Andalusia recognised me as a Master Artisan, making me the first woman to receive this distinction in the province of Ja\u00e9n.<\/p>

As established in Decree 475\/2008, the Regional Government of Andalusia enters artisans who have demonstrated extraordinary merit related to their professional experience, the preservation of a craft or the promotion of their artisan activity into Section VI of the Andalusian Register of Crafts.<\/p>

In addition to meeting all the legal requirements, including more than fifteen years of professional practice, the Master Artisan distinction endorses the technical quality of the pieces, the coherence of the project, the transmission of the craft through teaching, and its contribution to cultural heritage and to the rural environment in which the workshop is located.<\/p>

Photograph taken at the award ceremony with Roc\u00edo Blanco, Regional Minister for Employment, Enterprise and Self-Employment.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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National Craft Award for the El Eterno Vaquero collection<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In 2020, the El Eterno Vaquero fashion and home collections received the National Craft Award in the Product Award category, granted by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism through the School of Industrial Organisation and its chair for the promotion of craftsmanship, Fundesarte.<\/p>

In the words of Fundesarte:
\u201cAyF Tejedores, from Orcera (Ja\u00e9n), has received the Product Award for \u2018El Eterno Vaquero\u2019, a collection that seeks to show how craftsmanship on manual looms brings us closer to another form of consumption: responsible, with everyday pieces such as denim, which are at once new and reused, in an endless cycle of wearing and reusing.\u201d<\/p>

The collection combines our knowledge of weave structures and fibres\u2014in this case, recycled denim cotton\u2014with a contemporary design entirely different from the original fabrics. The result is a range of durable pieces for fashion and the home, aligned with quiet luxury: timeless, understated, sustainable and impeccably finished.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Our workshop received recognition as a Site of Craft Interest from the Andalusian Crafts Commission.<\/p>

This distinction is granted to workshops that stand out for the particular characteristics of their production or commercialisation of Andalusian craft products. Its aims are:<\/p>