Bécal is one of the villages where the local craftsman offers his products: the beautiful and famous Jipi hats. If you want to wear a good hat, this is your detour on the road to Campeche.
Bécal is a town of Campeche with the soul of artisans where we can buy and see the elaboration of Jipi hats, a tradition of years. The basketry, the art of weaving vegetable fibers, usually by hand, was part of the Mayan civilization, making baskets and baskets, useful products in the daily life of the Mayan. This art has been redirected in history, until the Jipi hats.
Basket weaving has been practiced for centuries in these lands, making products with different materials, depending on what grows in the area. At the time of the splendor of the Haciendas, in the early 1800s, the planting of the palm of jipijapa, along with henequen, in some haciendas of the state of Campeche.
Bécal and the jipi hatjapa
With the arrival of the Spanish colonizer, the hat it is implanted in the local dress. The chronicles place the first jipi hat in the year 1872. Surely the Panamanian hat is better known to you, right? Well, it is about this same hat, only that here it is known by this name. Currently, the artisan hats of Bécal, are so important in the local economy, that the main statue of the population is that, a hat.
In the village of Bécal you find other products made from this plant palm of jipijapa and huano, such as shoes, purses, bags or earrings.
In 1930 the cooperative "Hats Becaleños del Norte" was founded, the first cooperative to promote the Jipi hat at the local level, after the disappearance of the Haciendas. For many years they have been organizing cooperatives in Bécal, a very common form of association in the Yucatan Peninsula.
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Hat processing process
from Jipi
Throughout the entire main street of Bécal find different families selling their products. The interesting thing is that they teach you the product development process, something that can be seen in the same inner courtyard of the family home. This makes the visit and purchases of these crafts, an enriching and curious experience. I really liked visiting the place, it made me interesting.
Buy jipi hats
The elaboration process that artisan families teach you in their own homes, I leave it for you to live it live. Hats range from 300 Mexican pesos to 3000 pesos, depending on their quality.
The material and the technique used to make them allow you to screw a hat as if it were a ball and to recover its shape without a single wrinkle. These hats are a chulada. Bécal It is a place to take off your hat and leave with a new position.
Bécal, towns
LOCATION: Bécal It is located 96 km from Campeche (1h15 ″). Highway via Campeche-Mérida.HOW TO GET IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION? Transportation arrives until Bécal from Campeche, from the bus terminal ADO. They also arrive collective.
HOW TO VISIT BÉCAL? You can walk the town walking or tricitaxis, which take you to the craft houses. The main street is full family houses that are dedicated to the sale. With them you can see the elaboration process. You can visit it in the same day from Campeche.
ACCOMMODATION: you find simple accommodation in Bécal.
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Hello! Very interesting page. Could someone tell me how I could buy a bag made of jipijapa? I live in Spain and I fell in love with this material. Greetings and take care
Hello Loly, I have the phone number of one of the artisans working in Bécal: Jose A. Uicab Caamal Cel.996 102 1530 / 996 431 4326. I do not have email contacts, but I am sure that they must be sold in a web of handicrafts or hats, which I do not know.
Greetings and luck,
Sandra
Thanks Sandra!!!! You're a sweetheart!!!!! I will see how I could contact them, and I repeat ... thanks a thousand ??????????
Excuse Sandra, do you know the price? I can not find them, thanks
Hi Francisca,
The prices depend a lot on the quality and the work of elaboration of the product: they go from the 200 weights to the 1500 weights and 2000 weights for a hat chulada. You will have to choose.
Regards,
I want to know telephones of artisans in Becal that make hats of Jipi urges me a lot, thank you.
Hello Marcela, I only have the phone number of one of the artisans working in Bécal: Jose A. Uicab Caamal Cel.996 102 1530 / 996 431 4326.
Regards,
HELLO MARCELA, IN CASE YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO COMMUNICATE, WITH SOME ARTISAN I CAN HELP YOU, I LET MY MAIL FOR YOU TO COMMUNICATE WITH ME. HAVE A NICE DAY. edfi_32@hotmail.com
Hello, I would like to contact someone who makes these hats. the number that frame says outside the area. Thank you!
For my part I have no more contact than that, I am sorry I can not help you anymore. When I return to Becan I will write numbers, although it is not in my immediate palms to go there.
Regards,
Hi good day
In case you like to contact for handmade hats here I leave a phone where you can communicate directly with any of them.
Cell Phone (52) 999-9007373
Becal, Campeche, Mexico
Greetings to all
Excellent Jose, so we provide the information to interested people.
best regards,
Hello, I would like to contact a craftsman who has American or Cuban style three-part hats
My phone is 5533585809
Thank you
Maria
Hello Maria, I pass the contact of one of the families of artisans of Bécal: 01 996 43 1 4326 and email: looljipi_becal@hotmail.com They can assist you. Cheers,
I request catalago basico hats with price, for gift in wedding. economic line send by email
Hello Jose Ignacio,
We are not sellers on this website, you should contact the artisans of Bécal, in comments someone left your cell phone number.
regards