Empedrados Los Picantes SL has been selected by the Traditional Building Cultures Foundation and INTBAU Spain as the master craftsperson of the month for August 2024.
The brothers Manuel J. Pérez Entrena and Jacinto J. Pérez Entrena make cobbled and pebbled paving in a great many forms and styles, such as ordinary or coarse, variegated or artistic.
They use mostly traditional methods and materials, such as earth and slaked lime, though they also employ more modern techniques. The tools used in such work include strings, levels, metal rules, a mechanical tamper and compactor, mattocks, tape measures, hammers, masonry trowels, chisels, a levelling rod, stiff brushes and a watering hose or can.
You can discover more about his work and activity in his profile in the Spanish Network of Traditional Building Crafts Masters:
