Las que hilan memoria (Tejer la memoria entre Karrantza y Tánger) (Weavers of memory: between Karrantza and Tangier) is a project that intertwines family memory, historical memory and textile practice through interviews with relatives born or raised in Tangier, the city where part of Laurita Siles’s family found refuge during the Franco regime. The work emerges as a thread linking her parents, born in Tangier, and her daughter Lur, born in Karrantza, connecting intimate stories, displacements and forms of resistance.

The research takes the form of tapestries, textile pieces and an artist’s book made from wool from the Karrantza valley. Through family archive images, experimental weaving techniques and exhibition structures, wool emerges as a material capable of preserving and transmitting memory.

The project also engages in dialogue with Mutur Beltz, a project initiated alongside Joseba Edesa, where they work with wool from Carranzan sheep not only as a material, but as a means of relating to the land, care and rural economies. From a perspective of cultural management understood as creation in rural settings, her practice has succeeded in transforming a historically discarded raw material into a medium for contemporary creation, highlighting the value of extensive livestock farming and promoting fair payment for the primary sector.

Laurita Siles (Marbella, 1981) lives and works between Karrantza and Puerto Viejo de Algorta (Bizkaia). She holds a PhD with distinction from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (2017). She has been awarded the European Commission’s ARIA Prize (2025), which recognises innovative projects in rural areas, as well as the National Prize for Entrepreneurship in Craftsmanship (2024) and the Basque Government’s Elkarlan Prize (2024), amongst others.