Huilliches baskets
In San Juan de la Costa near Osorno, baskets knitted with Boqui is quite characteristic.
Two typesof baskets are elaborated. The one that uses "Quila" as raw material, it can be used to make baskets of various sizes destined for sale or domestic use: closets, baskets for washing clothes and wool. Baskets for wheat, to pick potatos or murtas. And the one that use "Boqui" as raw material, worked with the needle technique and the buttonhole stich: this production is of specialists and since the 80´s decade it is orientated to the matket. The "Boqui" is a variety of bindweed that grows in the mountains in the thickest part of the native forest, offering thickness and solidity to this handcraft.