By Juanra Alvarez Perez. Teresa González García, better known as Tere “the daughter of Nati and the one with the openwork”, was born on Tuesday, November 4, 1947 in a humble house in San Juan de la Rambla. She is the only child of a carpenter father and a housewife mother. She became interested in the world of fretwork when she was barely 10 years old. A normal day when she was leaving school, she was struck by some older ladies who were working with their frames outside an old house and Tere was shocked by the fretwork work of those artisans and challenged herself by asserting: this I take out!
Her life story already highlights her preadolescence stage, when after going through public school and the San Alberto Magno Academy, she began to learn the art of fretwork in a very personal and intuitive way through direct observation without further ado. orientation than his own vocational and self-taught attitude.
At the age of 16, she was able to access private training through the Women’s Section in La Laguna, where she obtained the title of Elementary Instructor of Physical Education and began other studies in Political Science that she did not finish.
At the age of 22, he ventured into a marriage project that lasted 17 years, from which eight children were born, four boys and four girls. Meanwhile, the backstage and fretwork accompanied him in every experience that life offered him.
With so many children to support and the distance from her ex-husband, day-to-day life was not easy for her. According to Tere’s statements, thanks to the help of her mother, who comes from a humble family and a native of La Guancha, she was able to get them ahead and give her studies. During this time, Tere got up at five in the morning to go to work in hotels in the South as a maid to support the family economy until her mother got sick.
Many nights he went without dinner so that the next day his children would not lack for anything. As she says: “I didn’t put fancy clothes on my children, but they never lacked food. They went to school clean and well fed.” She is a familiar, close and kind woman who is appreciated by all who know her. In his adult years he specialized in coarse openwork and canary marked “of all life” by the Cabildo de Tenerife, where he toured the main craft fairs on the island with resounding success, mainly due to the quality of his work and those characteristics. that come from the factory such as creativity, innovation, passion and the art that prints on its products.
Among its pieces we can find: Canarian magician suits, bedspreads, baptism suits, crib sets, blouses, aprons, wall clocks, Christmas decorations, curtains, tablecloths, earrings, napkins, cell phone covers, suits for failures from Valencia, typical handkerchiefs from Catalonia and bookmarks.
In the 60 years that Tere has been going through, she acknowledges having done work and commissions for many people, including renowned politicians, technicians from various administrations.
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I perceive one of her main values in her human part, in the social skills she treasures and in the popular community leadership that makes her a woman admired by anyone regardless of the social and cultural condition that labels them.
Tere González García is a universal rambler, a timeless and adventurous woman, who today offers some outstanding workshops at the town’s Club de las Mayores, who paints and receives painting classes in the same space, who travels when the opportunity, who welcomes friends and acquaintances into his home in an extraordinary way together with his daughter Pili and who has an exemplary enthusiasm for life.
Of course, its openwork is a symbol of immense quality and prestige for San Juan de la Rambla, for Tenerife in particular and for the Canary Islands in general.
