Chile Forum

An invitation to share your experiences with the celebration of tijerales.

If you've built a house or done a major remodel, or were somehow involved in same, you probably experienced the tijerales party.

Please do share what you know, saw, or suspect about the tijerales celebration. Don't be shy in revealing how much it cost and how many maestros you had to send home drunk in taxis. Likewise any negative feedback, about getting word that you didn't do a tijerales when you should have, or not having enough pisco, or whatever. All of that could be useful for future gringuitos involved in building and celebrating without getting taken advantage of.

In parts of Chile with more chilote influence..... any difference vs non-chilote versions of tijerales.

Flags vs branches? Structure weathered-in or simply roof on? Anybody can read the wikipedia version so tell your own stories.

FrankPintor wrote:Just some branches (twisted to form a kind of wreath), and long before the roof was on or anything made weatherproof, as you can see, from August 2008 in Valdivia. 1 roast pig, lots of wine, chicha, and pisco, and in spite of the cold a good party. Maestro from Llifén (I understand that Valdivia maestros are getting contracted in Chiloé, if the Chilote maestros are going to Patagonia we're witness to some kind of migration...)

There has been massive chilote migration to Patagonia for nearly 100 years. Almost all of Puerto Natales was built by chilote labor and everywhere from Aysen southward has some sort of "hijos de Chiloé" center. They are a plague.

Thanks for the inputs on your tijerales !

Vicki and Greg Lansen wrote:Here is a discussion thread on the subject....

post8963.html?hilit=techo party#p8963

Thanks -- I had missed that. Some good observations there.