2015/03/13 - Pile, Ecuador: Manuel Lopez and his wife, Patricia Lopez, put the straw inside of a home made oven, where the straw will be bleached by the smoke from a combination hot coal and sulphur. After, the straw will be hanging again in the sun in order to get even whiter. UNESCO declared the “Montecristi hat” in 2012 as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
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