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Armando Deferrari
Rawhide Braider

Armando Deferrari

Emeritus Member

About the Artist

Artwork by Armando Deferrari

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Encore 2010

Quirt

Quirt

$14,300

This California-style quirt, inspired by the late Luis Ortega, has a 24-plait body over a six-plait rawhide core with multiple buttons and intricate fid work. The wrist strap consists of two 14-plait Trenza Patria (Argentine flat braid) and gaucho buttons. Deferrari created the doubled and stitched softened rawhide leather popper, and adorned it with a two-strand rawhide appliqué in a Trenza de Pelo (hair’s breadth braid) and a border stitching.

The handle was created utilizing 72 strands of rawhide braided in a fid work technique. Two additional segments along the body of this quirt were embellished utilizing 62 and 64 strands of rawhide. Also incorporated are numerous appliques in Contra Mondonguillo (counterclockwise braid) as well as gaucho and herringbone buttons.

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Armando Deferrari

San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentina

(Emeritus Member)
Armando Deferrari was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and began braiding rawhide in the 1970s while attending the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Upon graduation in 1975, he began his career as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in Tandil, Argentina, while honing his skills as a traditional rawhide braider and studying under fellow braiders Maximo Coll and Don Luis Alberto Flores. To complement his braid work, Deferrari subsequently started studying the art of silversmithing in the gaucho style, becoming in time a master of both disciplines.  In 2008, he applied for membership in the TCAA and, along with Pablo Lozano, became one of the first international members. An Emeritus TCAA member since, 2012, he has traveled as an ambassador of gaucho culture to numerous countries, including the United States.