The report highlights the extraordinary case of Redsinsa, a unique example of the fusion of traditional craftsmanship and industrialisation and adaptation to new times and needs. It has been written by Ana Baldó, doctoral researcher of this local heritage; the manager of Redsinsa himself, Vicente Segrelles; and the director of Vilamuseu, Antonio Espinosa, and has just been published at the beginning of July 2023.
In the aforementioned year 1778, the esparto grass industry employed 400 families in the Vila, 75% of the population; and in the 19th century there was a change to hemp, which was more resistant to the increased power of the fishing boats after the legalisation of trawling (bous and trawlers) throughout the Peninsula. In those centuries, the fishing and naval rope spinning industry in La Vila was the most important in the country.
From the 60s of the 20th century, it was reconverted to the new synthetic fibres, and the concentration of the old lines in Redsinsa took place in order to face the new times with greater capital. This industry manufactured not only nets but also ropes for boats, which it supplied to the shipyards of La Vila Joiosa. In fact, in the 1860s, La Vila Joiosa became Spain's second largest ship register, that is, at that time it was the port that registered the most ships in Spain, including large schooners and paileboats that sailed the oceans to the Spanish colonies.
The report, in the fixed section "Mar enllà", highlighted on the front cover, gives prominence to La Vila Joiosa in a magazine that divulges the maritime heritage of the first line, as the cradle of the Spanish naval netting and spinning industry.