Makers
Stories, news and behind the scenes of Portuguese craft. What’s happening in the workshops, at the fairs and at Ra-Ro.

Olaria Xico Tarefa
Aos 13 anos começou a trabalhar o barro. Aos 16 já era mestre oleiro. Hoje, no Redondo, Xico Tarefa dá forma às peças na roda e Zeza, sua mulher, pinta a expressão final.
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Artesanato Zézinha
Azul, verde-garrafa, grená, vermelho, amarelo e branco. É sobre estas cores que Zézinha começa a desenhar, com os dedos, as flores que dão vida ao mobiliário alentejano.
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Salina Greens
Where salt is not just salt.At Salinas Green, the landscape is not a backdrop. It is a living system.Here, plants grow where the land meets the salt, and food is born from its regeneration.
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Bailha
When the future is embroidered with the art of the past.At Bailha, Madeira embroidery is reborn in every piece, through the hands of those who learned the tradition and the know-how of those who ca...
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Isidoro Ramos
Esparto is not cut. It is pulled.Isidoro Ramos returned to the fields where he grew up. And revived the tradition that his grandmother's and mother's hands taught him. So that Algarve esparto does ...
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Salinas do Samouco
In the Tagus estuary, the Salinas do Samouco were once the country's largest producers. Today, Marinha do Canto endures - where the salt, stubborn, remained.
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As Capuchinhas
The women who weave the mountains.As Capuchinhas is a cooperative of artisans from the Serra de Montemuro who transform wool, linen and burel into pieces of contemporary design, preserving ancestra...
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Jacky Cavallari
The master who paints with wood.Jacky Cavallari is the master marqueter and ebonist who uses wood as his colour palette, creating detailed compositions through the hand-fitting of thin wood veneers...
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Enfia o Barrete
Enfia o Barrete, just as tradition demands.The Enfia o Barrete collective has no intention of fooling anyone. It is dedicated to preserving Madeira's ear cap and to valuing the sheep's wool and nat...
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Adega Cooperativa da Lourinhã
The Adega Cooperativa da Lourinhã preserves the art of DOC wine brandy, turning grapes from ocean soils into outstanding spirits through patient ageing in fine woods, honouring the legacy of the re...
Read articleCésar Teixeira
César Teixeira was born in 1969 in Gondar, a small village in Amarante, where he still lives and works. At 18, he became an apprentice to master potter Manuel Teixeira, learning two rare ancestral ...
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Céu Reis was born in Guarda and grew up in the village of Maçainhas, where winters were harsh, but also warm. How? She covered herself with the thick, waterproof traditional wool blankets that her ...
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