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A Oficina

A Oficina

Located in the heart of Guimarães, A Oficina is a store, an art gallery, an artistic co-producer, a sponsor of creation grants, and an inclusive artistic community. A true contemporary cultural beacon in a city rich in History.

Inside the space, you can find artisans like Sameiro Fernandes or Maria da Conceição Ribeiro working on the Bordado de Guimarães (Guimarães Embroidery), using 21 stitches, reproducing 19th-century motifs, with a strict palette of six colors (red, blue, beige, grey, white, black). Sameiro and Maria are two of only eight certified artisans to execute this technique that combines refined and popular embroidery.

Guarding stories, gestures, and time, A Oficina is more than a physical space. Here, heritage and modernity are not kept behind display cases: they live, they are touched, and they are passed from hand to hand.

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Cesar Teixeira

Cesar 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 techniques he never abandoned: the low, horizontal, and the soenga.

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O Genuíno Cobertor de Papa

O Genuíno Cobertor de Papa

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 mother and neighbours handwove.

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António Ramalho

António Ramalho

A ceramic artist and heir to one of the central families of the Barcelos figurative tradition, António Ramalho continues to produce handmade works that extend the legacy of Rosa Ramalho and Júlia Ramalho, two major figures in Portuguese folk ceramics.

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