The handicraft award “CoMTradição”, established by the Government of the Azores and promoted by the Regional Secretariat for Youth, Professional Qualification and Employment through the Center for Crafts and Design of the Azores (CADA), was awarded this year to artisan Maria da Graça Páscoa, aged 90 , born in Furnas, in São Miguel. At the […]
Following the certification process of weaving in the Azores, in June 2001, the then Regional Economic Affairs Secretariat, through the Regional Centre for Handicrafts and under the patronage of the Presidency of the Regional Government made this year a dedicated period especially for weaving, not only giving it the quality status it deserves, through certification […]
Even today, very few are the houses whose doors are locked and, ironically, this is the home of one of the most unique pieces of the Azorean handicrafts, wooden door locks from Corvo. Most likely is the last stronghold of a medieval time when raw materials were scarce, but abundant was the ingenuity and the […]
“Rendas dos Açores – Ilhas do Pico e do Faial” is the published result of a partnership project between the Regional Secretariat of Economy, through the Regional Centre for Handicrafts, the Association for the Regional Development, Adeliaçor, and the Association for the the Development of Patrimony, the “Alvião”, which in 2004 aimed at the promotion […]
To increase the value of the Embroidery of the Azores, is essential to know its historical roots, beyond the technical aspects involved in their implementation and regulated by the brand’s certification “Artesanato dos Açores”. This was the purpose that motivated the Competition/Exhibition of Antique Embroidery of the Azores, an initiative of the Regional Secretariat of […]
As the catalog of the Handicraft of the Azores, this publication focuses on the image, in close-up and brightness, valuing the handmade piece as “work of art” signed and known. Each chapter opens with a picture of the natural element that gives rise to the raw material of each type of handicraft product. The final […]