Craft Production Unit
MARIA ALZIRA DE MELO NEVES
Island:
Pico - S. Roque do PicoBiography:
They carry out works that affirm themselves by
their own identity, whose aesthetics clearly shows the prodigious mastery and
good taste. They have contributed with an important legacy to the Azorean
handicraft, offering to the present and future generations a valuable
information about the techniques of working the wheat straw, fish scales, fig
tree and hydrangea kernel, lace and embroideries, keeping the investment that
they put in when founding the School of Handicrafts in Santo Amaro in 1986
alive.
In addition to all of this admirable work, they have been able to reinvent concepts by giving them new functionalities, such as the original labregas do mato and the various pieces of costume jewelry made from wheat straw or dragon tree leaf.
Address:
RUA BARÃO MANUEL NUNES DE MELO, 5,9940 - 184, SANTO AMARO