Baskets from Portugal
Was snooping around the first floor of an old book shop in Guimarães when I came across an old magazine, that was a suplement from a weekly portuguese newspaper in the early 90’s, called “Artefactos”.
I bought the issue covering basket weaving and leather works, a two-in-one for me.
The most interesting part is probably the Portugal map pointing out to all kinds of baskets typical from our country, from North to South.In the North alone we have condessas, ceiras, açafates, gigas, bresas, canastras, joeiras, gagreleires, balaios, cabanejos, cafaitinhos, vindimeiros e poceiros, along with other models that I’m sure weren’t covered in this issue.
Nevertheless, the information was laid out very usefully.
