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It was a festival
And this is how it was in Serralves, at the Festa de Outono, last sunday. I think that it was the first time that any of us, both in the textile and basket weaving activities, had to deal with so many people at once.
Rosa and Manuel, basket weavers
Rosa was born in a family of basket weavers and when Manuel married her, he learned the craft and became one as well. They work as a team, in their workshop in Braga, where they make all kinds of wicker baskets, sometimes with the help of Rosa’s older brother, her teacher in this craft.
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”.