Linum usitatissimum

Linen, our favourite textile

Upcoming International Fair of Artisanship |Lisbon

From 23 June to 01 July 2018, I´ll be at FIA (International Fair of Artisanship) of Lisbon (Portugal) with other colleagues members of the collective Modistas de Atelier. A group we launched together during our training period at Modatex with the aim of offering an umbrella of tailoring professional services and doing better together. During …

Embracing Ritacor´s #375blockproject

Creative projects in the pipeline

Craftivism is…

Last week, we organised a wonderful session at Dialogue Café. In the framework of our cycle "Global Exchange of Crafts Makers" we provided a special focus to craftivism, a gentle and creative way of protesting and bringing social change. An issue about I also share information through the European Cultural Foundation ECF Craftivism Lab. During …

Sustainable Clothing

April was an excited and reflexive month. When you are defining a new textile concept project and investing so many efforts on professionally stregthening your dressmaking competencies at almost 40 years old, you must to consider the contribution you want to bring to the field in order to reduce textile industry impact in the planet …

Slow Fashion vs Fast Fashion

Some weeks ago I finished the book "Moda ética para um futuro sustentável", bought at Retrosaria Rosa Pomar and wrote by , co-founder of BeCo platform and professor at the Instituto Europeo di Design (IED) located in Barcelona. For someone like me who just started to study dressmaking, it was a bit depressing to realise …

Crafting intercultural dialogue

"Crafting cultural heritage: how to promote intercultural dialogue and diversity through traditional crafts" is the topic of the next session I´m organising with Dialogue Café Association in the framework of the Global Exchange of Crafts Makers. See you in Évora, Lisbon, Novi Pazar or Rio de Janeiro! For more information, follow the links.