One way to preserve the careful work of the artisans is made possible through an innovative computer program.
One of the biggest challenges of today's world is to innovate certain expressions craft such as embroidery and translate them into textiles as a way of preserving this endangered art, resulting from the industrialization and the progressive disappearance of the female artisan that maintained the tradition. In a globalized world thirsty for innovation, it is very common to use the embroidered in haute couture, but in a highly competitive textile market, the massification of fashion trends are really difficult to get around due to its attractive low cost, in prejudice of an art thorough manual, time consuming and unique that distinguishes regions and countries. The future of the ancient art of embroidery is the adaptation for the home textile industry and clothing industry in Portugal as an innovative element in the collections. A work that is already visible in some brands marketed in our country and the work of some designers such as John Rolo, Fernanda Santos and Hugo Nobrega just to name a few.
In the dissertation, entitled "Portuguese traditional embroidery," Paulo Lemos e Silva proposes the preservation of memory of time as he calls it, through an innovative concept that is to create an electronic form that can be used at the level of training for the dissemination Portuguese embroidery. The program allows "access to a vast repertoire of images, drawings, embroidery techniques and motifs of traditional Portuguese allowing at the same time, the region where they come from. "The development of this work allows this new multimedia computer-based technology to be not as a substitute teacher or craftswomen, but as a tool to be used by the student or any other person in the service of disseminating and preserving the wealth of this Portuguese artistic heritage. The user will "travel" thru the program may have a precise location of the concept of traditional embroidery from Portugal, apart from enjoying the same historical context. The technique has not been forgotten. You can learn, disclose and transmit the technique of each of the embroidery, as well as view the forms of drawings of each.
The images used are original, so that you can stay with the awareness of what is actually more important to preserve. It's also a way of promoting Portugal and its artistic heritage, "he concludes.
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