It left the chests of our mothers and returned to our closet.
No one knows for sure what century and in which country this art took its first steps, the fact is that emerged from the skilled hands of our ancestral great-grandparents and after many hours of patience under dim lights, ingenuity and creativity, the crochet arrived to the present day, through the chests where our mothers kept their famous dowry for the wedding and stayed there for a long, long time until ... the economical crisis and the need to have an extra in the end of the month made women rediscover this manual tradition and modernized it even more by applying it in accessories, incorporating it into garments and leather goods. Never crochet is been so fashion as nowadays and this trend has also reached the designers who have bet on silhouettes speckled with daring colors and intricate stitches. The different types of yarns also help in the design of clothes with greater visual impact, particularly in dresses. There are even designers who create collections made only of crochet, a fad that has done very successfully across borders, for example, in Brazil. In Portugal although one cannot say the same, since it is a whole imaginary very old fashioned is still latent in our female mind, I highlight the famous cloths of crocheto strategically placed on the table with a vase on top, or a television. Remember? It was not so long ago. The fact is that this manual art was ostracized and relegated to a purposeful obscurity until someone remembered that it is possible to make beautiful and modern pieces and voilá crochet is back for how long? The fashion next season will tell.
