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Vila do Conde Bobbin Lace History Bobbin Lace School of Vila do Conde In April of 1919 by the Governement edit n.er 5.787 2X , was created in Vila do Conde The Arts and Offices School Baltazar do Couto. This institution was founded to develop the Bobbin Lace Teaching. In 1926 Rui Morais Vaz was transfered to this school as its director. This man devoted a graet care to the bobbin lace developement. He created new and recovered old paterns. Some of the directores of this school was Rui Vaz, Helena de Bourbon e Meneses, Manuel Rodrigues, Maria Amelia Cardoso, Margarida Neves, Maria de Sousa e Silva and Luisa de Azevedo Alves. We can't forget an important schoolmistress - Julieta de Castro Estrela, who followed the creating of this school, teaching hundreds of Vila do Conde ladies at the bobbin lace art.
The Vila do Conde Bobbin Lace Museum The City Council policy goes thrue the recuperation of several buildings, to install some services like museums, and cultural centres at the Historical Center to fix the population and provide urban ressources. In Vila do Conde the Bobbin Lace Museum, is at the city Historical Centre heart, and it is just one of the complexe of museums which compose the Municipality Museum, each one with a single particularity of the local culture. At the museum building is also functioning the Vila do Conde Bobbin Lace School which is the guarantee of the future of this tradition.
The Vila do Conde Bobbin Lace Museum We did several bobbin lace ateliers with Belgium and Chec Republic Lace Makers in which the Vila do Conde Lace Makers contacted with diferent realities. With the support of the Europeen Founds the lace makers went to Belgium where they saw some bobbin lace centers and schools. The Museum also work with the local and national schools, doing visits and giving informations about the bobbin lace. At the museum we also promote some music concerts. At the museum we do all kind of lace with lace mak ers which are everyday at the museum demonstrating how the bobbin lace is done.
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