Madeira Press Kit - Associação de Promoção da Madeira
Madeira Press Kit - Associação de Promoção da Madeira
Madeira Press Kit - Associação de Promoção da Madeira
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MADEIRA MADEIRA MADEIRA TAPESTRY<br />
TAPESTRY<br />
Among thousand colours like blue, yellow, red, women<br />
stitch by stitch fill canvas with landscapes, flowers,<br />
painting reproductions and faces like a brush stroke.<br />
This historical <strong>Ma<strong>de</strong>ira</strong> tapestry, which gave origin to a<br />
real artistic activity, is a result of a free time occupation or<br />
a result of subsistence work.<br />
The use of this kind of handicraft into an economically<br />
fruitful activity had its origins with the German family<br />
Kiebeken. Paul Max Kiebeken, in 1938, <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d to create<br />
an atelier of tapestries. This way he diversified the embroi<strong>de</strong>ry factory production, which<br />
he had at Funchal.<br />
He put his son, Herbert Kiebeken, managing this atelier. Beauty and quality of the<br />
tapestries are a result of his artistic versatility together with the ability of the<br />
embroi<strong>de</strong>resses.<br />
This small atelier due to the success of production improved both the tra<strong>de</strong> volume and<br />
workers number.
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