Is there a better occasion than Christmas to celebrate human ingenuity expressed through the art of embroidery? Thank you for sharing with us the love for hand embroidery and we wish you a Merry Christmas!!!
Yearly archives: 2016
The Winter cold days are here and the snow has arrived to the mountains of northern Portugal. Inspired by this wonderful scenario our master embroiderers embroidered a luxury new set of linen placemats for a special seasonal design. There is beauty in cold 🙂
Winter Luxury
The work in “papelão” is one of the key features that distinguishes the “Terra do Sousa” embroidery. This technique is unique in the world and consists of folding several sheets of paper (usually paper bags and newspapers) that will serve as base for the placement of the fabric to be […]
“Papelão”: Human Ingenuity
The history of linen home production is closely interconnected with the history of “Terra de Sousa” hand embroidery at the Sousa Valley region in Portugal. Our grandmothers tell us amazing stories about how in their youth they used to participate in the production of linen, from the sowing of the […]
Linen Production and Hand Embroidery: Interconnected Traditions
The alluring pattern of the mysterious Leopard hand embroidered in a luxurious handbag with the signature of HEARTS! You can buy it now at UNIKSTORE!
Leopard Handbag
The Child Artist Daniela is famous for her paintings and drawings 🙂 Daniela and her mommy wanted to design a unique bedding set with a beautiful painting from Daniela and asked our help. We couldn’t disappoint Daniela and our embroiderers did their best to embroider her artwork! We hope we made […]
Daniela’s Personalised Bedding Set
We were asked to design a set of special placemats for a most special customer. “Crivo” is one of the most intrincate and delicate hand embroidery techniques executed by the Sousa Valley embroiderers, with just a few inches taking several hours to hand embroider. The final result is breath taking! Do […]
Placemats with “Crivo” Embroidery
Wonderful rooms deserve exquisite bedding sets. Our embroiderers used the delicate techniques of the “Terra de Sousa” hand embroidery to produce these fine bedsheets!
Fine Hand Embroidered Bedding Set
HEARTS Company is celebrating 5 years! We want to thank the success of our hand embroidery Atelier to all of our collaborators [specially our dear embroiderers :)], our fans and our customers! To signal this happy date we just launched our new website and blog. We urge you to follow […]