The World's Finest Hand Embroidery Atelier

Blog

Our baby gift set offers two of our favorite baby accessories: a bib and a pacifier lace holder! All made with organic linen and high quality safe materials (clips are lead free and nickle free, with plastic inserts to prevent any damage to clothing). Both the bib and the pacifier […]

Eco Baby Gift Set

March 11, 2017 in Baby accessories / Organic / Terra de Sousa Embroidery tagged Baby bib / baby gift set / pacifier lace hold by info@hearts.pt

Some people are so rare and special that when we have the privilege to meet them we must celebrate it. Recently we had the honor to meet Sebastião Fortuna, a man whose dreams make happen, of unique intelectual brightness and humanistic spirit and with a long and rich life dedicated […]

Partnership with “Espaço Fortuna”

February 12, 2017 in Blog / Partnerships / Placemats / Terra de Sousa Embroidery tagged Espaço Fortuna / Hand Embroidery / HEARTS / Partnership / pottery by info@hearts.pt

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!!!

Merry Christmas!

December 11, 2016 in Blog / Placemats / Tablecloth / Traditions by info@hearts.pt

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

December 11, 2016 in Blog / Placemats by info@hearts.pt

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

October 31, 2016 in Papelão by info@hearts.pt

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

October 31, 2016 in Blog / Flax / Linen / Terra de Sousa Embroidery / Traditions by info@hearts.pt

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

October 18, 2016 in Blog / Handbag by info@hearts.pt

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

October 13, 2016 in Bedding Set / Blog / The Child Artist by info@hearts.pt

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

October 11, 2016 in Blog / Crivo / Placemats by info@hearts.pt

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

October 10, 2016 in Bedding Set / Blog tagged bedding set / bedsheets / Hand Embroidery by info@hearts.pt