Super User Omeka MetsExport Plugin The software used to generate this document is called Omeka MetsExport, which operates as a plugin for Omeka. Documentation can be found at http://github/MetsExport/ Bed Blanket Coat “Manta da Cama Coat" Helena Cardoso is a Portuguese designer and visual artist. Cardoso has worked since the late ‘70s, with several artisans specialising in different handmade techniques and materials in northern Portugal, especially traditional Portuguese crafts. Cardoso has been active in the areas of product design, fashion design, interior design, jewellery, social design and visual art. Regarding her work at villages, Cardoso officially started, in 1982, her partnership as a tutor with the Commission on the Status of Women –CCF (nowadays it is called CIG- Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality) and worked to support groups of women in underprivileged villages in northern Portugal until the present day. In 2010, Cabeceiras de Basto City Council invited designer Helena Cardoso to work with artisan women, resulting in a set of new contemporary pieces (some of which use industrial wool), while maintaining the traditional way of making them. The designer was inspired to create the Manta de Cama Coat, which uses ancestral weaving skills —the chequered pattern—, but replaces the colour palette (blacks, oranges, and browns) with a monochromatic one (white and black) with brightly coloured accents using rags of burel. Design by Helena Cardoso handcrafted by the artisans Bucos Women of Casa da Lã group 2023 iain Physical Object 86 17/03/2025 17/03/2025 107cm x 58cm x cm current,41.5729836,-8.0416041; 110 Cultural Universidade de Aveiro https://culturality.museum/3-portugal/ TEXT