As técnicas tradicionais das fiandeiras e tecedeiras de Hidrolândia - Goiás.

Abstract

This dissertation is a study of the traditional techniques used by the city of Hidrolandia s weavers and embroiderers. It reveals aspects of culture, identity and cultural inheritance, approaching the relationship between materiality and immateriality of technical know-how. It also presents a brief survey on the origins of weaving, its myths, the female presence, the necessary instruments and the manual weaving as well in Brasil, Goiás state and the city of Hidrolandia. In Hidrolandia, specifically, this study approaches the kow-how involved in the weaving process beginnig with the acquisition of the raw material cotton and how it is changed into a finished product ready for consumption. It presents and analises the gathering of the weavers which main goal is to value and show the several ways to work the cotton and the productive chain that involves the know-how of weavers.