Santa Maria
SĂŁo Miguel
Terceira
Graciosa
SĂŁo Jorge
Pico
Faial
Flores
Corvo
Real Estate
Handicraft
Handicraft
Scrimshaw
Works made ​​of bone and whale tooth.
Ceramics
Common in San Miguel, in the village of Lagoa.
Miolo de Figueira
Work from fig tree pith.
Embroidery
Beautiful pieces of artwork
Being an island absorbed in farm work and fishing, Graciosa's handicraft is concentrated on agricultural crafts that often repeat ancestral models that deserve to appear in ethnographic museums: ploughs and yokes, harrows and rudimentary fishing tackle. The existence of clay deposits allowed a ceramics tradition which, in picturesque potteries, produced pieces for daily use and vases, tea-pots and mugs of elegant design. The regional guitar, which enlivens every Azorean balho or dance with its characteristic sound, is produced on the island by skilful craftsmen who transform the wood into sonorous and delicately decorated instruments.
