Entre o bordado e a literatura: uma coleção dedicada à Dora e aos demais capitães da areia

Abstract

The accomplishment of this study starts from the creation of a collection that approaches the dialogues between embroidery and literature in the novel Captains of the Sands written by Jorge Amado. The collection Dora and your Captains try to connect the sensibility and the need proper the theme of the novel with the delicacy of the embroidery, enabling the protagonism of the street children in their own history, that even being of poorness, can be potentialized to the joy and to their different ways of being and living. For this, the project is based upon a theoretical and artistic research that introduce a brief historical and polical panorama from the time of the blast-off the novel, besides a research of artists and groups that uses the embroidery to publish social and political speech. Aiming to explore the references of the many uses of yhe embroidery in the contemporaneity, like a powerful way to disseminate ideias. To the conclusion of the experiment put into practice the collection composed of fifteen outfits developed in fashion sketches inspired by the relations among the character Dora and the others boys from the group. And to the end of the project, the accomplishment of three complete outfits of the collection produced like a concretize of the research.