A craft learned alongside the master
In Outeiro, the art of clogs passed from hand to hand.
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In the study published in 2017, Teresa Soeiro tells that Manuel Alves Leite, born in Pinhel in 1899, learned from Bernardino José Pereira, Sobreira's tamanqueiro. The knowledge was transmitted to the descendants. This learning history brings the tamancaria closer to families and places, without assuming that the workshop remains open.
The inventory of the Museum allows you to enter the work space. It calls craft to the low table used by Manuel António Teixeira Leite. A bank with a small strain served as support in the finishing of the sticks; a form of wood and leather links production to the generation of Manuel Alves Leite. The objects show different supports of the work, without reconstructing the disposition of a concrete workshop.
The measures help distinguish the supports: table T15 is 82 cm long, 74 wide and 55 high; seat T14, 87 long, 28 wide and 50 high. Despite close lengths, they offer very different surfaces. The inventory connects the seat to the finish of the sticks, supported by a small stem.
ENTRY INTO THE OFFICE FOR OBJECTIVES
Open each support and find the registered function.
1 · Office: low table
The piece T15 was a work table used by Manuel António Teixeira Leite.
2 · Bank: support the stick
In T14, a board and a small staff helped finish the punching sticks.
3 · Shape: one piece for punches
The T10, in wood and leather, was used by Manuel Alves Leite.
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Source and context
Editorial summary; the date of consultation is not the date of the facts.