Burel Wool Porto

Rua de mouzinho da silveira 83 4050 420 porto portugal.

Burel wool porto. The guided visit follows the process of making burel from the huge sacks of washed wool through to the seamstresses cutting gluing and stitching coloured patches of fabric. Just burel 2020. If you re planning a trip to the serra da estrela you can arrange to visit the burel factory which is now open to the public as a working museum. Burel shop in chiado wool products for fashionable lifestyles our friends at burel manteigas believe in re creating the past making it present so that it might be forever using this mantra they take the ages old process of producing burel a traditional wool fabric used by mountain shepherds and transforming it into functional.

Typically the fabric is a bland natural beige or gray color and not particularly soft against the skin. Burel is a traditional portuguese fabric made from 100 pure sheep wool always connected to region of serra da estrela highest mountain in portugal mountains and shepherds with their handmade covers. A milestone in the portuguese wool industry made from 100 pure wool of serra da estrela. To keep it alive and extend its history that comes from far away.

Manuel maria pereira da silva marques rua professor augusto nobre 323 r c 4150 119 porto portugal nif 268030952. Contacts 351 22 320 37 98. After being sheared washed spun and woven on the loom the wool is trodden in a machine called stomper that beats and scalds the wool transforming the fabric into sackcloth making it tighter tough and waterproof. Monday to saturday from 10 30am to 7 30pm.

The authenticity of burel results from a sequence of specific operations in the manufacturing process. The ancient machinery has been lovingly restored and is fully functional. Mantecas began to be the brand of the burel mountain originals blankets but the time make it evolved into complementary decorative cushion covers and pure wool scarves made in the same ancestral looms. The authenticity of the burel is a result of a specific sequence of operations in the manufacturing process.

The fabric is made from a unique process of washing the wool spinning the wool and weaving it into fabric. Burel is a traditional wool product made for centuries by the residents of serra da estrela. Wool footwear headwear and more.