THE “MAKING LACES” OF BILROS:

THE RESSIGNIFICATION OF PROCESS IN THE LAGOA DA CONCEIÇÃO IN FLORIANÓPOLIS

Abstract

This paper attends of a reflection about the tradition of making laces of bilros, considering their function for the lacemarkers community of Lagoa da Conceição in Florianópolis. The discussion is about how the lacemakers kept the tradition of making laces for generations, adapting new functionality to the handcraft product, as well as the transformations that happened in that community after the tourism growth and keeping focus on the social-economic and socio-cultural perspectives of this community. The changes and permanencies visualized in the tradition of making laces define the new features of the product in nowadays, where a domestic handcraft product turned into a touristic handcraft product. The possible changes in technique, instruments and way of making the product are discussed under the lacemaker’s point of view, making possible an interaction between the community and the issue of the process continuity where its possible verify the possible interventions that these women believe to be necessary to guarantee the preservation of laces of bilros as an element of their cultural heritage.