Traditional cloth bread bags will be the theme of the next exhibition at Casa das Avós, a community project that is taking place in the village of Motrinos, municipality of Reguengos de Monsaraz.
In the former primary school of this village, now called Casa das Avós, around 15 ladies aged between 55 and 80 years are producing bread bags to present, from April onwards, in the exhibition “The bread of each day”, which aims to encourage the use of these traditional items by the population when they go to the bakery, instead of the common plastic bags that are so harmful to the environment.
Thus, they are inviting all those interested in participating in the exhibition to produce a cloth bread bag and deliver it to Casa das Avós until March 31, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, between 10am and 18pm.
The bags will be returned at the end of the show in the expectation that the population will change their habits when they go to buy bread and use the traditional cloth bag.
This will be the second exhibition produced by the social initiative Casa das Avós, after the exhibition “Community Art”, which was on display at the end of last year and which presented more than a hundred articles of regional use that were previously used in Alentejo, as lace. , embroidery, taleigas, saddlebags, rag dolls, naperons, patrons, laurel bags, cutlery bags, among others.
The Casa das Avós project, which is being developed in partnership with the Municipality of Reguengos de Monsaraz and the Parish Council of Monsaraz, was a suggestion by the Motrinos community to fight social isolation and so that the elderly can be active. by producing the traditional articles they learned in their youth.
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