History

Arraiolos, Land of Tapestry it is still the centuries of History of hand embroidery by generations of embroiders who preserved till our times, our most genuine handicraft, the Tapete de Arraiolos (Arraiolos Carpet).

The most ancient written reference known till today in the inventory of Catarina Rodrigues, the wife of João Lourenço, a builder inhabiting the Bolelos Property, Arraiolos term, where by the year of 1598, it is described the existence of hum tapete da tera novo avalliado em dous mill Reis.

It is also sure that the archaeological excavations in the Lima de Brito square in the beginning of the 21st century under the responsibility of the archaeologist Ana Gonçalves, without calling in question a more detailed research, admonish the stating of the production of this kind of carpet to a phase previous to the 15th century.