The exhibition offers a journey through Portugal’s footwear and traditional textiles. It celebrates the richness and diversity of artisanal textile production cultures, based on the use of indigenous natural raw materials, transformed locally using traditional techniques. The purpose of the exhibition is to spread tangible and intangible historical heritage and the creative potential that the deep roots of local textile manufacturing, some of which are at risk of irreversible loss, represent for today's socio-economic and cultural contexts. Contrasts between past and present, tradition and evolution, rural and urban are highlighted, creat