{"id":570,"date":"2015-07-03T09:43:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T14:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2019-07-29T16:25:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T21:25:46","slug":"master-embroidery-of-the-boi-and-costumes-dona-tania-of-sao-luis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Master Embroiderer of the Bumba-meu-boi: Tania Lucia Soares of Sao Luis"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>The best known embroidery artisan in Sao Luis (Maranhao) is Tania Lucia Soares.\u00a0 Her style is unmistakable and widely-seen in the Sao Luis festival.\u00a0 She may do a dozen or more bois and many costumes during the course of a single year, all needed for delivery by June 23.\n

She has a small cottage-industry with her husband and a few young men who help with the embroidery.<\/p>\n

Even though her work is regional, she is part of an international market.\u00a0 The best beads, sequins and decorative glass pieces are\u00a0made abroad and only available in the markets of Sao Paulo.\u00a0 Each year or so she must import another expensive load of material for the new season.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_8598_DxO\" — Embroiderer in Dona Tania Lucia Soares workshop, Sao Luis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A closer look, showing the religious figures, St John (Sao Joao<\/em>) on the left, in his popular attribute in Sao Luis as a child with a lamb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Simone Ferro and master embroiderer Tania Lucia Soares, Sao Luis, June 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail of a new (2015) skin of the ox (couro do boi<\/em>), to be baptized on the eve of Saint John<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Representation of the Virgin Mary on a new couro<\/em>, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail of the central figure of Jesus, on a couro<\/em> embroidered for the new (2015) boi<\/em>\/ox for Bumba-meu-boi da Liberdade<\/em> (also known as Boi de Leonardo<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A couro<\/em> mounted on a boi<\/em>, danced in the 2015 season by the group Boi Uniao da Baixada<\/em>. The white dove, representing the Holy Ghost (Espirito Santo<\/em>), and the tableau of the last supper are elaborate and popular themes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A new ox of Boi da Uniao Baixada<\/em>, embroidered by Tania Soares, is freshly baptized and ready to enter the street, Sao Luis (June 23-24, 2015)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best known embroidery artisan in Sao Luis (Maranhao) is Tania Lucia Soares.\u00a0 Her style is unmistakable and widely-seen in the Sao Luis festival.\u00a0 She may do a dozen or more bois and many costumes during the course of a single year, all needed for delivery by June 23. She has a small cottage-industry with … Continue reading Master Embroiderer of the Bumba-meu-boi: Tania Lucia Soares of Sao Luis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folk-culture-and-spiritual-practice-in-maranhao-brazil"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}