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Because there is a tradition of wall hanging silk patchwork handicraft in the area we ended up at a demonstrative workshop, which also "took" us into the world of silk, camel wool textiles, gold brocade and ready-made shawls and scarves. Many of us bought pashmina and silk shawls, though I chose a particularly beautiful camel-wool one with exquisite embroideries on that Christian decided to buy for me.
As we approached the "heart" of the down-town area a huge "haveli" mansion caught our attention and so did several outstanding characters in and around it - A proud "moustachied" man and a young magician we first saw in a bright red mirror-work traditional attire at one of the "jalis" and who would later perform some of his tricks for us, as we were leaving the town to go back to our hotels.
(To be continued)
Iolanda Congratulations for this wonderful blog which is my favorite, the good taste with which it presents and the excellent work they have done in Cape Verde always trying to improve and improve and improve.
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