Resumo:
This work is part of the development theme, specifically in the interfaces with culture, with an
emphasis on social and local issues. This is a study on the know-how of women embroiderers
located in the city of Pedralva-MG, in the south of the state of Minas Gerais, with the aim of
understanding how the know-how of embroidery permeates the lives of participating women of
the group. The proposal is justified by the scarcity of research on the subject in Brazil and
southern Minas. On the other hand, it is understood that knowledge and practices are powerful
to overcome the traditional and modern binarity, material and immaterial, rational and manual,
individual and collective, considering culture as a field of dispute, as well as promoting
development. The methodological and analytical procedures used are from anthropology, but
with intimate dialogues with the sciences that study the social, technology, history, education
and artifacts. Observations were carried out in workshops and meetings of the embroiderers
(free listening), interviews, participation in the WhatsApp group and records in field and
photographic notebooks during the embroiderers' practices. In an effort to synthesize, it is
noteworthy that the links comprised by the processes and artisanal, manual and artistic
productions strengthen the maintenance of people, the sense of belonging and the appreciation
of life stories. Within the context studied, women embroiderers tell about their realities and
make symbolic and/or material resources emerge, translating the meanings of individual and
collective experiences of the context in which they operate.
