Madeira (industries)
Original title: Madeira (Indústrias da)
An index entry listing the articles of the Elucidário that deal with each Madeiran industry, from agriculture and embroidery to sugar, wine and small crafts.
Of the articles on Madeiran industries scattered throughout this work, we give a brief list, which will make it easier to find the material most relevant to each of these industries. Besides the article Industries (p. 145 ff.), see the following:
Agricultural industry – Waters, Colonia (contract of), Phylloxera, Livestock, Agricultural Board, Levadas, Mangra, Woodlands, Mildew, Meadows, Agricultural Region, Cereal Regime, Sesmarias and Agricultural Society;
Embroidery industry – See Embroidery and Embroidery Industry;
- Dairy industry – See Livestock, Dairy Industry, Dairy Products and Butter
- Wickerwork industry – See Camacha, Wickerwork Industry and Osier Beds
- Livestock industry – See Livestock, Livestock Industry and Meadows
- Fishing industry – Fishing Industry, Fisheries, Harbours and Fishing Nets
- Sugar industry – See Sugar, Alcohol, Sugar Cane, Companhia Fabril de Açúcar, Sugar Mills, Sugar Industry, Sugar Protectionism and Hinton Question
- Salt industry – See Salt Pans
- Wine industry – See Estufas, Wine Industry, Vineyards and Wines
- Small industries – See Industries and the book Pequenas Industrias da Madeira by Lieutenant-Colonel Alberto Artur Sarmento, which comprises the following chapters: Textile Plants, Flax, Paper, Vegetable Oils, Laurel Oil, Old Soap, Dyes and Dyeworks, Mulberry and Silkworm, Clay and Potteries, Honey, Wax and Honey, Art, Sweets and Inlaid Work (Embutidos).
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Place
Places mentioned · 01
- Camacha
Santa Cruz. Cited as a reference entry for the wickerwork industry, for which it is known.
Camacha is an upland parish above Caniço in Santa Cruz municipality, founded in 1676 with its seat in the São Lourenço chapel. The Elucidário covers its church, role in the 1828 Miguelist invasion, quintas, levadas, the Poiso shelter house, its Pentecost pilgrimage, women's padded skirts, its plants and gardens, and its famous wickerwork industry started by Hinton.
People
People mentioned · 01- Alberto Artur Sarmentob. 1878
Lieutenant-colonel and author of the book Pequenas Industrias da Madeira, cited here as the main source on Madeira's small industries.