> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Teresa Cunha > Reference:: Draft paper prepared in response to the UNTFSSE Call for Papers 2018, Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: What Role for Social and Solidarity Economy? Presented at UNTFSSE International Conference in Geneva, 25-26 June 2019 > Date:: 2019-06-25 > Tags:: #Portugal #warp/article > WeftLinks:: [[Social value of craft]] > Claim:: > [!SUMMARY] Finding > Capuchinhas Cooperative shows how craft can strengthen collective ties, support women, and encourage environmental responsibility through repair. > https://www.capuchinhas.pt/ The article focuses on Capuchinhas, a four women Artisanal Cooperative in Serra de Montemuro in the North of Portugal, who refused to leave their home villages to work in factories, creating emancipated and self-determined "jobs" for themselves through a sustainable fashion craft cooperative in a region (municipality of Castro Daire) where 50% of the number of unemployed people are women. Clothes are order-made and created one at a time from start to finish using old looms from their mothers, traditional weaving techniques, and local natural materials. The garments are sold directly in the workshop (a closed primarily school), at craft fairs, and from 2020, due to the pandemic, they have also been sold online. In collaboration with designers, the cooperative creates only two collections per year, each comprised of around twenty original designs. Although the four women collaborate with individual creators, there is no individual ownership of the production, with the artisans having the final say on everything they create. Orders are registered and then planned and managed equally and independently by the four women. For Cunha, the Capuchinhas Cooperative is an economy in which the mode of production and the control of time are determined by the collective, in which life and emancipation are central and co-work is its main orientation. The aim of the Capuchinhas Cooperative is not profit or the accumulation of capital, but the economic, social and psychological well-being of its members, creating "wealth" in the broadest sense through a self-managed, bottom-up decision-making structure, embracing new and old knowledge and valuing the territory in its various elements. As such, Teresa Cunha sees the Capuchinhas Cooperative as an example of resistance to the capitalist order and the creation of concrete and viable alternatives through traditionally female knowledge and activities, including care, repair, and no-waste practices.