Portugal Shop insights

October 28, 2008

Portugal Shop is the online shopping portal of its two other sister sites, Portugal Web, dedicated to detailed background information about its Portuguese product offerings and Portugal Blog, its news and blog site on the many products it offers.

We carry two main product lines for online shopping: Equestrian accessories and Embroidery products.  Both lines boast of our unique hand-made high-quality craftsmanship hewn from traditional and cosmopolitan Portuguese designs inspired by a long history of Portuguese arts and craftsmanship traditions.  You can see them all in our new Product Catalogue which you can download in PDF format from this page.

Portuguese embroidery

Equestrian

We have a customizable line of equestrian riding apparel and horse equipment handmade in Portugal and carrying the Lusitano brand.  Because each of our Portuguese equestrian horse accessories and riding apparel is meticulously handcrafted, they can easily be customized to your personal specification or particular equestrian events.

For instance, an equestrian sporting event or show may prompt you to put the name of the rider, engrave some designs or have it shaped differently, just send us the specification details in the Contact Us page and we’ll do the rest.  Portugal shop carries different styles of saddles, bridles, horse tacks, tack kits and riding apparel that suit your needs or be made to match them.

  • Saddles:  Sporting the Lusitano brand and hand-crafted in Portugal, our equestrian horse saddles are among the finest in the world.   For a customized saddle model just contact us.
  • Bridles:  Under the Lusitano brand, we have on sale a wide range of Baroque and Portuguese bridles hand-crafted in Portugal using traditional but innovative ways that have made the brand famous worldwide.  Contact us should you prefer a personalized bridle design.
  • Horse Tack Kit: We have a line of Portuguese horse tack kits that include a bridle, a saddle and other horse riding accessories customized to your needs.
  • Other Horse Tack: We have a complete line of horse breastplates, cavessons, cruppers, halters, leather girths and stirrups handcrafted in Portugal carrying the Lusitano brand.
  • Riding Apparel: Our horseback riding chaps are likewise handcrafted in Portugal. You can order one with the size that fits you.

Embroidery

Check out our wide selection of exquisitely embroidered cotton and linen tablecloth and tray cloth textile products designed and handcrafted in Portugal. The fine embroidery is inspired from the Portuguese Viana do Castelo tradition and design elements.  At Portugal shop, we are proud to have the following hand-embroidered textile items for all your table needs.

  • Cotton tablecloths and Traditional linen tablecloths are all hand-embroidered in Portugal.
  • Bars Linen Tablecloths are specially embroidered textiles with thread pipings or bars framing the tablecloth that is of a different color than the cloth itself.  The bars may share the same color as the embroidery work or have the same color as the cloth itself.
  • Silvas Linen tablecloths are large embroidered tablecloths that cover the entire table top and can range in sizes from the smallest to the largest dinner tables.
  • Rich Linen tablecloths have a finder and richer variety of embroidery motifs.

Linen Tablecloths come in two designs with either framing bars or without.

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