The Portuguese Textile Industry is directly associated with the Portuguese remarkable History, the first official document is dated from 1573 and it was ordered by the King, in a way to recognize the textile industry as an important role player as it is today.
ANIL has in its possession a sort of official documents, a triptych, paints and books that evidenced the importance of the Portuguese Textile Industry to Portugal and its people during the Portuguese classic history.
The first Industrial Wool Association emerged in 1820, known as “Grémio da Covilhã”, Covilhã was a city with a considerable number of factories. This “Grémio” was headquartered in Lisbon. It was succeeded in 1889 by the Industrial and Commercial Association of Covilhã, who’s first Board President Director was Comendador José Maria da Silva Campos Melo, an industrialist and philanthropist, who greatly promoted modernization of the wool industry and created the first Industrial School in Portugal, where, for the next 80 years, technicians for this industry were trained.
ANIL has in its possession a sort of official documents, a triptych, paints and books that evidenced the importance of the Portuguese Textile Industry to Portugal and its people during the Portuguese classic history.
The first Industrial Wool Association emerged in 1820, known as “Grémio da Covilhã”, Covilhã was a city with a considerable number of factories. This “Grémio” was headquartered in Lisbon. It was succeeded in 1889 by the Industrial and Commercial Association of Covilhã, who’s first Board President Director was Comendador José Maria da Silva Campos Melo, an industrialist and philanthropist, who greatly promoted modernization of the wool industry and created the first Industrial School in Portugal, where, for the next 80 years, technicians for this industry were trained.
(The ANIL has a triptych depicting the fact and whose photograph we reproduce here)
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