Description
Oh My Love Sardine
Inspired by the love verses that the girls of the Minho region embroidered on handkerchiefs for their boyfriends, this sardine represents the promise of endless love.
A sardine that is a promise of love...
The Sweetheart Handkerchiefs are recognised by their strong colours, love symbols and spelling errors.
It was a romantic allurement ritual where the sewing needles were the keyboard...
Bordallo Pinheiro recreated the Minho essence, in a city piece... Oh My Love!!!
The sardines are made with high quality colors and decals, which allows them to have a very strong, intense and beautifull glow and color.
All the decorating process in each sardine is manual. The decoration is performed by decal process, which takes on average 10 minutes, producing only a few per day.
Each Bordallian sardine is wrapped in a original packaging to simulate a sheet of newspaper, in a throwback to the tradition of the sale of this fish in Lisbon, dating back to the XVIII century, between typical selling sayings, from the fishmongers.