Abstract
This article discusses about the presence of drawing as an indoctrinate tool, of rigid technic and angelical themes, in formal education for girls through the teaching of embroidering during the final years of the 19th and early 20th Century. Thereby, it is analysed how embroidery was a knowledge transposed from domestic field to academic experience consolidating this manual work as an exclusively feminine activity and highlighting the integration between drawing and embroider throughout their classroom practice. The comprehension of this theme is sewn by the analyses of the political and social scenario of the time through the development of formal education and the prevailing of femininity ideals between colonial, imperial and republican Brazil. Based on this study, it is identified aspects that have influenced the continuity of the creation of embroidery in the 21st Century.
Keywords:
embroidery; drawing; education; women; Brazil