Maia developed a range of rayon threads, of different colours and weights, and founded the Varicor company to produce and market the threads. Varicor threads, especially the variegated ones, proved so popular that any variegated thread became known in Brazil as Varicor. Maia also taught embroidery workshops in Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere in Brazil, using her own flosses. The company was sold in the 1970's to a US-based manufacturer. The threads then became hard to find in Brazil, leading to a decline in dimensional embroidery’s popularity in Brazil.
Sources:
- http://www.brazilian-dimensional-embroidery.org/images/Threading%20Through%20the%20Past.pdf (retrieved 27 April 2016).
- www.embroiderersguildwa.org.au/ (retrieved 27 April 2016).
- http://www.needlepoint.org/Archives/01-10/brazilian.php (retrieved 27 April 2016).
Digital source of illustration (retrieved 23 June 2016).
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