Textile Patcher and Maria Jos

jos: Once the factories started closing, then the schools closed, the shops closed, even the chapel closed, says Maria Jos Santos Salvado, a wizard with needle and thread who was laid off as a textile patcher when her factory shut in 2011, according to The Guardian. All the young people left. Nestled in the mountains in the Portuguese interior, this pretty town has suffered a familiar kind of slow-motion decline. Manteigas became a town of old people. But are fortunes about to reverse for people like Salvado After the surprise intervention of a husband-and-wife team from Lisbon, the looms of her old factory are chugging noisily once again. It's a common enough story in southern Europe, where rural decline is a long-term tendency that has accelerated since the financial crisis. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.