The most striking thing with Lisbon, at least for me, was that almost every other building had walls covered in beautiful, painted tiles. They were everywhere, many with Moorish geometric patterns. I fell in love, and reached the peak of my infatuation at the National Tile Museum.
As with the Arab-inspired hat and collar cross-stitches in Burkina Faso and the Adinkra and Kente symbols of Ghana, the tile designs of Portugal will definitely inspire me to new knitting patterns.
Katja Malmborg 