Adelaida Ferré Gomis

Adelaida Ferré i Gomis de Ruíz de Narváez (Barcelona, 24 February 1881 - Barcelona, 9 March 1955) was a Spanish historian, teacher, and folklorist associated with lace-making in Catalonia. In addition to needle lace, Ferré was interested in Esperanto and participated in at least one international congress on the subject.

Early life and education Adelaida Ferré Gomis was the daughter of the painter and decorator Pere Ferré. Her education began at the Escola Normal Superior de Mestres before attending the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona and the Escola d'Institutrius. There, she had as a teacher the folklorist :es:Rossend Serra i Pagès. She also participated in the in 1920 and in the organized by the Guild of Locksmiths and Ferrers and the Commonwealth of Catalonia at the :es:Galerías Layetanas the following year.

Ferré focused both the practice of labor and the plastic arts in teaching. She taught artistic drawing and engraving at the Municipal School of Arts in the eighth district of Barcelona; modeling and engraving at the Municipal School for the blind, mute and other disabled; art history at the Women's Professional School of the Provincial Government of Barcelona; and embossed leather classes at the Saint George's School for Ladies in Barcelona and at Acción Femenina. But where Ferré spent a large part of her professional life was at the Municipal School of Trades for Women, later refounded under the name of School (now Institut Lluïsa Cura). There, she taught embroidered lace and needle lace since 1911. She was appointed director in 1942 and retired after ten years. In her articles Ferré showed herself as a connoisseur of the past and present of bobbin lace in Catalonia and in the rest of Europe, treating the techniques, folklore, history and lexicon of bobbin lace in depth.

Legacy In the present day, Ferré is remembered for having been, in a certain way and together with Francesca Bonnemaison, the origin of the :ca:Escola de Puntaires de Barcelona. It was Ferré who commissioned the sisters to give lace classes at the Lluïsa Cura School, of which Ferré was the director. Ferré also had a close relationship with the :es:Fomento de las Artes y del Diseño and the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya. Her publications are held by the Fishing Museum of Palamós and the Library of Catalonia. The Marès Lace Museum hold two samples of bobbin lace designed by Ferré and made by :ca:Clotilde Pascual i Fibla which were displayed in the 1918 exhibition in Barcelona at the Palau de les Belles Arts organized by the Fomento de las Artes y del Diseño.