Portuguese Catalogues

There are several Portuguese makers who still make billhooks, but the range of regional styles has greatly reduced.

Wholesaler's catalogue showing tools from several different makers
Catalogue Viuva Portugal.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [774.7 KB]
A recently (December 2014) discovered source of Portugese tools can be seen here:
Billhooks of Portugal.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [938.4 KB]

The Portuguese took their edge tools to their colonies. Tramontina, in Brazil, still make a range of regional 'foice' and 'foicinha' (small foice) Click HERE for their catalogue page.