Greek embroidery
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19,99€
“The history of the Greek art of embroidery can be tracked back to the most distant past. Development and dissemination have followed the course of Greek culture more generally, and in this embroidery of post-Byzantine times occupies a special place. It is through its technique and designs that Greek tradition is continued and the spontaneous and instinctive artistic feeling of its creators finds expression.
Modern Greek embroidery, the richest, most striking and most decorative branch of our folk handicrafts – as can be seen from those embroideries which have survived and from the information provided by dowry contracts, wills, the descriptions of travelers and other textsh – flourished particularly between the mid-17th and the end of the 19th centuries. The economic and political conditions which took shape in the last years of Turkish rule and the early decades of the independent Greek state had a decisive effect in producing this phenomenon. It was these conditions, together with the ideological trends of the time, which were the essential factors in the revivification of the artistic sensibility of the Greek people, who produced in this period works of the finest quality in all branches of handicrafts”.
Maria Lada-Minotos (from the introduction of the book)
