Cyprus · Embroidery; Drawn thread work; Cypriot heritage
Λευκαρίτικα — Κυπριακή Παράδοση Κεντητικής
The Cypriot lefkaritika tradition of the village of Lefkara — the production of the distinctive Cypriot drawn thread embroidery and lace whose characteristic geometric white-on-white or colored vocabulary has been produced in the Troodos foothills village since the medieval period. The Cypriot kentitria reads the drawn thread quality through a pull-and-count assessment — pulling a drawn thread and counting the threads remaining to confirm correct thread extraction.
Risk level: Vulnerable · UNESCO ICH 2009 — lefkaritika, silversmithing and lacemaking of Lefkara
The making of silver filigree jewelry and objects in the village of Lefkara (Pano and Kato Lefkara), southern Cyprus — a craft tradition documented as developing in explicit parallel to the village's already-archived Lefkaritika…
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