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Village Layout House of Katsinioros House of Achillea Dimitri Petrou kai Pavlou Church Yiannakos Tavern Old School The old Wine Press
Crafts Clothing
The inhabitants of Fikardou, as in all areas of rural Cyprus, had Cypriot traditional clothing has a conservative character, just
developed crafts and made various things of daily use or of special like the folk art of Cyprus in general, without lacking variety
importance in the cultural life of the village. Ceramics and metal- and grace. Each attire is a complex work of art, showcasing
lurgy were essential for the manufacture of tools and apparatuses, weaving and decoration techniques as well as the craftsman-
while basket-weaving complemented in an elaborate manner the ship and elegance of its creators. In relation to those of the
manufacture of numerous objects of various usages. Woodcraft wider Greek area, they are simpler and show relative uniform-
also produced utilitarian objects, while in its variant form, that ity due to the small area of the island. However, there are local
of woodcarving, it decorated objects and buildings with painted variations, both in the type and in the details (in the coloring
and engraved adornments. Embroidery, weaving and dressmak- of the fabric, the combination of the parts that make it up, the
ing produced the fabrics and clothing and at the same time dem- cut, the decoration and the related supplements). The cloth-
onstrated the semiotic characteristics of Cypriot, local society. ing of the men and women of Fikardou relatively uniformly
follows the widespread Cypriot costume of the respective era.
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