Description: Kelly, Mary B.Goddess Embroideries of the Balkan Lands and the Greek Islands StudioBooksMcLean, NY1999 10 color plates 129 black and white illustrations182 pp.8.5 x 11 Paperback in Very Good condition. A well-researched book on goddess imagery in these textiles. Uncommon. "Linked by the Black and Aegean seas, the lands of Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece are also united by their strong ritual embroidery traditions. In a similar format to her earlier book, Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe, the author recounts Bulgarian women's folk rituals and links them to goddess motifs on their textiles. She displays nineteenth century Carpathian motifs and documents their survival today in mountain villages. Traveling south, she visits the Greek islands and mainland, studying survivals of pagan culture and the folk motifs on ritual cloths and clothing. Techniques, colors, designs, origins and rituals as well as interviews with the folk artists who created goddess textiles; this volume weaves all these elements into the story of women's age-old textile traditions in the Greek and Balkan world."
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Book Title: Goddess Embroideries of the Balkan Lands and Greek Islands
Item Length: 11in
Item Width: 8.5in
Author: Mary B. Kelly
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Needlework / Embroidery
Publisher: Studiobooks
Publication Year: 1999
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
