I would really love to go to the Greek Islands this week. But I can't see it happening. Instead I'm enjoying this book: Greek Islands Embroidery, by Pauline Johnstone, that Tom bought for me at a second-hand book fair.
The book was published in 1961, and has those beautiful loose colour plates at intervals throughout, and the other photos are in black and white. I didn't know anything about traditional embroidery from Greece before: it's intricate and colourful and very fine. The last photo above is a detail from a white embroidered 'Levkara' piece from Cyprus including drawn-thread, cutwork and satin stitch. The coloured work above is the border of a skirt, featuring birds, flowers and dancing people.
I found some more traditional Greek embroidery here.
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