Wool once built dowries — today, it can weave creative communities.
If every woven cloth could speak, it would tell stories of women, villages, and generations. In Crete, weaving isn’t just tradition. It’s a living cultural continuity now seeking new expression.
Mr. Giorgis Kalomoiris, archaeologist and Cultural Manager-Curator of the Androidus Argastiri Cultural Organization, and Mr. Antonis Dayantas, Digital Culture Analyst-Programmer and Co-founder of the same organization, speak to Discovercrete.com about the wool cycle, about how weaving in Anogeia moved from households to trade, about the weavers who supported entire families, and about the Weaving School that’s shaping a new generation of creators.
From a pastoral past to digital culture — weaving in Crete isn’t fading. It’s transforming.
Hit play and... listen to the loom speak again.
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