Loukia's workshops offer an in-depth insight into the cultural analogies and contrasts between ancient and modern-day Greece, and into the country's long and rich arts and crafts tradition and exceptional techniques.

Loukia designs and teaches workshops for institutions, schools, corporations or private customers. Each workshop is customized to address the special needs and expectations of artists, designers, creative people - adults and children.

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GREEK EMBROIDERY RESIDENCY

The Greek Embroidery Residency is a 5-day intensive residency and workshop program in Athens. It addresses artists, designers, crafters, art theorists or journalists, as well as amateur embroiderers who wish to explore Greek embroidery masterpieces, and master some of its most refined techniques.

Greek embroidery is a distinctive style in textile history, a sign language reflecting the cultural background, the trade exchange and the world view of civilizations flourishing in Eastern Mediterranean since time immemorial.

The Greek Embroidery Residency program covers 6,000 years of textile history through collections visits and lectures; it explains the visual traditions that build the alphabet of Greek embroidery; it teaches antique embroidery techniques, and shows how to design and stitch vibrant and eye-capturing motifs on textile. And it explores the experimental art, conceptual and social bonding uses of Greek embroidery.