In the folk art collection we present objects of traditional handicrafts, weaving, tools of weaving, embroidery, laces, pottery, baskets, agricultural tools. Also the production of silk, bee-keeping and the traditional breads of Rethymnon.
Embroidery
The embroideries of Crete represent a separate and significant unit in the art of needlework in Greece. As in the other regions, they are divided into three major categories: embroideries intended for the church, embroideries for the male, female and child costume, embroideries for the needs and the adornment of the house.
On the basis of technique, they are distinguished as free-drawn (graphtά, zographistά), counted (xobliastά) and openwork or drawn-thread work, called xephidistά in Crete.
Embroideries can be dated in three periods: in the first are embroideries based on the Byzantine Age, the second spans the mid-eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth century, and the third the twentieth century, when Crete is free.
