{"id":1087,"date":"2024-10-22T14:55:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/?page_id=1087"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:24:10","slug":"embroidery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/collections\/folk-art-collection\/embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"Embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\">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.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">On the basis of technique, they are distinguished as free-drawn (grapht\u03b1\u0301, zographist\u03b1\u0301), counted (xobliast\u03b1\u0301) and openwork or drawn-thread work, called xephidist\u03b1\u0301 in Crete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355,"parent":972,"menu_order":47,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-collections-folklore.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1087","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1087\/revisions\/2416"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}