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Experiences for travelers

One of the best ways to get to know a place is to get to know its tradition through folk art. We suggest travelers who have the opportunity to visit Athens to spend a few hours in Askardamykti to get to know traditional Greek arts through experiential seminars

A Greek-Crafts Experience to Remember

The school of traditional arts and technical professions ASKARDAMYKTI organizes experiential experiences for travelers around the Greek Traditional Arts.

Analytically

Each visit lasts 3-4 hours and includes

  • Tour of the school and its laboratories, a few words about the philosophy and vision of Askardamyktis for the continuation and promotion of technical professions and traditional arts

  • Acquaintance with the teacher a few words about his life and work

  • hands-on workshop (choose from the following)

Weaving

In the workshop we will talk about the art of weaving on a vertical loom. The traditional weaving art of Tsakonia, which is unique throughout Greece. Tsakonian woven fabrics are created from cotton warp and woolen threads. A technique that is basically used in the manufacture of traditional kilims. Participants will learn to weave in a frame with the specific technique and guidance of the teacher. At the end of the meeting, each one will have made a small woven coaster.

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Leatherwork

Who hasn't envied the wonderful leather creations hanging in the tourist shops of Athens? Who doesn't have a leather bag in their closet that remains unchanged no matter how many years pass?

Each participant will get to know the art of leatherworking, the tools and materials and will make a unique handmade leather bag or leather pouch in the color of their choice!

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Wood carving

Wood carving is the art of depicting patterns on wooden surfaces using chisels. It also includes the carving of wood to create holographic works. In this meeting the participants will get to know the materials and tools and make a small wood sculpture.

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Joinery

A journey through woodworking techniques, materials, tools and woodworking machinery. Participants will build a small wooden structure using hand tools

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Making a Traditional Greek Sandal

The manufacture of sandals is an art inextricably linked to Greek culture and history. Sandals are the must accessory for the summer and bring a bit of Greece to our feet.

In a meeting of 3-4 hours, each participant will learn the technique of making traditional sandals and will have made a unique pair of sandals in their size and in the color of their choice! You can choose between genuine or vegan leather.

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Ceramics

The art of ceramics.

Inextricably linked to the Greek tradition, the art of ceramics offers great freedom of expression to each creator due to a wide variety of techniques both in the manufacture of forms (sheet, macaroni, pinch, moulds, wheel) and in decorative techniques. In this meeting the participants will have the opportunity to get to know individual techniques and experiment with clay

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Greek folk Instruments

The sounds of Greek music through its traditional instruments lyra, bouzouki, oud, etc

In this three-hour session the instrument-making teacher will take you through the construction of a musical instrument from the selection of the right wood to the completion of the instrument.

Participants will be able to try individual techniques such as wood carving, bending the douga coke

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Askardamykti

The Askardamykti school has been operating since 2014 with the aim of highlighting traditional arts and technical professions and strengthening their viability in the modern economic environment. Since 2020, it has been housed in the historic Lekka textile factory in Perissos, a 1500 m2 factory space, which it renovated and configured to accommodate applied and traditional arts workshops in specially equipped spaces. A modern Bauhaus that seeks to break down again the boundary between artists, industrial designers and craftsmen creating a new form of "modern craftsman". The space was renovated and configured to allow the interaction of people and arts. In the same physical space, many arts have been co-located together and we have made sure to allow the flow and exchange between people and arts. Open workspaces alternate with transparent classrooms (autonomous art workshops) so that the creativity of each one affects and touches its neighbor in a perpetual chain reaction without limits.

The school operates the following departments - laboratories

  • Design & Manufacture of Footwear

  • Design & Manufacture of Leather Bag & Accessories

  • Pattern – sewing

  • Silversmithing

  • Organ making: Guitar, Lute & Lyre making

  • Carpentry: Furniture Making

  • Furniture Design

  • Wood Carving & Wood Lathe

  • Restoration of Furniture

  • Upholstery Furniture

  • Ceramics

  • Sculpture

  • Free Drawing, Sketch & Color

  • Interior design

  • Weaving

  • Compodetic

  • Screen printing

  • Bookbinding

  • Stained glass

  • Baked glass

  • Yarn Dyes & Fabric Design (includes Batik technique)

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