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The publication includes valuable information on the social, economic, and cultural context in which these handmade works were produced, as well as personal testimonies about the materials, techniques, and customs that accompanied the making of a dowry in Spata.<br\/>Within its pages survives a wealth of handcrafted artistry\u2014largely unknown to our museums\u2014created by women who worked with effort, devotion, care, love, imagination, and refined aesthetic sensibility, in the hope of securing a \u201cgood fortune.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n<p>Scientific Editing \u2013 Texts: Evgenia Dafni<br\/>Research and Material Collection: Friends of Knowledge<br\/>Spata, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beauty and richness of the embroidery tradition of Spata, in the Mesogeia region of Attica, are recorded through old embroideries that were created for the dowries of young women. 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