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Reiterating its commitment to safeguarding and promoting cultural heritage and diversity for the benefit of future generations, the Cyprus National Commission for UNESCO launched in September 2013, the Studying Lefkara Embroidery Lace Making Apprenticeship Programme.
UNESCO: CYPRUS NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR UNESCO - Studying Lefkara Embroidery Lace Making Apprenticeship Programme
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Considering the importance of the ICH as a mainspring of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue as well as a guarantee of sustainable development, the programme provides the opportunity to artists, educators, archaeologists, fashion designers and other professionals, the opportunity to live and study for a week with renowned embroidery lace makers in Lefkara village (Larnaca district).
UNESCO: CYPRUS NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR UNESCO - Studying Lefkara Embroidery Lace Making Apprenticeship Programme
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Amongst the various aims of the project is the creation of favourable conditions and environments for the participation of renowned bearers of intangible heritage in systematic efforts for the transmission of their knowledge and skills, the promotion and empowerment of women embroidery lace makers and the creation of favourable conditions for the renewal of contemporary forms of cultural expression.
UNESCO: CYPRUS NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR UNESCO - Studying Lefkara Embroidery Lace Making Apprenticeship Programme
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Lanvin eschewed the restrictive silhouettes of those clothes and made loose dresses for Marguerite to allow for easy movement, but she used the most luxurious fabrics silk taffeta, gold-spun lace, diaphanous chiffon and liberally embellished her designs with intricate folk-inspired embroidery, silk flowers, lace ribbons and lots of ruffles.
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At Kiton, fabrics are created with new wefts through the most refined tailor methods, such as needle punching, a special embroidery technique that combines lace with cashmere, transforming it into a single yarn.
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Barbara, Iloilo (a province in the northern part of the Philippines) that turns bobbin-lace making and embroidery into a sustainable livelihood for women and ex-hansenites.
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For fall, a puff-sleeved Chantilly lace dress looks traditionally sweet, but the floral embroidery is actually heavy wool, almost like an exoskeleton.
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Influenced by indigenous craft, the embroidery of Venetian courtiers who ruled the country beginning in 1489, and ancient Greek and Byzantine geometric patterns, Lefkara lace is made by hand in designs combining four basic elements: the hemstitch, cut work, satin stitch fillings and needlepoint edgings.
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