MINOAN COLLECTION | Garment woven on loom
OBJECT DETAILS
Creator: Faye Chatzi
Title: Circe
Category: Clothing/Woven creation
Material: Cotton, fringes/ Weaving on a traditional loom
Reason for Creation: Contemporary Minoans Exhibition | Branding Heritage | Crete 2018
Year of Creation: 2018
Inspired by: Minoan Civilization
Object of Inspiration: The garments worn by saffron collectors in a mural, Prehistoric settlement of Akrotiri, Thera
Venue: Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Way of Acquisition: Donation to the organisation by the creator in 2018
Collection Number: ΒΗ/CM/16
SOURCE OF INSPIRATION
Detail of a mural portraying saffron collectors discovered in the settlement of Akrotiri, in Santorini, which adorned the eastern wall of room 3A on the first floor of building “Xeste 3”, generally believed to have been the public sanctuary of the settlement. Prehistoric settlement of Akrotiri, Thera.
