Traditional women’s activities as cultural heritage

Abstract

The article is dedicated to traditional women’s activities such as spinning, weaving and embroidery. The author presents their main characteristics, as well as their importance in the past when, with her mastery, the woman provided the necessarytextiles for clothing and forthe home. The significance that these women’s activities and the objects created through them had for the social and cultural life of the community is considered the basis for their present recognition as cultural heritage. Both the different types of evaluation of such activities over the years and the artifacts obtained as a result of the activities are outlined, while at the same time the present perception of the activities as intangible heritage and of the resultant objects as a movable cultural heritage is outlined. Attention is additionally paid to the related cultural policies for preservation, as well as to the various actors and institutions involved in the implementation of these cultural policies.

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