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Traditional Arts and Crafts
 Traditional Cypriot loom.
 Tools and dismantled turn-table belonging to a Kornos potter.
 Finishing a handmade Kornos pot. Note string to stop vessel from sagging.
 Fitting a coil onto a Cypriot pitharos.
 Kiln for firing pitharia (storage jars).
 Sorting silk worm cocoons.
 Drawing the threads of silk from the cocoons.
 Cypriot embroideries from the village of Lefkara.
 A metal sieve with punctured designs.
 Traditional Cypriot plow and sickle.
 Traditional threshing floor with Doukani, threshing sled.
 Flint studded Doukani with winnowing shovels and forks leaning against them.
 Traditional musical instrument made from a gourd.
 Traditional wooden carved dowry chest.
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