Artist

Vasilis' Mother in Platanos, Greece

Collector

Athena Kokoronis

Medium

mostly cotton, some wool, synthetic fabric

Technique

woven on a loom

Dimensions

30" x 17"

Time Period

unknown, maybe sometime between 1900 - 1930

Statement from the Collector

Vasilis, the next-door neighbor to the Kokoronis family (in the village,) gave me two gifts the afternoon we had eaten pastitsio (that Olympia, his daughter prepared) with him, Olympia and her husband. There used to be a loom in the ground floor of their home and the women wove. After lunch, we toured the old house. From a large trunk of his late mother’s, he pulled two of her many weavings, measuring 17 inches by around 30 inches, composed of simple woven rag weft and cotton string with slips of an assortment of old village rags and worn clothing parts, cut into 4-6 inch strips of fabric. These strips were slipped into warp strings every 2 inches or so creating a history map of what textiles were worn in the village.