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Jewish Museum of Greece.
Silken
gold-embroidered bedlinen, 19th c.
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Apart
from the cortijos (the wooden, poorly constructed, adjacent buildings),
a Jewish house does not differ from a Christian one, in architecture
or furnishing. Furniture and utensils are fabricated by common workshops
and repaired by common, often itinerant, craftsmen. Jewish and Christian
housewives make their own bedlinen, curtains, tableclothes. They
all embroider on the same textiles, with the same techniques and
identical motifs, without any special attributes.
Photo
of a Jewish neighbourhood and exterior of a Jewish house. Note the
similarities of Jewish and Christian neighbourhoods.
Photo
of cortijos. Particular characteristics of Jewish habitations.
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