The gold embroidery technique
Nun Eustolia of the Monastery of Theotokos in Kampia, Nicosia (Cyprus) is perhaps the only nun in Cyprus who continues embroidery in the traditional way. Aided by modern technical methods, she embroiders Intricate gold embroideries, with the help of other nuns who curate the designs.
Snapshot from the video recording carried out in the context of the RECULT project for the digitisation of the gold embroidery technique.
The old technique of egg tempera
The nuns of the Monastery of Theotokos in Kampia (Nicosia, Cyprus), respecting tradition, create Byzantine icons only with egg tempera.
Video snapshot from the video recording carried out in the context of the RECULT project for the digitisation of the old technique of egg tempera.
The customs related to the Epitaph are numerous on the island of Cyprus. In the Church of Agios Savvas in Nicosia (Cyprus), the parishioners, following the tradition, decorate their Epitaph in the early morning of Good Friday.
Snapshot from the video recording carried out in the context of the RECULT project for the digitisation of the Epitaph's procession.