Justtoday

By Justtoday

oh don't see that every day.............

This sign is from a shop on the way into the village. Lefkara is famous for the lace - known as lefkaritika in (Greek: ???????????) and silver handicrafts.

According to legend, Leonardo da Vinci visited the village in 1481, and purchased a lace cloth for the main altar of the Duomo di Milano. The lefkaritika style was probably imported to the village from antiquity from Assyria. Much later, the Venetians took it home, and set up their own lace industry on the island of Burano. In 1889 a local lace school was opened, and Lefkara lace regained much of its ancient renown.

(thank you wikipedia for the knowledge)

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