By Hand

A Letter From Isabel

During a recent visit to Athens I visited a unique exhibition titled, “Man and Tools” in a small townhouse known as the Museum of Modern Greek Culture, near the Acropolis, at 22 Panos. It cost 2 euros to enter and it was only four rooms - but filled with the soul of the maker... the blacksmith, the carpenter, the basket weaver, the cabinetmaker, the farmer, the wine grower, the baker, the bell maker, the potter, the metal worker, the marble carver, the silk maker, the tailor, the hagiographer, and the silversmith, the ‘kalarites’…