At the Folklore Museum located in Othos, Karpathos, you will have the opportunity to admire a faithful representation of the interior of a Carpathian house, as it was in the past.
The traditional house of Karpathos, usually a single room, wisely served the needs of daily life. It was divided into a lower section, the floor, where a wooden sofa and a low dining table (called a sofra) were located, and a raised wooden loft at the back, the sofa, where the whole family slept on mattresses. Handmade embroideries and kilims decorated the bars of the couch, of which the most elaborate, the pen scarf, covered the pillar, a wooden vertical beam in the middle of the room, symbolic and real support of the house. Numerous plates and glassware, placed on wooden shelves around the walls, completed the rich decoration.
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