Nikolaos Partarakis

Education and Training Pilot Kicks off at CETEM

By Nikolaos Partarakis May 16, 2025News

Shaping skills: an introductory wood carving training A variety group of students, from furniture professionals’ designers to art lovers, was involved in a face-to-face training course on woodworking. The course,…

The Museum of Marble Crafts, in Pirgos, on the island of Tinos,

By Nikolaos Partarakis March 26, 2024Marble

The Museum of Marble Crafts, in Pirgos, on the island of Tinos, is a unique example presenting the technology of marble, a material that holds a particular place in the…

Weaving experts from CRETACOM

By Nikolaos Partarakis March 22, 2024Wool, cotton textiles

The weaving workshop of Crete, CRETACOM located in the Handicraft park of Anopolis is a family business, which dates back to '80s. In the past, the main product of the…

Women weavers from “Aretousa” Workshop

By Nikolaos Partarakis March 22, 2024Wool, cotton textiles

In the modern technologically dominated world, traditional arts and professions gradually tend to become extinct, as the vast majority of people prefer to purchase standardized goods offered at low prices…

Handmade Cretan Woven

By Nikolaos Partarakis March 22, 2024Wool, cotton textiles

Ιn the modern technologically dominated world, traditional arts and professions gradually tend to become extinct, as the vast majority of people prefer to purchase standardized goods offered at low prices…

By fire and clay…

By Nikolaos Partarakis March 22, 2024Clay

The ceramic tradition on Lesvos island has a long history of 5.000 years, as the potter findings reveal in the prehistoric settlement of Loutropoli Thermi. Ceramic art is the most…

Nisaki Mu

By Nikolaos Partarakis March 22, 2024Clay

Traveling to islands, cities and distant lands, Greek-German ceramist Korina Doerr, who now lives permanently in Crete, takes the blue of the Aegean, the meltemias of August, the old legends…

Pottery Art / Handmade pottery workshop

By Nikolaos Partarakis March 21, 2024Clay

Preserving pottery, a traditional craft of Crete with roots in 7000 BC, while developing it so as to serve the modern decorative and utility needs, Michalis Houlakis is engaged in…

KERAMION

By Nikolaos Partarakis March 21, 2024Clay

Made with local Cretan earth and “lepida” (a special potter’s earth), with natural pigments from the mountains, polished with pebbles and decorated with a sheep’s wool brush, ceramics inspired by…

Faidon silversmithing workshop

By Nikolaos Partarakis March 20, 2024Silver

The craft art over centuries Deeply intertwined with the history of our place and rooted back to the years of Byzantium, Silverware was going to define the cultural identity of…