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WHERE ARTISTIC FINGERS PLY THE NEEDLE |
MUSICAL GREEK GYPSIES OF THE AETOLIAN PLAINS |
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| Bright local colour is supplied to the town of Üsküb, or Skoplye, by the variegated costumes of its feminine world, and here is one example of a simple though elegant design embellished with elaborate and multi-hued embroidery | Gypsies are known to have been among the inhabitants of the Morea in the fourteenth century and, at the present day, encampments of these dark-skinned nomads are not infrequently seen in some of the out-of-the-way districts of Greece. Despite their shiftless, vagabond life, their appearance causes no alarm; brigandage among them is a thing of the past, and their peculiarities and eccentricities are tolerated with kindly indulgence |