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EU project ensures traditional embroidery techniques are passed to young generation

15-12-2011

Three very skilled women from the elder generation have been selected, in the framework of the Siwa and Tanger project, funded by the EU through the Euromed Heritage 4 programme, to train thirty young girls in traditional embroidery, the handicraft decoration of fabric or other materials with needle and thread, a heritage threatened by modernity even in the ancient oasis of Siwa, Egypt.
 
A press release said the training activity would be taking place between December 2011 and February 2012. The women will be responsible for passing on the skills and accuracy of hand embroidery techniques to young girls aged between 12 and 15 years old, emphasizing the importance of keeping this unique tradition alive.
 
The three-year €950,000 ‘Siwa & Tangier: Cultural heritage for a better life’ project is part of the Euromed Heritage IV programme. Its aim is to preserve and enhance the local cultural heritage in Morocco and Egypt within a sustainable development framework, and to create effective management tools for sustainable safeguard of the tangible and intangible heritage in Tangier and of the Berber culture in Siwa.
 
Euromed Heritage IV is an EU-funded project, with €17 million over four years, which contributes to the exchange of experiences on cultural heritage, creates networks and promotes cooperation. It focuses on the appropriation by the local populations of their cultural heritage and favours access to education and knowledge of cultural heritage. It supports a framework for the exchange of experiences, channels for the dissemination of best practices and new perspectives aimed at the development of an institutional cultural environment. (ENPI Info Centre)
 
Read more
 
Press release

Siwa & Tangier: Cultural heritage for a better life – project webpage
 
Euromed Heritage IV – fiche and news
 
Euromed Heritage IV – website
 
ENPI Info Centre webpage – culture
 
 
 


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