In my neighborhood, there are two places to get clothes made or fixed. Two. They are tiny, little fishbowl rooms with windows all across and room for a sewing machine or two and an ironing board.
Downtown there are still neighborhoods dedicated to icons, or chairs, or leather goods, or fabrics. I went to a bunch of the religious shops looking for tamata, votive offerings.
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| Tamata, or votive offerings. You leave them at a church attached to the icon as a prayer for healing, or for luck (with finding a spouse, having a baby, or, judging from bottom left, getting a house!). |
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| Icon in a church with tamata attached below on hooks. |
A couple of stores had them, but not the particular ones that I was looking for. Many didn't sell them at all. I am not sure if I should have been able to tell which shops would and which would not without asking, but no one displays them even if they have them. You have to ask. I finally found a place that another shopkeeper recommended, but he didn't have what I wanted, so he asked me to return in two hours so he could make them for me. Pretty cool!
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| Religious paraphernalia shop with shelves built into the stone walls. |
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| The project the guy was working on when I came in. |
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| His tools |
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| The outside of the shop: Apollonion Street near Mitropoleos |
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| Perikleos: notions shop |
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| Perikleos Street: notions and fabrics |
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| More from Perikleos |
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