Ilias Vasileiadis’ sewing machine has been decommissioned for years and is now in the possession of his granddaughter, Vasiliki Tsouchnika; a precious family heirloom which secured the livelihood of her mother’s family for decades.
The wedding wreaths of Ifigeneia and Theofylaktos were passed on to their daughter Anna Theofylaktou, president of the Pontian Women’s Association from 1974 to 1983.
The Museum of the Pontian Women’s Association, called ‘Embroidering memory’, was inaugurated in 2005. Several of the objects in its collection came from Pontus and Russia, traversing space and time. Among them, an embroidery from Trapezounta known as a ‘kourtinaki’ or ‘keimilio’, one of the two curtain panels covering an icon display embroidered in a paisley pattern (lahuri in Turkish), a pattern widely used in Pontus.
The Museum of the Pontian Women’s Association, called ‘Embroidering memory’, was inaugurated in 2005. Several of the objects in its collection came from Pontus and Russia, traversing space and time. Among them, a Singer sewing machine, first used in Trapezounta, in 1911, and then in Thessaloniki.