Philanthropy, art and the museum: Loukia Zygomala and the promotion of Greek folk embroidery

Exhibiting Women's Handicrafts: Arts and Crafts Exhibitions in Greece at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

“…In 1936, Zygomala retired and gathered all products left in the shops as well as the designs and samples to establish the Zygomala Museum in Avlona. 68 A combination of national feeling, social responsibility and artistic creation was the basis upon which this and other initiatives flourished.…”