In the Folklore Museum, located in Othos of Karpathos, in the traditional house of Varikas and Aristotelis Stavrakis, the visitor has the opportunity to admire a faithful representation of the interior of a karpathian house, as it was in the past.
The traditional home of Karpathos, usually one-roomed, wisely served the needs of everyday life.
It was divided into a lower section, the bottom, where there was a wooden sofa and a low table for food (called sofras), while in a raised wooden loft on the back of it, called soufas, the whole family was sleeping in mattresses. Handmade embroidery and rugs adorned soufa’s railings, from which the most elaborate, the stylomantila, covered the post, a wooden vertical beam in the middle of the room, a symbolic and real support of the house.
Numerous dishes and glasses, placed on wooden shelves around the walls, filled the rich decoration.
Furthermore, there are exposed objects of everyday rural life, as well as folk art, such as ceramics, woven and musical traditional instruments.
The Museum belongs to the Council of Work and Joy of the City of Othos.
