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Come embroider the icon at the Saint Silouane Orthodox Monastery.translated

September 18, 2026 · 1 min read

The “Our Lady of All Protection Workshop” offers an introduction to icon embroidery techniques in the Russian Orthodox tradition. This age-old but little-known know-how has been passed on for 16 years to French embroiderers by Olga Diachkova, an Orthodox Russian, who regularly comes to France for this teaching. The association Atelier Notre Dame de ToutProtection, born from this meeting, therefore, in turn, offers to transmit this teaching to any interested person and this

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Mathilde Lefebvre

It looks interesting. I didn't know that Olga Diachkova had been coming to France for 16 years to teach this. Is the workshop at the Saint Silouane monastery open to complete beginners like me?

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