Made in Albania: carnival masks that travel the world


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Hollywood stars Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise famously wore two of Venice Art Mask studio's masks in the 1999 Stanley Kubrick film 'Eyes Wide Shut'. Photo: AFP

In a quiet studio in northern Albania, artists delicately paint, gild and bejewel tens of thousands of Venetian masks that revellers around the world have been donning for carnival season.

Some 50 staff handcraft the one-of-a-kind pieces from their factory in lakeside Shkoder, which exports up to 30,000 masks around the globe every year.

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Masks , Tradition , Albania , Culture , Carnival

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