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ŽIRI STORIES IN LACE*
Magazin Gallery, Ulica sv. Barbare 4-5
2022-06-17 17:00 do 2022-06-19 18:00
17. June 2022
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ŽIRI STORIES IN LACE*
Magazin Gallery, Ulica sv. Barbare 4-5
2022-06-17 17:00 do 2022-06-19 18:00
17. June 2022
The Žiri Lace School works on connecting tradition with contemporaneity. Knowing that lacemaking is the sort of cultural heritage that will only be preserved with the collaboration of people who still spend their free time making lace, they try to connect different generations. In lacemaking, they therefore often create connections between the students of the school and the members of the Cvetke Lacemaking Association or other experienced lacemakers. They are happy when more skilful lacemakers (some of them even went to Žiri Lace School when they were young) selflessly share their know-how; and even happier to see the Žiri children accept this know-how and their skills without prejudice and with open arms. Through this process, they first wrote down oral accounts, then transformed them into pattern and later lace. The patterns were designed by Vida Kejžar. They believe their creations have captured the Žiri spirit of the days past that testifies to the way of life and thinking of the Žiri people – including those who often made lace to earn their living.
Text: Branka Grošelj, Žiri Lace School.
Pattern author: Vida Kejžar.
Lace authors: Petra Cankar and Nina Cankar.
* Free entrance.