THE POWER OF TEXTILES

The colourful book The Power of Textiles invites us to discover the potential of our hands and the beneficial effects of creating with textile materials...

EMPOWERING TEXTILE COMMUNITIES AND THEIR SOCIAL IMPACT

In a panel discussion, leaders of various Slovenian textile communities presented their personal experiences of the meaning, purpose and quality that creating with textiles brings to their lives, family life (Brinovec Pribaković), community life (Bavcon, Pintar, Dugonjić, Kališek) and society at large (Emck, Matthews, Garlock, Talwar)...

STORY OF WOMEN

Story of Women is a project on textile and spiritual journey of women of various ages, nationalities, religious background, and life circumstances...

THE STORIES OF HANDS AND PLACES

We present the creativity, knowledge and imagination of the regional artisans and designers who found their inspiration in the stories from the local past...

EMERGENCE OF FORM

Maria Blaisse and the Oloop group met during a colourful October in Tivoli City Park. The International Centre for Graphic Arts in Ljubljana supported the project and offered working space surrounded by nature....

BALKAN SLIPPERS

The inspiration for Balkan Slippers on the Way to Iceland came from asking the question of how different cultures, aesthetics or temperaments could meet and co-create by using textile handcrafts as a tool....

COMMUNITY OF MAKING

The project has started with a couple of visits of Ribnica region – to meet wooden work craftsmen and potters at their workshops. We wanted to get an idea how they live, what they do and how they feel about it....

CITY COLOURS

The project City Colours is an urban design laboratory. Its multi-layered concept addresses, strengthens and nourishes the different aspects of the individual and the wider community....

CONNECTIONS

The project Connections is a textile installation in progress. Project offers the moments of calm engagement, creative expression, healing remembrance, relaxed socialization to regular people....