The History of Bobbin Lacemaking in Slovenia

Mojca Ferle, museum councilor at the Museum and Galleries of the City of Ljubljana, and Mojca Šifrer Bulovec, museum consultant at the Škofja Loka Museum, will present the history of bobbin lacemaking in Slovenia with an emphasis on the Škofja Loka area.

They will walk us through the first mentions of lacemaking in Slovenia, the importance of institutions in Ljubljana that crucially influenced the development of bobbin lace in Slovenia, and the involvement of the Škofja Loka area in this as well as the inscription of Bobbin Lacemaking in Slovenia on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2018.