002.487.Idrija

Idrija Municipal Museum, Prelovčeva 9, SI-5280 Idrija

Public

Municipality of Idrija, Mestni trg 1, SI-5280 Idrija

510:IDR;CZ-315

Daily life

The described kit includes a basket, a pillow, bobbins, tracing paper (papirc), pins and lace. The pillow is cylindrical in shape, filled with sawdust and covered in white fabric. It has a tracing paper (papirc) of an almost completed angel attached to it. It is motif lace, made in parts. The pillow has 17 pairs of bobbins, wound with white cotton thread. Elements and techniques of bobbin lacemaking used: double stitch, narrow stitch with outer pins, cloth stitch with adding pairs and taking away pairs, plaited flowers with picots, plaited flower leaves with picots. The pillow is placed in a basket, which is made of thin willow branches.

Length 33 cm, width 22 cm, height 17 cm.

Wood, cotton, paper, textiles, sawdust.

Second half of the 20th century.

Manufacturer information is not known.

The described kit was used as an accessory for bobbin lacemaking. The bobbin lacemaking pillow with half-made lace was owned by Marija Troha, a teacher of bobbin lacemaking at Idrija Lacemaking school, between 1946 and 1971. The lace is the last work of the mentioned teacher, who was still bobbin lacemaking in her time spent in the Idrija Retirement home. The Idrija Municipal Museum acquired the pillow and lace by purchasing it from its previous owner Srečko Troha in 2008. More similar items preserved in the lace collection of the Idrija Municipal Museum can be used for other types of promotion.

The described kit of bobbin lacemaking accessories is being preserved, secured and presented as important mining heritage of Idrija with exceptional universal values. It is physical evidence of the centuries-old bobbin lace tradition and knowledge of bobbin lace making in Idrija. The set is a part of the lace collection of the Idrija Municipal Museum. Visitors can view it within the permanent museum exhibition Idrija Lace, History Written in Thread, which tells the story of the handmade, Idrija bobbin lace. More similar patterns preserved in the lace collection of the Idrija Municipal Museum can be used for other types of promotion.

Idrija.

Idrija Municipal Museum, Gewerkenegg Castle (permanent exhibition »Idrija Lace, A History Written in Thread«).

The pillow’s filling was conserved in 2017. The pillowcase was cleaned. Therefore, no additional interventions are necessary. Security of the premises is taken care of.

good

Regular seasonal maintenance.

- Inventory Book of the Idrija Municipal Museum;
- Cook, M. Bridget, Tratnik, Metka. Idrija Lace: Patterns from the Idrija School of Lace, Slovenia. London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1999;
- Gnezda, Mirjam, Žagar, Janja et al. (ed.). Idrijska čipka in njeno mesto med Evropskimi čipkami. Idrija, The Municipality of Idrija, 2006;
- Gnezda Bogataj, Mirjam, Terpin Mlinar, Marija, Bajec Rupnik, Urška. Z nitjo povezane: etnološki film o idrijski čipki ter klekljaricah z Idrijskega in Cerkljanskega. Idrija, Friendly Production, Idrija Municipal Museum, 2013;
- Terpin Mlinar, Marija et al. (ed.). Idrijska čipka: z nitjo pisana zgodovina. Idrija, Idrija Municipal Museum, 2012;
- Verbič, Marija. O začetkih slovenskega čipkarstva s posebnim ozirom na Idrijo. Kronika: časopis za slovensko krajevno zgodovino, 17, 3/1969, p. 157‒160.

Mestni muzej Idrija

Miha Kosmač

21. 3. 2018

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