Mondrian`s paint Laurent`s dress – This August 2025, Yves Saint Laurent’s futuristic dress inspired by Piet Mondrian’s painting will turn sixty years old since it was introduced in the 1965 Fall/Winter Haute Couture Collection. The Collection attracted attention with its avant-garde style, so the press spontaneously described it as revolutionary. And even after all this …
Z/S twists knitting crocheting – How can yarn twisting spoil knitted and crocheted textile works?
Z/S twists knitting crocheting – Usually, singles are counter-clockwise (like a Z). After that, ply more strands together in a clockwise direction (like an S), to prevent excessive curling. However, spinning the single S and then plying multiple strands into a Z suits left-handed knitters and right-handed crocheters. But, with proper information, contemporary textile designers …
Z/S directions spinning textile – How Ancient Women once Wove monochrome Patterns, with light and shadows, in the Beholder’s eye?
Z/S directions spinning textile – What is yarn? It is the essential constructive component of textile items in various techniques. We make yarns from fibers by twisting them together in a tight, smooth thread. The twisting can be to the left (Z-direction) or the right (S-direction). Yarns always have long, continuous lengths but small cross-sections. …
Spinning fate myth fairytale – What are we interested in this post? – In the traces of pagan concepts about spending a lifetime mortal and immortal!
Spinning fate myth fairytale – Specifically, the motive of spinning the thread of each individual’s life expresses man’s belief in fate. The Moiras of the Greek Parthenon, are first mentioned as competent beings. But my impression is a painted ancient tomb, an archaeological find from the village of Beška in Srem. I will continue with …
Textile dyeing Serbian tradition – Get close to techniques of vegetable dyeing textiles as an important element of ecological cultural Serb heritage!
Textile dyeing Serbian tradition – Dyeing homemade Textiles was mostly women’s domestic work among the Serbs, until the beginning of the 20th century. Professional dyers got to dye yarn only for ceremonial purposes. Dyestuffs of foreign origin were primarily indigo, kermes (Worm Kermes, the name originated in Sanscrit kermi =worm), and rose madder. Synthetic colors …
Colors Traditional Roles Serbia – Exhibition READING COLORS gets us to know very new complex information about colorful museum textiles
Colors traditional roles Serbia – The idea and material for this post come from the exhibition Reading Colors, authored by organized at the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade (September 2023-March 2024). I visited the exhibition, attended the author’s tour, and collected the material in December last year. The only reason for the delay is my hope …
Italian fashion and film – The phenomenon “Made in Italy” tour the World (Seoul: Italy is Fashion, Belgrad: Italy is in Fashion, Bahrein: Tales of Italian Fashion, Madrid: Photograms of Italian Fashion in the 1950s, Rome: Fifties in Rome – a fashion of the 1950s and so on
Italian fashion and film – A series of events celebrate the birth of the Made in Italy fashion phenomenon. It’s about the occasion of the First Italian Haute Couture Show, on February 12, 1951. Cultural and economic policy uses the opportunity to recall the iconic dresses worn by movie divas. Which, in 2023, conveniently coincided …
Jagoda Buić Tapestry Exhibition – Enjoy!!! The Essence of Fiber Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
Jagoda Buić Contemporary Tapestry – News: Promising Art and Culture pleasure in the significant Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art First, with Exhibition Jagoda Buić: The Essence of Fiber, until 26. February 2024. On the 4th and 5th levels of the Museum of Contemporary Art. Jagoda Buić (Split 1930-Venice 2022) is a celebrated world name in …
Folklore Macedonia Museum Thessaloniki – If consider museums not much fun, You are certainly wrong!
Folklore Macedonia Museum Thessaloniki – If this usually happens to you let’s surprise, after experience at FEMM-Th (Folklife Ethnological Museum of Macedonia-Thrace), for several reasons: It is an ideal spot (Vasilis Olgas Avenue 68) to take a break after walking along the trendy Thessaloniki coast promenade. An oasis that feeds the brain with new sensations, …
Iron Gate Museums` Textiles – Let’s record the findings at the Museum in Turn Severin, Romania
Firstly, since experienced The Iron Gate Museums` Textiles, I remember the museological fascinations, from the mid-1970s to the present day, like pictures from yesterday. Such is the Roman fort Drobeta in Turn Severin and The Iron Gate Museum, founded in 1912. Recently, last summer (2022) I encountered the splendor of this millennial heritage. I placed …