Slovenski etnografski muzej

Documentary records on making lights and their accessories


1996
Research Irena Keršič, filmed and edited by Nadja Valentinčič, produced by the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Betacam, VHS, 14 minutes

The video film presents a reconstruction of the following procedures: making a torch (Stržišče), making wood chips with a plane and cutter (Podbrdo), weaving a wick tape with a hackle and tatting shuttle (Rut), producing sparks with a flint stone (Rut), forging a chip holder (Žalec). The documentary records were filmed for the exhibition Domesticated light by Irena Keršič, subtitled Light and their accessories from an ethnological perspective.