Notwithstanding the level of mechanisation of modern agriculture, whetstone holders are still in use in many places throughout Slovenia.
However, to many people - of different levels of education - the word oselnik sounds unfamiliar. This is generally true for people in urban centres, but also of those living in villages where the object has a quite different name. Everybody, though, knows what a scythe is...
Book brings to light objects donated my missionaries Friderik Baraga, Franc Pirc and Ivan Čebul.
This catalogue with the toys acquired by the museum between 1933 (the first entry of toys in the inventory book) and 1998.
They were owned by either peasant or town children. Prior to 1933 there was no major production of toys in territory of Slovenia and the only simplest kind of toys were made by peasants and craftsmen.
Painted beehive panels, a variety of folk art created largley by and for the Slovene lower (rural) classes, are known only from al limited area of the Slovene ethnic territory.
The first appeared after the middle of the 18th century, achieved their greates flowering in the period between 1820 and 1880, and died out in the early 20th century in the face of changed socio-economic conditions and new ideas...
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Blue-printing, also called resist-printing or block-printing, is a special method of printing patterns on cloth.
It is essentially a process during which blue-printing blocks transfer pap-like, gluey substance (the resist) onto fabric. When the fabric is dyed blue, the resist prevents the dye from reaching the fabric and becoming bound to its fibres.
SEM's collection od headwear and headdresses includes about 1600 individual items.
A view of the ethnological research on ploughing implements and related work process in Slovenia, their place in the European framework, and a presentation of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum's collection of ploughing implements.
SEM sosed je program Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja, namenjen migrantom, ki so v Sloveniji zaprosili za mednarodno zaščito in ki so, medtem ko čakajo na rešitev prošnje, nastanjeni v Azilnem domu.
Program smo zasnovali kmalu po odprtju ene izmed izpostav Azilnega doma v nekdanjem samskem domu na Kotnikovi ulici v Ljubljani, kamor so bili prvi prosilci za mednarodno zaščito nastanjeni konec februarja 2016. Prosilce za azil, ki so našli svoj novi, začasni dom v muzejski soseščini, sprejemamo kot naše nove sosede, zato smo program imenovali SEM sosed.
This book presents and discusses the tally stics in the collection of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum. It is indeed one of the earliest inventions of mandkind and common in all societies and cultures; it truly is a universally common device related to man's need to record certain facts.
