In Kranj, textile activities, including rope-making, sieve-making, knitting, leather-making, linen-making, dyeing and printing, have left their mark. These traces still unite the people of Kranj today and inspire artists who, through their work, revive the Kranj textile tradition in various ways. The properties and meanings of textile materials, textile techniques and textile products in themselves constitute a fact of textile art; textiles related to other media, materials and content expand their meaning and enrich it.
In their projects, the students started from a basic textile technique: embroidery, which is very close to drawing, art technique. In connection with Kranj, each studied individually, in pairs or groups, how to connect embroidery with the archeology and history of Kranj, with the development of the city, architecture and Plečnik, with culture, library, Prešeren and theater, with mills on Kokra and general technological progress, with the peculiarities of individual textile crafts, which have grown into huge factories, and the nature that is different in Kranj than elsewhere. Some were impressed by Plečnik’s blind arcades, Prešeren’s character or blue print, while others were impressed by the colorful checkered sieves made of horsehair, the thick sailor ropes from Šinkovec’s rope factory and the large wooden mill wheels.
