Galičnik Bride Kilim
Wool, plant dyes
A reconstruction of a 1904 wedding pattern. 120 × 180 cm.
Price on request
Weaving
Elena Petreska
Bringing the colour and rhythm of Galičnik motifs back to life.
Biography
Elena learned to weave from her grandmother, in an age when a loom still stood in nearly every house of the Mijak region. When those looms began to disappear, she set out through the villages to record the motifs before they were lost.
Her collection now holds over two hundred documented patterns. Some are being woven again — a few for the first time in seventy years.
- Location
- Galičnik, Mavrovo
- Workshop since
- 1978
The Craft
„I do not invent the pattern. I remember it.“
She works only with wool from Bistra sheep, hand-spun and dyed with plant dyes: madder, walnut husk, weld. A larger piece takes between six weeks and three months on the loom.
The geometry of Mijak patterns is not ornament — each row once carried meaning, from marital status to home village. Elena weaves them with that knowledge, not as decoration.
Hand-spun wool
Plant dyes
Horizontal loom
Mijak motifs
Products
Selected pieces available to order directly from the maker.
Woollen Cushions
Wool, linen
A pair of cushions with a simplified geometric motif.
4.200 MKD
Prices are indicative. Agree the details directly with the maker.
Contact
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- Location
- Galičnik, Mavrovo
- Telephone
- +389 70 000 002
- elena@example.mk
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