Dreaming of Drotária map
Dušan Mikolaj
The lands from which wire craft masters come from, Drotária, is defined as a new tourism region situated in the triangle between Bytča, Turzovka and Žilina. It is possible to get to know various villages throughout this region and its landscape on the bike. One can choose a starting point, say, in Turzovka and, after some forty kilometres, return therein. Karol Guleja, who contributed significantly to keeping wire craft alive, dreamed that Drotária be put on the map, inspiring visitors to see various points of interest where they could stop and find out about the essence of wire craft and how it could be relevant and meaningful also today. For this reason, he was extremely pleased when, in 2004, the then director of the Považie Museum in Žilina, Marián Mrva, introduced a tourism map of Drotária to the general public.
Further articles in the magazine Craft, Art, Design 02/2017:
- Outstanding Slovak phenomenon
- Karol Guleja’s heritage
- Wire craft in the Museum of Folk Art Production
- Dreaming of Drotária map
- Seventy eventful years
- Jozef Zoller: Dodko Drôtik (Little Wire) becoming master
- Milan Kočtúch: shepherd in heart
- Heritage of the Jurovatý family
- Research into wire craft in Slovakia
- From thread to wire
- Tradition or design?
- Keeping craft alive
- There is a dress, and then there is a dress...
- Art making intertwined with life
- How can be drawings embodied in space
- Thin Black Lines
- Works of art as pleasing as Belgium chocolate