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Palm Sunday in Betina

Palm Sunday, or locally, Cvitnica, is a custom where Christians throughout the world are celebrating Jesus’s coming to Jerusalem. It’s celebrated on the last Sunday before Easter and the Holy Week. Townspeople from Betina are celebrating it too. Before the Sunday it’s important to cutt down the right olive branches so they can be decorated as a palm. It’s never easy to select the proper branches between different types of olives in the groves. There is a local type of olive – duška, with long leaves easy to knit in palms. There are two different palms that can be made in Betina – a male one and a female palm. A male palm is made out of a single branch, while the female palm is more…

Making of “ogrica” – workshop

On Friday the 02nd, as part of our educational and creative program, a workshop will be held where we’ll learn how to make one specific and recognizable, traditional decoration of folk costumes typical for some villages in Šibenik region –  Ogrica. Older women from the village say they were worn by their grandmothers too. Ogrica can be made by placing pearls directly onto the fabric which is prepared before this phase and then you create a motif – mostly floral or geometrical. There is also a method when you first crochet the surface with a simple pattern on which you’ll insert your pearls, or, with knitting needles where after the first row is knitted, the second you start by inserting pearls with other needles, and…

Traditional folk costumes of the island

Yesterday we’ve held a workshop about traditional folk costumes of the island for children in the Museum. First our curator had the introduction lecture and afterwards the kids draw what they’ve learned about the subject. The point was to raise the awareness about the cultural heritage of the island, the process of making the folk costumes and the occasions where they were worn.

International Children’s Festival in Betina

This year we’ll take part of the International Children’s Festival and organize a workshop for kids here in Betina. We’ll make the Betina gajeta scale model.  The workshop will be held from 26th of June till the 01st of July in the evening hours – from 19:30 – 21:00. The job is divided into phases in accordance with the order of the work. First day will be the day of grinding and fine shaping of the wood, linking the main components together along with the keel and repairing of the surface. We’ll also draw parts for the second phase which follows the second and the third day of the workshop –  cutting and sawing all the small parts of the boat’s equipment. The parts need to be fine-shaped in…

The making of Betina gajeta scale model

The main goal of this workshop is to initiate interest in modelling, handcraft and shipbuilding. By making, forming their shape and then fining of all the small parts for our scale model children have learneda lot about the main components of the boat. By doing so, there’s also a lot to be learnt on how to handle tools and how to form a fine shape.   Central motive of the workshop is a small scale model of a Betina gajeta which is also one of the most distinctive souvenirs in our souvenirshop. It represents the Museum but also the entire village because of its significance for its shipbuilding heritage.   In accordance with local souvenir makers we prepared a wide number of tools and other utensils to help us with modelling and…

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