Project Path of Yarn
Culture

Linen and wool revival has been a success!

The international Lithuanian-Norwegian project Making and Growing – Traditions between Fibre & Fabric has reached its goal of breathing new life into the old crafts. “We’ve helped the modern human to reconnect with the undeservingly forgotten craft of processing linen and wool which provided food and warmth for our ancestors. Weaving is encoded in the genes of Lithuanians; I was assured of this when I saw how remarkably modern fellow-countrymen were using a spinning wheel at the live exhibition, even though it was the first attempt in their lives,” cheers the project’s implementer and President of the Fine Crafts Association of Vilnius Indrė Rutkauskaitė. […]

Blessed Teofilius Matulionis  in the USA in 1936. Second from the left
Culture

Blessed Teofilius Matulionis – Unarmed Truth: enlarged photographs, personal letters and items from Soviet prisons

Small wooden eggs brought by Bishop Matulionis to his nieces as souvenirs from abroad, Christmas decorations cut out from paper by him, an intricate double altar also made by the bishop, his embroidered initials on the surplices and the jacket lining. […]

Kėdainiai old town
Culture

Kėdainiai to erect monument to Vilna Gaon

The central Lithuanian town of Kėdainiai has decided to erect a monument to Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, the philosopher, scholar and Jewish religious leader known as the Vilna Gaon, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Friday. […]

Kaunas old town
Culture

Kaunas selected as European Capital of Culture 2022

Lithuania’s second-biggest city of Kaunas was named the winner of the contest for the European Capital of Culture 2022 title during a ceremony at the Ministry of Culture on Wednesday. […]

A Lithuanian book
Culture

Lithuania attending Leipzig Book Fair as guest of honor

Lithuania is this year attending the Leipzig Book Fair in Germany as the guest of honor this year, presenting translations of work by 26 Lithuanian authors published in 15 publishing houses of Germany and Austria. […]