Places to visit

Textile path

At Vaineikiai Street, in Drabėnai a very special museum is being created. Daiva and Arūnas Dudenai, who are real textile masters, are fostering the exposition. This exposition is located in the 1st floor in the ‘owners house and has several hundreds of woven sashes and several hundreds more woven folk towels. This collection – one of the newest records in Lithuania. You will never find another such impressive collection, which has hundreds of patterns, colours, ornaments. Museum hosts will be happy to explain what is unique and special about different sashes for matchmakers, jubilees, funerals, they will also tell about special towels for special occasions, for bread bringing and for body covering. The exhibits were chosen carefully from flea markets also bought from people or simply given away – there are several sashes from interwar period. The passionate collectors of traditional sashes and towels promised that visitors would be able to bake bread in an ancient oven and to experience unique educations.