Day of Szeged Slippers to be held for the 6th time
The Day of Szeged Slippers will be held for the sixth time on Saturday, June 15, 2024, at the Szent-Györgyi Albert Agóra in Szeged. The organizers await everyone interested with a festive program with 150 folk dancer children, an award ceremony, a conference, craft activities, and family programs.
The Foundation for the Szeged Mule Slides is organizing the Day of the Szeged Slippers for the sixth time on Saturday, June 15, to promote this special footwear, according to the organizers' press release.
The program's central theme is slipper embroidery, and the prizes of the slipper head embroidery and design competition, for which more than 117 entries were received, will be presented on this day, as well as the Award for the Szeged Slipper. Visitors can try cattail weaving, various games, and slipper pattern design, as well as embroidery.
The event also features a slipper fair, where master slipper makers from Hungary and Vojvodina will offer traditional handmade Szeged slippers for sale and take personalized orders.
Apart from the conference entitled Changes and Rethinking of the Motifs of Szeged Slipper Embroidery, an exhibition entitled Slipper Embroidery in Focus is also awaiting visitors, where the works of slipper embroidery students, the most beautiful entries of the slipper head embroidery contest, and slipper embroidery patterned dresses will be on display, as well as a selection from the collection of the Foundation for the Szeged Mule Slides.
The traditional Szeged slippers, also called Szeged Mule Slides – szegedi papucs in Hungarian – came in vivid colors and were made and embroidered entirely by hand. Originally they didn't come in pairs, meaning there was no right-foot or left-foot version. Although these mules are worn by folk dancers and a handful of fans these days, the tradition of the Szeged slipper-making is still carried on by a few handicraft artists.
Attendance is free. Note that the language of the event is Hungarian.
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