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168 Muradija Kahrović-Jerebičanin 40/2017

Muradija Kahrović Jerebičanin
Museum „Ras” Novi Pazar

The Last Craftsman, a Shoemaker - a Slipper Maker in Novi Pazar

Abstract: Craftsmanship was very developed in Novi Pazar. Especially,
craftsmen whose crafts items were clothing ones, i.e. clothes and shoes were very
successful. Within their crafts, where different shoes were manufactured, there were
peasant shoe makers, clog makers, boot makers, slipper makers and others.
Women’s slippers were highly required shoes, used daily or for celebrations,
where their quality was different one, thus the craftsmanship of shoemakers was
successfully developed. At the end of XX century, there were fewer conditions for
the survival of this craftsmanship in Novi Pazar, and the last shoemaker -a slipper
maker was Ismail Salkovic. At the beginning XXI century, this craftsmanship was
extinct.

Key words: craftsmanship, a slipper maker, a woman, clothes, slippers,
downtown, family, shop, town, a town’s part, culture, competition, survival, tool,
material