In November 2024 the fourth scientific monograph as part of the project 'Smell and Intangible Cultural Heritage' has been published. The author, Barbara Pia Jenič, who specialises in sensorial language in art and culture, has written a book on this innovative communication methodology entitled Sensorial Language: Organic Immersion in Experience. Among the senses, the author [...]

Professor Dr Mojca Ramšak, who leads the project "Smell and Intangible Cultural Heritage" made important contributions to the public discourse on olfactory heritage this autumn. During the European Heritage Days, she gave an insightful interview on Radio Slovenia's Cultural Focus programme (11. 10. 2024), in which she discussed the socio-cultural significance of smell (you can [...]

Colleagues at the Heritage Science Laboratory at the University of Ljubljana have made an important contribution to the understanding of structural changes in silk fibres caused by the 19th-century practice of ‘tin-weighting’. Using this process, textile manufacturers altered the weight and thus the draping properties of silk, as well as increased its weight, which was [...]