Ruta Association and wool workshops
Our island is one of the last preserved oases of mutual connection and respect between nature and human beings.
How to preserve it for generations to come?
How to defend its soul before a gust of insensitive time?
How to live under this sky, on this rock and sea?
What can I do for my island, my town, for myself and my family?
What are the values that make this place between the rock and the sea so different and peculiar?
As an answer to these questions we founded the Ruta Association, a group for higher quality life on the Island of Cres, in 2000. Our intention was to make life more beautiful for our members and for everyone living on the island by organising various concrete activities in the community.
Our goal is to promote social, cultural, ecological and tourist identity of the town and the Island of Cres. We encourage democracy, tolerance and peaceful civil society, we are trying to revive and preserve the old traditions, crafts and knowledge, promote the production and use of healthy food, encourage artistic and creative expression of our members and improve both their material and spiritual situation, especially under the conditions of life on the island, and through all this we contribute to the overall quality of the tourist offer on the island.
In addition to wool-related activities that we are best known for, we have revived events related to the carnival, Easter; we have encouraged the organisation of the summer carnival and revived the Cres Fair Seménj. By using the techniques of felting and weaving, our members make decorations and objects of wool, and potions from plants and crops. Thanks to their wool products, two of our members have become members of ULUPUH (The Croatian Association of Visual Artists of Applied Arts). We regularly exhibit our works at the Handmade Fest (Pula), Autumns in Lika (Gospić), Špancirfest (Varaždin), and at all other events carrying eco- and etno- prefixes.
We are happy to convey knowledge and experience that we have gained through work on projects to other interested communities.
Ruta organises wool workshops for both children and adults where you can learn how to filc and make an object of your own for a memorable experience in Cres. For dates and further informaation on workshops, please visit Ruta's website on the link below:
How to preserve it for generations to come?
How to defend its soul before a gust of insensitive time?
How to live under this sky, on this rock and sea?
What can I do for my island, my town, for myself and my family?
What are the values that make this place between the rock and the sea so different and peculiar?
As an answer to these questions we founded the Ruta Association, a group for higher quality life on the Island of Cres, in 2000. Our intention was to make life more beautiful for our members and for everyone living on the island by organising various concrete activities in the community.
Our goal is to promote social, cultural, ecological and tourist identity of the town and the Island of Cres. We encourage democracy, tolerance and peaceful civil society, we are trying to revive and preserve the old traditions, crafts and knowledge, promote the production and use of healthy food, encourage artistic and creative expression of our members and improve both their material and spiritual situation, especially under the conditions of life on the island, and through all this we contribute to the overall quality of the tourist offer on the island.
In addition to wool-related activities that we are best known for, we have revived events related to the carnival, Easter; we have encouraged the organisation of the summer carnival and revived the Cres Fair Seménj. By using the techniques of felting and weaving, our members make decorations and objects of wool, and potions from plants and crops. Thanks to their wool products, two of our members have become members of ULUPUH (The Croatian Association of Visual Artists of Applied Arts). We regularly exhibit our works at the Handmade Fest (Pula), Autumns in Lika (Gospić), Špancirfest (Varaždin), and at all other events carrying eco- and etno- prefixes.
We are happy to convey knowledge and experience that we have gained through work on projects to other interested communities.
Ruta organises wool workshops for both children and adults where you can learn how to filc and make an object of your own for a memorable experience in Cres. For dates and further informaation on workshops, please visit Ruta's website on the link below:
