Created from a few donated oriental pieces from the Southeast Europe, the Collection has developed into a representative whole with more than 1,200 various bedspreads, rugs, wall hangings, prayer rugs and carpets made within the framework of domestic women's cottage industry, or in the schools of weaving and workshops during the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. The largest number of objects originate from mountainous and lowland parts of Croatia: smooth and rag rugs and bedspreads made in the regions of Lika, Kordun, Bjelovar and Bilogora, Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem, not differing typologically and stylistically from the border regions of neighboring countries where sheep farming was also an important economic activity (Dinaric Alps, Danube region). The Collection also includes 130 objects from Bosnia and Herzegovina, where carpet making has been marked by centuries of strong oriental influence. A smaller number of items from Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine are also represented. Contemporary research and collection work encompasses industrial textile products used in rural and urban homes from the second half of the 20th century onwards.