Lilla Erdei has been teaching textile history since 2007, and ethnography at the BA programme of MOME since 2023. As part of the MA programme, she participates as a guest lecturer in contemporary textile classes. In 2019 and 2020, as part of practical education, she also taught lace making as an optional subject.
Biography
After finishing University, between 2003 and 2018, she worked as a museologist at the Department of Textiles and Costumes of the Museum of Applied Arts, and then at the Department of Exhibition Management. She has curated and organised several exhibitions at the museum, the most important of which were "A Century Woven in Thread - 110 years of lace from Halas" and the Textile Art Triennials. In 2014, she graduated from the Journalism School of the National Association of Hungarian Journalists. Since 2010, she has been a lecturer at the former BKF (University of Applied Sciences) and its successor, the Metropolitan University, and from 2023 at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.
In 2002, she took a training course in heritage conservation in Burgundy, and in 2010, as part of a grant from the Maison des Cultures du Monde, she travelled to France to study textiles. She been to France, England, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium for study visits.
Within the framework of the Research Institute of Ethnography of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, she participated in the OTKA research project titled "Textile Culture of the Common People in the Light of Economic and Cultural Changes Between 1850 and-1950" led by Dr. Mária Flórián (2006-2010), and as a continuation of this project, she received an art scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2020-2023).
Since 2003, her publications on lace history and contemporary textiles have appeared in museum yearbooks, collections of papers, exhibition catalogues and journals such as Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, Ars Decorativa, Ethnographia and The Hungarian Quarterly. As a journalist, she has been a regular contributor to the Hungarian edition of BBC History.
Books published: The Szontagh Sisters of Igló and the Hungarian Lace of Csetnek (Hungarian Lace Foundation of Csetnek, 2005); A Century Woven in Thread - 110 Years of the Lace of Halas (Lace Foundation of Halas, 2012); Judit Széles (Hungarian Pictures Publishing House, 2023). She also works as an editor, some of her works include: Tradition Magazine - World of Objects No 5. (2020/3.); Irén Bódy, the Blue-Dyeing Artist (Budapest, Hungarian Images Publishing House, 2020).
She also makes, restores and consults on lace, and teaches the theory and practice of lace making in individual and group classes in a non-academic setting.
