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Following the model of Rajka Borojević, who organized a weaving cooperative of women from the villages of Dragačevo, Dobrila Smiljanić, a Serbian textile worker best known for the Sirogojno sweaters, which gained significance and popularity thanks to her, passed away today in Sirogojno.

Dobrila Smiljanić was born in Radobuđa near Arilje on September 5, 1935.

In November 1962 she came to Zlatibor, where she met her school friend Bora Krejović, a doctor, who invited her to go with him (and along the way visit the Smiljanić family) to an exhibition of women’s handicrafts in Sirogojno.

At the invitation of priest Smiljanić and other prominent locals, she immediately joined the organization of women’s handicrafts, turning the Great Hall of the Agricultural Cooperative into the ambience of an old Serbian house with more than 2,000 handmade works by women from Sirogojno and the surrounding area.

Following the model of Rajka Borojević, who organized a weaving cooperative of women from the villages of Dragačevo, Dobrila came up with the idea to organize knitters from Zlatibor into the Zlatiborka cooperative.