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Seven generations of filigree.<\/strong> From Struga to Kor\u00e7\u00eb, Bitola and Ohrid, the craft has passed from father to son for more than two centuries.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/vangeldereban.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dereban-family-portraits-staircase-srgb.jpg” alt=”Four generations of the Dereban filigree family” title_text=”Four generations of the Dereban filigree family” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Seven generations” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ custom_padding=”70px||70px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.10″ text_font=”Lora||||||||” text_text_color=”#333333″ text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ header_font_size=”46px” header_2_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#000000″ header_2_font_size=”36px” header_3_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_3_text_color=”#000000″ header_3_font_size=”24px” header_4_font=”Open Sans Condensed|700||on|||||” header_4_text_color=”#3392bf” header_4_font_size=”14px” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The Dereban family comes from Struga. The earliest known master is Evtinko Dereban, who is named in a document from 1819. His son Gjore learned the craft from him and kept a shop in the Struga bazaar. Since then the craft has passed from father to son for seven generations: Evtinko, Gjore, Nikola, Aleksandar, Vangel, Gjorgji and Nikola.<\/p>\n Aleksandar trained as a teacher, as did his brother Jakim. After he moved to Kor\u00e7\u00eb in 1923, he went back to the workbench. The family has a saying from that time: whatever your profession, you should also practise the craft. Aleksandar later moved his family to Bitola, where he worked alongside his sons Vangel, Lambe and Nikola. He made the silver filigree butterfly that is now held in the Museum of Macedonia. In 1999 the film director Milcho Manchevski built the national \u201cMade in Macedonia\u201d campaign around it. At Manchevski\u2019s request the hands holding the butterfly are Vangel\u2019s. The other pieces shown in the advertisement come from the Dereban family and are now on display in our museum in Ohrid.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/vangeldereban.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/aleksandar-dereban-filigree-butterfly.jpg” alt=”Silver filigree butterfly with blue enamel wings, made by Aleksandar Dereban” title_text=”Silver filigree butterfly with blue enamel wings, made by Aleksandar Dereban” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.10″ text_font=”Lora||on||||||” text_text_color=”#666666″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Silver filigree butterfly made by Aleksandar Dereban, now in the Museum of Macedonia. In 1999 it became the emblem of the \u201cMade in Macedonia\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/vangeldereban.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vangel-dereban-workbench-old-shop-crop.jpg” alt=”Vangel Dereban at his workbench in the old filigree shop” title_text=”Vangel Dereban at his workbench in the old filigree shop” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.10″ text_font=”Lora||||||||” text_text_color=”#333333″ text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ header_font_size=”46px” header_2_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#000000″ header_2_font_size=”36px” header_3_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_3_text_color=”#000000″ header_3_font_size=”24px” header_4_font=”Open Sans Condensed|700||on|||||” header_4_text_color=”#3392bf” header_4_font_size=”14px” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n In 1962 Vangel moved with his family to Ohrid and opened his own shop. In 2021 his grandson Nikola restored the shop and opened the museum.<\/p>\n The wider family were goldsmiths too: Vangel\u2019s brothers Lambe and Nikola, and Nikola\u2019s son Tome, who has his own workshop in Bitola today. In other branches of the family were Gjore\u2019s son Mitre and Mitre\u2019s sons Igno and Petrush, and Slave Dereban, his son Mile and his nephew Jone.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Vangel” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ background_color=”#f9f5f1″ custom_padding=”70px||70px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/vangeldereban.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vangel-dereban-portrait-scan.jpg” alt=”Vangel Dereban (1920\u20132013), filigree master” title_text=”Vangel Dereban (1920\u20132013), filigree master” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/vangeldereban.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vangel-dereban-soldering-filigree.jpg” alt=”Vangel Dereban soldering filigree with a blowpipe at his workbench” title_text=”Vangel Dereban soldering filigree with a blowpipe at his workbench” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.10″ text_font=”Lora||||||||” text_text_color=”#333333″ text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ header_font_size=”46px” header_2_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#000000″ header_2_font_size=”36px” header_3_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_3_text_color=”#000000″ header_3_font_size=”24px” header_4_font=”Open Sans Condensed|700||on|||||” header_4_text_color=”#3392bf” header_4_font_size=”14px” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Vangel Dereban was born in Struga on 22 February 1920. His father Aleksandar had trained and worked as a teacher in Struga. In 1923, when Vangel was three, the family moved to Kor\u00e7\u00eb, in Albania, where Aleksandar returned to the craft of his ancestors. Vangel grew up there, finished primary and technical secondary school, and learned filigree in his father\u2019s workshop. In 1937 the family returned to Macedonia and settled in Bitola.<\/p>\n The road to his own master craftsman\u2019s diploma was a long one; he received it in 1961. A year later he moved to Ohrid with his wife Ljubica, bought a house and opened his shop in the bazaar.<\/p>\n He loved to travel. He and Ljubica visited more than 60 countries together, and he came home from every journey with new energy for his work. He took part in exhibitions at home and abroad, including the \u201cDays of Yugoslavia\u201d in Amsterdam, and appeared on RAI Uno and on national television in Germany and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n In his shop he sold only what he made himself, often in front of visitors. From a single gram of silver he could draw a wire a kilometre long. Besides Macedonian he spoke Albanian and Italian, and also used German, which made his shop a meeting point for visitors from everywhere. He handed over every piece with a blessing (\u201cwear it in good health\u201d), thanked people who left without buying, and sent customers to other shops when he did not have what they were looking for. He would not let objects of historical value leave Macedonia: when he had to part with heritage pieces, he offered them first to Macedonian museums and institutions. \u201cOur rare treasure should remain with us,\u201d he used to say. A devout Christian, he never worked on church holidays and never charged for work he did for the Church. The Ohrid archaeologist Pasko Kuzman called the shop \u201can unfilmed Macedonian Manaki reel\u201d, a place where the old goldsmiths\u2019 bazaar of Ohrid still lived.<\/p>\n In 1997 Vangel published The Macedonian Jewellery<\/em>, and in the same year the Economic Chamber of Macedonia named him among the laureates of its annual award. A bilingual Macedonian\u2013English edition of the book followed in 2001, as did Bitola, the City of My Youth<\/em>, which he dedicated to his wife Ljubica. In 2005 the city of Ohrid gave him the St. Clement Award, its highest civic honour. In his last years his grandson Nikola worked beside him in the shop.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Ljubica” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ background_color=”#f9f5f1″ custom_padding=”70px||70px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/vangeldereban.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ljubica-dereban-portrait-bw.jpg” alt=”Ljubica Dereban (1931\u20132001)” title_text=”Ljubica Dereban (1931\u20132001)” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.10″ text_font=”Lora||||||||” text_text_color=”#333333″ text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ header_font_size=”46px” header_2_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#000000″ header_2_font_size=”36px” header_3_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_3_text_color=”#000000″ header_3_font_size=”24px” header_4_font=”Open Sans Condensed|700||on|||||” header_4_text_color=”#3392bf” header_4_font_size=”14px” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Vangel Dereban\u2019s story would not be complete without his wife Ljubica. She was not only his faithful companion and support in the hardest moments, but also his assistant in the craft. Because she was raising their two children at the same time, and later helped with the grandchildren, few people knew that it was she, upstairs in the family home above the workshop, who carried out every stage of the goldsmith\u2019s work.<\/p>\n Ljubica was born in Bitola in 1931 and went to school there. After the Second World War she lived in Ruma, in Serbia, where her parents ran a bakery, and worked as a clerk in the town administration. In 1951 she married Vangel. She travelled with him to more than 60 countries, and it was she who chose the pieces shown in The Macedonian Jewellery<\/em>. Family and friends remember her as warm, open and kind. She died on 20 February 2001.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Visitors” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ custom_padding=”70px||70px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/vangeldereban.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/queen-margrethe-visit-dereban-shop-1981-scan.jpg” alt=”Queen Margrethe II of Denmark in Vangel Dereban\u2019s shop in the Ohrid bazaar, 21 April 1977″ title_text=”Queen Margrethe II of Denmark in Vangel Dereban\u2019s shop in the Ohrid bazaar, 21 April 1977″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.10″ text_font=”Lora||on||||||” text_text_color=”#666666″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Queen Margrethe II of Denmark in Vangel\u2019s shop, 21 April 1977.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/vangeldereban.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/albright-dereban-brooch-vecer.jpg” alt=”Madeleine Albright wearing the brooch made by Vangel Dereban, from Ve\u010der newspaper, 1999″ title_text=”Madeleine Albright wearing the brooch made by Vangel Dereban, from Ve\u010der newspaper, 1999″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.10″ text_font=”Lora||on||||||” text_text_color=”#666666″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Madeleine Albright wearing Vangel\u2019s brooch at the reception with President Gligorov, June 1999. Clipping from Ve\u010der.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.10″ text_font=”Lora||||||||” text_text_color=”#333333″ text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ header_font_size=”46px” header_2_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#000000″ header_2_font_size=”36px” header_3_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_3_text_color=”#000000″ header_3_font_size=”24px” header_4_font=”Open Sans Condensed|700||on|||||” header_4_text_color=”#3392bf” header_4_font_size=”14px” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n On the afternoon of 21 April 1977, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Prince Henrik broke with protocol during their visit to Ohrid. Their motorcade stopped, unannounced, in front of Vangel\u2019s shop in the bazaar. The Queen, a good judge of antiques, looked through his collection of historical pieces and asked him to show her how filigree is made. While she and her party watched him at work, Prince Henrik took a particular interest in Vangel\u2019s old European coins.<\/p>\n The Queen chose a Macedonian pafta, the ornamental buckle brides wore at the waist for weddings and celebrations. As she left, Vangel gave her a silver spoon, a symbol of the vitality of the Macedonian home. \u201cI wasn\u2019t nervous,\u201d he told a reporter the next day, \u201calthough it was the first time I had spoken with a queen, or given one a gift.\u201d Months later he said what had struck him most was how much the royal couple knew.<\/p>\n In June 1999, during her visit to Macedonia, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was given a silver brooch set with Ohrid pearl, made by Vangel. It was the Macedonian government\u2019s gift, presented by Foreign Minister Aleksandar Dimitrov. She pinned it to her lapel in the car, wore it to her meeting with President Kiro Gligorov, and kept it on for the rest of her visit. The government also gave members of a Taiwanese delegation handmade silver cufflinks from Vangel\u2019s shop. Among those who visited the shop itself were the American statesman Robert McNamara and Italy\u2019s minister of culture.<\/p>\n Visitors left their impressions in his guest book. One wrote: \u201cOnly golden hands could master silver like this.\u201d Another: \u201cYou and your craft are a great treasure for Macedonia.\u201d<\/p>\n Sources: Ve\u010der, 22 April, 23 April and 2 August 1977, and 14 June 1999, p. 2; Lejla Sabit, \u201c\u0417\u043b\u0430\u0442\u043d\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u0440\u0430\u0446\u0435 \u043d\u0430 \u0414\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0431\u0430\u043d\u201d, Ve\u010der; Stojan Risteski, \u0417\u043b\u0430\u0442\u043d\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u0440\u0430\u0446\u0435 \u043d\u0430 \u0412\u0430\u043d\u0433\u0435\u043b \u0414\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0431\u0430\u043d (Struga, 2003), pp. 17\u201323 and 41.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Museum today” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ background_color=”#f9f5f1″ custom_padding=”70px||70px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.10″ text_font=”Lora||||||||” text_text_color=”#333333″ text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ header_font_size=”46px” header_2_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#000000″ header_2_font_size=”36px” header_3_font=”Playfair Display|700|||||||” header_3_text_color=”#000000″ header_3_font_size=”24px” header_4_font=”Open Sans Condensed|700||on|||||” header_4_text_color=”#3392bf” header_4_font_size=”14px” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n \u201cWith him I made my first ring, which we kept as a present for my future wife. When I was in high school we added the corals, and a few years ago I put it on her hand.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Nikola Dereban, grandson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n On 14 August 2021, in the year Vangel would have turned 101, his grandson Nikola restored the shop in the bazaar. He also restored Vangel\u2019s old bellows and the hand-cranked tool he used to draw silver wire thinner. Both are now on display in the museum downstairs, with the family\u2019s tools, jewellery and silverware.<\/p>\n The museum has six displays, five of women\u2019s jewellery and one of men\u2019s, with pieces up to 200 years old in silver and gold, set with precious and semi-precious stones. The new edition of The Macedonian Jewellery<\/em> was presented at the opening.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/vangeldereban.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/filigree-museum-ohrid-basement.jpg” alt=”The Museum of Filigree, in the basement of the shop, Ohrid” title_text=”The Museum of Filigree, in the basement of the shop, Ohrid” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Features” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ background_color=”#FFFFFF” background_enable_image=”off” background_size=”initial” custom_padding=”||99px|||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_divider 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family<\/h4>\n
Seven generations<\/h2>\n
1920\u20132013<\/h4>\n
Vangel Dereban, the master<\/h2>\n
1931\u20132001<\/h4>\n
Ljubica Dereban<\/h2>\n
21 April 1977<\/h4>\n
Visitors to the shop<\/h2>\n
2021<\/h4>\n
The museum today<\/h2>\n
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In literature and media<\/h2>\n
In the press<\/h4>\n
The opening, 14 August 2021<\/h2>\n
The book<\/h4>\n
The Macedonian Jewellery<\/em><\/h2>\n
Contact<\/h2>\n
E-mail<\/h3>\n