Shirt 002

Shirt 002

The cuff is a cut-off, decorative ending at the hand of a women's shirt sleeve. It has the shape of a rectangle made of bleached canvas covered with embroidered, red, stylized plant motifs. The edge of the cuff is cut in cloves and contoured with English (hole) stitch. Inside the cloves, 8 different flowers with petals are embroidered: 3 of them with English embroidery, the others with flat embroidery and string, petals of various shapes in a rosette arrangement, the centers made with English embroidery. Above them there are 4 motifs of two leafy twigs arranged in an arc. Inside of them, stylized flowers made of concentrically arranged dots, imitating a dandelion. The stylized plant pattern spread among the Lasowiacy in the Kolbuszowa-Raniżów subregion at the end of the 19th century. This pattern and the stitches are specific to the area. The red color of the embroidery suggests that the cuff belongs to the shirt of an unmarried woman.

Item: shirt

Material, technique: homespun linen cloth, hand sewing and embroidery, flat and English, linen threads

Dimensions: height 6.5 cm, width 19.5 cm

Creation time: the end of the 19th century

Origin: Masuria

Owner: The Folk Museum in Kolbuszowa