Shirt 003

Shirt 003

The shirt with a frame (sewn from pieces of fabric of square or rectangular shape) and crinkle cut. Decorated with red embroidery on the collar, cuffs, trim and frames, emphasizing the cut or strengthening the seams. Geometric motifs with the use of a spiral, various arrangements of straight, wavy, and zig-zag lines, and plant motifs in the form of trefoils are typical for ornamentation in the northern part of the Lasowiacy region. Trace patterns are made with crossed stitches, chains, a comb, and a stripe. The pattern on the cuffs consists of trefoils and stars inscribed in the lines of the cross stitch. On the frames, the track patterns composed of straight lines, zigzags and characteristic wavy lines curled into a spiral, rhythmically repeated. The crossed stitches finished with a trefoil pattern. On the trim an extensive floral motif with a long stem, leaves and twigs, repeated several times along its length.

Item: women’s shirt

Material, technique: linen cloth; hand and machine sewing, hand embroidery

Dimensions: height 64 cm, width 57 cm

Creation time: the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

Origin: Chmielów

Owner: the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola