Shirt 004
Shirt 004
The shirt with a frame(sewn from pieces of fabric of square or rectangular shape) and crinkle cut. It is open at the front and finished with slats, fastened with buttons, finished with a small collar at the neck. A brown ornament is present on the collar, cuffs, buttoning of the shirt and frames, where it emphasizes the cut or strengthens the seams. The motifs are repeated rhythmically. Characteristic plant motifs are repeated on the strip: flower, multi-leaf twig or trefoil. On the cuffs, the pattern consists of a straight herringbone, trefoil and curved stripes. On the frames, the pattern consists of two track patterns composed of straight lines, called a comb, a lockstitch, a stripe and one track pattern, where the center is a wavy line of a chain coiled into a spiral, rhythmically repeated and inscribed in two lines of stripes and crossed stitches decorated with the trefoil motif. It is a typical folk design on women's garment in the northern part of the Lasowiacy region.
Item: women’s shirt
Material, technique: linen cloth; hand and machine sewing, hand embroidery
Dimensions: height 80 cm, width 79 cm
Creation time: the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
Origin: Chmielów
Owner: the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola
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