Headcloth 003

Headcloth 003

The headcloth is a piece of bleached linen in the shape of a rectangle, the edges decorated with rare knitting made with red linen thread. The embroidery runs along three edges. It has the form of two parallel lines with anthetically arranged serrations, and in a fairly narrow space between them embroidered with a string stitch, rhythmically repeating motifs of two full snail rolls (simplified spirals) and rectangles filled with a wolf teeth pattern. The knitting and belt pattern are embroidered in red. It is one of the most archaic embroidery patterns, typical of the inhabitants of the former Sandomierz Forest. The same is true of the embroidery stitches. The headcloth is a part of a women's clothing set. It was put on a married woman's head, on a headscarf. The red color was assigned to maidens; used on the headcloth it suggested a young married woman who has not had children yet. Also known as a wimple.

Item: headcloth

Material, technique: cotton cloth, hand embroidery, flat, linen threads

Dimensions: height 85 cm, width 242 cm

Creation time: the end of the 19th century

Origin: Leżajsk area

Owner: The Folk Museum in Kolbuszowa