Skirt 001

Skirt 001

The skirt is part of a women's clothing set, sewn from 6 strips of bleached linen, arranged at the top in small tabs sewn into a seam passing into drawstrings for tying at the front of the waist.

At the bottom edge of the apron, a hemstitch, above that, a white, embroidered, horizontal stripe pattern. It includes a high strip of geometric embroidery divided into 2 parts. In the lower part there is a stripe embroidery in the form of a selvage: in a wide double frame, composed of a string formed with a flat stitch and a wolf teeth motif, rhythmically placed motifs of a geometric single snail roll, a chessboard and an inverted snail roll. Between this pattern, there is a wall motif comprised of 6 squares decorated with English embroidery. All elements are separated from each other by vertically arranged lines formed from 3 holes (English embroidery). Above this embroidery strip, a rhythmically repeated, strongly geometrical, fantastic plant motif in an antithetical arrangement with a vertical symmetry axis, resembling a willow twig with catkins or a bunch of grapes. The pattern has archaic elements of decorations and stitches. Such a complicated embroidery made with white threads suggested the clothing of a young married woman, the motifs of the catkins or grapes had a magical and fertile meaning.

Item: skirt

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

Dimensions: height 92 cm, width 73-427 cm

Creation time: the end of the 19th century

Origin: Markowa

Owner: The Folk Museum in Kolbuszowa