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Black Wedding
The folkloristic event "Black Wedding" in The Museum of the Slovinian Village
Boggy grounds around Gardno and Lebsko lakes are rich in deposits of the peat which, after extraction and drying up, was used as perfect fuel material in winter. Extraction of the peat was always begun in the first half of May, because the groundwater level was the lowest at that time and local fishermen had a pause in fishing. As the peat lay very superficially under the surface of the ground, the technique of its extraction was very simple. After the burn up of the grass, one cut down outer patch of grass with the hoe and with the special knife on a long handle one cut layers of the peat, forming it into cubes of similar sizes by means of the special tool of blades at right angle.
Cubes were arranged in monolayer on the meadow, while after drying, stacks (counting after 1000 pieces of cubes) called ruta were formed out of them. These were put on the sun to dry. Later on, the cubes were transported to crofts as eaves in houses. In this form the peat was used as the trading unit. Gaining of the winter fuel was a general and common problem for the whole rural community. Every day, the hard work ended with communal feast which always took place at this farmer’s house for whom, on that day, the peat was extracted.
There is a forgotten tradition that is somehow being reminded by the plain-air picnic called "Black Wedding". It is organized in The Museum of the Slovinian Village in Kluki every year. This year's ethnographic performance, which took place traditionally on 1÷3 of May, was delighted with the big interest of the local population and tourists who appeared in Skansen museum, coming together with all families from far-away places of Pomerania and Poland. As every year organizers did everything so that the visitors and guests could spend a few unusual hours among centennial, rural crofts.
Especially for this occasion, ethnographers of the Slupsk museum with reference to traditional crafts and technologies reproduced such activities as: extraction of the peat, pottery, plaiting, embroidery, wickerwork, turning of ropes, decoration hollow-ware, weaving, filature, and thatch of roofs with split cane as well as production and the repair of fishing nets. Within all days of the event, kermess of the handicraft and amateurish art was organized. Guests had a chance to taste the Slovinian delicacies: fresh bread (baked according to the original formula) with lard and pickled cucumber, raised wafers and traditional Slovinian sour rye soup.
  • Making and repair fishings net
  • Hand-woven wicker baskets
  • Potter's wheel
  • Making and repair fishings net
  • Hand-woven wicker baskets
  • Potter's wheel
  • Extraction of peat
  • Detail on the potter's wheel
  • Klumpy - horse booted
  • Extraction of peat
  • Detail on the potter's wheel
  • Klumpy - horse booted
  • Mareszki with Cewice
  • Kashubian embroidery
  • Gzube with Tuchomie
  • Mareszki with Cewice
  • Kashubian embroidery
  • Gzube with Tuchomie
  • Jasien with Jasien
  • Slowinki with Debrzno
  • Zgoda with Slupsk
  • Jasien with Jasien
  • Slowinki with Debrzno
  • Zgoda with Slupsk