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Kashubian embroidery the Slupsk School
To elaborate of presented designs of the Kashubian embroidery the authors were induced by (an ethnographer Hugona Ostrowska-Wojcikowa and also artists like Dorota Sikorska-Lazny and Mieczysław Lazny) a vivid interest of Slupsk society with the Kashubian folk art. The special interest is with multi-coloured Kashubian embroidery, which is a specific domain of folk artistic creativity. The Kashubian embroidery on Middle Pomerania is recognized as the ‘Kashubian visiting card’ and appears often in form of decorative element on various products, marking the relationship with the region. For that reason portfolio of designs of the Kashubian ‘Slupsk School’ of embroidery was made as obvious sign of affiliation of this Pomerania region to Kashubian.
The designs do not hark back to vivid embroidering tradition, because there has been no such tradition on this region for a long time. Any exhibitions of local folk embroidery haven’t remained till present times. The authors laded for other handicraft domains of former inhabitants of Slupsk and localities. They did that to perform transposition on canvas decorative motives appearing on old furniture, household equipments, and architectonical country-buildings details and on products of former ceramics.
To invent purfles circumflexing rims of tablecloths and doilies quirk beads were used which appeared in 17th and 18th century barns gateways in Machowinko, Mozdzanowa and Zajaczkowo. Painted and sculptured chests, chairs, hand mangles and weaver's slats were used to design ornaments of individual elements of the embroidery. Pomeranian folk ceramics were an excellent sources of decorative motives accumulated for many years in the Museum of Middle Pomerania. Shapes and colors of painting decoration which covered plates, pitchers and bowls, forced outright obviousness of using them in embroidering designs.
Above all, however, a treasury of ornaments was fragments of 18th and 19th-century ceramic dishes, stored in the Ethnographic Department Museum of Middle Pomerania in Slupsk. The history of beginning of this collection is unusual. In 1954, in progress of deepening the Slupia River on Garncarska (Pottery) Street, one struck a lot of dishes and ceramic fragments originating from workshops and pottery kilns on these grounds. They first appeared in the Middle Ages. From silt and rubble sub fluvial of the river fragments and full crockery, being doubtless with the product of Slupsk potters, were gained. Painterly decoration with the varnish remained on pitchers, bowls, plates and tiles. What is more interesting, on some fragments production dates of these ceramics were put.
The disposing with wealth of decorative motives and colour combination in use in artistic decoration of former equipments and Slupsk ceramic dishes, authors decided on elaboration of ‘Slupsk School - Kashubian embroidery designs’. Stylistic analysis of founded ceramics showed far-reaching filiation with the Kashubian folk art and justifies allocation it in the series of "Designs of Kashubian embroidery" published for many years by the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association. The embroidery of the Slupsk School, similarly to local, older ceramic art, is characterized with floristic ornaments. The most often appearing decorative motive is applied in several kinds of tulips: developed, in gemma, on stiff pedicel, whether on out-of-plumb, limp pedicel. To embroidering favorite motives of Slupsk were used: daisy, forget-me-not and peony which on Kashubians is called a rose.
Characteristically for all copybooks of Kashubian embroidery - the palmette, in various arrangement and colors - found her own place. Also one applied twigs and gemmules consisting of leaved flowerage. The color scheme of "Slupsk" embroidery is also specific. Analogically to coloring of the local ceramics, one applied in the embroidery following coloristic variety: yellow, brown, twain kinds of greens (bright and succulent-dark) and four kinds of blue, from azure to navy blue.
Author:
The concept, ethnographic supervision and text - Hugona Ostrowska-Wojcik
All information contained on this page, were laded from portfolio entitled “Kashubian embroidery the Slupsk School”, edited for the 35th anniversary of the Museum of the Slovinian Village in Kluki.