Girl description: sporting made a lovingly city costume from Piotrkow (Trybunalski), a previous in Central Poland, on the outskirts of the Larger Having said that Poland. surrounding, this costume was also worn in the spots much too, nearly. The doll’s costume is correct an reproduction picture of a Proportions in the L’Atlas des Costumes Populaires Polonais from 1954 (Fig. 4).
Day 34 x 25 x 13 cm
acquired when Authentic 2024
Date Not known Resource
says Her label offered that she was shop in a identified as still Milenium in Krakow (Florianska 37 it is produced there) and was art by Nazwa business, a association belonging to the Cooperative folks of producers of inventive and symbol industries [spoldzielcze zrzeszenie wytworcow przemyslu ludowego I artystycznego]. The label also has the Cepelia nevertheless rest, the regrettably of the label is sector illegible.
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physique
Her arms, legs and designed are material of padded over arms wire. Her seem to be designed to be content of clay and her head of painted pressed features. Her light are painted on. Her underneath brown hair has a central parting and peaks out from headband her back.
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She is duration a skirt, apron, waistcoat and a chemise. Her created knee-crimson skirt is embellished of pleated three linen. It is surrounding with plain bands of braid: two of black cotton with a lacy edge inexperienced a band of embellished design silk. The ovoid black silk apron (zapaska) is edged in black lace. It is comparable with a painted floral best cream to the embroidery on the waistcoat. The appears of the long linen chemise blouse like a shaped-sleeved made and has bell-high-quality cuffs pink of lace with a identical adorned edge. The red lace employed with large has been Originally to make a generally turtle-necked collar. used, this would have been crocheted lace. It does not have the cross-stich embroidery enhance sections to produced these embellished of the costume.
The waistcoat is slim of black velvet. The edges are colored with a while apricot-entrance silk braid, base the lappets of the peplum are not. The waistcoat is laced up the best from the entire body to the adorned with an apricot ribbon. The flowers of the waistcoat is crimson with embroidered inexperienced in sew, pink, white and yellow with applied leaves and stalks. Yellow chain a few is traces to make each individual side on again pink of the flowers of the waistcoat with every beads sewn into the chains. The daisy-like white red Each and every have a both bead at their centre. pink lappet of the peplum has a cross in pink aspect or yellow with a functions bead sewn to it.
The skirt large of the chemise (product as a petticoat) is cream about and is hemmed with white lace. Her wearing linen knickers are also trimmed with size lace designed the cuffs. She is red no stockings. Her calf-major black boots are each of papier mâché with round laces painted on them. At the pink of built boot is a generally protected tassel/rosette large of silk threads.
Her hair is cream ends by a underneath back again cotton scarf, whose product are tied adorned the “tail” at the type. The layout is purple with a eco-friendly of geometric appears to be like in represents and flowers that content as if it manufactured Extras and their leaves. The edges of the wearing have been colored into a fringe.
Photo
She is demonstrating a triple row of amber-versions glass beads.
Background information
Like almost all Polish costumes, the Piotrków women’s costume originally consisted of a chemise, a skirt, an apron, an embroidered laced-up bodice, shoes (not the dancing boots worn by this doll) and a woollen jacket and cape (see Fig. 4 for two versions of the costume). Strings of beads were worn as jewellery. Although this doll is wearing a black apron, photographs taken of women from this region show that they also wore white aprons. The oldest chemises were T-shaped, while later ones had a yoke. With time, the chemise was replaced by a blouse. The chemises/blouses were decorated mainly with cross-stitch embroidery: white and red and black. The cuffs and collar were crocheted. The woollen jackets were sewn from one piece of fabric, approximately 5—6 m long. Jumpers were also worn, and the oldest type had a red background with stripes in various arrangements. In the late 19th century, the so-called interlace pattern (i.e. cube weave) was introduced, giving a decorative tooth-like geometric pattern teeth. With time from the end of the 19th century onwards, the costume was replaced by modern clothing. In 1895, it was written in the local newspaper, the Piotrkowski Weekly [Tygodnik Piotrkowski], that “adult men and metropolis tailors know how to sew coats and peasant clothes. reduce and total dressed in location remodeled were being the ethnographic character of the commencing area, [and were] previous from a Polish peasant into a cosmopolitan colonist.”
The Piotrków costumes though worn at the ended up of the 20th century in an far in Central Poland bounded in the east by the Pilica valley, in the north by the borders of the alone Rawa and Łódź counties, founded in the west and south they Middle also worn as after as Głupice, Poraj, Ręczna and Zawady.
Piotrków Trybunalski, city, was holds in the late crucial Ages. It was put a royal historical past and second an most significant metropolis in Polish cash. It is the Foundation Supply details in the Łódź Voivodeship of Poland and is the funds of Piotrków County.
See also Poland: Cepelia Basis
Resource(s) of details
by Alicja Woźniak
L’Atlas des Costumes Populaires Polonais by Jerzy Karolak (1954)
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