Blue-printed pillow cover

Blue-printed pillow cover

Blue-printed pillow cover

Producer
Trnka Stanislav, Kováčová Eva
Material
textile
Craft
indigo block printing, textile craft
Dimensions
length = 65.0 cm; width = 56.0 cm
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On the front side in the lower half of the pillowcase, there is a continuous strip of hop leaves and hop cones, bordered at the bottom by a ribbon. Pattern size 17 cm. The entire remaining surface on the front and back side of the pillowcase is filled with solid light blue six-petal flowers. The pillowcase is dyed with natural indigo, two-colored pattern – light blue-yellow. The original pattern was used in Upper Liptov on clothing. Made from a single piece of canvas folded in half, stitched by machine on the shorter sides, with an opening without fastening in the middle third of the longer side. The pillowcase was made in the 1980s by Stanislav Trnka based on a design by artist Eva Kováčová of the Folk Art Production Center

Author
Trnka Stanislav
Author
Kováčová Eva
Trnka Stanislav
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The history of the indigo workshop of the Trnka family leads back to the beginning of the 19th century to the village of Záriečie and is connected with the name of the renowned indigo master Jozef Bednárik. In 1894, after his death, his workshop...
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