Blue printed tablecloth
Blue printed tablecloth
Producer
Trnka Stanislav
SKU
25252257
Techniques
imprint
Material
textile
Craft
indigo block printing, textile craft
Dimensions
obrus: length = 119.0 cm; width = 63.0 cm
About product
On the longer sides of the tablecloth, a stylized plant motif is repeated seven times, alternating with an eight-petal flower. The edge around the entire tablecloth consists of one row of arches and two rows of dots. The size of the plant pattern is 12 cm. The tablecloth is dyed with natural indigo. The original pattern was used in Spiš (Jakubany, Spišská Belá) for clothing accessories. The tablecloth was made in 1983 by Stanislav Trnka based on a design by Eva Kováčová.
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 was...
