Dress with Detva embroidery

Dress with Detva embroidery

Dress with Detva embroidery

Producer
Adamcová Júlia, Kováčiková Marta
Craft
embroidery, textile craft
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Wedding dress featuring traditional Detva cut-out embroidery. The base material, made of white polyester fiber, is combined with nylon tulle embellished with white cord embroidery accented with silver thread. Designed by M. Kováčiková, made by J. Adamcová from Detva. Photo archive of the Museum of Folk Art Production in Stupava (photo by E. Nováková, 1971)

Author
Adamcová Júlia
Author
Kováčiková Marta

Marta Kovačiková graduated from the Josef Vydru School of Applied Arts in Bratislava, specializing in textiles. In 1967, she started working at ÚĽUV, where she worked as a textile artist in the textile department, focusing on research of traditional clothing, production, and decoration of traditional attire (for 30 years). She specialized in embroidery from the regions of Detva, Vlčkovce, Záriečie, Tekov, and Trakovice (appliqué). She collaborated with artisans such as Ľudmila Švataráková from Trakovice and Júlia Adamcová from Detva

Adamcová Júlia
Adamcová Júlia
ÚĽUV master
She has been embroidering for ÚĽUV since 1959. She mastered all techniques of embroidery with a hooked needle: traditional Detva cutwork in its entirety, cutwork appliqué. She drew her own patterns. In 1971, she obtained a certificate of...
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Kováčiková Marta
Kováčiková Marta

Marta Kovačiková graduated from the Josef Vydru School of Applied Arts in Bratislava, specializing in textiles. In 1967, she started working at ÚĽUV, where she worked as a textile artist in the textile department, focusing on research of traditional clothing, production, and decoration of traditional attire (for 30 years). She specialized in embroidery from the regions of Detva, Vlčkovce, Záriečie, Tekov, and Trakovice (appliqué). She collaborated with artisans such as Ľudmila Švataráková from Trakovice and Júlia Adamcová from Detva

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ÚĽUV