Quilt
Quilt
Producer
Kyselicová Hedviga
SKU
26526206
Technics
gatra
Material
textile
Craft
embroidery, textile craft
Size
About product
A small white canvas coverlet bordered and decorated with cross-stitch patterns on the left lower edge. The border squares are embroidered with white cotton using the “running stitch” technique, squares embroidered on canvas are embroidered with gold-yellow cotton using the “chain stitch” technique. Above the patterns is a figure of a trainee embroidered with chain stitch using the same gold-yellow cotton.
She learned embroidery from her mother as a child. She was one of the last bearers of the embroidery traditions in the area of western Slovakia. She mastered the technically demanding techniques of sewing gatier, all kinds of eyelet embroidery. In 1965,...
