Dowry: Eastern European Painted Furniture, Textiles & Related Folk Art | 1999

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Book Title: Dowry: Eastern European Painted Furniture, Textiles & Related Folk Art
Author: ed. Martha Longnecker
Language(s): English
Published: California – 1999
Format & Size: Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket – 9″ x 11.25″
Pages: 100
Book Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New
Description: Embroidering textiles for dowry and embellishing the home and its furnishings has long been a woman’s art in Central and Eastern Europe. This heritage has been passed generation to generation from mother to daughter in preparation for marriage and raising a family. Through the expressive work of her hands a young woman and potential bride reveals her character in a silent language of art. This is a living tradition of doing and making all things in the most beautiful and reverent way! It is a practical and frugal art of transforming common materials into extraordinary personal and domestic adornment. It is the intent of this book to provide a glimpse into the distinctive beauty of Czech and Slovak textiles and Hungarian painted wood furnishings related to the art of the dowry and to recognize the women of these cultures who embellished all life in harmony with their environment. Their designs relate to the natural beauty and abundant floral and animal life of such regions as the Hungarian Great Plain surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains. Here village people were able to live austere lives with few possessions, but they could not and did not live without beauty!