Polish Folk Embroidery by Jadwiga Turska

Rea, Warsza, 1997. Condition is fine with no wheel is about lost to remaining to the boards. Corner sharp binding firm pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows very very slight edge where just from being on the shelf. It's been protected by a plane cardboard slipcase which has helped to preserve its condition.

Jadwiga Turska's book presents all the basic types and forms of old and contemporary embroidery from some 30 larger or smaller areas. The album that she has prepared crowns her many years of painstaking research and constitutes a document authentic phone card. The author studied items in various ethnographic collections, notably the state ethnographic museum in Warsaw. Her basic sources were the folk costumes worn until after the first half of the 20th century and still used in some parts of Poland. Embroideries appeared in women's bonnets, kerchiefs, chemises, blouses, aprons and skirts, and a men's overcoats, jackets, waistcoats, shirt trousers.

An important book for anyone interested in traditional Polish embroidery. Profusely illustrated in color  throughout...