MAGAZINE RUD - ISSUE 2004
Martin Mešša: Gifts of love
Wooden dollies for mangling and washing were popular love gifts in the past. Owing to their decoration, many of them have become sought after by both museums and collectors. Dollies as love gifts are not a Slovak specific, similar gifts were given to great grandmothers in Hungary, Germany, Austria, Ukraine, Romania as well as Sweden, Norway, France, Bohemia, Moravia and Poland. They were not specific to villages, but Renaissance, Baroque as well as Rococo decorativeness also proves them to be love gifts in the cities. Decorated wooden washing and mangling dollies are proof of folk artistic expression and a tangible proof of the vanished ways of expressing attraction in European culture.
Further articles magazine Craft, Art, Design 04/2004:
- Štefan Oriško: Gabriela Luptáková – Profession: ceramics maker
- Anna Ondrušeková: Feeling with glass
- Jana Oravcová: Secret history...
- Rings in Water 2004
- New tendencies A discussion with ÚĽUV’s director, Milan Beljak
- Eva Ševčíková: Ceramics you know by sound Earthenware by Miloslav Orságh
- Elena Beňušová: Orava masonry and its development
- Juraj Zajonc: Božena Janeková – Connecting traditional and contemporary values
- Martin Mešša: Gifts of lov
- Juraj Zajonc: Pattern books, modelbuchs, musterbuchs or on the origins of embroidery motifs, part two: Slovakia
- Mária Zajíčková: Peter Zoričák – Wooden trial
