Elena Kurincová: Until the bride said "I do"
An exhibition about the history of weddings opened at Bratislava Castle in June 2005. It not only shows but mainly tells the “story of a wedding” in the noble as well as bourgeois home from the sixteenth to the mid twentieth century. The author of the exhibition, M. Zubercová, based it on what has been preserved. She combines authentic objects such as portraits, photographs and fashion lithography with archival and literary samples. The exhibition investigates the education and bringing up of girls and young women, how their process of emancipation took its course, how weddings were prepared (through each step – engagement, preparation of wedding dress and trousseau) up to the event itself (with a special focus on wedding dresses and their parts, wedding gifts and table setting) when the bride appears in “white” with all the attributes (wreath, veil, bouquet). It is an inspiration for current creators with textile materials and jewellery makers. By means of authentic objects (such as pillow cases, head bonnets, aprons, bodices, bedding etc) we encounter the period when demanding techniques started to find their place in Slovakia such as embroidery with gold and silver, silk, bobbin as well as sewn lace, point de Hongrie, petit point etc which are known from their later appearance in folk art.
Further articles in the magazine Craft, Art, Design 03/2005:
- Object – surface – structure
- Xénia Lettrichová: Ideas and implementation
- Dana Doricová: House, home and a place for beloved books The artistic book binding of architect Viera Mecková
- Ľubica Pavlovičová: An exhibition a little bit about the past but mostly about the present SAC + SAI + SUA = 75
- Viera Kleinová: Last … or First?
- Eva Trojanová: Playing with light
- Tibor Uhrín: About craft and design
- Mojmír Benža: Exhibition that they liked…
- Martin Mešša: Weaving days in the Court of Crafts of ÚĽUV
- Martin Mešša: Margita Hanáková
- Juraj Zajonc: Anna Drobová - Creative development of traditional bobbin lace
- Elena Kurincová: Until the bride said “I do”
- ÚĽUV is 60 years old
- Dita Nociarová: Writing on textile
- Ján Aláč: Tombstones from Novohrad
- Martin Mešša: Wrought crosses