2017
Sixty tremendous years of šúpolienky (cornhusk dolls)
Tomáš Mikolaj
Early cornhusk dolls were stuffed with textile waste. They were produced occasionally by women involved in making cornhusk objects that were needed on a daily basis in the traditional environment of southern Slovakia. In line with other objects produced at home from this or that material, it was also cornhusk miniatures serving as toys that reminded children of their parents’ unconditional love. In1957, this inspired ÚĽUV’s designer Kamila Rauchová to make her cornhusk doll, one of the oldest and most memorable art objects in ÚĽUV’s history.
Further articles in the magazine Craft, Art, Design 03/2017:
- Toys through the passage of time
- How the law perceives it
- Alena Hlucháňová: When making animal figurines becomes your hobby
- From the collections of the Museum of Puppet Cultures and Toys
- Bohuslav Šippich and Kyjatice toy
- Kyjatice phenomena
- Research into wooden toys
- Sixty tremendous years of šúpolienky (cornhusk dolls)
- Jaroslav Švihra: Accompanied by wood from early childhood
- Preservation research into dolls wearing folk costumes
- Wooden cubes or plastic jigsaws?
- What toys did our producers used to play with?
- Clay treasures from Heřman Landsfeld collection
- Toy as a souvenir
- Shifting boundaries of reality
- When game connects all players
- As Infinity came into being
- A family affair
- Slovak folk embroidery, edition Inspirations