2017
Make your own folk costume
Diana Némethová
In our popular School of traditional craft production series, ÚĽUV is releasing a long-awaited publication Make your own folk costume: manual with cuts appendix for sewing men’s traditional clothing from Liptovské Sliače, and, Make your own folk costume: manual with cuts appendix for sewing women’s traditional clothing from Liptovské Sliače. The production team, led by the publication’s author Simona Kožuchová, introduces, in brochures, basic tailoring skills needed to make individual clothing articles of one’s own folk costume, describing all steps, and supporting them with pictures and the cuts appendix, including advice on how to take measurements.
Further articles in the magazine Craft, Art, Design 04/2017:
- Making use of sheep wool in traditional way at Liptov
- Kapce (boots) from Lendak
- Wool in leading role
- Inspired by neighbours
- From history of gubárstvo (weaving and processing of woollen fabrics) in Klenovec
- Gustáv Virág – I keep motifs of Ľubietová
- Knowing the art of success
- Investigation of woollen embroidery in Slovakia
- Dni majstrov (Craftsmen Days) not only for adults
- Woolen yarn embroidery from southern Hungary
- Is there future for wool?
- Production from wool and ÚĽUV
- Old furriers would be proud of them
- A new look at textile creation
- Folded universe
- Hand-knitted
- Painted into wool
- Felt in designer’s hands
- Legend’s comeback
- Make your own folk costume