#kurpie

[catvaldemar]

Kurpiowska wycinanka

[mahatka]

My country's traditional clothes doodled. Chose the regions that I draw the least often hah.

[czikpisia]

The Kurpianki from Kurpie Zielone have their Kurpie Białe counterparts

(in honour of the town I work in)

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

"coats of arms" of honey hunting Kurpie families from the heavily forested, isolated and mostly untouched Mazury region

from "Encyklopedja staropolska ilustrowana" by Zygmunt Gloger

[artistmagicial]

Kurpiowska Wycinanka

[drzewobojczyni]

Somewhere in the Green Forest

Inspired by artwork of @pannan-art

DeviantArt

[tworze-com]

Myszyniec

Every year we go to say goodbye to storks, this year in the vicinity of Myszyniec. There because the Mazovian province has the most storks in its northern part. But also because it's nice there and about it in my photoblog / Co  roku jeździmy żegnać bociany, w tym roku w okolice Myszyńca. Tam bo w województwie Mazowieckim najwięcej bocianów najwięcej w jego północnej  części. Ale też dlatego, że tam ładnie i o tym w moim fotoblogu.

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[soovermyself]

Art Production Fund Gala part 1

[polish-art-tournament]

Stryjeńska* :D

stryjeńska: what is our favourite (local or other) folklore-related thing? (folk costumes, traditional songs, style of architecture, legends…)

continuing with the easter theme - palm sunday palms in the kurpie region!

[polishfolklore]

Folk costumes from Kurpie Białe, part of the Mazovian lowlands.

source: Państwowy Zespół Ludowy Pieśni i Tańca „Mazowsze”

[catvaldemar]

Kurpiowska Wycinanka z Kotami

[alexanderpearce]

shift, all handsewn, embroidery inspired somewhat by kurpie designs :)

[czikpisia]

Kurpianki, or, girls from the Kurpie Zielone region of North Eastern Poland in regional costume

[zarya-zaryanitsa]

Polish paper cutouts

From a blog entry by Ethnographic Museum of Warsaw, translated by me. The pictures mostly added by me, from various sources, all linked below. The cutout instructions at the end are also by the Ethnographic Museum of Warsaw.

People usually sat down to create paper works of art before Easter and Christmas. They were not created only to decorate the interiors of houses - people believed in the magical power of cut-outs.

Polish cutouts are very diverse. Łowicz cutouts, sometimes called naklejanki („stickers”) are probably the most popular in our country. You will find them on many folk gadgets. They are multi-colored, often round, depict floral and animal motifs, or situations from the everyday life of the village (cutout of this type is called a kodra; trans. note: other common types are gwiozda and tasiemka). The characteristic rooster from Łowicz consists of several layers of cut-outs glued on top of each other and thanks to that it gains depth and catches the eye.

Łowicz cutout source

Have you ever heard of Rawa cutouts? They are usually one-color, vertical, and their upper part is topped with two symmetrical roosters - we call them rózgi (singular: rózga). Among the paper works from the vicinity of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, you will also find those created in the form of abstract patterns in the shape of symmetrical squares and circles.

Rawa cutout with rózgi

The area around Puszcza Biała and Puszcza Zielona is, in turn, a place where Kurpie cutouts are made. The so-called leluja is characteristic of this region. In these cut-outs you can see the base from which a complex, decorative tree-like form grows. On the base we often find symmetrically arranged birds or a genre scene. In Kurpie, gwiazdy are also created, i.e. round cut-outs with small, densely dotted geometric patterns.

Leluja and gwiazda patterns - source and source

These are not all types of Polish cutouts! We also distinguish Opoczno squares with cut-outs of plants or animals brought to perfection, Sieradz cut-outs combining various Polish traditions in this field, or openwork squares in Lublin with cut-outs resembling arrows.

Square Opoczno cutouts, source

It takes precision, patience and skill to create them all, but remember – practice makes perfect!

For those who’d like to practice with some simpler patterns the Ethnographic Museum offers five instruction sheets with cutouts from different regions. They’re in Polish but pretty easy to follow either way.

[archaiia]

Truly feeling like a 17 century peasant from Kurpie.. .connecting to my heritage through the healing power of the potato 🙏

[project3research]

Folk art, specifically Polish folk craft called 'wycinanki'

- Became a popular folk craft mid 1800s when shepherd's cut designs out of bark and leather.

- Evolved into colourful pieces of work. There are arrays of motifs, very naturalistic.

- Designs are cut symmetrically out of paper, a lot of time improvised on the spot.

- Mainly associated with two regions, Łowicz and Kurpie (Łowicz feature colourful designs built from layers of intricate paper, Kurpie are made with one sheet of paper cut symmetrically with one colour)

- They are cut using sheep shearing scissors traditionally, but nowadays it is possible to do with any scissors so long as they have a sharp point.

- They are traditionally hang in windows, walls, ceiling joints. Now they are printed everywhere (airplanes(british Airways decorated their jets with it in 1990s), Polish Pavilion at 2010 World expo in Shanghai)

Contemporary use of 'Wycinanki' in art

-The one use of Wycinanki I found within contemporary art was within a Thesis for a short film created in the style of the folk craft by Irena Rindos.

- Kasia Kmita, works with Wycinanki but focuses instead on modern scenes, focusing on the urban everyday and interpersonal relations.

- Another is in packaging for food products, such as in a pierogi and polish cuisine company 'Pierogerie' and souvenirs.