Travelling through Poland’s Cultural, Artisan and Textile Traditions

Twice a year Australia based textile artist, photographer and business owner Jolanta Szymczyk offers small, unique and boutique tours exploring her homeland, through the lenses of the country’s rich cultural and artisan traditions, its textile heritage as well as its beautiful sight scenes. The tours are celebration and homage to the region’s unique artisan and … Read more…

Leading the way

Poland’s history is long interwoven with a rich tapestry of textile art, trade and fibre development. Over the centuries Polish artisans have created textiles that both protect from the elements and inspire with their beauty. Around mid to late 1960s a number of Polish textile artists appeared on the world scene of textile art and … Read more…

Poland’s textile traditions: a thread through time

In the spinners’ room the damsels sit like angels Singing and spinning their threads: “Spin yourself spindle, Spin yourself thread Spin yourself silk Wind yourself long Wind yourself longer Longer and longer to remember…” Beautifully performed famous Moniuszko’s nursery rhyme can be listen to here . Polish children have sung this old rhyme since the … Read more…