Saturday, 27 April 2024


Ethnographic Exposition:

In the next room one can admire an ethnographic collection. One of the important elements of the exposition is women's costumes so called "laski" dresses presented on the tailor's dummies depicting the middle-class style of the region in the post-war times. A woman's costume "laski" consisted of a linen petticoat and a shirt, a skirt with a kind of the bra and a wrap called "jakla". The main characteristic of the "jakla" is the embellishments with a string embroidery. The women's heads used to be covered with the scarves made from linen, wool or silk. The silk scarves along with a jacquard weave were in vogue at the beginning of the 20th century.
In the next part of the museum there are the items presenting production and working of fabrics. It is worth seeing a double thread wooden loom coming from Kęty from the second half of the 19th century. On exhibition one can also find three machines dating from the beginning of the 20th century: a tailor`s machine, a furrier 's machine and a shoemaker's machine the last one surrounded by various items coming from a shoemaker workshop.
Another collection displayed in the museum includes the exhibits connected with the utensils of the farmer's houses like the items for everyday use or agricultural tools. One can also find small pieces of equipment for the house: colanders, butter tubs, wooden measures, earthenware jugs, pots, stoneware and plaster baking shapes, small wooden keels. There are also other home devices, for instance a tool for carrying buckets with water, a tool for making grits, an utensil for making farm cheese and butter. In the room there are also two painted dowry cases - a typical house equipment in this region from the turn of the 19th and the 20th centuries. Concerning the agricultural implements there are flails, wooden forks or a rarely met wooden plough.
The ethnographic room is also devoted to the time expositions the aim of which is to depict art, everyday life and work of the region dwellers.

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