Zabytkowe hafty norbertanek żukowskich. Stan badań po czterdziestu latach
Antique Embroidery of Norbertines from Żukowo. The State of Research after Thirty Years

Summary/Abstract: It has been written so far very little about the antique embroideries of Norbertines from Żukowo in the professional literature. And they belong to the group of the most interesting examples of this kind of artistic craft in the area of the former Royal Prussia. There was only one major article about them written by Barbara Kaźmierska-Latzke. Unfortunately it was not so well known as it was published in the niche and issued for a short time bulletin of Łódź „Central Museum of Textiles.” Other studies which have mainly ethnographic and popular science character mention the works of art from church in Żukowo but only on the sidelines of deliberations on Kashubian embroidery. Their authors are trying to prove the influence of folk art on monastic embroidery thankfully less and less, but they still marginalize the role of nuns in the formation of the Kashubian ornament. In this situation a reliable publication of embroideries made by the Norbertines seems necessary, especially that their state of preservation is still getting worse and many of them we know today only from the archival photos.

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