Folk art of the Matyó, embroidery of a traditional…Hungary
Representative List 2012
EN: Traditional 'billowing-sleeved' Matyó men's festive shirt. The embroidery pattern was designed by the famous Master of Folk Art, Kisjankó Bori and embroidered with cotton thread by the wearer's mother (Mrs. Erzsébet Tóth Kertész, Master of Folk Art) - made in 1938.
EN: Teaching in the Borsóka Embroidery Circle
EN: Matyó textiles in an interior
EN: Matyó Easter Sprinkling in the Hadas Quarter
EN: Matyó Easter Sprinkling in the Hadas Quarter
EN: Szabolcs Kovács-applied folk artist of ornamental furniture painting, operating in one of the workshops in the 'Hadas' Quarter. At the 2-day Cultural Heritage Days event communities could introduce their element - a demonstration following ministerial announcement of National Inventory inscriptions
EN: Performance by the Matyó Folkdance Group at the Cultural Heritage Days in Budapest - 2010
EN: Restored traditional peasant house in the 'Hadas' Quarter - characteristic housing arrangement: close residential quarters of 'clans' with narrow streets - zoned for preservation by the city of Mezőkövesd in 2002
EN: Detail of Matyó embroidery with "shoe and bird" pattern
EN: Detail of the floral patterns of flat-stitch Matyó embroidery
