Lithuanian Textile traditions through time

25 JANUARY,2013 DENIZLI ALDONA DROSEIKIENE LMSU

FOLK ART TRADITIONS

Folk art is an art form based on old traditions that have developed from the practical necessities of country life. Farmers would decorate their various utensils and women would weave material for their clothing and for decoration.

WEAVING TRADITIONS

Lithuania has a long weaving tradition. The earliest Lithuanian textile fragments found in the burial grounds date back to the second-third century. It was found that most of them are woven from local raw materials - wool and linen yarns.

WEAVING TRENDS

Since of old each Lithuanian woman takes pride in textiles of her own make.

LITHUANIAN FOLK FABRIC

The first millennium featured mainly woven plain, flat (initial) woven fabrics. Until the nineteenth century, yarn for weaving was painted in natural colors: plant blossoms, leaves, roots, moss, tree bark, marsh and iron rust. Aniline dyes, introduced in the nineteenth-century, have enriched and intensified the colors of the fabric.

Linen is one of the oldest textiles sorts in the world which is produced from linen fiber. Even 5000 years B.C. linen garments were worn in Egypt.

The flowers of a flax plant, the stalk of which is used to make linen. Flax is a temperamental plant to grow, and the quality of the finished product depends largely on the quality of the plant itself

The flax fibers are found in the stalk, which is picked by hand to preserve the fibers integrity another reason flax is expensive. Separating the fibers is also a long and tedious process if performed correctly.

Household and decorative fabrics (towels, tablecloths, linens, bed sheets, bedtrays in the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth-century) are mostly monochrome. They combine bleach and non-bleach linen or cotton yarns, enabling extraction of geometric patterns.

LINEN HANDWORKS

NATIONAL SASHES

Frequently mentioned in folk songs and legends and frequently given as a gift, the juosta (sash) is the prototype Lithuanian woven article and comes in a variety of widths and lengths. Juostos have been used, among others things, as bookmarks, neckties, accent pieces, and also widened into table runners. National sashes are a traditional and ancient branch of Lithuanian folk art that lately has been reviving. At present hand-woven sashes, especially those that reveal the taste of the Lithuanian people for coloration took a new start.

CLOTHING

Clothing always reflects the economic situation. Woven and embroidered, these costumes reflect regional tastes, traditions and motifs and are cherished family heirlooms. Use of color and their coordination differs in separate Lithuanian regions .

KNITWEAR

Some twentieth-century knitting also feature medieval-style Lithuanian motifs such as castles and knights. Although these are quite interesting and beautiful pieces of handicraft, they are not traditional folk art designs and may even have been worked from printed pattern Knit articles are a beautiful and lovely decoration of the ancient Lithuanian interior and clothing. Folk' masters up to now use the techniques of hand weaving, knitting and crocheting.

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