Begovácz Rózsa – Burján István – Vándor Andrea: Folk Art in Baranya County (Pécs, 2008)

Embroideries

concerning their colours, material and the range of motifs. A special group of embroideries in Baranya is the so-called high embroidery of the Sokac and the Bosnians around Pécs (these are Croatian ethnical groups), as well as the peculiar freelydrawn embroidery of headdresses of Croatians in the Dráva region. One can find geometrical and bird patterns embroidered in black mainly on garments and kerchiefs used at festivals. Complementing colours like yellow, red, blue and green were only used for the outlines. The colouring of the embroideries in Baranya is also special. Hungarian crewel-works usually use red, blue, red-blue, redblack compositions, while in Baranya a third colour is joined. Most common are red-light blue-dark blue, red-blue-brown, red-blue-white compositions. The various monotonous stripes and streaks are made lively by the particular alternating of colours. The use of white thread on a white base is also common. In Baranya, just like anywhere else the country, the most common ornament is the stripe. Characteristically the pattern is not constructed even on bigger spaces, the composition consists in identical elements usable in the streak juxtaposed in a regular order. There are no emphatic and unemphatic ornamental elements, they have the same significance in the pattern. The pattern is made lively by the peculiar alternating of colours, and the intermittence of a different, third colour next to the lighter and the darker shade of the same colour. The once rich world of furrier and hair-embroideries is preserved by hardly a few objects by the present day. A very meticulous, refined embroidery characterizes leather jackets from the Ormánság region and those of the Sokac and the Bosnians, while leather jackets from the Eastern foot of the Mecsek and broadcloth dolmans from Mohács are ornamented by appliqués as well. Sheepskin coat (suba)/R.n. 60.30.1 / I. 140cms / Csányoszró 48