Jakabné Mészáros Gizella: A szolnoki csipke. Szerk.: Gecse Annabella – A Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 60. (2005)

Dear Reader, When you are interested in the folk art of Szolnok, the lace of Szolnok is also mentioned besides the old, colourful fairs and the folk costumes that have also inspired the artists of the Szolnok Art Colony. The lace is in the common knowledge, we know it existed but we still know very little about it. I recommend this book to you if you are interested in the history of our town and its sights, it remédiée the lack of knowledge on lace. It introduces the origin of Szolnok lace, the technology of making it as well as its sample drawings. Its author, Mrs. Antalne Jakab, Gizella Mészáros, a well-known representative of Szolnok lace who Inherited this real treasure, the art of lace-making from her family. The foster-mother of the author, Emerencla Hagyák and her sister, Stefánia Hagyák adopted lace-making in our town and enriched it with designing new motives, they taught it at courses. The Hagyák family moved to Szolnok from Transylvania in the 1920-ies and started making lace Inspired by the motives seen In a Belgian special magazine and the two sisters started to deal with making lace. based on the design by Stefánia they decorated curtains, tableclothes, bedcovers with lace and later they also made separate lace works as well. Their characteristic motives were flowers and the curving leaves around them as well as heart festoons. Since both the Brussels and the Halas lace were well known between the two world wars, Stefánia called hers Szolnok lace and later others also called them this way. Several church accessories like curtains for the tabernacle, clothes for the altar and the lace for the surplices were Stefánia's works; she