#matyó

[songs-of-the-east]

Hungarian Folk Dance Choreographer and Folklorist, Almasi Berta Csilla, Wearing a Headdress from: Tard, Matyó Region (top) and Palóc Region (bottom)

[mothmarzip]

Main character of my new project. Meet Zsuzska, a matyó girl, and Sáfrány, her cat (yes, this is a Macskafogó reference).

This will a sort of practice project, but I intend to make it a love letter to Hungarian culture, more specifically the arts, like animation.

[telaviv-delhi]

A komáromi (komarnói) vasútállomás magyarosch freskója. Cimbalom, népiesch, mulatschág.

[budapestbug]

"Matyó culture" is on the nomination list of UNESCO World Heritage. There are lots of sights in Mezőkövesd, in the heart of Matyóland, only a 1,5 trip from Budapest, one of the most favored European travel destinations. Matyo people's name can be traced back to King Matthias, who in the 15th century raised Mezőkövesd to the status of royal town. The colorfully embroidered flowers, based on old patterns, with which the women adorn their blouses, fabrics and aprons - red on a white or black ground being particularly popular - produce some of the most beautiful articles in Hungarian folklore. We visit the Matyó Museum to admire embroidered traditional costumes, furniture, crafts and objects from the old life style from the "Matyó" villages. In "Hadas" district original Matyó homes, streets with the atmosphere of 19th century country town waits us. In the ancient cottages local folk artists offer a view of what it is like to be "Matyó". The houses give home to embroiderers, a furniture painter, a glass cutter, a potter, and for the children: a gingerbread maker, among other craftsmen.

[kitty-cross]

Actually part of a bigger project to fuse Hungarian traditional wear (this time Matyó) with the Shadowhunters world. I wanted to design a whole traditional shadowhunters wear for our country, but I had time only this little dresign. This is based on our traditional embroidery but in the Angelic Rune shape. I made it in the traditional colors, but I think I will use this design in full black to my character’s outfits. I just find it a cool idea that the old folk-motives are used as rune motives in older times, it could be a sign that they are shadowhunters and the mondens wouldn’t get any of it they would think that is just a weirder shaped embroidery.

Day 17 | FOLKLORE

[missbillieblack]

Week Twenty One: The Matyó Crop Top

FINALLY done with this guy. I started this top years ago, but there was always some project I was more excited about that put this on the back burner. Happy to have it off the pile. There's a few parts that turned out a little messier than I'd like just because there's seven years of experience between start and finish, but overall I'm pretty happy with it.

[hungariansoul]

Mezőkövesd, Northern Hungary

[petropetra]

Matyó

2017, montage, 22 x 20,5 cm