Slovakia Church in Lace - Spisska Kapitula - BEAUTIFUL Start Price USD 249.00 Current Price USD 249.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, November 20, 2008 End Time Saturday, December 20, 2008 Location western USA See more about 'Slovakia Church in Lace - Spisska Kapitula - BEAUTIFUL' Description Slovak - European Lacework Art(by a native Slovak artist living in the U.S.) This is a picture of Spišská Kapitula (Spiš Church in central Slovakia) The Bobbin Lace Art   My name is Jana Čupkova Holmes and I was born and raised in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, in Eastern Europe. I am 36 years old and currently living in Arizona. This type of art is called a bobbin lace in English and is a very old form of art in my country. I learnt the bobbin lace when I was 12 years old. A teacher at school wanted to pass this beautiful lacework craft on to the students who were interested. So I took this opportunity and it turned out to be my big passion. Especially in the last two years my portfolio of the work I have done has grown extensively. Each piece is very time consuming and requires lots of patience. I never do the same picture twice. It is always an original piece. This picture took me about 10 days to make. I will never make another one quite like this one. The oldest information about this type of lacework is from the 16th century from Italy, and from there this lacework spread to the whole of Europe. Dalmatian, Flemish and Spanish laces became well-known and were a means to make a living. There were lace-producing centers in the past supported by the state (i.e. Maria Terézia established the school of lacework in the year 1761). Lace-making also spread into Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, England and to the area which later became Yugoslavia, from where it probably spread to Slovakia. Slovak lace registered success at the different world exhibitions, i.e. in Moscow in 1867, in Paris in 1892, in Vienna in 1897, and in Brugge, Belgium in 1956 where it inspired great interest. The oldest records in Slovakia are the records of miner lacework from the poor miner women from the Banská Stiavnica, Banská Bystrica and Kremnica mining districts. During the long winter evenings, peasant women were also making laces which then were used for decoration of bonnets, folk costumes, and various parts of clothes. They were also brought to market for supplemental income. It is very time-consuming work and machines can do the job in a fraction of the time, so like so many other hand-made items of the past, there are fewer and fewer people willing to do this type of work by hand. This is where each of the pieces is created.     Place a Bid!