Common Thread: Garden
Slutsk Sash
Inspired by Slutsk sashes (18th-century silk weaving), Slutsk, Belarus.
Flowering ornament woven in silk and metal thread at the Slutsk manufactory for kontusz dress in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Communities: Belarusians, nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Sources
- State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Belarus: Slutsk sashes (National Historical Museum of Belarus, sash of 1776-1780). Read 2026-09-26.
- National Museum - Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania: double-sided, four-faced kontusz sash, Slutsk, about 1780-1807, accession VR-1149. Read 2026-09-26.
- National Museum of Lithuania: Woven Symbol of Statehood, Lithuanian Kontusz Sashes Presented in Spain (2025). Read 2026-09-26.
- Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź: kontusz sash signed "SLUCK", Radziwiłł manufactory under Jan Madżarski, 1768-1780, accession CMW 2263/z/384. Read 2026-09-26.
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