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Highlands designer wows Dubai with her gorgeous folk fashions

Specialising in fusing traditional folk with modern design, Aneta Knap’s unique style takes existing emblems used in highland folk patterns and adapts them for all occasions, including everyday wear. Aneta Larysa Knap/Facebook

A designer from the Polish highlands has been awarded the Best Folk Fabric 2021 Award at the International Fashion Week in Dubai.

The problem of Polish folk art

In this episode of The Debrief, we take a look at the issue of Polish folk art from an anthropological point of view.

Stunning mural honours Kraków’s most renowned street musician

VIDEO: Nearly two decades after Stefan Dymiter’s death, artist Arkadiusz Andrejkow has celebrated the musician’s legacy by reviving a decrepit bus stop in the place of Dymiter’s birth.

New Centre of Polish Folklore showcases country’s rich and wonderful dance traditions

Based in the headquarters of the internationally acclaimed folk song and dance ensemble ‘Mazowsze’, the centre’s permanent exhibition will show the entirety of Polish folklore in all its regional variants and how each region differs in its folkloric traditions.

Simply the chest! Delightful collection of rare folk chests highlight rural traditions

Many of the wedding and dowry chests have been hand-painted with traditional regional motifs including multi-coloured floral folk patterns, most commonly featuring roses, tulips and lilacs, whilst those from the end of the 19th century often feature vases of flowers on the front panel.

Do you know your Hurdy-gurdy from your Burczybas?

On International Strange Music Day, TFN takes a look at some of the odder folk music instruments in Poland.

Back to the future: New design brings ‘ye olde’ rural concept to bustling Warsaw

Entitled “Wieśland, or an urban fantasy under the thatched roof”, their design offers to bring the slower pace of country life to Poland’s buzzing capital.

From war-torn Warsaw to Pawlikowski’s Cold War, the incredible story of the singing folkdance ensemble taking the WORLD by storm

Since it was founded 70 years ago, generations of singers, dancers and musicians have enthralled audiences totalling a staggering 23 million people in over 50 countries on 6 continents. They have travelled over 2.3 million kilometres to put on over 7,000 concerts of folk dance and song, and in so doing have played a huge role in protecting and nurturing Polish identity. TFN’s Stuart Dowell went behind the scenes to find out more.

Kraków nativity scenes make UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list

UNESCO's Evaluation Body has issued a positive recommendation for the inclusion of traditional Krakovian 'szopki' or nativity scenes on the prestigious UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list.

Blooming marvellous: The village covered in painted flowers

Had the Flower-Power generation still been around today, this little village in southeast Poland would have been its capital.

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  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
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History | Life

Chilling new book reveals meticulous planning behind Auschwitz death camp

The Polish-English book “Auschwitz Bauleitung. Designing a Death Camp” sets out in shocking detail how the full potential of German technology and industry took part in building the death apparatus that claimed the lives of 1.3 million victims.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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