For centuries Hungarian village and peasant craftsmen and women have practiced the folk art of decorating embroidery, furniture, walls, pottery and paintings with regional motifs. Each motif is peculiar to one of the numerous ethnic and geographic areas comprising modern Hungary. Anne Szalavary's mother collected authentic designs from every corner of that country, and the author has adapted over 250 of them for use by embroiderers, woodworkers, and other craftspeople.
First published in 1996. There has been no more important relationship between folk artist and folklorist than that between Zsuzsanna Palkó and Linda Dégh. Dégh’s painstaking collection of Mrs. Palkó’s tales attracted the admiration of the Hungarian-speaking world. In 1954 Mrs. Palkó was named Master of Folklore by the Hungarian government and summoned to Budapest to receive ceremonial recognition. The unlettered 74-year-old woman from Kakasd had become “Aunt Zsuzsi” to Linda Dégh—and was about to become one of the world’s best known storytellers, through Dégh’s work.
Tunde Dugantsi is a Hungarian gingerbread artist and cookie decorating instructor living in the United States, author of Gingerbread Academy and Gingerbread Christmas Wonderland. Cookie Academy is the enhanced version of her actual class materials. Lace Design is the first volume of this series. Cookie Academy - Lace Design contains everything you need to learn to pipe beautiful lace designs on your cookies (or cakes): step by step instructions, practice sheets and templates.
Suzy Webster's beautiful homage to her Hungarian heritage is a must-have for quilters. Includes an entire chapter on the process of choosing fabric for appliquÞ. Suzy has several original appliquÞ block patterns based on Hungarian Folk Art. Detailed step-by-step process of doing machine appliquÞ to make everyone successful. Projects vary in size to appeal to a wide range of readers. OUT OF PRINT
The Restless Hungarian is the saga of an extraordinary life set against the history of the rise of modernism, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Cold War. A Hungarian Jew whose inquiring spirit helped him to escape the Holocaust, Paul Weidlinger became one of the most creative structural engineers of the twentieth century. As a young architect, he broke ranks with the great modernists with his radical idea of the “Joy of Space.” As an engineer, he created the strength behind the beauty in mid-century modern skyscrapers, churches, museums, and he gave concrete form to the eccentric monumental sculptures of Pablo Picasso, Isamu Noguchi, and Jean Dubuffet. In his private life, he was a divided man, living behind a wall of denial as he lost his family to war, mental illness, and suicide. In telling his father’s story, the author sifts meaning from the inspiring and contradictory narratives of a life: a motherless child and a captain of industry, a clandestine communist who designed silos for the world’s deadliest weapons during the Cold War, a Jewish refugee who denied he was a Jew, a husband who was terrified of his wife’s madness, and a man whose personal saints were artists.
The Zsolnay Manufactory represents a triumph of Hungarian applied arts, for during its heyday it produced elegant and innovative ceramics for an international clientele as well as architectural ceramics that embellished some of the finest public and private buildings in the Austro-Hungarian empire. This manual recounts the story of the 150-year-old company and presents numerous examples of its work, showing how its changing fortunes reflect the cultural, economic and political developments in Central and Eastern Europe.
