Popular motifs around Europe
Polish cultural heritage
Polish popular motifs may be found on ceramics, eimbroidery and in paintings.
Folk patterns were common on all kinds of clothing colourful multi coloured and striking. Embroidery became the basic decoration of every court and simple outfit.
Ceramics from Poland can be found on tables and in pantries all over Europe. Its production is connected with a long tradition ceramic factories have been operating for many centuries.
Italian popular motifs
Popular motifs are common in ceramics, eimbroidery and painting.
The aptitude for embroidery has been handed down from generation togeneration up to the present day, together with the different techniques of embroidery in white.
Caltagirone ceramics is one of the most famous sicilian handicrafts. Its origins are very ancient. According to experts, arab potters, since 827, following the muslim conquest of the island, would have settled here and would have given a strong impulse to ceramic art, with the technical procedures used in the east.
Romanian popular motifs
Traditional Romanian motifs in eimbroidery can range from plants, flowers, frogs, snakes, to shapes and manifestations of nature such as the sun and stars.
The technique of painting on glass is characterized by vivid, harmonious colors, by simplified shapes, by their free placement on the surface of the drawing, by the decorative aspect and by the lack of convergent perspective.
In ceramics, important locations have their own specific in decration. Horezu ceramics is famous for the symbol of the rooster. Other manufactories use other symbols.
Turkish popular motifs
Turkish popular decoration exploits specific motifs and symbols, such as: the tree of life, which symbolises rising of life to heaven and reflects the universe which is changing and developping.
In Anatolia, fertility and happines are accepted to be inseperable. Motifs of fruits and animals are used to represent happines and fertility.
In Turkısh Myths, deer motifs represent the soul of nature which gives life to humans, the sipirit of nature and the wisdom of Turks which is taken over from ancestors.
