We follow the principles of open science.
We want to make research results accessible to the wider public.
Would you like to help create cultural value and shared memory?
Do you own traditional textile pieces inherited from your ancestors?
Do you have photographs of ancestors wearing folk dress from western Bohemia?
Would you like these family memories to become part of the shared memory of the Pilsen region?
Contact us: narodopis@zcm.cz
Costume and Embroidery Database vysivky.zcm.cz
Website editor: Mgr. Jana Slámová, ethnographer
Website development and operation: Petr Boháč, codeclimber.cz
The embroidery database builds on the original project Digitisation of Folk Embroideries from the Ethnographic Regions of the Pilsen Region, which was realised with financial support from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen.
Mgr. Eva Figurová, ethnographer - principal investigator
Bc. Jitka Kottová, textile conservator - co-investigator
Bc. Aneta Dušková - graphic preparation of embroidery templates
Ing. Miroslav Hakr - graphic adjustment of templates
Mgr. Adéla Šmausová - assistance with scanning collection objects
The project Digitisation of Folk Embroideries from the Ethnographic Regions of the Pilsen Region was realised with financial support from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen.