Winter straitjacket of a resident of Bronowice

A women's winter kaftan made of striped cotton fabric that belonged to a resident of the Bronowice village (now part of Kraków). Used before 1917. Waist-length, finished with a frill. Neck and sleeves trimmed with a rich pattern. Hand sewn..

This cropped jacket came to the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków as a gift from Kazimierz Tetmajer exactly a year after the museum was established, i.e. in 1911. We do not need to present this personality. A Małopolska artist, Tetmajer was the founder of the Academy of Fine Arts and Creative Industry for Women, a co-creator of the Polish Applied Arts Society, a member of the Polish People’s Party and a co-founder of the PSL-Piast faction. He was also an MP in the Vienna Parliament and, after Poland’s regained independence, in the Polish Sejm and, quite importantly for the museum, also a member of the Founding Committee of the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków Society.

Tetmajer, Cracovian fascinated by the life of the village, married Anna Mikołajczyk, the daughter of a wealthy peasant, and settled permanently in Bronowice. The collection of the Museum includes more gifts from Tetmajer and most of them come from Bronowice and the surrounding villages.