The Bride's room aT The Lviv exhiBiTion of home agricuLTure and indusTries in 1894 In 1894, the c... more The Bride's room aT The Lviv exhiBiTion of home agricuLTure and indusTries in 1894 In 1894, the city of Lwów (now Lviv), seat of the ancient Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, hosted the Exhibition of Home Agriculture and Industries, one of a spate of such displays, organized in Europe since the end of the eighteenth century. Following the model of the Viennese World Exposition (Weltausstellung) of 1873, one section was allocated for ethnographic display and featured peasant costumes, pottery, domestic tools and utensils, blacksmith ironwork, and festive objects such as Easter eggs and wedding trees, each accompanied by photographs and drawings depicting peasant life. 1 Visitors to the ethnographic section could also inspect six wooden houses brought from different parts of Galicia and representative of vernacular building traditions, which included a dwelling from the mountain village of Zakopane. 2 The high point of the exhibition, however, proved to be silk hangings from the weaving mills in Buczacz, not far from Lviv, run by the Potocki brothers, Oskar and Artur. The Potockis employed a local family of weavers, skilled in the craft for three generations, and furnished the entire stall with their silks, which were unanimously praised for their beauty and quality. As one of the visitors to the exhibition recounted: "It was for the first time that the Potockis from Buczacz displayed their silks, woven with silver and gold in decorative motifs taken from old Polish sashes and Oriental wall hangings. This was really a small domestic-scale industry, taken up by Arthur, one of the Potocki brothers and an amateur painter himself, but it was very well organized indeed.... Everyone desired to have one of these silks, which were very cheap indeed, but the few on display were sold in an instant, so there were very few lucky buyers." 3
The Bride's room aT The Lviv exhiBiTion of home agricuLTure and indusTries in 1894 In 1894, the c... more The Bride's room aT The Lviv exhiBiTion of home agricuLTure and indusTries in 1894 In 1894, the city of Lwów (now Lviv), seat of the ancient Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, hosted the Exhibition of Home Agriculture and Industries, one of a spate of such displays, organized in Europe since the end of the eighteenth century. Following the model of the Viennese World Exposition (Weltausstellung) of 1873, one section was allocated for ethnographic display and featured peasant costumes, pottery, domestic tools and utensils, blacksmith ironwork, and festive objects such as Easter eggs and wedding trees, each accompanied by photographs and drawings depicting peasant life. 1 Visitors to the ethnographic section could also inspect six wooden houses brought from different parts of Galicia and representative of vernacular building traditions, which included a dwelling from the mountain village of Zakopane. 2 The high point of the exhibition, however, proved to be silk hangings from the weaving mills in Buczacz, not far from Lviv, run by the Potocki brothers, Oskar and Artur. The Potockis employed a local family of weavers, skilled in the craft for three generations, and furnished the entire stall with their silks, which were unanimously praised for their beauty and quality. As one of the visitors to the exhibition recounted: "It was for the first time that the Potockis from Buczacz displayed their silks, woven with silver and gold in decorative motifs taken from old Polish sashes and Oriental wall hangings. This was really a small domestic-scale industry, taken up by Arthur, one of the Potocki brothers and an amateur painter himself, but it was very well organized indeed.... Everyone desired to have one of these silks, which were very cheap indeed, but the few on display were sold in an instant, so there were very few lucky buyers." 3
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