What an unusual find! I could not pass up this wonderful piece for my collection. A Hungarian, hand-embroidered pillow that says "Dreams Come to Pass". I love how the girls are mirror-images of each other -it's a bit surreal. I wonder where the pattern is from? Have any ideas? I've been trying to find it...will report back if I do!
April 16, 2012
Dreams Come to Pass
What an unusual find! I could not pass up this wonderful piece for my collection. A Hungarian, hand-embroidered pillow that says "Dreams Come to Pass". I love how the girls are mirror-images of each other -it's a bit surreal. I wonder where the pattern is from? Have any ideas? I've been trying to find it...will report back if I do!
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I love it!!! I hope you can find the pattern...how fun to have a piece in a foreign language. : )
ReplyDeleteJust so happens I have cousins in Hungary. I just shared your link and asked them, will let you know if they can tell me anything.
ReplyDeleteThis is so beautiful! Congrats on snagging such a great piece!
ReplyDeleteWow this is a great piece of embroidery!
ReplyDeleteCongrats Jenny :)
Chandice
What a treasure you have there.
ReplyDeleteTry to ask here:
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The answer from my cousin: E. says: This is a traditional hungarian work. These type made in near the villages of Kapos river. Named "kapos-menti hímzés". Although the original works are one-colored. First these made on bridegroom's shirt. Later on tableclothes too.
ReplyDeleteThis is an absolute beautiful piece. What a find!
ReplyDeleteHi there, this is Boglarka from Hungary. I would not say that this type of embroidery is typical to any region, it was rather a "modern" way to make hand embroidered pillows, tableclothes, but most of all wall-clothes in the kitchen. By modern I mean the younghood of my grandma and her mother, 1900-1950, maybe even up to the 70s. But you can still get pre-printed clothes like that. Colorful ones are rare, they were mostly done with one color (red, blue or green). They usually had a writing on them, either something short, like this one, or two lines of a song, or some funny rhymes about receiving guests warmly, or how nice it is to have a sober husband... :) I also have a small collection of these, but have to admit, that this one is very beautifully done, an absolute rare masterpiece!
ReplyDeleteIt is a very sweet pillow!
ReplyDeleteI'm not quite familiar with the expression
Dreams Come to Pass, but i do know hungarian, and Szép Àlmokat simply means "Sweet Dreams" or if you want to be picky, "Nice/Beautiful Dreams".
I have to say I would love to see the "how nice it is to have a sober husband" embroidery! Awesome! :)
ReplyDeleteLook, this one says (in my rough transalation): "My husband drinks water only, never have had a reason to cry after my maidenhood"
ReplyDeleteHi Susanna, I certainly am not fluent in Hungarian, but I think the pillow reads "Szén Almokat" with an "n" instead of a "p". Great and wise google translates that minor change to "Dreams Come to Pass" (which is also what the person I acquired it told me it says). But, I agree with you that it could also easily be a "p"! That script kind of goes either way...
ReplyDeleteW O N D E R F U L
ReplyDeleteHi Jenny, beautiful blog you have! I have to agree with Susanna, it's "szép àlmokat", "Sweet dreams", as "Szén almokat" wouldn't make any sense: it would mean "Coal" or "Carbon dreams"... The "p" would imitate a cursive, handwritten p rather than a printed one. Google waxes poetic sometimes...
ReplyDeleteWhere did you find the beautiful cushion?
Hi Jenny!
ReplyDeleteMy google translate does'nt give me anything exept for Carbon dreams as Julie said. But I'll ask my parents, maybe it is an old expression that I don't know about! The pillow is nice either way! :)
Hi there. Actually it is really a "p" in cursive, the text means "nice dreams". I'm Hungarian, so I can tell you :)
ReplyDeleteI love the pillow, wonderful colors. My grandmother has wall-clothes in the kitchen in the same style. It's a typical kitchen wall decoration for 1900-1970 as Boglarka said.
Thank you Tünde! Now we have a definitive answer!
ReplyDeleteHello! A Hungarian again! :) If you type in to the google that falvédő (with ctrl+c and ctrl+v ;) you will find some picture. Some of them will be strange for you, couse the really modern way, like some Hungarian singers and like these, or Elvis but I think you will like them! :) Like this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.magdolnanegyed.info.hu/images/redbull.jpg The Red Bull gives you wings.... :D