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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!

19 comments:

  1. OnslopierreApril 16, 2012 at 7:07 PM

    I love it!!!  I hope you can find the pattern...how fun to have a piece in a foreign language.  : )

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  2. E M HughesApril 16, 2012 at 7:36 PM

    Just 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.

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  3. Becky SmithApril 16, 2012 at 7:49 PM

    This is so beautiful! Congrats on snagging such a great piece!

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  4. AnonymousApril 16, 2012 at 9:49 PM

    Wow this is a great piece of embroidery!
    Congrats Jenny :)

    Chandice

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  5. Gumbolily62April 16, 2012 at 10:25 PM

    What a treasure you have there.

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  6. girl from H.April 17, 2012 at 12:53 PM

    Try to ask here: 
    http://hu-hu.facebook.com/pages/Praktika-magazin/169943899716604

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  7. E M HughesApril 17, 2012 at 2:06 PM

    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.

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  8. Patricia DoltonApril 17, 2012 at 10:53 PM

    This is an absolute beautiful piece. What a find!

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  9. BoglarkaApril 18, 2012 at 7:11 AM

    Hi 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!

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  10. Susanna GrossApril 18, 2012 at 3:56 PM

    It is a very sweet pillow!

    I'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".

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  11. floresitaApril 18, 2012 at 6:26 PM

    I have to say I would love to see the "how nice it is to have a sober husband" embroidery! Awesome! :)

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  12. BoglarkaApril 19, 2012 at 6:04 AM

    Look, this one says (in my rough transalation): "My husband drinks water only, never have had a reason to cry after my maidenhood"

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  13. Jenny HartApril 20, 2012 at 12:06 PM

    Hi 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...

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  14. Jenny HartApril 20, 2012 at 12:06 PM

     W O N D E R F U L

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  15. JulieApril 23, 2012 at 1:35 PM

    Hi 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...
    Where did you find the beautiful cushion?

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  16. Susanna GrossApril 23, 2012 at 3:57 PM

    Hi Jenny! 
    My 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! :)

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  17. Tünde OraveczApril 28, 2012 at 2:21 PM

    Hi there. Actually it is really a "p" in cursive, the text means "nice dreams". I'm Hungarian, so I can tell you :)

    I 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. 

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  18. JennyJune 12, 2012 at 10:15 AM

    Thank you Tünde! Now we have a definitive answer! 

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  19. NellitigrisJuly 5, 2012 at 4:29 PM

    Hello! 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: 
    http://www.magdolnanegyed.info.hu/images/redbull.jpg The Red Bull gives you wings.... :D 

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