Czech Republic · Embroidery; Folk textile; Moravian heritage
Slovácká Výšivka — Jihomoravská Lidová Tradice
The Slovácká embroidery tradition of South Moravia — the distinctive Moravian folk embroidery of the Slovácko ethnographic region whose characteristic densely packed floral and geometric cross stitch on white linen is one of the most visually complex European folk embroidery traditions. The Slovácko výšivkářka reads the stitch density through the same thread-count verification as Hardangersøm (CRAFT-1458) but calibrated to the specific Slovácko dense-stitch vocabulary where each motif area must achieve a specific stitch-per-centimeter density.
Risk level: Stable · Not listed; Slovácká embroidery on the Czech national heritage inventory
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