Blooming lovely: Charming Polish village where housewives paint every home in flowers to cover smoke stains from stoves

4 December 2013 , Tags: etnography

What was once a bleak and forgotten cluster of smoke-blackened huts, has over the years transformed into a kaleidoscopic feast of colour – and one of southern Poland’s best-kept treasures. Each house is decorated with its own vibrant floral motif, painstakingly hand-painted by the town’s housewives.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478367/The-charming-Polish-village-housewives-painted-home-floral-designs-ancient-tradition-cover-smoke-stains-stoves.html

Matt Blake, Mail on line, 28 Oct 2013,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478367/The-charming-Polish-village-housewives-painted-home-floral-designs-ancient-tradition-cover-smoke-stains-stoves.html

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