Saturday, March 14, 2020
Janos Stekovics, Photographer
Hungarian farmers from the Puszta in the 1980s. Photographing with large size 13x 18 cm.
Editor’s note: Janos Stekovics is a Hungarian photographer and publisher based in Germany. This is a collection of portraits he took of twin farmers in the 1980s. The Lukács twins were 63 years old when the photographer visited their village to photograph them.
The twins János and István lived in the Hungarian Puszta region and had loads of duplicate things: two bicycles, two traditional shepherd cloaks, two horse-drawn carriages and the same clothes, which often lasted for twenty years or more. They both spent their entire lives on a homestead 5 kilometers away from the nearest motor way and almost unreachable. They didn’t smoke or drink and had some farm animals, a well and no electricity – nor did they need it.
The pictures were published in a book called “Die Junggesellen”.
More info: puszta.stekofoto.com
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Kappa (Rain Cloak)
This is a Rain cloak (kappa). We acquired it in 2009. Its medium is cotton (recycled fiber) and its technique is plain weave. It is a part of the Textiles Department department.
Resourcefulness has been a key component of Japanese life for centuries. In design, one sees this most dramatically with materials and objects being repurposed, recycled, or reused. Hikimawashi kappa, which literally means a pull-around (hikimawashi) cape or raincoat (kappa), is made from leftover and/or broken indigo-dyed threads (zanshi-ori) salvaged from home production or from local commercial weavers. Cotton thread was valuable during the 19th century in rural Japan and none was wasted, regardless of how rough or worn it was. For instance, if the lengths of yarn were not long enough, they were simply knotted together to create a longer strand. Because of the use of highly varied remnant threads in the weft, combined with a more regulated warp, an overall pattern of irregular striations is created. Not only does this raincoat boast a unique composition, but it also reflects a spirit of eco-friendly and sustainable textiles and the idea of constantly finding ways to repurpose materials at hand, with nothing wasted in production.
This type of raincoat is modeled on the Capa overcoat, which Spanish missionaries wore in the Momoyama era (1573–1615). The raincoat would originally have been made waterproof with oil paper, which would have been encased between the lining and the outer layer.
This type of raincoat is modeled on the Capa overcoat, which Spanish missionaries wore in the Momoyama era (1573–1615). The raincoat would originally have been made waterproof with oil paper, which would have been encased between the lining and the outer layer.
This object was donated by General Acquisitions Endowment.
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Mino (Straw Rain Cape)
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/101888
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