The 9 x “Z krosna do Krosna” Exhibition is accompanying the 10th International ArtisticLinen Cloth Biennial and presents the artworks of laureates of the competition. The exhibits are stored in the Museum of Crafts in Krosno collection named “Z krosna do Krosna” Collection of Artistic Linen Cloth.
           
When in 2000 the Museum of Crafts in Krosno began to organise a first edition of the biennial, no one expected to collect such a substantial and unique collection of contemporary artistic textile. Among the names of authors – donors, certainly we should mention those that are inseparably connected with the phenomenon of the Polish School of Artistic Textiles – the phenomenon of flowering in the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s – Maria Teresa Chojnacka, Barbara Falkowska, Kazimiera Gidaszewska, Urszula Kołaczkowska, Dobrosława Kowalewska, Krystyna Mieszkowska-Dalecka, prof. Wojciech Sadley, Adela Szwaja, Krystyna Wojtyna-Drouet.
           
The “Z krosna do Krosna” Collection of Artistic Linen Cloth is a special kind of collection. The most important distinguishing features are material and size – 75% of linen in any form of occurrence and dimensions between 25 and 60 cm. It may be difficult to find a similar representation of artistic linen textile in contemporary collections. Linen is primarily a natural material, which is becoming harder and harder to obtain for artists, especially in the form of fibre. It can be said that the common and formerly known raw material has grown to the rank of exclusive artistic material. In addition, the medium format of fabrics in the collection of the Museum of Crafts in Krosno perfectly fills the gap between large-format fabrics and weaving miniatures characterized by collections belonging to the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź (International Triennial of Tapestry) or the Museum of the City of Gdynia (International Baltic Mini Textile Triennial).
           
A significant part of the units belonging to the collection was made with traditional weaving techniques, which also raises the importance of it. The fact that the rich, medieval traditions trace back to the Middle Ages, underlines the value and legitimacy of collecting and systematically expanding the artistic collection of linen textile by the Museum – because there is no better place for linen than Krosno…

Iwona Jurczyk
The Museum of Crafts in Krosno

The list of the artists and their artworks

1. MBATL "Z krosna do Krosna", 2000
MAŁGORZATA BUCZEK-ŚLEDZIŃSKA - Poland
The window
65 x 56 cm, artist’s own technique, 1999
GRAND PRIX

EWA BERGEL - Poland
Eroded schell
35 x 38 x 8 cm, artist’s own technique, 1997
AWARD

MARIA KATARZYNA DIETRYCH - Poland
Dowry 03
28 x 24 cm, artist’s own technique, linen; 2000
AWARD

ANNA KOBAK-PISOWACKA - Poland
Tied up
25 x 25 x 7 cm, artist’s own technique, 1999
DISTINCTION AWARD

IRINA KOLESNIKOVA - Russia
Concentrate on the white rectangle
35 x 22 cm, technique hand weaving, 2000
AWARD

EWA MARIA PORADOWSKA-WERSZLER – Poland
Night fall
47 x 46 cm, mixed technique, 2000
AWARD

ADELA SZWAJA - Poland
Daybreak
45 x 60 cm, technique – Gobelin tepestry, 2000
AWARD

2. MBATL "Z krosna do Krosna", 2002
MIRIAM BARAK - Israel
Armenian Fantasy
54 x 54 cm, technique interlocking stitch, 2002
DISCTINCTION AWARD

JOACHIM BLANK - Germany
Repetition
58 x 58 x 5 cm, technique batik on linen, 2002
3^rd AWARD

WŁODZIMIERZ CYGAN - Poland
Day
25 x 45 cm, technique textile, 2002
GRAND PRIX

EMILIA DOMAŃSKA - Poland
Sleeping ideal
70 x 70 x 57, 5 cm, artist’s own technique, 2002
DISCTINCTION AWARD

ALISON FAIR - Scotland
Good earth table runner
500 x 20 cm, technique hand weaving, 1995
DISCTINCTION AWARD

DOROTA TARANEK - Poland
Write a hand like a foot
60 x 50 cm, technigue: jacquard, 2002
DISCTINCTION AWARD

LIDIA ZIEMIŃSKA-PAWLAK - Poland
Two Vertical Objects
50 x 25 cm, 35 x 15 cm, artist’s own technique, 2002
DISCTINCTION AWARD

3. MBATL "Z krosna do Krosna" 2004
KRYSTYNA DYRDA-KORTYKA - Poland
Grey and white
50 x 50 cm, mixed technique, 2004
DISCTINCTION AWARD

ALISON FAIR BIXLER - Scotland
Krosno Kimono
30 x 25 x 10 cm, technique hand weaving, 2004
DISCTINCTION AWARD

MARIA JEŁOWICKA - Poland
Grain
50 x 50, artist’s own technique, 2004
Spindle
41 x 36, artist’s own technique, 2004
DISCTINCTION AWARD

NATALIA LEJKINA - Ukraine
Wanderer
44 x 15 x 33 cm, mixed technique, 2004
2^nd AWARD

EWA MARIA PORADOWSKA-WERSZLER - Poland
Abundance
30 x 30, artist’s own technique, 2004
1^st AWARD, ADDITIONAL AWARD AKAPI Foundation

THORBJORG THÓRDARDÓTTIR - Iceland
Thawing I
37 x 34 cm, technique weaving, 2004
ADDITIONAL AWARD AKAPI Foundation

ELFRIEDE WIMMER - Austria
Frozen field
50x50 cm, technique machine embroidery 2004
3^rd AWARD

AGATA ZIELIŃSKA-GŁOWACKA - Poland
Linen Field
60 x 60 cm, technique tapestry, 2004
ADDITIONAL AWARD AKAPI Foundation

4. MBATL "Z krosna do Krosna" 2006
ALEKSANDRA BIBROWICZ-SIKORSKA - Poland
Recollection from the Past
3 x 45 x 35 cm, artist’s own technique, 2005
ADDITIONAL AWARD AKAPI Foundation

MARIA BLOTKO-KISZKA - Poland
A citrus
60 x 60 cm, technique a linen fabric compostion, 2006
ADDITIONAL AWARD AKAPI Foundation

JOANNA BUTLEWSKA-COFTA - Poland
A recollection
58 x 47 cm, artist’s own technique, 2006
1^st AWARD

EVA DAMBORSKA – Czech Republic
A Revine
45 x 45 cm, artist’s own technique, 2005
DISCTINCTION AWARD

ALEKSANDRA HERISZ - Poland
A Spindle of Time II
55 x 25 cm, artist’s own technique, 2006
ADDITIONAL AWARD AKAPI Foundation

ANNA JESINOWICZ-NGUYEN - Poland
Apart from myself I know distance
50 x 50 cm, technika plain weaving 90% linen , 2006
2^nd AWARD

AGNIESZKA KOPEĆ - Poland
A Fish Leap
25 x 29 x 46 cm, artist’s own technique, 2006
DISCTINCTION AWARD

BOGUSŁAWA KOSZAŁKA - Poland
A nest
50 x 50 x 50 cm, artist’s own technique, 2006
GRAND PRIX

AGNIESZKA PARKITNA - Poland
A Shield
28 x 60 cm, technique gobelin tapesrty, 2006
DISCTINCTION AWARD

WOJCIECH SADLEY - Poland
Shroud
30 x 60 cm, artist’s own technique ,2006
DISCTINCTION AWARD

5. MBATL "Z krosna do Krosna" 2008
HELGA BORISCH - Germany
Memory on Babel II
34 x 41,5 cm, technique: collage, 2008
DISCTINCTION AWARD

MARIA TERESA CHOJNACKA - Poland
PLAYING with Marcin - diptych
35 x 45 cm, artist’s own technique, 2007
DISCTINCTION AWARD

VIRGINIJA DEGENIENE - Lithuania
Scraf
50 x 50 cm, artist’s own technique, 2008
DISCTINCTION AWARD

CHRISTINA FREY - Germany
Flight
16,5 x 22 cm, technique: oven with linen, 2009
1^st AWARD

MARIA HROMADOVA – Czech Republic
Book 2
20 x 40 x 23 cm, artist’s own technique, 2008
3^rd AWARD

RENATA JACKOWIAK - Poland
Unity of fibre II
55 x 53 x 2 cm, mixed technique: pulling out threads, interweaving, linen fibre gluing , 2008
3^rd AWARD

AGNIESZKA KOPEĆ - Poland
Tolerance. A play called tolerance using linen
40 x 30 x 6 cm, artist’s own technique, 2008 (2 parts set)
2^nd AWARD

TERESA RUCIŃSKA - Poland
Green palliasse
34 x 25 cm, artist’s own technique, 2008
DISCTINCTION AWARD

WOJCIECH SADLEY - Poland
Shroud
60 x 40 cm, artist’s own technique, 2008
DISCTINCTION AWARD

THORBJORG THÓRDARDÓTTIR - Iceland
Simmering
39 x 36 cm, technique: weaving, 2008
DISCTINCTION AWARD

ANNA WIĘCKOWSKA - Poland
Moments
32 x 30 cm, artist’s own technique, 2007
ADDITIONAL AWARD AKAPI Foundation

6. MBATL "Z krosna do Krosna" 2010
EWA BARTOSZ-MAZUŚ - Poland
Purification
30 x 25 cm, artist’s own technique, 2010
DISCTINCTION AWARD

MARIA TERESA CHOJNACKA - Poland
Recollection 1939 (from cycle: Hands)
35 x 45 x 2 cm, artist’s own technique, 2009
DISCTINCTION AWARD

KAZIMIERA FRYMARK-BŁASZCZYK - Poland
Promised LAND
60 x 40 cm, artist’s own technique, 2010
DISCTINCTION AWARD

ELŻBIETA KUŹNIAR - Poland
Crowd
60 x 35 cm, technique: gluing, 2010
1^st AWARD

BARBARA PIERZGALSKA - Poland
Personification I
30 x 30 cm, artist’s own technique, 2010
ADDITIONAL AWARD AKAPI Foundation

WOJCIECH SADLEY - Poland
Threnody
60 x 40 cm, artist’s own technique, 2010
2^nd AWARD

ELWIRA SZTETNER - Poland
Untitled
58 x 46 cm, technique: embroidery on linen, 2010
DISCTINCTION AWARD

KRYSTYNA GRZYBEK - Poland
Gusts
25 x 25 x 3 cm, technika: dyeing, painting, gluing 2009
DEBUTS AWARD

7. MBATL "Z krosna do Krosna" 2012
TEODOZJA BUJNOWSKA-NIEDZIELSKA - Poland
Stony Landscape
26 x 26 cm, technique: linen, plain weave, sumac, 2012
2^nd AWARD ex aequo

PIOTR BURGER - Poland
Meritorious to Linen
60 x 60 x 23 cm; artist’s own technigue, 2012
ADDITIONAL AWARD AKAPI Foundation

BARBARA FALKOWSKA - Poland
ELPIS - hope
25 x 28 cm, technique: Gobelin tapestry , 2012
DISCTINCTION AWARD

KRYSTYNA JANKOWSKA - Poland
Sea of Flax
60 x 46 x 1,5 cm, artist’s own technique, 2012
DISCTINCTION AWARD, ADDITIONAL AWARD AKAPI Foundation

LECH KRĘGIELSKI - Poland
Hope
60 x 45 cm, artist’s own technique, 2012
DISCTINCTION AWARD

LESZEK KWAŚNY - Poland
Linen Harvest II 
26 x 39 cm , artist’s own technique, 2012
DISCTINCTION AWARD

JURATE PETRUSKEVICIENE - Lithuania
Draught
31 x 34 cm, technique: dyed linen weave, 2012
DISCTINCTION AWARD

TERESA RUCIŃSKA - Poland
Tiny Pea I
32 x 25 x 34 cm, artist’s own technique, appliques, 2012
2^nd AWARD ex aequo

JOLANTA WDOWCZYK - Poland
Let Them be (un)alive – from cycle ‘Resistance Designing’
60 x 60 x 60 cm, technika mieszana, 2012
GRAND PRIX

TEODOZJA BUJNOWSKA-NIEDZIELSKA - Poland
Trees
28 x 28 cm, technique: linen, plain weave, sumac, 2014
ADDITIONAL AWARD AKAPI Foundation

MARIA TERESA CHOJNACKA - Poland
Linen – Weaving Cycle
35 x 45 cm, artist’s own technique, relief pattern, 2014
DISCTINCTION AWARD

HAVVA HALACELI - Turkey
‘pockets’
45 x 40 cm, technique: double weaving, 2014
DISCTINCTION AWARD

NATALIA LEYKINA - Ukraine
the Veil of Veronica
50 x 60 cm, mixed technique, 2014
DISCTINCTION AWARD

BARBARA NACHAJSKA-BROŻEK - Poland
Majdan
Ø: 31 cm, artist’s own technique, 2014
GRAND PRIX

MARZENA ZIEJKA - Poland
Story without Beginning and without End
36 x 29 x 5 cm, technique: interweaving, linking, waxing, 2014
DISCTINCTION AWARD

9. MBATL "Z krosna do Krosna" 2016
TEODOZJA BUJNOWSKA-NIEDZIELSKA - Poland
Against the Flow
28 x 40 cm, technique: kilim, plain weave; 2015
DISCTINCTION AWARD

ANNA FRĄCKOWICZ - Poland
Repulsion – Of the Cycle: Connective Tissue
60 x 36 x 31 cm, artist’s own technique, 2016
DISCTINCTION AWARD

MARIA JEŁOWICKA - Poland
Basket of Memories
60 x 45 cm, artist’s own technique, 2016
DISCTINCTION AWARD

TAMARA MAJ - Poland
Maya Calendar- continuation: 1, 2, 3... - Triptych
3 x (57 x 57) cm, artist’s own technique, 2016
12 Maya’s Months
60 x 50 cm, artist’s own technique, 2016
 ADDITIONAL AWARD AKAPI Foundation

ELŻBIETA NAWROCKA-STANIECKA - Poland
Adagio
28,5 x 29,5 x 2 cm, mixed technique: textile, applique, embroidery; 2016
AWARD

ELŻBIETA PIÓRECKA - Poland
Women
37 x 37 x 15 cm, technika: pakuły lniane, 2016
AWARD

TOMASZ FRASOŃSKI - Poland
Memories – Impression – the Balkans
55 x 55 x 5 cm, mixed technique: hand- made paper from linen fibre, linen strands, glue, linking; 2016
AWARD DEBIUTS ex aequo

KATARZYNA SZEWCZUK - Poland
End of the Bombing
36 x 56 cm, technique: linen oakum (glued, decoloured, dyed) , 2016
AWARD DEBIUTS ex aequo