Book Description

There is no doubt that each of the two nations that constitute Czechoslovakia makes its own contribution to the development of the forms and, to some extent, the content of its folk art. We shall nevertheless discuss the folk art of the Czech and the Slovak people in conjunction with each other, since there are many fundamental common features. As two closely related Slavonic nations in Central Europe, the Czechs and the Slovaks shared, at least partly, identical conditions, and in several important epochs they shared a common history. There is no basic difference between their main types of housing and dress, their ceremonies or the products of their popular arts and crafts. Most of the types and branches of folk art created on Czechoslovak territory exist in both nations.--pg. 7.