The beautiful Kurpiowska Forest in north-central Poland is home to the Kurpie people, one of Poland’s most distinct ethnographic groups. Historically, the Kurpie were free of serfdom, lived off the ...

Ribbons, in turn, are composed of two hanging bands attached to each other on top with a colourful ring. Kurpie was the second region where the art of paper cutouts reached an extraordinary scale, ...