Snezana Milikic Nikolić
Zalipie The village is decorated with floral motifs, Poland in southeastern Poland, 68 km from Krakow, there is a small village known for its tradition that lasts for hundreds of years – decorating the house, walls, bridges, and even wells. Women Zalipie color area in the village of various colors, but almost all the drawings are colorful flowers. It is not known exactly when this tradition began. Local legend says that it comes from the time when the smoke of a furnace creating small dark dots on the ceiling.
First the women were trying to conceal the tiny specks of soot, but when it became too much, just began to draw flowers over njih.Sa modern kitchens and el. furnaces smoke stains are no longer a problem, but the tradition of painting various surfaces in the village did not disappear, but only slightly modernized. In earlier times, women Zalipie brushes rules of local cow tail
