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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> From straw paper wool feathers and dried peas. Variations can be found all over Eastern Europe and even in Scandinavia but none are as bright or colourful as the Polish ones. Back home these mobiles are called pajak (pronounced ‘pah-yonk’) or pajaki (the plural). Delicate and light these chandeliers would often hang from ceilings around wintertime. spinning gently when a stray draft would breeze through the home. Unfortunately their origin and full history is difficult to uncover as not many original early designs survive today. Their scarcity drives my passion to keep the pajaki tradition alive. My own story with mobiles starts in the Open Air Village Museum in Lublin Poland where I first saw pajaki hanging in one of the traditional village houses. Then years later while studying History of Art at the Jagiellonian (SP)