While immersed in the rich pattern-treasure of folk art, looking for themes and patterns, the world of embroidered coats stepped in. Living close to the Hortobágy region, this clothing of the shepherds is well known to us. I was getting acquainted with more and more beautiful patterns of the embroidered coats, when I noticed a small detail. In the leaves and flowers of richly embroidered clothing I saw the wing of an angel, like a child seeing something in the clouds. My heart was suddenly captured by the feeling that I want an angel-themed wrap!The angel-theme and the embroidered coats were finding each other, because of their common values and spirituality. The embroidered coat is the shepherd’s indispensable garment. It played an important social role because it indicated the distinguished rank of the wearer. A lad could not marry till he had the embroidered coat which would be worn on his wedding day. This was the vestment of a peasant through his life. It represented great value, for a lifetime.
As the embroidered coat serves the wearer, so the baby wearing wrap serves the child. There is a lifetime bond between coat and wearer, as between mother and child. The wrap defends and hugs the baby, as the wing of an angel.
For me the central motif of the pattern is an angel, which hugs our baby with its fluffy wings. Between their wings there is the sun, the moon and the stars, the whole world/universe. Many see angels, eagles, falcons, pheonixes, flowers, princesses, fairies, butterflies, motherhood, birth, or even the mythical dream of Emese in the pattern. It means something different for everybody, this is why it is so special. It gives everyone what they need. Maybe that is the most beautiful part of it.
Unbeknownst to us, we were weaving into the wrap this ancient folk prayer, which finally found us. In old traditions there were 3 angels next to a person: “One who guards, one who teaches, one waiting for my soul.” The angel is often a symbol of the soul, represented as a bird. The complexity contained in the prayer shows in the pattern.
