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folk art
A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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Painting
2026Matchbox label - Illustration Of A Shovel - Czechoslovakia (circa 1940s) - MBP1627262523
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2019Ivan Bilibin - poster-of-russian-ballet-1930
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2006Tsarstvo kanchukiv
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2009Hibari no komoriuta poster 2
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2013Psychedelic yetis and giant knitted chains from the brilliant Sarah Applebaum
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2015Jeffrey Lewis tells a folk fantasy comics tale for Black Yaya's debut
Print
2023Unearthing the pioneering print designs of the all-women Folly Cove Collective
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2016Donald Trump, flaming crosses and smuggler uniforms: the strange sights of Lewes Bonfire
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2014Waska Tatay explores the rites and rituals of Bolivian witchcraft and pagan practice
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2023Kenya Parry Josiah’s folk-inspired artworks create a joyful space for Black women
Publication
2025Madeleine LeBrun’s uncanny clay illustrations are inspired by insects, folk art and 90s kids TV
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2019Japanese illustrator Sabu is influenced by the nostalgia of old adverts
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2012Impossibly good illustrative folk vibes from the very great Gwénola Carrerè
Poster
2019Ivan Bilibin - poster-of-exhibition-1904
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20242014 Folk Life Festival Poster (6538a40d-1dd8-b71b-0bf1-bcb817e536c1)
Project
2013Stunning new linocut print works from the wonderful Lubok Verlag
Garment
1855Quilt, Album pattern
Poster
20211920. Чортова кукла
Movement
1889Mingei
Project
2013Olivia Bee's teenage dream of sun-dappled Americana
Motion
2014Film: Tom Chick's amazing film to promote the Museum of British Folklore!
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2024Firpal’s lavish illustration work is folkloric and futuristic all at once
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2023Fluffy punk pooches: Francesca Albergo can’t resist putting funny dogs into her work
Poster
2019Ivan Bilibin - poster-of-international-exhibition-in-kazan-1909
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2011Folkstreams
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2024How real are they really? Inside Kayla Witt’s paintings of California’s psychic shops
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2017A creative composite of illustration: ten years of Christoph Ruckhäberle’s Lubok
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2021How a small Alabama community stitched itself into the history of American art
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2017Jesús Sotés folkish work draws darker themes into his commercial illustration
Poster
2017Для крестьян правдивый сказ, как прогнали бар от нас
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2012Dive head first into illustrator Zansky's whimsical and folksy creations
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2018"Don't yer ever git enough, yer durn hog?" - Kep. LCCN2011645986
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2020Poster of a Breton exhibition in 1910
Poster
2023Modupe Lamikanra draws from her Nigerian heritage to create dynamic and accessible design
Project
2014Great short commissioned by the Tate to promote the wonderful British Folk Art exhibiton
Motion
2022Voices of mass demonstration in Poland inspire this new folkloric animation
Poster
2025Poster for VIII Sokol Festival, 1926
Poster
2018У своїй хаті своя правда. Carpathian Sich (Dmytro Klempus) poster 1939
Garment
2020Performers on horseback dressed as Uncle Sam and Joan of Arc for Independence Day celebration, Woodland Park, Seattle, July 5 (MOHAI 5673)
Poster
2019Staffordshire knots book of the bazaar
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2025Poster for the 1926 Sokol festival
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2022De Jantjes poster 1920
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2019Poster for Le pardon de Ploërmel 1859 - Original
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2015Carlotta Manaigo turns to the clashing styles of a modern Sicilian saint’s day
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2024Pam Puck’s paper mache sculptures are funny and vulnerable in equal measure
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2017Design duo Uinverso creates “colourful folk art” through simply-formed ceramic characters
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2013Indian folk artist Teju Behun's visual autobiography is a real treat
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2020Kukeri offers a glimpse into the ancient Bulgarian pagan ritual and how the practice has evolved for today
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2013Enormous collection of Nepalese beware of the dog signs? Why not.
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2023Anya Paintsil’s character-filled textiles are inspired by her childhood, culture and mythology
Poster
Ilustrace a typografie - Čertoviny z Valašska
Painting
1780Kaartje met humoristisch opschrift
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2012Stuart Kolakovic updates us with some stunning new medieval folk illustrations
Identity
2019Meet Alex Weir, the illustrator embodying Scottish identity through MS Paint
Photograph
2020Tek Hod: Embroidered Wrestlers of the North examines masculinity and ritual
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2014Art: Jarmila Mitríková and Dávid Demjanovič create folkloric scenes with pyrography
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