While we are thinking about Poland, check out the blog of Monica Ogrodowski, an American of Polish descent now over in Poland on a Fulbright award.

She gives us a beautifully illustrated piece about the Tapestry Triennial exhibition in Lodz, once the 'Manchester of the East' - a huge C19 regional centre for cloth-making with many amazing vast mill complexes, now being transformed into trendy studios and shops/hotels/offices.

Scroll down to the corsets made from candy wrappers - Finnish, of course.

And the cross-stitched holes in old car doors (Lithuania).

Elegantly presented.