Six Slutsk sashes loaned from the National Museum in Warsaw will go on display at the National Art Museum of Belarus, BelTA quotes head of ancient Belarusian art at the National Art Museum of Belarus Yelena Karpenko.
        The National Museum in Warsaw has the richest collections of sashes: some 300 kontush belts, 58 of which were made in Belarus’s Slutsk. Five belts which will be on display in Minsk were made by Slutsk Manufactory in the period when it was led by Yan and Leon Madjarski (1767-1807). One belt was made after 1807. The belts were purchased by the museum from private persons in the 1940-1960s.
       As noted by Yelena Karpenko, the exhibition is part of the state program for the revival of the ancient art of weaving. This is not the first exhibition when Slutsk belts temporarily return home. Minsk loans the exhibits from Moscow, Vilnius, and Lvov.