Kiskunhalas - Lace Museum Csipkeház

In 1903 the drawing teacher and local-art collector Arpád Dékáni founded a workshop to produce lace to his own designs, thereby pioneering the Kiskunhalas lace industry. The success of his enterprise was due in no small measure to the skills of one Mária Markovits who, assisted by a small work-force of lace makers, translated his designs into high quality work which received international acclaim at the 1904 World Exhibition in St Louis.

Mária Markovits also developed the normal Venetian technique of 10-12 stitches per cm into one of 40-50 per cm.

The former workshop, today houses the Lace Museum (Csipkeház) with some particularly beautiful examples of Kiskunhalas lace on display. In the garden there is a memorial and bronze bust of Mária Markovits.