Łowicz dress is a woven grid, not a printed one. Pasiak cloth runs vertical stripes of unequal width down the full height of a skirt — red ground before 1914, orange after, cooled by green, blue and violet once aniline dye reached the villages.

Over that field sits black silk velvet, packed edge to edge with satin-stitch roses and forget-me-nots. The system keeps both halves: a loud striped ground, dark bouquet-bearing panels laid onto it, and nothing delicate anywhere — this is cloth built to carry across a procession.