Sluck

The belt above mentioned was one of the most essential parts and the chief ornament of the old Polish national dress, and those manufactured at Sluck had especially a high reputation.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

As when a pair of workmen at Sluck are making a Polish girdle; a girl at the base of the loom smooths and presses the web with her hands, while the weaver throws her from above threads of silver, gold and purple, forming colours and flowers: thus to-day the wind spread all the earth with mist and the sun embroidered it.

Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 Adam Mickiewicz 1826

"It Came From Kuchar," an affectionate homage to the revered crackpots, with snippets from their films "Corruption of the Damned," "Thundercrack!" and "The Craven Sluck."

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Lust for Ecstasy (1964), The Craven Sluck (1967), and

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A description of a belt of Sluck, "with thick fringes like tufts," glows on another page of the poem from which I took my last quotation: ”

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

Then they went to Suraz, and afterward to Sluck, to the great sorrow of this youth, Zbyszko, who, according to the German custom, had selected the Princess Ryngalla to be the lady of his heart and had promised her eternal fidelity. "

The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

Compare p. 289.] 29 At Sluck there was a famous factory for making gold brocade and massive belts, which supplied all Poland.

Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 Adam Mickiewicz 1826