Kitajka

Cathay silk; Chinese fine silk with a plain weave, originating in the East and popular in Poland in the 16th–18th centuries. Cathay silk was used for clothing, upholstery, and wall tapestries.

Source: Anna Ludwika Radziwiłłowa née Mycielska, Mrs voivode of Vilnius, wrote to her husband, „I am renewing my request for some beautiful kitajeczki, if it is not too heavy a burden for My Lordship, only not patterned alias with strength of colours…” AGAD, AR IV, ref. no. 615, pp. 145-146, Anna Ludwika Radziwiłłowa née Mycielska to Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł, July 24, 1757.

See also: Słownik terminologiczny sztuk pięknych, po redakcją Stefana Kozakiewicza, Warsaw 1969, p. 170; B Popiołek, Z poczucia piękna, z potrzeby posiadania. Kobiecy świat rzeczy w osiemnastowiecznej Rzeczypospolitej, Warsaw 2024.