A needle lace workshop was founded at Kiskunhalas, Hungary in 1902, by the embroiderer, Mária Markovits, and designer Árpád Dékáni. Their intention was to provide work for local people, and to revive Hungary's folk art traditions in a new meduim. The lace they produced was given the name 'Halas', an abbreviation of Kiskunhalas. It was exhibited and awarded prizes at international exhibitions during the first decade of the century, its most successful period, and continued to be made in the same style, often using the same designs, through the 20th century. The figures on this panel represent the characters Jancsi and Iluska from Hungarian folklore.