Burial Robes of the Polish King Sigismund III Vasa. Analysis of Textiles and Clothing

The subject of the paper are the grave robes of the Polish King Zygmunt III Vasa, resting in the crypt in the Archcathedral Basilica of Saint Stanislaus and Saint Wenceslaus on the Wawel Hill in Kraków. The studies presented were possible thanks to an ‘in situ’ analysis of the clothes and a possibility of taking samples of textiles from which the clothing was sewn. The paper presents the results of a comprehensive textile analysis of fabrics, a description of the clothing that made up the funerary robes and analysis of the results obtained in the context of historical sources and works of art depicting the monarch.