Zofia Brodkiewicz-Spławińska was born in Tarnobrzeg in Poland in 1941. She lives and works in Zakopane. After graduating in Zakopane, she began her studies at the Zakopane Art School. She continued her studies at the Academy of Arts in Krakow. In 1966 she started working as an interior designer, but she returned in 1967 to the Academy in Krakow to study at the “Department of Artistic Textiles”.

She works in varying materials such as wool, linen, sisal and also synthetic fibers. She works with tapestries, fabrics and three-dimensional weaves – in different shapes and sizes. She brings out the living surface of the fabrics by following the entire process – from when the wool is carded and spun in the Polish countryside – until she dyes the wool in her studio in Zakopane, where she also has her looms. Thanks to the craftsmanship and knowledge of materials, she achieves a color intensity that is impossible to achieve with machine-made yarns. The weaving technique is her own and is used as far as she knows only by her in Poland. The wealth of patterns is intimately associated with deep traditional roots in Polish folklore. Zofia Brodkiewicz-Spławińska is also hired as an interior designer for buildings, including hotel buildings in her hometown of Zakopane. The Municipality of Södertälje owns one tapestry.