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A Closer look at Breton Costumes part 9B, Other Costumes of Guerande or...
Hello all, Today I will continue my look at the costumes of the Gwenrann region of Nantes Province. Pays Nantais in FrenchBro Naoned in BretonPaeï de Nàntt in GalloThe province of Nantes has always...
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A Closer View of Breton Costumes Part 10, Bro Naoned, Pays Nantais or Paeï de...
Hello all, Today I will conclude my series on Breton costumes by looking at the rest of the Province of Nantes or Naoned. Pays Nantais in FrenchBro Naoned in BretonPaeï de Nàntt in GalloThe province...
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Overview of the costumes of Ticino and "Italian Switzerland"
Hello all, Today I will be covering the folk costumes of Italian - speaking Switzerland, including the Canton of Ticino, and the valleys of Mesolcina, Bregaglia and Poschiavo in the Canton of Grigio...
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Costume of Kolomyja region, west Pokuttia, Ukraine
Hello all, I have written a few articles about Pokuttia, all talking about the costume and embroidery in the eastern part. Today I will try to talk about the costume of the region around the town of...
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Unique Boiko Embroidery of Bolekhiw region, Ukraine
Hello all, The above image is the title page of a book which contains a montage of photos, embroidery charts, poems and more of the eastern Boiko region by the town of Bolekhiw. The items are all in...
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East Boiko costume, Ukraine
Hello all, I have been collecting costume images for a long time, and today I would like to show some of the images which I have from eastern Boikoland. I do not have enough material to do an in depth...
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Halychyna Town Costume, Ukraine
Hello All,Today I would like to talk about a type of Ukrainian costume which was invented in the early 20th cent. After the Austrian Empire was broken up and the State of Poland restored, much of...
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Western Boiko Costume
Hello all, Today I would like to talk about a costume that has mostly disappeared. This costume was found between the Lemko lands and the current Polish/Ukrainian border. Most villages near the border...
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Boiko costume of Volosianka / Volovets' region, Ukraine
Hello all, Today I would like to talk about the south-central Boiko costume, which is found in Transcarpathia around the town of Volovets', and also over the line into L'viw Oblast in the villages of...
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Costume of the town of Stein, Limburg Province, The Netherlands
Hello all, Today I will start a new series of the costumes of The Netherlands. They are unique in that they have some folk costumes which are still worn daily. This is not one of them. This costume...
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Costume of the Province of Limburg, The Netherlands
Hello all, Today I will continue with the costume of Limburg in the Nietherlands. Besides the costume of the town of Stein, which I talked about in my last article, the costume may be divided into...
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Costumes of the Province of North Brabant, The Netherlands; part 1 De Meierij...
Hello, today I will continue my tour of the costumes of The Netherlands with the Province of North Brabant. The Duchy of Brabant was established in 1183. When Belgium seceded from The Netherlands, it...
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Costume and Embroidery of Luhansk, Ukraine
Hello all, In consideration of the current atrocities being perpetrated by Putin, I will interrupt my discourse on Netherlandic costumes and talk about the region of Luhansk, in eastern Ukraine. The...
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Embroidered Womens' shirts from Luhansk, Ukraine
Hello all, The image is of an exhibit at the Luhansk Museum of folk culture. For those who wish, as I do, to have information that can be readily turned into embroidery projects, I will present...
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Embroidered Women's shirts from Luhansk, Ukraine, part 2
Hello all, This is a continuation of my last article, examining the embroidery of women's sorochky in Luhansk more closely. ИThis is another shirt completely worked in white on white with cutwork. The...
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Early Men's National Costume of the Philippines
Hello All, I have been asked to do some research into the costumes of the Philippines, and I have found that it is a very extensive subject. Today I will cover some aspects of the national costume of...
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Women's Filipino National Costume of the early 1800's
Hello All, Today I would like to continue talking about the Filipino National Costume of the early 19th cent. by focusing on the women. For general introductory remarks about the Philippines, see my...
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Women's Philipino costume of the late 19th-early 20th centuries, The Maria...
Hello all, Today I will talk about how the Filipino National costume developed further in the late 1800's and early 1900's. The national costume became the major dress of the Christianized lowland...
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Costume of Volnovakha Волноваха district, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
Hello all, Today I will not be doing an in depth analysis, but simply presenting multiple images of Ukrainian Costume from Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine, one of the regions in which the fighting is...
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Costumes of West Brabant, the Netherlands
Hello all, Today I will finish my article on the costumes of the Province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands, with the costume of the western part of the province, West-Brabant, also called The...
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