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Embroidered Bridal veils of the Darvaz district, Tajikistan
Hello all,Today I will talk about one of the more striking embroidery traditions of Central Asia.These bridal veils are widely found in collections and museums, and the work is extraordinary.The above...
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Costume and Embroidery of Sárköz, Hungary
Hello all, This is a photo of my friend Jennifer in her Sárköz costume. The region of Sárköz [pronounced sharkeuse] is well known in Hungary for its folk culture, and the costume is quite typical of a...
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Women's Costume and Embroidery of Lagartera, Province of Toledo, Castile, Spain
Hello all, I was inspired by 'The Man of la Mancha', so I decided to do this costume. It turns out that this is not part of la Mancha, but somewhat to the north and west of it, but I will do it...
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Mens Costume and Linen Embroidery of Lagartera, Toledo Province, Castille, Spain
Hello all, Today I will continue my article on Lagartera by talking about the different forms of the mens costume and the linen embroidery which is associated with it. The two main forms of the costume...
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Overview of the Costumes of Spain, part 1 - The North
Hello all,Today I am going to attempt to give an overview of the Folk Costumes of Spain. Spain is a multilingual and multiethnic State; several distinct languages are spoken, four of which are...
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Overview of the costumes of Spain - 2 The South
Hello all, today I will continue my overview of the costumes of Spain. There is less variety of costume in the south, as they have been more recently reconquered.MadridThis covers not only the capitol...
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Overview of the costumes of France, part 1. The North
Hello all, Today I will attempt to give an overview of the costumes of France. France was divided into traditional provinces before the revolution. These are shown in color in the map above. Afterwards...
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Overview of the costumes of France 2 - the South
This is a continuation of my last article.France was divided into traditional provinces before the revolution. These are shown in color in the map above. Afterwards the nation was divided into...
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Overview of the Costumes of Norway. Part one, the Southeast.
Hello all,Today I will try to cover all of Norway. Norway has many beautiful costumes, and the folk costume culture is alive and well. The scene above, showing five different costumes is not unusual...
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Overview of Norwegian Costumes, part 2. The eastern heartland
Hello all, This is the second part of my overview of the costumes of Norway. This will cover the central row of provinces in Eastern Norway, the yellow and orange ones on the map below, minus the ones...
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Overview of Norwegian costume, part 4 The North
Hello all, Part three of this overview is forthcoming. I was asked about the costumes of Trondelag, and so I wrote this one first.This is the fourth part of my overview of Norwegian Costumes. This...
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Overview of Norwegian Costumes part 3A, the West
Hello all, this is part three of my overview of Norway, even if I published them out of order. This will cover the west of Norway from south to north, with the exception of Hordaland, which will be...
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Overview of Norwegian costume, part 3B. Hordaland
Hello all, Today I will cover the last province of Norway, Hordaland.This is one of the great centers of Norwegian folk costume, having large areas in which the costume continues to be a living...
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Bringeduk or Brustklut, Bodice insets from Hardanger, Voss, and Hordaland,...
Hello all, Today I will be talking about the bodice inset for the folk costume of Hardanger and Hordaland. This is also called plastron, stomacher, bringeduk, brystduk, brustklut, and other names...
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cross stitched Bringeduk, Bodice insets from Hordaland, Norway
Hello all,This is a continuation of my last article on bodice insets from Hardanger and Hordaland. The image above is a bringeduk which I made for my friend Lorraine's Hardanger costume. I got the...
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Costumes of Dagestan
Hello all,today I will attempt to give some sort of overview of the costumes of Dagestan. The two images above show the standard men's costume for the entire area, and a group of women in the costumes...
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Cuman Embroidery of Hungary
Hello all,Today I will talk about one particular embroidery style from Hungary. When we think about Hungarian embroidery what usually comes to mind are the bright contrasting colors and teardrop forms...
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Serpanka costume of Dubrovytsia region, Volynian Polissia, Ukraine
Hello all, This is a costume that I have been wondering about for many years, but I had very little information concerning it. It has recently made news in Ukraine. The photo above was taken in 1977 in...
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Costume and embroidery from Samokov district, Shopluk, Bulgaria
Hello all, I am working on an overview of Bulgarian costume and I ran across a large number of embroidery designs from this one district of Samokov, so I thought I would share them with you. This is...
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Ukrainian and Romanian embroidery of Bukovyna-Bucovina
Hello all, I recently received a request as to how to tell the difference between Ukrainian Bukovyna embroidery and Romanian Bucovina embroidery. There is no straightforward answer. In the local...
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