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Bulgarian costume of Dobrudja
Hello all, Today I am going to talk about the costume of the Bulgarian population of Dobrudja. Dobrudja is the region between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, including the delta. Dobrudja is...
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Overview of the Costumes of Shopluk, Serbia, Macedonia and Bulgaria
Hello all,Today I am going to talk about the costumes of the region known as Shopluk. The Shope are an ethnic group which inhabit Bulgaria, Serbia, and Macedonia. While they tend to identify as one of...
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Overview of the Costumes of North Bulgaria
Hello all, Bulgaria is known for the richness of its folklore. The image above is from the rose festival. Roses have been grown in the central valley of Bulgaria since at least Roman times. These girls...
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Overview of the costumes of Bulgarian Thrace
Hello all, Today I am going to talk about the costumes of the Bulgarian region of Thrace, or Trakiya. Thrace was originally a Greek word which referred a rather vague region which was north of Thessaly...
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Overview of the costumes of Pirin and the Rhodopes, South Bulgaria
Hello all, This is the last installment of my series on the overview of Bulgarian costume. This covers the south of the country, specifically the cultural regions of Pirin and Rodop [Rhodope]. This...
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South Khanty Costume and Embroidery
Hello all, I wrote on this subject a while ago, but I have found new information, and also I have realized that as I am not writing for an actual magazine, I do not need to keep my articles short. Thus...
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Overview of the Costumes of Aosta, Savoie, Italy
Hello all,Today I will cover the costumes of the Aosta Valley, in ItalianValle d'Aosta, in French Val d'Aoste, in the local language Val d'Outa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aosta_Valley This is...
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Costumes of Tyrol
Hello all, Today I will do a costume tour of Tyrol, or Tirol. This famous region in the Austrian Alps has a distinct costume tradition. Tyrol as a political entity dates back to about 1140. It...
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Costume and embroidery of Desulo, Nuoro province, Sardinia
Hello all, Dèsulu, in the native Sardinian, or Desulo, in Italian, is a municipality in the southern part of the province of Nuoro [Nùgoro in Sardo] in central Sardinia. In a region of incredibly...
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Town Costume and Embroidery of Żywiec, Malopolska, Poland
Hello all,Today I wish to talk about a traditional attire which is unique. This is not a folk costume, but a town costume, one of only two which have survived in Poland. [The other is the Bamberg...
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Costume of the 'Green' Kurpie Region, Mazowsze, Poland
Hello all,Today I will talk about one of the few regions in northeast Poland that has a folk costume tradition. This corner of Poland was originally inhabited by the Prussians, who were related to the...
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Embroidery of the 'White' Kurpie, Mazowsze, Poland
Hello all, Today I will continue my series on the Kurpie people of Poland. To the south of the Green Wilderness, which I talked about in my last post, is a band of territory which is called the...
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Costume of the 'White' Kurpie, Mazowsze, Poland
Hello all,Today I will continue to talk about the White Kurpie. Check my last two articles for background information.The women wear a one piece bodice and skirt, which they call 'kitel', which seems...
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Costume of Jamund-Jamno, Pomerania
Hello all, Today I feel like I am stepping into a minefield by talking about Pomerania.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomeranians_(Slavic_tribe)The history of Pomerania is quite complicated. In the 7th...
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Charted Embroidery designs from Vrlika, Dalmatia, Croatia
Hello all,I ran across some charted embroidery designs from Vrlika in Croatia, and I decided to share them with you. These are from the Washington University digitized collection. There is some...
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Costume of the Borschiw region, Podillia, Ukraine
Hello all,Today I will talk about the costume, and a bit about the embroidery of the Borshchiw region, West Podillia, Ukraine. This lies in the extreme southeast corner of Halychyna, [Galicia], as...
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Costume and Embroidery of Pyritz-Pyrzyce, Pomerania
Hello allToday I will talk about the costume of the region in south central Pomerania which is called Pyritz in German, Pyrzyce in Polish, and Përzëca in Kaszubian. For a short history of Pomerania,...
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More Kosmach Embroidery
Hello all, I have recently acquired a book by Hryhoryj Smol'skyj, which has images of ustawky [sleeve insets] of women's chemises from the village of Kosmach in Hutsulshchyna. I have already written...
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Kучерявий Шов or Curly Stich of Borshchiw and other districts
Hello all,Today I will continue to speak about the embroidery of the Borshchiw region and some nearby districts. This is a type of embroidery which is raised and depends on texture rather than outline...
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Folk Costume of Olland, Lower Saxony and Hamburg, Germany
Hello all,Today I will talk about the costume of a region known inPlattdüütschas Olland. This region lies on the south/west bank of the Elbe between Hamburg and Stade, downstream of the city. The name...
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