Slovakia in the 19th and 20th century
Most of pictures illustrate rural Slovakia and its peasants who are bearers of Slovak folk culture which is basically pagan, thus interesting for Slavdom as such.
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Bonnet from Ždiar, Slovakia
Slovakia in the 19th and 20th century
Most of pictures illustrate rural Slovakia and its peasants who are bearers of Slovak folk culture which is basically pagan, thus interesting for Slavdom as such.
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FolkCostume&Embroidery
Hello all, Today I will talk about the costumes of the Górale, or Gorali. In English often called Gorals. This just means mountain people. In English Gorals often refer to themselves as 'Polish Highlanders'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorals The Gorals are one of the four Slavic tribes found in the Carpathian mountains. In Ukraine, on and over the Romanian border live the Hutsuls, on both sides of the mountains west to the rivers Limnytsia north of the mountains and the river Teresva…
Women's Costume and embroidery of the Pieniny - Dunajec region in more depth, Lemko Polish Slovak Rusyn
Hello all, Today I will go into more detail about this costume. This is a continuation of my last post, which was a general introduction. One of the distinguishing pieces of this costume is the woman's shirt, called oplecha. It is made in the 'non-inset' cut, where the sleeves are smock-gathered directly into the collar. It is woven in linen twill, called in Lemko drelykh, and in Polish treluch, with red ornamental stripes on the upper sleeves and on the cuffs. Later the sleeve was made of…
Costumes of the Pieniny-Dunajec region, Lemkovyna, Poland, Slovakia
Hello all, I'm sorry that i have not posted for a while; I was forced to move, and so have been busy. Today I would like to talk about the costumes of the region around the Dunajec river and Pieniny mountains on the Polish-Slovak border. The impetus for researching this region came from seeing images of vests such as the one above. This one, unusually, is black; most are blue. These can be found in Ukrainian books, of which the above image is one example, in Polish sources, such as this…
Slovensko vo fotografii Karola Plicku – Evika78 – album na Rajčeti
Žena zo Ždiaru, Spiš, Slovakia