Life in pictures
Hello ! My name is Jo, I live in Bucharest (Romania), and this is a photo diary of my life. I try to...
Embroidery of Zastawna county, Cherniwtsi oblast, Bukovyna, Ukraine
Hello all, Today I will follow up my article on the morshchanka type of shirt by focusing on embroidery designs from Zastawna county, Cherniwtsi oblast, Bukovyna, Ukraine. The motifs of many of these designs are extremely unique, one might even say bizarre. Some of them look like they could have been the inspiration for Atari Space Invaders. They resemble no other embroidery tradition in either Ukraine or Romania, although they do have some Balkan elements. I have no explanation as to where…
Romania Gallery / Peasant Woman from Muntenia Postcard
FolkCostume&Embroidery
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 communities, the people know which village is inhabited by which ethnicity, and they could tell you, but there are no overarching rules which always apply. Nevertheless, there are regional differences, and some of these regions are overwhelmingly of one nationality or the other, only the central…
Embroidery of Zastawna county, Cherniwtsi oblast, Bukovyna, Ukraine
Hello all, Today I will follow up my article on the morshchanka type of shirt by focusing on embroidery designs from Zastawna county, Cherniwtsi oblast, Bukovyna, Ukraine. The motifs of many of these designs are extremely unique, one might even say bizarre. Some of them look like they could have been the inspiration for Atari Space Invaders. They resemble no other embroidery tradition in either Ukraine or Romania, although they do have some Balkan elements. I have no explanation as to where…
Embroidery of Zastawna county, Cherniwtsi oblast, Bukovyna, Ukraine
Hello all, Today I will follow up my article on the morshchanka type of shirt by focusing on embroidery designs from Zastawna county, Cherniwtsi oblast, Bukovyna, Ukraine. The motifs of many of these designs are extremely unique, one might even say bizarre. Some of them look like they could have been the inspiration for Atari Space Invaders. They resemble no other embroidery tradition in either Ukraine or Romania, although they do have some Balkan elements. I have no explanation as to where…
Embroidery of Zastawna county, Cherniwtsi oblast, Bukovyna, Ukraine
Hello all, Today I will follow up my article on the morshchanka type of shirt by focusing on embroidery designs from Zastawna county, Ch...
FolkCostume&Embroidery
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 communities, the people know which village is inhabited by which ethnicity, and they could tell you, but there are no overarching rules which always apply. Nevertheless, there are regional differences, and some of these regions are overwhelmingly of one nationality or the other, only the central…
Embroidery of Zastawna county, Cherniwtsi oblast, Bukovyna, Ukraine
Hello all, Today I will follow up my article on the morshchanka type of shirt by focusing on embroidery designs from Zastawna county, Cherniwtsi oblast, Bukovyna, Ukraine. The motifs of many of these designs are extremely unique, one might even say bizarre. Some of them look like they could have been the inspiration for Atari Space Invaders. They resemble no other embroidery tradition in either Ukraine or Romania, although they do have some Balkan elements. I have no explanation as to where…
Mirifica Românie
O serie fascinantă de fotografii cu România începutului de secol XX, (port popular, portrete de ţărani, localităţi din toate judeţele ţării, monumente, etc) redactată după o carte album apărută în …