Unique Bulgarian embroideries from the National Revival Period have been collected in a catalog by the Iskra Historical Museum in the town of Kazanlak. The luxury edition with rich images is called "Dyes and threads" and is one of the events with which the institution celebrates 120 years since its inception. The catalog includes embroideries of shirts, towels, shirt sleeves, dresses and others.
"The catalog is an opportunity to collect for the future generations examples of folk embroidery from the time of the Revival Period until the late 19th century," Venelina Ilieva, chief curator of the Ethnography Department, told Radio Stara Zagora.
She reminds that embroidery has always been present in the traditional clothing of Bulgarians, because in Bulgarian folk wisdom there is a belief that only fairies and creatures from the other world wear unadorned clothes.
You can read more about the symbolism of traditional Bulgarian embroidery in the publication "Bulgarian embroideries and their symbols" from the collection of Radio Bulgaria.
Compiled by Veneta Nikolova
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