Croatian folkwear- resources

This blog contains resources for Croatian (and a dash of Serbian and Montenegrin 'cause I'm mixed like that) folkwear construction, patterns, embroidery. There will also be a bit of folk poetry thrown into the mix. Major construction instructions will be translated to English. Note: fascists fuck off.

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If any of the links/videos ever break down, please let me know and I'll fix it as soon as I can.

Fascists not welcome, this is from the people and for the people. Thanks.

Cultural appropriation is a spook, and as long as you are not using the contents of this blog to humiliate the people who came up with it, or otherwise to opress anybody, you are free to use anything you find here as you wish. Regarding local costumes themselves, it might be a bit in bad taste to lift the composition wholesale outside of stage wear, because they are tied to very small locales and local identities. However, it is perfectly fine to take parts you enjoy, or change the details and colours if you fell in love with the whole costume because local identities are hyper-specific regarding details, so changing the details obscures this tie. Small cultures die out if they are not engaged with.

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Wooden Kozolec (traditional haydrying structure)

Motnik, Slovenia

This toplar-type (linked) hayrack incorporates a raised storage crib between the racks, a loft within the roof volume, and covered space for threshing or storage of farm equipment on the ground below. Crops are delivered to the crib through openings in the floor or front façade. According to Tone Cevc (1993), such linked hayracks were developed to accommodate more complex farming methods in early modern times. The roadside location is convenient for access by farm vehicles. (photo 1988)

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Croatia, Posavina region, carved gourd, made approx 1870.-1880.

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What isn't shown here, but can be seen on the gourd in real life (it is displayed in Etnografski muzej Zagreb for the next week or so), is that on the backside, there is a carving of a woman spinning wool with a distaff and a drop spindle, traditionally covert symbols of female sexuality.

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Bracelet, Bulgaria, late XIX/ early XX century

British museum

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today there was an Etno Queer manifestation at the Zagreb Etnographical museum and I'm just 🥺🥺🥺

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This is the LADO version of the song, performed during this event. Original by Ignac Mihalec sings more specifically about his imprisonment in Russia after he was sent to the front by Austro-Hungarian during WW1.

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šest leti je minulo ne sem bil v Međimurju bil sem v stranjskoj zemljici šest lete v žalosti

bil sem v stranjskoj zemljici šest lete v žalosti

Božeku se moljila moja stara majčica k sebi me dozivala z mojega Međimurja

živ mi dojdi sinek moj dojdi svoji dečici kaj se ne bom plokala kak za tvega japeka kak za našeg dedeka ki spi v stranjskoj zemljici

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six years have passed I wasn't in Međimurje I was in a foreign land six years in sorrow

I was in a foreign land six years in sorrow

to God prayed my old mother she called me to herself from my Međimurje

come to me alive my son come to your children how could I not cry like after your father like after our grandfather who sleeps in foreign land

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today there was an Etno Queer manifestation at the Zagreb Etnographical museum and I'm just 🥺🥺🥺

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Postage stamps commemorating the arrival of spring, Bulgaria, 1971

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Prekrasan blog!!😍❤ Ako mogu pitati, od kud inspiracija, bavite li se profesionalno narodnom nošnjom? (Imam i par slika nošnji i ukrasa za glavu s trenutne izložbe u Etnografskom muzeju, ako ste zainteresirani za post.)

Hvala! Ne bavim se profesionalno, ovo je samo hobi. Iskreno, inspiracija mi je što me isfrustriralo koliko je teško naći informacije o nečem što je naše kolektivno nasljeđe na internetu, pa ecce blog haha. Zainteresirana sam, pošaljite pa ću objavit. Ili možete kod sebe pa ću bacit reblog.

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Kika Jovanović dressed in a Serbian traditional costume from Sarajevsko Polje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photographed by Pavel Surovy

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Dance of peacocks (игра паунова) - is a female traditional dance performed during the ritual of Бела вила in Velika Hoča, Serbia, on the third day after Easter.

Women in folk costumes dance in a circle (kolo, oro) and sing the old traditional song "Паун пасе, трава расте":

Паун мој, паун мој

Паун 'оће да се жени, паун мој.

Паун 'оће лепу жену, паун мој.

Паун пасе, трава расте, паун мој.

Паун нага, глава боли.

Паун нага, крило боли.

Паун нага, нога боли.

Паун, мој, паун мој.

that ends with "левка" through which all participants pass to the altar in the church of St. John, where they present modest gifts to the church. They sing:

Вишњичица род родила, маљен мој, маљен мој.

Немај вишњу кој да бере, маљен мој, маљен мој.

Само момче и девојче, маљен мој, маљен мој.

Women decorate their headscarfs with flowers to resemble the male and female peacock. Male peacock goes around and kisses the prettiest young girls, it is belived that the first girl who's kissed will get married soon (that she will be already engaged until next Easter).

Female peacock should be the oldest woman in the village, she goes around and tries to stop the male peacock from kissing young girls by jokingly and gently pulling him. Peacocks in this dance symbolise young man and woman.

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Reconstruction of the Serbian traditional festive headdress "prevez" from Peć, Metohija, southern Serbia, 19th century. Đorđe Baščarević

The prevez consists of three ručniks and two handkerchiefs embroidered and decorated with pearls and gold threads. The ručniks are not the same shape, and are placed so as to cover the hair and upper back, and are interconnected by decorative head pins, which have tassels of multicolored beads. Decorations of pearls and small coins go from the forehead over the eyes. This decoration protects the bride (when she puts on this headdress for the first time) from evil eyes, because our people believe that yes are a mirror of the soul and that someone can harm us through them. The hair is braided into trvelje.

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Romanian blouse from Ciolăneștii de Sus, Teleorman and its details

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Serbian folk dances from Drvar

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žena s přeslicí, ludvík kuba - serbian woman from planjane, sredska.

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Costume of the town and village on the interval of two centuries, Prizren and its surroundings, 1880-1918. cred. Ethnographic Museum Belgrade, Serbia, 1994.