#smolyan

[allthingseurope]

Pamporovo, Bulgaria

[gorskivijenac]

Pomak woman from a village Malka Arda, Banite municipality, Smolyan district, Bulgaria, before 1945. Central State Archive in Sofia

[lauluka]

Smolyan, Bulgaria

picture taken by me

[easterneuropeancrafts]

Embroidery samples from Eastern and Cental Bulgaria (Plovdiv, Burgas, Shumen, Smolyan). Shown at the "You'll know them by the embroidery" exhibition (2018) at the Shumen Regional History Museum.

[travelseesea]

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George A. Moore #Smolyan #dewin (hier: Dewin, Smolyan, Bulgaria) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxAuLA4ncaG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[shevitsa]

Sleeves from a chemise, made of cotton, wool and silver thread. Rupchos region, Western Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria. | Ръкави от женска риза, памук и вълна, сърма. Рупчоско, Западни Родопи.

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[balkanche]

This time last year in Yagodina, Bulgaria

[mostly-history]

Studio portraits of models wearing traditional clothing from the Vilayet of Adrianople (now Edirne Province in Turkey, 1873):

Greek peasant from Manastir (Bitola); Greek peasant woman from Manastir; Bulgarian woman from Scutari.

Bulgarian woman from the Kaza of Ahiçelebi (modern-day Smolyan); Greek woman from Hasköy (Haskovo); peasant woman from Baı̈djas [?].

Muslim inhabitant of Adrianople; Muslim horseman of Adrianople; Christian artisan of Adrianople.

Muslim horseman from Filibe (Plovdiv); Bulgarian from Koyountèpè [?]; Bulgarian from Ahiçelebi.