Mar 18, 2022
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.