Finnish folk costume

Mervi Pasanen on Instagram: “I was asked about everyday clothing in Finnish iron age so I started browsing pictures from different photoshoots. And found pictures of my…”

Finnish Dress #5

I wove myself a traditional Finnish wool shawl. This was a garment that women used to wear when they went outside without a coat.

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Hello all, today I am going to talk about the costume from the region where the Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian borders come together. I have found references to this costume from books covering each of these three nationalities. This region was part of the Volyn' Principality in the days of Kievan Rus', was later incorporated into the Lithuanian empire, and then became part of the Polish Empire. When the Polish Empire was partitioned, this area went to the Austrian Empire, then became part…

A Sorbian folk costume by Iwajla Klinke. Traditional costumes of boyars, russian medieval aristocrats 16th century.

Hello all, this is my 200th article, and I thought i should do something rather different. I will do an overview of the folk costumes of ...

Hello all, Today I am going to talk about a type of costume which was found in the southern and western parts of the Karelian Isthmus. The Finns call this type of costume 'Rekko', after the particular kind of embroidery done on the chemise. This embroidery is done on the front just under the collar and results in the opening being on the side, as you can see in this image above. Karelia is a contiguous region, but references to it are complicated, as it is divided into three parts…