Slavic headscarf

The headscarf has always figured prominently in traditional women’s clothing in Russia and remains a fashionable accessory today, especially in cold weather. Try out these Russian headscarves as an alternative to an ordinary hat.

Eastern Europe | Portrait of a Hutsul woman wearing traditional clothes and headscarf, Ukraine | © Youri Bilak #embroidery

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Most easily recognized by its heavily layered white headscarf with brightly colored embroidery, Blata kroj also features a delicate lace apron over a black skirt and a dark vest over a white blouse.

Hello all, Today I will be talking about the costume of western, or Volynian Polissia, which includes the northern parts of Volyn, Rivne, and part of Zhytomyr oblasts, as well as southwestern Bielorus. There is a style of embroidery practiced in the western part of Polissia, and not much elsewhere. In Ukrainian it is called Zavolikannia, Perevolikannia, Peretykannnia, Pidbyruvannia, and also other terms. It is a type of darning stitch, like Nyz or Nyzynka. The distinction is that in…

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