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Tradition dance -Hungary -Csárdás!

Hello all, Today I will do a short partial overview of the peoples and costumes of Transylvania. Much silliness has been written about this region in pop culture and movies. This resulted from the identification of Prince Vlad III Drăculeşti [the impaler] with the fictional character Dracula. In fact, Vlad III was ruler of Wallachia [Oltenia and Muntenia], although he was born and spent part of his childhood in Sighişoara in Transylvania. Vlad's castle, where all the nastiness took place, is…

hungarian folk wear

Collar or necklace, from a woman's costume, machine-made cream cotton embroidered all over with glass beadwork, in the form of a bib-like triangular panel and two smaller lapel-like flaps, with coloured plastic beads sewn on top of the glass beadwork and forming a border all round the three panels. The beadworg edging sewn with nylon (?) fishing wire. The ties of commercially-made cotton ribbon with floral pattern.

Hungarian costume, 17 century, nobility

Hello all, Today I will return to Hungary, to talk about one of the most famous costume and embroidery traditions in that country, that of Mezőkövesd. This town is the largest of the three settlements of the Matyó people of northeastern Hungary. These also include the villages of Tard and Szentistván, each of which has a distinct costume. You can see Mezőkövesd in the southern part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county. Mezőkövesd costume and embroidery has become as iconic of Hungary in general as…