Bulgarian Traditional Folk Costumes Garments album book

ISBN 9789545002311
Authors: Elena Bancheva, Atanas Orachev, Vyara Kandjieva, etc.
Printed : 2010
Pages: 146 p., hard back, large size 20.5 x 27 cm / 8'' x 10.6''
Language: Text in English
Photos: full-page color illustrations

This book represents Bulgarian traditional garments, or folk costumes, part of which belong to exhibitions and stokcs of big and smaller museum collections; another part is still having been kept in home chests for several generations now; finally a third part are exact replicas of original folk costumes which , because of the perishability of materials used have been partially or entirely destroyed. Made by hand, with their unique cut and components, with the wisdom, deep symbolisme and diversity instrinsic to their decoration: variegated embroideries combined with fine laces and artfully complemented with gold, silver and other adornments, Bulgarian traditional garments is not only a museum exhibit. It lives its second life through festival and concert appearances of companies for authentic folklore held both in Bulgaria and abroad, and bring, enjoynment to the eye of the common spectator being also a source of inspiration...

"The motifs in Bulgarian embroidery are so divers and so intertwined that they could serve as an example to the skillful artist in Europe."
Felix Canitz, AD 1874

"What unearthly beauty there is in these models, unparalleled fantasy! What gracefulness! What exquisiteness! What mastership! What dexterity! All that the human genius can create."
At the Fashion Congress held in Paris in AD 1966 in connection with the exhibited collection of Bulgarian traditional folk costumes.