Season 3, Episode 2 (Episode 48)

That’s All, Folk: Eastern European Folk Dress Traditions


  • Ensemble, third quarter 17th-19th century, Russian, Metropolitan Museum of Art, collected by Natalia de Shabelsky
  • Shirt, 1840-80, Bulgarian, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Detail, shirt, 1840-80, Bulgarian, Metropolitan Museum of Art


  • Wedding ensemble, 1890-1910, Albanian, Metropolitan Museum of Art


  • Lithuanian folk costume, from folkcostume.blogspot.com

  • Postcard from National History Museum of Latvia showing Latvian mittens 


  • Latvian mitten symbols 


  • Russian towel, 1780-1820, Russian, Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • The Sun Chariot motif, from russianfashionblog.com 

  • Central Russian embroidery, from russianfashionblog.com


  • Collection of Ukrainian embroidered ritual cloths, from Pavlo Boyko on Flickr 


  • Belarusian embroidery motifs, from a postcard 


  • “Streets in Belarus,” Rufina Bazlova, 2020 
  • Sources
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