BULGARIAN NATIONAL COSTUMES PHOTO ALBUM BOOK, 320 pages!!!

ISBN:954-8458-26-8
Author: Anita Komitska
Published: 2005
Pages: hard back, 320 pp.!
Luxury edition, 60 x 90 cm (24'' x 35'')

The great number of photos prevailing over text exemplifies national costumes of different regions of Bulgaria.

"Bulgarian traditional clothing is perhaps the most spectacular creation of Bulgarian folk art and crafts. Its material, weaving and sewing techniques, composition, and design reveal ancient features preserved throughout the centuries. Its decorative patterns together with the jewellery form a complicated system of signs which designate the gender, age as well social and marital status of the person who wears the costume." (an excerpt from the book itself).

For the compiling of this excellent book displaying a great variety of Bulgarian national costumes, was mainly used the Bulgarian National Museum of Ethnography's collection of items. Among the 51 000 traditional artefacts it exhibits, those of clothing are about 20 000. Quite a rich material to explore isn't it?

Such a rich material, with so many pictures, appears on the Bulgarian book market for the very first time. Extraordinary!

Check the Bulgarian ethnographic inheritance out!