The bride wore a red veil (this was common practice until 1920′ s), and the newborn child was a red-haired diaper red is also the first Christ’s egg painted for resurrection… Now I see the connection and the meaning of wearing a red wristband. It will protect from “bad eyes” and spells. The red color symbolizes the mother’s blood and the continuation of life. The color of the dresses as well have significance, many colors dye the Bulgarian costumes, but the main ones are red and green, yellow and white. Representation of the Mother Goddess, its represented as a pregnant woman in giving birth position, and with the sun and moon on the sides. The girls start at 12 years old embroidering what it will be later her trousseau when she gets married, and this was the highest skill of all domestic crafts. People believed that cutting a part of the embroidery of one’s garment would blaze a trail for the evil spirits and make the person vulnerable.īulgarian women were allowed to embroider only until their wedding day – after that, they were having the right to do it again only when their own daughters become 12 years and they need to learn how to do it. It was believed to protect the human body from evil spells and spirits. Embroidery used to have great symbolic value. In the library, the ladies working there did a great job and helped me a lot (and I got my yearly card for the Library).Īll books were in Bulgarian language, which makes everything a bit more complicated but at the same time more interesting to have the opportunity to share with all of you this valuable information that isn’t available in English language. The less concrete information I get, the more I feel intrigued about the meaning of the symbols, some of them start to repeat, the Tree of Life, the Mother Goddess, the Swastica and others. I decide to write about it and start the research, the information on the internet was very scarce, not much info about the symbols and less about their meaning, the Ethnographic Museum in Varna my first step, the people working there were very kind and explain to me many things about the traditional Bulgarian dresses, but unfortunately not much about the meaning of the embroidery, they suggest me to go to the Library and check for more information there. I got intrigued by this information, I had no idea that the embroidery has a meaning and not only a decorative function. The traditional Bulgarian embroidery is a wonderful art that goes back to ancient times, and it was a way to show information about the person who wore the designs, fundamentally their marital status, their social class and their place of originĪ few weeks ago talking with a good friend of mine, he shows me a picture of some ancient symbols and he explained that those symbols are embroidered in traditional Bulgarian dresses, and that could be a good article for Foreigner BG.
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