Social media platforms are witnessing a resurgence in folk costumes, with several second-hand markets emerging for their sale and purchase. Among the enthusiasts is Stanislav Talapka, a former ...

MORE than 5,000 textile dolls in folk costumes of various sizes have been produced and sold since 2002 by their only Slovak producer, the Osoh – or Benefit - association from the community of Hrušov, ...

A collaborative exhibition by the Museum of British Folklore offers a peek behind the pearly buttons of London's vibrant folk communities. Every three years, in the small Belgian city of Ypres, locals ...

People in traditional Estonian folk costumes take part in a dance celebration in Johvi, Estonia on June 8, 2024. More than 1,200 folk dancers from about 100 troops took part in the celebration. (Photo ...

Anna Worley and her husband Clayton wear Kroje, traditional folk costumes from the Zemplin region of Slovakia. Sugar Creek is a small community about nine miles east of downtown Kansas City. In 1904, ...

Seto Lelo Polyphonic singing, Estonian folk costumes, Russian arts & crafts, smoke saunas. In Estonia, Christine travels to the Setomaa region, visits an Seto Orthodox church, meets the indigenous ...

Traditional costumers from all over the country flocked to Innsbruck on Sunday for the large general meeting of the regional costume association. The future of traditional costume seems secure. The ...

Once a year in December, folk dancers from all over Estonia gather together on the cobblestones of Tartu's Town Hall Square (Raekoja Plats) for the traditional Tartu Winter Dance Day. This year's ...

"Our world is changing and textile designers are ideally equipped to face the challenges. With colour, pattern, functionality and sensuality as our guide, we constantly reinvent the realm of fibres, ...