Traditional Bulgarian embroidery 11:30-12:30

?his craft gives you the chance to learn how to decorate a piece of silk or cotton using only a needle and thread of yarn.

As with much of Eastern and Central Europe, Bulgarian traditional embroidery was very much regionally led. The country’s embroidered craft tradition was a particularly rich and profuse one with many regions having strong variations within them so that sometimes small villages and communities could well have their own unique traditions. The subject of Bulgarian embroidery is such a large and generalised one that this article can only be seen as an introduction towards a series of more regionally based articles that will be seen in future posts.

Throughout the history of the continent many European indigenous nations, regions and ethnic groups spent sometimes centuries incorporated into what was effectively occupying nations and empires that often had a substantially different language, religion and culture to that of the localised or regional population. To some extent this continues today with a range of regional and ethnic areas across Europe that are locked into nation states that they share little in common with. (Source: The textile blog)