Balkan Threads
= Folk Clothing of the Balkans ={{Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo*, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia}}.
98 year old dobri dobrev, a man who lost his hearing in the second world war, walks 10 kilometers from his village in his homemade clothes and leather shoes to the city of sofia, where he spends the day begging for money.
though a well recognized fixture around several of the city’s chruches, known for his prostrations of thanks to all donors, it was only recently discovered that he has donated every penny he has collected — over 40,000 euros — towards the restoration of decaying bulgarian monasteries and churches and the utility bills of orphanages, living entirely off his monthly state pension of 80 euros and the kindness of others.
Wow.
Kukeri celebrations in Pernik, Bulgaria
(photo: Klearchos Kapoutsis)
BULGARIA: On New Year’s Day men cover themselves with goatskins to impersonate the Kukeri, who both embody and chase away evil spirits. In the past they’d brush against women to bestow fertility.
Photograph by Charles Fréger
Source: National Geographic
Serbian Folk Costume a present for your eyes and your heart
National Costumes of Male Serbs - Serbia and surrounding late 19th to early 20th cent
Serbian Folk Costume a present for your eyes and your heart
National Costumes of the Female Serbs - Serbia and surrounding late 19th to early 20th cent.
MOTHER TERESA (1910-1997), on the left, as a teen in native Albanian clothing.
