Bulgarian embroidery
Bulgarian embroideries are beautiful embroidery on clothes. They are an art with which our ancestors have conveyed a message of health, love and prosperity. In them are encoded various symbols, which were part of the life and culture of the Bulgarian. The embroideries symbolize harmony in the world and human behavior. The Bulgarian embroidery is one of the most colorful on the Balkan Peninsula.
The history of embroidery ornaments
The carved ornaments are part of the Bulgarian folk art, which originates from the ancient art of Slavs and Proto-Bulgarians, enriched by the influence of other peoples with whom the Bulgarian ethnicity has had the touch over the centuries. We find a similarity with the cultural traditions of the peoples of Tibet, China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Volga Bulgaria, Danube Bulgaria and others. The primordial of the naked body tattoo is considered to be the primordial ornaments. With the appearance of the fabrics, these ornaments are carried to the clothes. This happened in the Bronze Age of Thrace, and the origin of many of the motives is even more ancient – they appeared in the copper-stone age. Unlike today, in the past, the ossed ornaments had not only a decorative character, they were related to the attitude of man to nature, to his surroundings and especially to his family and kin.
Bulgarian other ornaments have developed in parallel with the development of Slavic and Proto-Bulgarian culture. With the unification of the two peoples, the interweaving of the woven ornaments of both cultures gradually began to be observed.
Placement
The seams were always placed in the end of the garment. Finally on the sleeves, on the beat, around the neck and the solar plexus, on the head, down at the end of the petticoat and on the girdle. The reason is that in this way they have a protective function and guard the visible boundaries of the body.