Residents of the White Sea, off the northwest coast of Russia, as seen by photographer Alexander Semenov.
A Romanian folk costume dating from the late 19th century.
The embroidery on the shawl says Breaza, which is a town in central Romania.
(Source: metmuseum.org)
These ten beads were probably part of a woman’s necklace. They are made of thin sheet gold that was cut and folded around a core of pitch (pine resin). Slices of garnet, backed with foil to enhance their brilliance, were inserted into the pitch between the gold frames. This technique of combining gold and foil-backed garnets is characteristic of the Goths of South Russia.
Ca. 5th century, discovered in modern Ukraine.
I would wear this.
Lake Bohinj, Slovenia.
Bowls very similar to this one have Slavic inscriptions that indicate they were made in northwestern Bulgaria in the 1570s, when the country was part of the Ottoman Empire. This bowl’s neutral imagery makes it uncertain whether it was used by Christians or Muslims. To a Christian, the peacocks on it would symbolize the garden of paradise; to a Muslim, they would allude to luxury and courtly pleasures.
