Author: DOAGA, AURELIA,
Title: II Si comasi Românesti [Traditional Folkdress and its embroideries]. [First edition],
Description: Bucaresti., Editura Tehnica, [circa], 1960. Large square 4°. Original clothbacked boards. Both sides with coloured large images of female traditional dress of Rumania. 59pp. Many captioned monochrome illustrations featuring details of female traditional dress from Rumania including dtailed expert clarifications, numerous monochrome detailed diagrams in text illustrating and explaining embroidery stitching, pp. 40-58 which includes a glossary of technical terms used, another explanatory glossary of general technical terms on facing page. [32]pp. with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations of finished embroidery patterns at rear end. Table of contents. Rumenian language technic-historic survey about female traditional dress in three sections: illustrations of actual dress and details; detailed diagrams illustrating old embroidery technique with aatterns and finally coloured and monochrome illustrations on 16 unnumbered leaves illustrating a wide scope of finished embroideries. Very fine copy. Scarce.

Keywords: rumania embroidery tradition female dress patterns diagrams history culture heritage clothing romenie balkan easterneurope rumania