This is the first time the British Museum's fascinating collection of Balkan textiles, dating from the late 19th to the mid 20th century and one of the finest in the world, will be published. The book is also the first published overview of the textiles from this region, setting the techniques for making them within their historical and geographical context. The author's personal experience in herself collecting many of the pieces in the field allows her to offer completely new insights into the highly decorated textiles produced by the various ethnic, clan and religious groups of the area. The items range from everyday to festive clothing as well as accessories and textiles for the home. The makers employed a wide range of materials and techniques, including a particularly skilful use of couched embroidery and different ways of weaving. The author also explores the elements of garment shape, colour, motif and symbolism. Diane Waller is Professor of Art Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths, University of London, with a background in fine art, art history and ethnography. She is a recognized authority on Balkan textiles. As the recipient of a Leverhulme scholarship in 1972-3, she lived in Sk... [Read More]

More than forty years ago, Martin Koenig embarked on a trip to the Balkans that would transform his life. Armed with a letter of introduction from Margaret Mead, Koenig went to learn more about the Balkan folk dances that he loved. However, his mission changed when he found a society in rapid transition, and he soon felt compelled to document the disappearing agrarian life-style and village culture. In this initial trip and on almost a dozen additional trips made between 1966 and 1987, Koenig worked in villages throughout the different areas of the Balkans filming, recording, and photographing the traditional music, dance, and ceremonies. These historic, black and white and color photographs memorialize a way of village life that has since been transformed by modernization and globalization. Text in English and Bulgarian. Hard cover with dust jacket, 96 pages with 43 stunning black and white photographs, Size: 21 x 28 cm (8.2" x 11"). Texts by: Martin Koenig; Lanny Silverman, Chief Curator, Chicago Cultural Center; Dr. Anna Ilieva, Senior Dance Ethnologist, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. About the author/photographer: Martin Koenig was founder/director of the Balkan Arts Center (la... [Read More]

This book contains 33 detached color plates of national costumes of the region called Slavacko. Both a 14 page paperback, as well as on the back of each plate has information in five languages-Czech, German, Greek, English and French.

1937 1st Editura si Tipografia Ziarului Universul. In Rumanain. Sm.4to., 260pp., doublepage color photo frontis showing nine people in native dress, monochrome photo illustrations, original wraps. Owner signed on top of title page. Good, text lightly toned (not brittle), light wear and browing.

RARE Book by the writer, Albanian Ethnologist Rrok Zoizi / Very Large 10.5"x14.25" Format, illustrated with 53 huge full page color quality lithographs by Dhimiter Mborja, each has nice large boarders for matting and is printed on one side only, and quite frameable as the book has a unique binding - it has cardboard cover The pages are loose-leaf with ribbons holding them together through four holes in the inside page edges, outside the borders. Printed in 1959 in Tirana, Albania. Until recently, Albania was almost completely closed to outsiders. It was one of the most tightly secure countries in the world!

A guide to the exhibits of the Ethnographical Museum in Zagreb which were first arranged in 1951 and presented in 1955 in what was intended at the time as a permanent exhibition.

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