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From my grandparents with love …<\/h2>\n
St.\u00a0Mary’s day brought me back to my father’s home… there my grandparents raised 7 children and tens of grandchildren and grand-grandchildren. \u00a0I never thought I would still find some things that brought tears to my eyes. Not only that I’ve found and read my grandfather’s will, but, kept in an drawer of an old dark sideboard, I’ve come across some pictures that touched my soul. These pictures below I want to share with you in this unexpected update of this post (10.45pm)<\/p>\n Hopefully, these pictures will inspire you to go back to your roots…<\/p>\n The traditional folk costume of Romanian women living in Neamt region has several clothing pieces:<\/p>\n The embroidery has floral, geometrical, zoomorphic and even anthropomorphic elements, which are generally sewed in two or three colors, depending on the geographic area where are made. The most used elements one can identify are flowers, buds, grapes, grape leaves, oak leaves, acorn, snail, flies, ram horns etc. After the II World War, sparkles and beads were added in the embroidery, especially of the folk costumes people were on special occasions.<\/p>\n In terms of color, the embroidery was done in one color; black, red, burgundy and blue; for floral elements, other colors were added (yellow, orange, green, violet etc.). The threads were painted with colors obtained from various plants and flowers such as alder bark, walnut leaves, green walnut bark, onion peel, Crocus Vernus (both purple and orange), Perforate St John’s-Wort (Hypericum Perforatum), Origanum Vulgare.<\/p>\n Opinci<\/strong> is the Romanian name of the footwear both women and men were wearing more than 50 years ago. They were made out of pork are cow skin. Today people were opinici only on special occasions. \u00a0As you can see in the pictures, quite often people would choose to wear leather shoes.<\/p>\n The only thing I would like to add… I’m grateful and lucky at the same time for having such wonderful people in my life who shared with me these stories.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a love story about my relatives who love La Blouse Roumaine aka the traditional IA. They loved it so much they wore these traditional costumes on their wedding day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[369,368,346,353,370,198,321,371,372,367],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romania","tag-bicaz","tag-bistrita","tag-embroidery","tag-folk-costume","tag-neamt","tag-romania","tag-romanian-ia","tag-traditional-blouse","tag-traditional-costume","tag-wedding"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"wedding](\"https:\/\/new.ambogdan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RomanianIA_bodaproste.jpg\" "\\"wedding")
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The traditional folk costume<\/h2>\n
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IA’s rich embroidery & natural colors<\/h2>\n