Traditional Costumes of South Monrovia, the Czech Republic
--Exquisite Traditional Costumes of South Monrovia,the Czech Republic (In Czech). Episode: 1761, Air Date: 11 July 2011.
Today's A Journey through Aesthetic Realms will be presented in Czech, with subtitles in Arabic, Aulacese (Vietnamese), Aulacese (Vietnamese), Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Hallo, graceful viewers, welcome to A Journey through Aesthetic Realms on Supreme Master Television. The Czech Republic is a central European nation with more than two thousand years of history. South Moravia is an administration division in the southeastern part of the country, known for its picturesque farming villages and rich folklore and art traditions. In today's program, we will look at the exquisite ethnic costumes of this region. The dazzling traditional garments of South Moravia are greatly diversified into many sub-regional styles.
They include Brno, Dolňácko, Haná, Horacke, Horňácko, Kyjov, Lachian, Podluží, Slovacke, Wallachian costumes, and many more. Typical women's folk dresses consist of petticoats, mudflaps, embroidered bodices, embroidered lace shirts, collar, main trimmed skirt, folk shoes, wreaths, scarves, and caps. Men's clothes comprise lace shirts, trimmed jackets, three-quarter pants, boots, and hats. The vibrant designs reflect the local residents' contentment of their simple and happy rural life.
If you ever visit South Moravia, you will fall in love with it at first sight. You will find picturesque villages with traditional facades with folk ornaments there. Common people have expressed their inward feelings there from the old ages. Songs and dances have been created there for centuries. The folk costume which has signs of wealth and beauty of this region on it has become cultural heritage.
Traditions live not only thanks to songs and dances but also thanks to the folk costumes, which are still an inseparable part of the life of people in South Moravia. The girls' costumes from Svatobořice-Mistřín show the typical features of the costume from the Kyjov area. The footwear is tall boots. A small black apron, fertušek, is worn over the outer red above-knees skirt, pavka. A red bodice is worn over the white shirt.
The typical features are the large frilly sleeves fringed with black lace. Sometimes a combination of white apron and white embroidered neck band is used. The headwear of young girls is a flower wreath with ribbons and a small crown, called ruzenin. Another typical part of the Kyjovsko costume is a band embroidered with black thread that is worn around the neck. The folk costume has been worn to the present time and it is inherited from generation to generation, including the youngest one.
Thus you may see the folk costumes in many shapes at different rituals and celebrations. One of such old customs is a spring ritual called Little Queens. It is a young girls' carol round with a ceremonial dance, originally documented in the Brno and south Kyjov areas. It is held on Whitsun Sunday, which is called Pentecost in the folk calendar. A central group of four girls sustains a large scarf over a pair of girls representing the king and the queen. This ancient Whitsun ritual is also rooted as a tradition in the Tisnov area. Here the little queens are clad all in white.
A small wreath of white flowers is interwoven in their hair. Only the king and the queen wear wreaths of colored flowers with a small mirror in the middle. Here the girls also adorn a small tree and go caroling. Folk costumes belong to cultural values that bear witness to the life of people in the past. You will see garments worn on workdays or garments worn on feast days which reveal at first sight if the wearer is a single girl or a married woman or a bride. Almost every piece of the garment shows painstaking, precise handwork, which is irreplaceable by machine.
Pleated yellow skirts called fertochy were a typical feature of Hornacko costumes. Originally they were dyed with saffron, which gave them a yellow-golden color. The pleating must be done on damp fabric and the individual folds are formed with fingers. Women from Hornacko used to wear a scarf tied on their heads in the shape of a cap with an embroidered top. Wedding costumes belong naturally to the most beautiful ones. A wedding costume had a lot of components. The bride was always dressed starting from the footwear.
Originally it was high boots. Then the bride put on the rubac and started adding underskirts. These were made of starched coarse cotton cloth. The number of underskirts depended on the girl's figure. Slim girls wore up to five underskirts. An apron called fertoch was tied over the upper underskirt. The fertoch was made of a finer unstarched cloth. The next step was putting on a short blouse wit
Magical Moravian Tuscany, Czechia - Timelapse Video 4K
Rolling hills and fields in Moravia, commonly nicknamed Moravian Tuscany / Moravské Toskánsko is a very popular area among landscape photographers. These soft rolling hills in Jižní Morava/South Moravia are pure joy to explore, although you might find yourself surrounded by many different photographers from different parts of the world, especially around iconic Santa Barbara chapel/Kaplička sv. Barbory.
It is not an obvious choice for timelapse as most photos/sequences are captured with very large zoom lens during very short period of the day, when there is a wonderful interplay of shadow and light. Since my last visit in the spring I wondered how to turn something apparently motionless into timelapse. Waiting long enough for shadows to move, is one thing, but considering the nicest parts last about 30 mins before sunset or after sunrise, it would take many days for just few minutes of video. Luckily autumn provides harvest time and preparation for next season, so agricultural machinery turned out to be great help in those wonderful wave like hills and fields. Relatively dry land, after extremely dry year, and rather windy conditions with low light from setting/rising sun, made for more photogenic result behind the tractors .
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