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karoline made this: Bulgarian Folk Costumes Folk Illustration, Folk Design, Redwork Embroidery, Scandinavian Folk Art, Folk Embroidery, Arte Popular, Naive Art, Embroidery Craft, Folk Costume

Over summer I wanted to challenge myself and push both my drawing and printmaking as well as continue to develop more folk art themed work. So I have been working on a series of new screen prints inspired by traditional Bulgarian folk costumes and also Bulgarian wooden dolls. There are many different costumes, all of them are colourful and very ornate so to begin with I found it difficult to make sense of them. Looking at the simple wooden dolls made it much easier for me to interpret the…

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