MusingsOfHulda

Estonian bride

Costume and embroidery from Zakarpattia, Ukraine

Traditional costume of the Mikkeli region of Finland

Aino by M.M. Machev

^This was derived from the faldbúningur by the substitution of the high headdress by the stocking cap, the loss of the jacket, and general simplification of the costume. This became the everyday dress of Iceland.

Þjóðbúningurinn, National costumes of Iceland 🇮🇸 This particular type is called a Upphlutur, or bodice costume.

Interior with young girl writing a letter by Danish artist Christen Dalsgaard

Swedish embroidery 🪡🇸🇪

#Suomenusko (Finnish faith) is a direct continuation of the ancient traditions of the Baltic Finns. Its central values are respect for folklore and folk tradition, and above all nature. It does not fall within neo-Paganism.

“Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.” — Graham Harvey

Nisse, Tomte, Nisser have an understanding with Bears Staffan Ullström

Mountain Woman by Nicholas Roerich

On the Watch by Johan Tirén

Karelian folk embroidery

Germanic women from Pre-Roman Iron Age Scandinavia (4th-1st centuries BC), from the Jastorf culture. Artist- JFoliveras

Sámi Shaman (Noaidi)