Traditionally modern :)

It always inspire me so much to see some of the ethno-folk hand-crafted items.
And I am so happy to see that these traditional, ethnic, elements are so modern and trendy, especially these days. There are many fashion designers using folk, ethnic, tapestry items as inspiration for theirs creations.





These are some shoots I took today, passing by the Ethnographic Museum here in Belgrade.



There is also a fantastic exhibition : “Memory Update - Ornaments of Serbian Medieval Frescoes”  at The Museum of Applied Art featuring many gorgeous Serbian ornaments.

There is a beautiful video on Vimeo  about the making of the exhibition - created by my friend Piki that I strongly suggest you to watch.

Memory Update from Osvežavanje memorije on Vimeo.

Hope that this may be inspiring to you as well:)
I took many pics at the exhibition myself and will make a separate post about it.

Happy February,
Katarina

Hristos Voskrese!!!!!

Today is Easter in my country;).








Our traditon is to duy the eggs with onion skins. We usually do that on Good Friday taht is the Friday before Sunday-Easter day;).








The procedure of duying them is very exciting...in my family we mainly use different herbs that in the duying proces will leave the non colored spots, it is very similar to duying the batik and other fabrics. Kids love picking the flowers and herbs and even drawing on the eggs with vox crayons, that leaves great designs,too. There is also a game, crashing the eggs....and of course the winner is the one who picked the most durable egg, well, mine was crashed immediately.

Happy Easter to all of you celebrating it!!!

Katarina