Ethnographic museum of Istria preserves, and actively collects textile artefacts. The main part of the collection are Istrian traditional costumes, so the visitors can see Croatian costumes, but also Italian ethnic costumes and Montenegro ethnic costumes from Peroj.
Main materials for the costumes were hemp and wool (for some delicate materials people used flax), but in the modern time it was industrial textile. Around the year 1880. people stopped to dress in traditional way, and they were not interested in textile handy-craftmanship. Until the 60-es kalci (weavers) were weaving linen for lancuni (sheets), šugamani (towels), tapeti (carpets), vriće (sacks), ponjave (coverlets), bisage(saddle-bags) and other household objects, and after that textile handy-crafstmanship entirely dies out.

Wedge pattern is characteristic for the north and east Istria women costumes which is connected to Gothic period. Sawing and inserting the wedges was characteristic for Labin suknje (dresses), gograni, moderne klinarice, kamižoti, and stomanja from Ćićarija. That way of sawing is replaced by sawing the women dresses from waistcoat and skirt. Around the waist, women were wearing pas or kanica that were weaved by domestic weavers or were bought from the island people. On the head women were wearing facol, facul (kerchief) usually rakaman, nagažan - nicely embroidered, or later made of industrial textile. In modern times women started to wear aprons (travers, firtok, zaprežić) made of industrial material.
There were two different kinds of mail trousers: brneveke - white cloth (fabric caled sukno) trousers ankle length and tight, and brageše - shorter, wider trousers of brown cloth. The rest of the mail close is similar: on shirt (stomanja) you put waistcoat (krožat), then jacket (jaketa, koret) and for the cold bad weather coat with hood (kaput s kapucinom). Men wore hat (klobuk, kvarnarić, bareta) made of brown cloth…
Feet were covered with socks - bičve, holjevi, škafuoni, škafuonice, and men wore foot-cloths, kalcete, nazuvke. They wore strapped softsoled footwear, and latter shoes, postole.
Women clothing from Vodnjan and other Italian cities and villages is represented with few artefacts of better quality - characteristic corset brasarola and split sleeves manige, which were worn over shirt - cameize and vest- kamizulin.
In 1657. Peroj was, with Venice approval, populated with people from Crmnic nahia who were running from Turks. Women from Peroj have preserved their way of clothing until II World War. Museum holds one of the last preserved full set of women clothing from Peroj (košulja, raša, faculet, kanica and toka).

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