Slovak couples more and more frequently opt for a traditional-style wedding and wear folk costumes for their big day. The number of websites offering part or whole sets of traditional attire from all ...

The price of folk costumes is getting higher, not only because of its historical value but also because it is impossible to make that costume today. “Even if we keep all the steps to make it we wouldn ...

Gail Naughton squeezed six mannequins into her car when she finally left the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library as dusk fell June 11, 2008. She had been dragging her feet before leaving the ...

The models also show off striking face paint and costumes and sit in front of individually painted backdrops that display motifs found in Slovak folk art. Slovak photographers Zuzana Sénášiová ...

The second costume includes blouses, aprons and ribbons from the old country, ... The Tatra Slovak Folk Group provides a means of demonstrating that pride.

Every week The Slovak Spectator brings you a selection of three short stories from across Slovakia from which pessimism and negativity are absent. Slovak folk tradition is thriving in unexpected ...

A sincere devotion to its heritage has kept the Tatra Slovak Folk Group going strong for 15 years. Founded in Bethlehem in 1977, the 22-member group celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving Sunday morning… ...

TIP FOR THE WEEKEND Celebration of everything folk Hailing all the way from Easter Island—one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth, with the nearest continental point 3,500 kilometres ...