Woman of Slovenia (Carniola) in summer festival dress, 18th century. She is wearing a zavijacka, a silk cap with silk band in a different colour, white shift and gray bodice tied with colourful ribbons. Villageoise de Carniole en habit de fete. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by William Alexander from J-B. Eyries’ L'Autriche: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Autrichiens, Austria: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Austrians, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1823. Jean-Baptiste Eyries (1767-1846) was a French geographer, author and translator.


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