Musée ethnographique serbe
This is a Serbian ethnographic museum catalogue issued in 1900 for the Paris Universal Exposition, printed in Strasbourg, presenting Serbian costume, dwellings and monuments to visitors and scholars. The plates are sepia-toned photographs and pen-and-ink drawings of townswomen in layered dress, peasant headdresses with coins and lace, and a farmhouse with a wooden gallery and a monastery church among trees. A designer might take from them the dense ornament of embroidered jackets, coin necklaces, and the tiered forms of folk headwear.
