NEDERLAND

This card showing all folkore clothing of the province Zeeland. It's on the southwest in the Nederland , bordered by the North Sea..Thank you soo much Karin for THIS card :) and really nice stamps also..

GERMANY

This card is traditional clothes on historical cards from German Museum .Thank you soo much Hanna for nice card :) and stamps :) like this soo much 

UKRAINE

This card is national dress each region has its own style .This one is also one of region.and also my Penpal's region :) there is a traditional embroidered blouses 

Thank you soo much Yulia (my penpal) for your beautiful cad and stamp like this soo much . this is one of very beautiful postcard i have ever seen :) thanks again :) :)

BULGARIA

This card is The Old Town of Sofia through the eyes of Josef Oberbaurer, 19th centuty

Joseph Sebastian Oberbauer 

Joseph Sebastian Oberbauer (October 1853–1926) was an Austrian and Bulgarian painter and engineer.
Oberbauer was born in Sankt Leonhard[a] in the Alpine region of Tyrol in the Austrian Empire.He attended a primary school in his hometown and finished high school in Innsbruck. Having demonstrated artistic talent in his childhood years, Oberbauer's desire was to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts in the imperial capital Vienna. However, his father insisted that he study engineering. Three years into Oberbauer's education at the University of Graz, his father died and he dropped out.
Out of financial necessity, Oberbauer offered some of his watercolour paintings depicting the old town part of Graz to the local municipality. Oberbauer's work appealed to the municipality, which encouraged him to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. However, he was again forced to drop out after two years due to financial difficulties. He spent some time working as a teacher and unsuccessfully attempted to continue his studies.
In 1889, Oberbauer arrived in Sofia, the capital of the newly liberated Principality of Bulgaria, where he joined the Cadastral Office of the municipality. Oberbauer took an active part in the creation of Sofia's first cadastral map.Afterward he briefly worked at Bulgaria's Construction of State Railways and Harbours Office, though he returned to a municipal job due to layoffs. Oberbauer remained at the Sofia Municipality for the rest of his life.
Besides being a municipality official, Oberbauer was actively engaged in art in Bulgaria. Impressed by the ambience of Sofia, he left behind numerous paintings of the newly liberated Bulgarian lands, with their still-oriental features, antique architecture and ancient ruins. Oberbauer's works are accurate depictions of Bulgaria's (and particularly Sofia's) appearance in the early post-Ottoman period, capturing the characteristic features of the age and location. Oberbauer's paintings depict the churches, monasteries, mosques, inns, markets and streets of late-19th-century Bulgaria.70 of Oberbauer's works depicting the urban LANDSCAPE of Sofia are part of the future Museum of Sofia's collection, to be exhibited in the Sofia Public Mineral Baths building.

Thank you soo much Diana for your beautiful postcard and stamps like this very much :) :)

USA PENNSYLVANIA

The Amish

The Amish  are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships, closely related to but distinct from Mennonite churches, with whom they share Swiss Anabaptist origins. The Amish are known for simple living, plain dress, and reluctance to adopt many conveniences of modern technology. The history of the Amish church began with a schism in Switzerland within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists in 1693 led by Jakob Ammann.Those who followed Ammann became known as Amish.
In the early 18th century, many Amish and Mennonites immigrated to Pennsylvania for a variety of reasons. Today, the most traditional descendants of the Amish continue to speak Pennsylvania German, also known as "Pennsylvania Dutch". However, a dialect of Swiss German predominates in some Old Order Amish communities, especially in the American state of Indiana.As of 2000, over 165,000 Old Order Amish live in the United States and about 1,500 live in Canada.A 2008 study suggested their numbers have increased to 227,000, and in 2010 a study suggested their population had grown by 10 percent in the past two years to 249,000, with increasing movement to the West.

This is their traditional dress. The Amish are very plain. They don't wear any bright colors usually and they only have a few dresses for the women or outfits for the men. So they would have a nice outfit for church, one for school, one for work and then maybe one or two extra for gatherings

Thank you so much Sarah for your nice card and stamp :) :)

BULGARIA

Thank you soo much Svelta for  lovely card and cute stamps ..thank you for the swap .this card is Bulgarian national costumes of Rhodope Mountainan you can see also Devil's Bridge over the Arda river.And one of Bulgarian traditional musical instruments- gaida (bagpipe)

RHODOPE MOUNTAIN

The Rhodopes /ˈrɒdəpiːz/ (Bulgarian: Родопи, Rodopi; Greek: Ροδόπη, Rodopi; Turkish: Rodop) are a mountain range in Southeastern Europe, with over 83% of its area in southern Bulgaria and the remainder in Greece. Its highest peak, Golyam Perelik (2,191 meters (7,188 ft)), is the seventh highest Bulgarian mountain. The region is particularly notable for its karst areas with their deep river gorges, large caves and specific sculptured forms, such as the Trigrad Gorge.The location of the Rhodopes in the southeastern part of the Balkan Peninsula determines the climate in the region to a great extent. It is influenced both by the colder air coming from the north and by the warmer breeze from the Mediterranean

DEVIL'S BRIDGE

Devil’s Bridge is a term applied to dozens of ancient bridges, found primarily in Europe. Most of these bridges are stone ormasonry arch bridges and represent a significant technological achievement. Each of the Devil's Bridges has a correspondingDevil-related myth or folktale.Local lore often wrongly attributes these bridges to the Roman era, but in fact many of them are medieval, having been built between 1000 and 1600 AD. In medieval times some Roman roads were themselves considered beyond human capabilities and needs, and therefore had to have been built by the devil

THE ARDA RIVER

                                                                                                                                 The Arda (Bulgarian: Арда, Arda, Turkish: Arda, Greek: Άρδας, Árdas) is a 290-kilometre (180 mi) long river in Bulgaria and Greece. It is a tributary of the Maritsa (Greek: Έβρος, Evros). Its source lies in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains near the village Arda, part of the municipality of Smolyan. It flows eastward past Rudozem, Kardzhali and Ivaylovgrad and enters Greece in the northern part of the Evros regional unit. It flows into the Maritsa on the border of Greece and Turkey, between the Greek village Kastanies and the Turkish city Edirne. In the Bulgarian section there are three hydroelectric and irrigation dams, Kardzhali Dam, Studen Kladenets and Ivaylovgrad Dam. The Bulgarian section is 241 kilometres (150 mi) long, making the Arda the longest river in the Rhodopes. The medieval Dyavolski most arch bridge crosses the river 10 kilometres (6 mi) from Ardino.

GAIDA                                                                                                                                                    A gaida is a bagpipe from the Balkans and Southeast Europe. Southeastern European bagpipes known as gaida include: the Albanian gajde, Turkish tulum, Croatian and Serbian gajde, Bulgarian and Macedonian гайда/гајда (gajda) and Slovak gajdy.