Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1971 - 10 Pfennig

Sorbian Dance Costumes The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues four multicolored special postage stamps with pictures of Sorbian dance costumes. Sorbische Tanztrachten Today's Sorbian costumes are remnants of formerly closed costume landscapes. Part of the female rural population of the middle and older generation still wears traditional costumes here in their daily lives. The costume of the men has already been filed in the last century, only some of its elements have been preserved to the present day. The bilingual circles of the districts of Dresden and Cottbus still have four different Sorbian costumes. Each is characterized by a variety of functional and age-related variants. Among them, especially the festive costumes are distinguished by their great wealth of forms, colors and folk art design. The Sorbian folk costumes document the creative power of the working people as well as the past as well as the present. In continuation of the 1968 published series Sorbian Festtrachten present special postage stamps represent the festive dancing costume of the girls dar. This is characterized by a special richness of color costume is created on special occasions by the female youth, even if she is not one of the permanent costume bearers. Sorbian folk art collectives like to use this costume for their youthful freshness as a stage costume. Schleifer Tracht (10 Pfennig value) The area of ​​Schleifer Tracht includes the Parochie Loop with seven villages in the immediate northwestern neighborhood of the glass industry town of Weißwasser. It is today the smallest Sorbian costume landscape. One of the most original costumes has been preserved in this formerly poorly developed heathland. The barren, sandy, partly also boggy soil forced the inhabitants to a laborious, poor existence. It was therefore hardly possible for the dressmakers to use industrially produced fabrics to make their clothes. Originally mainly handwoven linen and wool formed the basic materials. Simplicity was outweighed by a particular color joy. In the festive costume precious fabrics were replaced by rich ornamental embroidery (especially cross and hole embroidery) and thereby achieved high aesthetic effects.