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Danube Swabian Women's Head Coverings

Various Kopftücher worn by our ancestors...

"The Kopftüch" (-tücher) head scarf

  Snippets are from the famous portrait by Stefan Jäger

Die Einwanderung der Schwaben 'The immigration of the Swabians' (1700's).  Women wearing head scarves, not in the manner we find typical of the Batschka and Banat.

     

  Banater Woman in Semlak
Contributed by Rose Mary Keller Hughes
     
  Alsace Head Coverings

 

 

Kopftüch Links

Kopftuchkulturen - Ein Stückchen Stoff in Geschichte und Gegenwart
Head Cloth Cultures - a bit material in history and present
www.frauenindereinenwelt.de/aus_kopftuch.html
www.frauenindereinenwelt.de/p_win_kopftuch.html

Kopftuch.info www.kopftuch.info/


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