The Bulgarian women's art of embroidery has been registered by many foreign travellers who passed through the Bulgarian lands during the 16th -19th centuries. The tradition of embroidery was spread mainly among the village population and is connected most of all with the decoration of clothes. The embroidery is worked by counting the fibres of the textile, and in the case of thin cotton and silk textiles an embroidery frame is used for stretching the material, while the pattern is previously drwan on it with a pencil or stick of charcoal A variety of flat, relief and open-work stitches are used by the embroideress. All these, in combination with the three principal colours of Bulgarian embroidery - red, black and white, condition the great regional and local diversity of these products of folk art.

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