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Remembering Our Danube Swabian Ancestors
     
 

Danube Swabian Women's Head Coverings
 Published at DVHH.org by Jody McKim Pharr

Above Postcard from Glogon, contributed by Jody McKim Pharr.

Various Kopftücher worn by our ancestors . . .

"The Kopftüch" (-tücher) head scarf
 
 

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.

Snippets from the famous portrait by Stefan Jäger
     

 

Banater Woman in Semlak
Contributed by Rose Mary Keller Hughes
     
 

Alsace Head Coverings

 

Kopftüch External 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 (site gone ;-(

 

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Last Updated: 08 Aug 2020

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