The first in a series of high-quality, glossy, unused cards showing folk costumery at Bucharest’s National Village Museum.  This one, of Lugoj and from the late 19th century, according to our source Tatiana “reaches a very special index of sumptuousness and pomp, because here the gold and silver thread is the one that gives … a note of nobility and wealth that we do not find in other parts of the country”.  Grade: 1