title: Croatian National costumes: Croatian National costumes and traditions,  and the influence of other cultures from 1900 to the present day
author: Nada Herceg  Shafiei
description: ?I have a keen interest in other cultures and their textiles and like motivating others to share my passion for textiles and the Arts.?-Nada Herceg Shafiei Croatian born Nada graduated in 2006 from Chelsea College of Art and Design .Her textile collections ?Kaleidoscope? has been published in the book Digital Textile Design.
zlib_text: ## About the cover illustration
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The figure on the cover of _Docker in Practice, Second Edition,_ is captioned
  “Man from Selce, Croatia.” The illustration is taken from a reproduction of an
  album of Croatian trad itional
  
  
  costumes from the mid-nineteenth century by Nikola Arsenovic, published by the
  Ethnographic Museum in Split, Croatia, in 2003.
  
  
  The illustrations were obtained from a helpful librarian at the Ethnographic
  Museum in Split, itself situated in the Roman
  
  
  core of the medieval center of the town: the ruins of Emperor Diocletian’s
  retirement palace from around AD 304. The book
  
  
  includes finely colored illustrations of figures from different regions of
  Croatia, accompanied by descriptions of the costumes
  
  
  and of everyday life.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dress codes and lifestyles have changed over the last 200 years, and the
  diversity by region, so rich at the time, has faded
  
  
  away. It’s now hard to tell apart the inhabitants of different continents, let
  alone of different h