Description
In Estonian only!
The book, published in the Studia Vernacula series in 2012, brings readers the topic of the meaning of clothing. The research combines two branches of science – ethnology and semiotics – under the common term ethnosemiotics.
Kihnu Island is a special place compared to the rest of Estonia. Even today, the women of the older generation there wear folk clothes on a daily basis, the most important part of which is a woolen striped skirt “kört”. The book provides an overview of the history of the kört as well as the current situation and analyzes the historically established meaning system of the kört.
