Your embroidery is amazing! It is sad that this art is not practiced so much in the West. In the old times this was very popular and the forms actually had symbolic meaning. Some were so called "guardian ornaments" intended to scare away the evil spirits or other things. I love that each nation used to have their own national costume and on most of them one can see embroidered ornaments.

I am actually half-bulgarian so I remember my grandmother giving me a beautiful wool dress of this type called "nosiya" and told me that the flowers and forms there were unique for the region where she had grown up. Your post warms me with memories of my childhood! Thank you!