Region | Summary |
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Banat | Large glugă have woven decoration used for sleeping. The term guibea is also used for a hooded or unhooded mantle from Banat. This showed Ottoman influences from 17th to 19th century and was originally used at court and later in the countryside. |
Valea Bistrei, Valea Cernei, Valea Cornereva | Large glugă used for sleeping made of woven fabric from goats’ hair or wool mixed with goat’s hair. Glubă mic with woven ornaments worn on the head. |
Transylvania | Glugă have woven decoration. |
Central Transylvania – Reghin, Bistrița-Năsăud, Mureș, and Cluj | Gluga is made of several pieces of cloth, occasionally with gussets, and used to cover, the whole body from shoulders to below the knees. |
Țara Bârsei and Mărgineamea Sibiului | Țol have coloured stripes in red, and blue on the lower end. |
Avrig, Hațeg, Mărginemea Sibiului, Poiana Ruscă, Valea Bistriței | Single piece of cloth is folded in two lengthways on top of head. |
Hațeg | Large glugă is made of woven fabric from goat’s hair or wool mixed with goat’s hair and used as sleeping bag. |
Târnavelor and Cluj | Glugă with gusset added above head. |
Muntenia | |
Prahova, Buzău, Râmnicu Sărat, Botoșani, Bacău, Vrancea | Glugă has appliquéd decoration in black or dark grey. |
Dobrogea | |
Câmpia Dunării. | Ample size cloak with hood. |
Moldavia | Long gluge are worn decorated with black braid, woven ornaments and embroidery. |
North Moldavia and NE Transylvania | Glugă is decorated with embroidery or woven patterns in different colours – black red, mauve, orange, green and brown. |
Vrancea & Buzău | Hooded cloak made of grey woollen cloth, as seen on Dacians’ column. |
Râmnicu Sărat | Glugă has black cord ornaments. |
Central and south Moldavia | Glugă have meandering ornaments, arranged above stripes on the hem. |