Hand-Knit Zapesnice Wrist Warmers Osijek-product music is an important part

music is an important part of Croatian culture

using a multi-day process

30–33 cm high

Sonja was inspired by a hair comb made during the famous Japanese Taishō art period

Hand-Knit Zapesnice Wrist Warmers Osijek-product music is an important partIf your wrist is warm, the whole arm is warm. The tradition of zapesnice is told in the book Kastavtina, written in 1957 in akavski dialect by Ivo Jardas. Zapesnice are hand knit woolen cuffs made to warm your wrists from the chill of winter. These were traditionally made for young men by their girlfriends or sisters and given to them as gifts on St. Stephens Day, the day after Christmas; they were made of blue, green, or red yarn and worn in place of