The Embroidered Archive — Gabriela Zhely Illustrations
Projects

The Embroidered Archive

The Embroidered Archive is a visual project developed alongside my dissertation; female identity through Bulgarian traditional dress. Informed by my writen research and translated into self-directed visual outcomes, the work reinterprets cultural garments as layered expressions of history, gender, and heritage.

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