A recent exhibit featured stockings, socks, gloves, and mittens. The Russian
Museum of Ethnography's description
shows that organizers still think of the former Soviet states as part of their
empire: "To
protect wrists from the spring and winter winds peoples of the Ukraine,
Byelorussia, northern-west part of Russia and in Baltic states wore knitted
armlets, which looked like wide, ornamented cuffs."
Many of the designs look
Baltic.
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