Everybody knows the typical dress from a photo, picture or in real which is often described as dress of the Spreewald, but that is wrong. This dress is worn only to special days and is usually different from place for place. In everyday life only the older women wear a dress kept in ordinary colours without top apron and tucker, the everyday dress.

The colour scala of the skirts (Kosula, the skirt) of the traditional lower sorbian costume is huge.
The colour red stands for the single woman. That is the colour of the youth, joy and love. Green was left up to the married woman. This is the colour of the honour and fertility and stands for the serious side of life. You will never see the colour white as a skirt of the traditional lower sorbian costume. This stood for deep mourning until 1900.

The skirt is decorated with an embroidered silk ribbon with flowers (Roses, pansy, shiner) and tendrils, in addition with top and velvet ribbon. Since the skirt is sewn in super thick folds in the back, the ribbons reach a length up to 3.50 meters. The silk ribbon is embroidered by hand... you can imagine how long they have to work.

In surrounding of Burg and Werben people wear also a headscarf, the cowl (Lapa). It is the biggest cowl in Spreewald. A carton is used as rack. And  there the embroidered silk scarf  is fixed with needles. Only Mrs Dziumbla from Burg can produce this special cowl. She has an endeavour embroidery since 1990.

The woman of the Spreewald wears her dress with pride. Tradition consciousness and customs care are in foreground. The material value also shall not remain unmentioned in this place. Woman must spend between 1.500 and 2.000 Euro for a new dress .