This foldout features illustrations of a full women's folk costume and various details: shawl embroidery, skirt fabric weave pattern, blouse with embroidery details, jacket pattern, crown and sock weave pattern, and descriptive overviews in French, English, Russian, and Latvian.

Augšzeme region

Augšzeme, "the highlands," is also and better known as Selonia (Latvian: Sēlija; Lithuanian: Sėla or Aukšzemė), a region of Zemgale spanning modern Latvian and Lithuanian territory and whose inhabitants at one time spoke their own dialect, reflected today among those that speak the Latgalian dialect. The Latvian Selonians (not to be confused with Star Wars Selonians) and Lithuanian Aukštaitians are likely of the same ancient tribe. Below the territories of the Selonians and Aukštaitians1.

Baltic Tribes circa 1200

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1Original at [Baltic_Tribes_c_1200.svg] on Wikipedia.
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