Saturday, August 17, 2013

Baffling image for me.

 Slovenia-Europe in Miniature, well that's what the heading for this stamp released in 97 has for it in the catalogue. I just can't wrap my head around the image however. What in the hell is it exactly? A cross between a double helix and a colorful candy stick? Are those trees at the top of whatever this is? Does anyone have an idea? Maybe if I was told what it is my brain would accept it and recognize.






Update.....Alojose Sore from the group Stamp Collecting on Facebook left this comment which is much appreciated......

I used google translation, so I appologaise if the translation is not correct, but I think you wiil understand it.

"On Palm Sunday in Slovenia is a habit that people wear to church to be blessed tied bunches of young green, evergreen foliage, branches of local orchards and olive branch. Habit has its ancient, even pre-Christian roots, when people are at Spring Awakening believe in re-birth of nature, the awakening of the mysterious forces of winter and the winter sun plants died. In Christianity it wont get your new content and is also a solemn remembrance of Christ's arrival in Jerusalem, when he greeted people on the streets with olive branches. Among the various types of fagots are some specific rules of Ljubljana. Made of young greens and colored shavings and development youngest. This form of domestic crafts began to develop strongly in the thirties of the last century, when the inhabitants DOBRUNJE, Sv. Ulrich, Sostro and Janč, a village on the outskirts of Ljubljana, begin drawing Bundle of fresh greens and planed. Planing already then often painted in the colors of the Slovenian tribarvnice, so fagots also receive new content, semantic dimension. Developed primarily two ways of producing and integration planed in butaro: oblanec any pointed or semi-circular curve. Ljubljana fagots are differences in the relationship between planing and decorative greenery"

http://www.posta.si/postna-celina/494/Ljubljanska-butarica?nodeid=534

Best regards from Slovenia

   "I see" said the blind man to his deaf daughter on a dark night.


JimmyB

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I used google translation, so I appologaise if the translation is not correct, but I think you wiil understand it.

"On Palm Sunday in Slovenia is a habit that people wear to church to be blessed tied bunches of young green, evergreen foliage, branches of local orchards and olive branch. Habit has its ancient, even pre-Christian roots, when people are at Spring Awakening believe in re-birth of nature, the awakening of the mysterious forces of winter and the winter sun plants died. In Christianity it wont get your new content and is also a solemn remembrance of Christ's arrival in Jerusalem, when he greeted people on the streets with olive branches. Among the various types of fagots are some specific rules of Ljubljana. Made of young greens and colored shavings and development youngest. This form of domestic crafts began to develop strongly in the thirties of the last century, when the inhabitants DOBRUNJE, Sv. Ulrich, Sostro and Janč, a village on the outskirts of Ljubljana, begin drawing Bundle of fresh greens and planed. Planing already then often painted in the colors of the Slovenian tribarvnice, so fagots also receive new content, semantic dimension. Developed primarily two ways of producing and integration planed in butaro: oblanec any pointed or semi-circular curve. Ljubljana fagots are differences in the relationship between planing and decorative greenery"

http://www.posta.si/postna-celina/494/Ljubljanska-butarica?nodeid=534

Best regards from Slovenia
Aljosa