History
From the beginning of the 19th century there is little information about Estonians clothing. Oldest known traditional costume are primarily made from sheep fleece or linen. The traditional costume used to be quite uncolorful during the age of serfdom because the people didn't have much time and chances for aesthetics. Mostly there were costumes simple patterns with natural white, brown, black and gray colors. On finery clothes they used vegetable dye. On the costumes they primarily used stripe patterns. Patterns got more colorful depending on the plants and the local fashion masters. In Lihula's parish they used northern bedstraw to get red tones. First buyable color was indigo blue what was very expensive. Synthetic aniline colors were cheaper and that's why there was more red colors. Red colors got popular in other parishes aswell and so did patterns. Like that we can see in 20th century first half red stripes, checkered, flower embroidered patterns.