Plašt za kišu u Hrvata kajkavaca
A Traditional Shepherd's Garment in Northern Croatia

Summary/Abstract: A traditional shepherd's garment in the western part of the Croatian Pannonian plain was the grass rain-cape woven out of wood-rush. Until some fifty years ago grass rain-capes were worn in the area of Jastrebarsko, in Prigorje and Pokuplje, in the villages of Petrovina, Volavje, Malunje, Brezarid, Draganidi, Pisarovina, Bratina, Donja Kupčina, and probably in other places as well. At the time of the author’s research (in 1976) there was still a man who knew how to make a rain-cape so that the author recorded the entire process of the making of risulja, as the cape is called in the region. The author discusses the history of that garment It is thought to be of Indo-European origin. It was brought to northwestern Croatia, where it was confined in the area between the rivers Kupa, Sava and Drava, from the eastern Alps.

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