Abstract
Although researchers showed their high intetest in culture of the ethnographic area of Chodsko, there have survivef few reports and interpretations relating to bead embelishment of Chodsko folk costumes. Nevertheless, beadwork evolved into an absolutely original type of decorations in this region.
Alongsode the newer type of folk costumes, created in the second half of the 19th century in the ethnographic area of Chodsko, beaded decoration in its riginality continued being used for several generations even though the function of folk costumes changed. Many-coloured beadwork made of small false garnets, rocailles and sequins in compositions completed with so-called dracoun or bullion created different and specific combinations and modifications of style influence, folk creativity and quite modern decorative msterials both in the "lower" and "upper" villages of the ethnographic of Chodsko.