History

The costume-style you see on our website is known as the Volendam style and has become sort of a representative of the Dutch national costume, although Holland doesn't really have one single national costume.
It does, however, have a rich variety of traditional regional costumes.
The traditional costume is hardly ever worn anymore, except for in a few places in Zeeland, the north-eastern edge of the Veluwe and in Volendam and Marken.

The most famous part of the Dutch costume are the wooden shoes, called klompen in Dutch.
Not too long ago they were approved (CE) for industrial use by European Community regulations, something Dutch farmers had known for centuries of course !
Wooden shoes are therefore not only abundant in souvenir shops, but are also worn by many farmers, bulb growers, road repairmen, factory workers and artisans as cheap, long-lasting, very comfortable and most of all : safe working shoes.

Delft Blue, or the correct Dutch name Delfts Blauw, is known worldwide for centuries now.
Very fine, richly decorated but all hand painted porcelain, in the typical and traditional blue colour,
has made the famous Delft Blue favourable collector items throughout the world.
The collection Delft Blue showed on this site, has been selected because of its very fine quality of porcelain, and the beautiful hand painted or hand decorated figures. All these items are worth collecting, for decoration or actual use.

After many requests we do offer original handpainted replica's of famous Dutch Masters like Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Springer. New artists painting in the tradition of the old Masters from long ago. Even custom made paintings are possible.

We hope you enjoyed visiting our site
Greetings from Holland.